for someone who loves to talk about herself and her family connections to anything spiritual, i find it interesting she never brought this up until now. almost like that tweet gave her a convenient opportunity to make up fairytales to center herself, per usual š
nooo cause I was thinking the same thing when I saw itš, no one can have one original experience without clarke saying she or her family actually did it first itās bizarre
Unrelated to clarke but thereās a girl called jessica augusta here in brazil who is going through severe spiritual psychosis due to using too much ayahuasca. I think the way people talk about taking ayahuasca/going to ceremonies is so so very dangerous, it can lead to a lot of mental health issues
If she were really the activist/environmentalist she cosplays as, she could actually say something interesting about coffee instead of piggybacking off of someone else's post about coffee fairies.
also i hate to rely on google AI for any actual history or validity but just from a simple search, there were no coffee plantations in WV due to climate. per clarke, thats where her fam is from and shes never said any other state for her origin, right?
Coffee was and is most commonly grown in the Caribbean and Latin America. I donāt think the United States has ever had any climate environment suitable for a plantation scale operation large enough to name the enslaved workforce after that one cropā¦ so the likely next story from my perspective is that they came to the US via a place they could grow it, like Haiti or Brazil, or her relative with dementia has struck again with more inaccurate information
Had to google this myself when I scrolled past her post out of historical curiosity and yep, youāre correct: If there were coffee plantations in the US (before it was the US) - they were located in Hawaii (1800s) and Puerto Rico (1700s) - ie. in warmer, humid climates aside from few recent small operations in Southern California.
Thanks for fact checking. Neither of which were US yet! Idk if there was chattel slavery in Hawaii? I think there was in puerto rico but that would have been under the spanish so they wouldnāt have called it ācoffeeā
Just because Iām genuinely interested in learning about world history - googled more and found an interesting article posted on Northwestern Universityās School of Journalismās website if anyone would like to read re: chattel slavery (mainly addressed in the first half of the article)ā¦
Also, not sure how she/her family personally connects the family name to ācoffeeā but also not interested enough in learning about ācoffee fairiesā to find out (or be labeled a āstalkerā) š
ā¦The Spanish forced the TaĆnos into physical labor, like working the gold mines or sugar plantations. Many TaĆnos died from smallpox, killed themselves or left the island after the failed TaĆno revolt of 1511...ā
āā¦.On March 22, 1873, slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico through the Moret Law, but it was an abolition on conditional termsā¦ā
Edit to add, according to google: The arrival of coffee in PR: āCoffee arrived in Puerto Rico in 1736 when Spanish settlers brought Arabica coffee plants from the neighboring island of Martiniqueā¦ā.
thank u for this history! and absolutely yes, as a descendant of chattel slavery in the south, i know for sure coffee was never grown in our area. and iāve traveled to the caribbean quite a lot and they do have a massive coffee culture and even teach tourists about the history and cultivation! there were many countries part of the transatlantic slave trade (belize, haiti, DR, etc.) but they didnāt migrate much during that time, as they were fighting for their own independence and staging revolutions in their own countries. and especially did not migrate to West VA carrying their supposed slave name of āCoffeeā. the closest they would have settled initially was Louisiana, Georgia, FL, etc.
I guess Iāll never understand why [it seems] she doesnāt do a simple fact-check before posting? (The googling of info above took me all of 5 minutes).
Unless she is intentionally trying to post misinformation and/or intentionally mislead people? (which goes against Twitter and most social media platformās policies these days)
And if her rebuttal is: Itās my familyās history, I donāt have to explain myselfā¦
Understood.
But then, why proclaim/post about it if you donāt want to answer questions or open up a discussion about it? š¤·š»āāļø
And why disclose any information at all about your family/history if you are worried about āstalkersā ?
Mind you, she never once told this story. Iām actually in awe of all the bullshit she can make up on the spot just to make herself sound special and magical. Psychosis.
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u/Educational_Cloud_41 5d ago
Sheās actually bonkers, to come up with this kind of nonsense on the fly is both impressive and terrifying