June 2012
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Blind Racism...When will you see beauty and not...
ai-yo:
anjellstar:
I found this discussion through a friend on my fb. She pointed out how many men called this women unattractive..then went on to make disgusting comments.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder…so while some will find her pretty some won’t. But that’s not the issue here.
The issue is cunt bastards saying she’s ugly ONLY because she’s black. She has a pretty figure from...
“As angry as we have the right to be, let us remember that we are in this...”
– Steve Biko in Cry Freedom (via ladyatheist)
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“Black males today live in a world that pays them the most attention when they...”
– bell hooks, We Real Cool (via daughterofzami)
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ladyatheist:
I’m starting to see that this movie will be extremely relevant to my day to day life. Case in point, this line from Steve Biko played by Denzel Washington:
I just think that a white liberal, who clings to all the advantages of his white world - jobs, housing, education, Mercedes - is perhaps not the best person qualified to tell blacks how they...
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ladyatheist:
I’m not even 20 minutes in and I want to quote everything. The white newspaper editor I mentioned before (Donald Woods) went to meet Steve Biko and they took a trip out to a clinic for black people, staffed by black people, and run by a black doctor. Woods asks “And a white liberal doctor doing the same thing wouldn’t serve your purpose?” (How many times have we heard this argument...
“I pointed out to you the stars and all you saw was the tip of my finger.”
– -African Proverb (via africanstories)
i feel like this often… in so many ways. :/
(via bad-dominicana)
That’s interesting, because there’s a popular saying in Buddhism, do not mistake the finger pointing at the moon for the moon itself. It’s said that truth is like the moon and words are like a...
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White Folks Need Whiteness Studies →
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DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
bloggmageddon:
STOP APOLOGIZING FOR BEING WHITE
IT’S KINDA DUMB
IT’S ALSO NOT A CHIP ON YOUR SHOULDER TO HAVE
*dusts off hands and becomes a cat*
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a-lostbird:
If you’re not Black, the word “Nigga” shouldn’t be coming out of your mouth and you damn sure shouldn’t be writing it. That goes for everyone, especially non-Black PoC.
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“The idea that black women must always be perfectly well-behaved — or risk...”
– Cluth on stereotypical imagery in shows like Basketball Wives & Real Housewives of Atlanta (via newwavefeminism)
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“There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.”
– Stokely Carmichael (via negrobrown)
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“I forgive not because I became a saint, but because I’m tired of hating.”
– Paulo Coelho. (via theblacksophisticate)
Early California Laws and Policies Related to... →
emeraldtriangleprincess:
this is a report drafted for a senator a few years ago, so it definitely has that colonial slant to it. however, it’s a good start for learning more about some of the policies the CA state government had, including: chattel ownership of Native children (up to age 35), “expeditions against the Indians” ([para]military efforts to exterminate Natives, who were later held...
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“A friend of mine asked me recently, was I gonna go see the new Batman movie with...”
– Reginald D. Hunter (via crashbangtrollop)
BOOM
(via danny-d-danger)
I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHY I HATE BATMAN!!!
(via cunthulhu)
Um what? A lot of his enemies were pretty damn wealthy and powerful…
(via thefoxxypoet)
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I don’t usually rant, but
White people (to whom it may concern)… I KNOW THAT I AM BLACK.
You don’t have to talk about how much you want an afro as soon as you see me.
You don’t have to talk about your study abroad trips.
You don’t have to talk about “Soul Train” for 30 minutes.
Or how ghetto and scary the Black part of town is and then, try to back...
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I giver her the hand shake goodbye…
She goes in for the hug… AND PUTS HER HANDS ALL IN MY HAIR.
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We wear the mask that grins and lies
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes.