when white people won’t agree that they’re the main representation in most films/media in general and actually get upset about POC questioning their lack of visibility
(via reverseracism)
(Un)Common Beauty
"Her blackness is fine, the blackness of her skin; the blackness of her mind. Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind.”
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(Source: knowledgeequalsblackpower, via thisiswhiteprivilege)
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Angela Davis introducing James Baldwin at UC Berkeley (April 19 and April 26, 1974)
Audio here:
(Source: citylightsbooks, via howtobeterrell)
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Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.
— Nikki Giovanni (via blackcontemporaryart)(via howtobeterrell)
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Man uses American flag to assault civil rights activist.
1976.American politics in one image.
(Source: historicporn, via kdfgcamhehgu)
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Reverse Racism: girljanitor: indica-tor: POC who live here in America: I realize...
POC who live here in America:
I realize you’re hurt by the ignorant words of “white people” who don’t know what they’re talking about, and I’m sorry.
But I have a question for you. In this “land of the free”…aren’t you free? What are their words doing to…I see what you tried to do there….I really do. But that whole “don’t let em get to you” argument was shit
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Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'?
cs-k:
“So I shouldn’t be surprised that the Mother’s Day Parade shooting has largely been forgotten. On Sunday, shots were fired into a crowd during a parade in the New Orleans 7th ward. Police said they saw three suspects running from the scene.
This is the largest mass shooting in the United States where the shooters were still at large after the crime was committed. Think about that for a minute. From Columbine to Virginia Tech to Fort Hill to Aurora, all the shooters were either killed or apprehended on site. But the person or people responsible for shooting 19 Americans are still free.”
One of the people who got shot was an antiviolence blogger. Somehow we aren’t seeing massive solidarity for New Orleans or the entire city going on police lockdown to find the perpetrators. Two reasons: 1) This mostly affected Black people, and we all know how much the media and the police give any fucks about Black people in New Orleans; 2) This was a gun crime, so we can’t criticize it because GUNS ARE FREEDOM!
Wait what…? I hadn’t even heard about this! The fuck.
(Source: daughterofalkebulan, via disciplesofmalcolm)
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it didn’t start with hiphop.
(Source: ctwashere, via beautiful-afterthought)
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You know what normal is to me, Richie? I ain’t seen normal since I was six years old. Normal is seeing the police ride up to my house, dragging my little twelve year old cousin out and tying him to a pole. Shoving a shotgun in his mouth so hard they bust his teeth. Then they bust two shotgun shells in his head, knock his fucking head off. That’s what normal is to me. I didn’t give a fuck about no police then. I don’t give a fuck about no police now.
amen
(Source: montagues, via beautiful-afterthought)
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That moment your paycheck is a hell of a lot bigger than you were anticipating :)
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I love how the dudes in the background dancing like they had 8 years of theater arts or something…lol… and will smith is so smooth with it.
(Source: bored-im)
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this…..
(Source: Spotify)
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Hello childhood
(via beautiful-afterthought)
