December 2011
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“Her blackness is fine, the blackness of her skin; the blackness of her mind....”
– Me’shell Ndegéocello. (via amaalsaid)
Love
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Do Not Touch A Black Person's Hair Without...
white person: zomg is that your real hair?
black person: yes.
white person: what do they call it again, an..af-afro, right?
black person: that's correct
white person: wow...i wish i could have an afro. i just have limp dishrag hair, ha ha ha ha ha!
black person: good to know.
white person: so, um, can i touch it?
black person: absolutely not
white person: why not? :(
black person: because i don't want you to? because white people like yourself have a history of fetishizing and taking ownership of black bodies to suit your own twisted, racist doctrines? because your hands are dirty? because i don't know you?
white person (oblivious as fuck): racism is in the past! *touches* ooooh wowwwww! It's soft like a cloud! or cotton candy! do you wash it?
black person: BITCH, BACK THE FUCK UP, CUZ IMMA NEED YOU TO GET YO FUNKY PINK HANDS OUT MY HEAD CUZ U LOOKIN REAL PRESSED RIGHT NOW, YOU STANK SUCKA HEAUX, DON'T YOU EVA TOUCH MY HAIR AGAIN OR I SWEAH FO' GAWD I WILL SHANK YA ASS! NASTY ASS MOTHAFUCKIN DIRTY SLUTRAG, THAT'S WHY YO IGNANT ASS SMELL LIKE A WET DOG! how's that for a wash?
white person (bursts into tears): omg u people ARE racist!
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“White queers, including white trans people, are at the LOWEST risk for pretty...”
– DTWPS (via zorascreation)
Truth! Fuck the ‘it gets better’ campaign!
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Jump at de Sun: Dear White People! Attraction does... →
zorascreation:
figure it out for yourself. i’m not gonna hold your hand, and neither is any socially conscious POC. if you look at me and all you see is a big, dark, walking penis, then you can go get thrown under a bus. for real. how many times have i had to deal with white folks who’d mistaken their heartless,…
Truth! This is my life.. .
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“Before long the black woman’s mythic “strength” became a convenient...”
– Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost (1999). (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
Love, love this book!
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The World is Guilty of the Attempted Matricide of...
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Get On Your A-Game: Velvetpark's Official Top 25... →
thegang:
22. Stand and Deliver - Krys “bLaKtivist” Freeman, Viral Media Strategist, Web 2.0 Evangelist
Krys “bLaKtivist” Freeman is a Masculine of Center writer, viral media strategist and activist, as well as founder of “The Definition,” an online community and blog dedicated to promoting visible community for masculine of center women, transmen and allies. A child of the digital age,...
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“….between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I...”
– Frederick Douglass, Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass (via arae-of-sunshine)
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In 2012 lets call "The West" Overdeveloped.... and...
newmodelminority:
Deliberately underdeveloped, mayhaps.?
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Eye of the Beholder: The only thing that will ever... →
queennubian:
beautiful-ambition:
I hate the phrase ___________ is the new Black. No. It’s not!! Fat isnt the new Black because you can change your physical appearance. Gay isnt the new Black because not everybody will always know you are gay and the definition of gay is subjective, changing depending on who you talk to. The…
Unless we’re talking about fashion and in the very real sense of...
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“In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn...”
– Briana (via iamabutchsolo)
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“Culture is declining because we value entertainment over education Our best...”
– Rick Warren (via geefeeny)
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“The spirit of Buddhism is inclusiveness. Looking deeply into the nature of a...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, Answers from the Heart (via praisethelorde)
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“Black women and men who recognize that the development of their particular...”
– — Audre Lorde (Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving, 46)
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what i just read: In The Break: The Aesthetics Of... →
whatijustread:
“What if the beholder glances, glances away, driven by aversion as much as desire? This is to ask not only, what if beholding were glancing; it is also —or maybe even rather— to ask, what if glancing is the aversion of the gaze, a physical act of repression, the active forgetting of an object…
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“Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it doesn’t make me angry. It merely...”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via fireworksintheskybeautiful)
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“Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape...”
– Their Eyes Were Watching God (via mahoganyqueen)
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Sorry Excuse for a Social Life: Teaching children... →
sorryexcuseforasociallife:
When I was in high school, my Spanish teacher assigned a video project. My class had to record dating game shows. Upon showing our projects to each other, she remarked, “Some of my students got out of hand with this. There was a gay couple in a video from my other class. I told you guys to keep…
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“Dandelions. A dart of affection leaps out from her to them. But they do not look...”
– Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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Reason 100 for no longer wanting to date or mess...
Tired of being objectified by privileged assholes who refuse to acknowledge me as more than their ‘Mandingo’ fetish.
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Michael Irvin Champions Equality
iblay:
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Hey Logo Where The Brothers At? →
mrsykes:
Lack of men of color in logo’s programming
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“I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy, a strength, a secret cup of...”
– Ossie Davis as Purlie Victorious Judson in Purlie Victorious (via missbostonsays)
Blaque is beatuiful!
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Why Rappers Are Suddenly Speaking Out in Support... →
bencrowther:
Since the genre’s explosion into the public consciousness in the early ’80s, rap music has stood apart as one of popular culture’s most unregulated forums for anti-gay hate speech. From Ice Cube’s paean to male anal rape, “No Vaseline,” to Big Daddy Kane proclaiming himself “anti-f——t” and Eminem’s scorching repudiation of homosexuality on 2000’s “Criminal”—“Whether you’re a fag...