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I’m tired of black people making white America laugh. We are not allowed to be real and have our problems. I want to sit still and polish my nails and talk on the phone in a way that’s not teaching America what black life is about. - Tyra Ferrell
My dashboard has really been making want to watch Poetic Justice lately
Sick and Tired by Shihan.
agreed.
Does that put it into perspective for you?
Seriously. I always have to try to put this into perspective for people. People act like slavery was so distant. My mom is older in relation to my age (she had me at 43), and her father was older when she was born (in his early 50’s) and was born in the late 1800’s. One of his PARENTS was born into slavery. For people like my mom, this isn’t the least bit distant. My mom grew up in the Jim Crow south. History is so depersonalized that people can act like slavery, Jim Crow, and blatantly racist institutions existed in 1800 BC
I have an aunt who died in 02 who was born in 1898.
I’d LOVE for someone to have told her that slavery was “long ago”.
My mother was born in 1956.. My grandmother in 1937.. My great grandparents in 1919… My great great granddad in the 1890’s and his parents who were born just shy of slavery…. All of these people were alive when my mother was younger… And my great great granddad died when I was 4! So please tell me how long ago slavery was again??
My grand mother was a sharecropper’s daughter….Who do you think her parents were the children of?My Great great grandfather on my dad’s side is white cuban… who got it on with a Jamaican women, my great great grandmother …took the last name Miller… with is a person who works the Mill. So yea… she has my great grandfather…. who then had my grandfather, who had my dad, who with my mom had me.
My mother and I was just talking yesterday about how white america is constantly trying to sweep it’s transgression against people of color under the rug like it never happen and a constant discourse doesn’t need to be taken place.
June Jordan & Angela Davis while filming A Place of Rage
White feminists:
When you discuss the wage gap, here are a few things to keep in mind:
- Only white women make $0.77 to a man’s dollar.
- Black women make about $0.68 to a man’s dollar.
- Latina women make about $0.58 to a man’s dollar.
Intersectionality matters.
and many MOC make less than white women too.
womp womp
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Would he have been arrested on the spot? Would the cops have believed self-defense? Would the teenager be villianized? Would the murderer be out on bail? Would ANY of that have gone down different if Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman looked like this?
George Zimmerman is hispanic, not white. Your logic doesn’t work. Sick of people who won’t shut the fuck up about this. “You know if it was a black guy, he’d be arrested right away!!!” ——— Like OJ Simpson. By the way, heard of Chris Newsom and Channon Christian? Of course not, go look it up.
*GASP* Black people kill white people?!?!? Yes. And White people kill black people and hispanics kill white and whites kill whites and black kill blacks.
Anyone dying is a terrible thing, but stop trying to make it about race.
Except that there’s no rush of black people out there killing white people BECAUSE they’re white.
Also, Hispanic is not a race. Hispanic is a ethnicity. Hispanics are either white, black, native, or some mix thereof.None of that, though, has ANYTHING to do with Zimmerman’s ability to be racist and perpetuate white supremacy.
As for people who are “tired of hearing about this”: Too fucking bad. You’re going to keep hearing about it.And for people who keep saying “Let’s not make this about race.” Too late. White people made it about race when they first encountered the Dark Skinned Other. And they continue to make it about race every single day. So sit the fuck down.
but the thing about colorism is that if you point out that a “preference” for lighter-skinned people isn’t just a preference but really a reinforcement of what we’ve all been taught, people will call it bitterness.
and that says a lot too.
meanwhile darker skinned people get fewer jobs than our lighter skinned counterparts. are more likely to be incarcerated, are less likely to have the same opportunities. so this “preference” isnt something you’ve thought up all on your own. it isn’t just the way you feel. there’s a whole institution supporting and implementing this “preference,” too.
but yes, i’m just bitter. that’s all it is.
nevermind all the facts. nevermind my life is adversely affected because im darker. nah. im just hatin.
Zora Neale Hurston, 1935
“African-American” is NOT a race, folks.
It is a Diasporic ethnic group and nationality.
It is a PC description of a complex series of cultures.
It is a name for a humongous amassing of various different West African ethnic groups (Vai, Mende, Kpelle, Ewe, Ga, Hausa, Fon, Igbo, Senegambian, Temne, Bambara, Asante, Fulani, Yoruba, Fante, Soninke, Aja, etc.) brought to the continental United States over a period of nearly seven centuries which were then mixed in with Anglo, Scottish, Irish and French (“White”) bloodlines as well as Indigenous bloodlines (Tsalagi, Kiowa, Seminole, Creek, etc.) at varying intervals.
That is all.
The back of the $2 bill has an engraving of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In the image is a man who has dark skin and wearing a powdered wig while sitting at the table just to the left of the men standing in the center of the engraving. This dark skinned man is John Hanson in his position as president of the Continental Congress. In the original painting hanging in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, the dark skinned man does not appear!!!
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© Charles “Teenie” Harris, 1930s-1940s, One Shot Teenie
#1: Two young women eating caramel apples, 1940-1945
#2: A woman outside Kay’s Valet Shoppe, 1938-1945
#3: Boys (possibly from Herron Hill School) playing brass instruments, 1938-1945
#4: A woman poses with a car on Mulford Street in Homewood, 1937In the days of film, especially in a controlled setting, photographers often made redundant shots to make sure they captured what they wanted. Not Charles “Teenie” Harris. A native of Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the city’s cultural center of African-American life, Harris was a semi-pro athlete and a numbers runner before he bought his first camera in the 1930s. He opened a photography studio and specialized in glamour portraits, earning the nickname “One Shot” because he rarely made his subjects sit for a second take. (read more)
Nearly 80 years later, a retrospective of the photographer’s work, “Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story” is on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh until April 7, 2012.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglas (via humanformat)
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April 29, 1992. The LA Riots.
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