March 2012
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moviemakersunited:
Filmmaker Takes AFFRM-ative Action to Promote Black Cinema
Ava DuVernay has accomplished three times over what many independent filmmakers—both Black and White—find impossible to do just once. She has independently shot, produced, and distributed three films by using her own money. While she hasn’t produced any blockbuster films (yet!), DuVernay owns the rights to her...
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Me: Why do white people hate us?
White People: Oh my goodness, we don't!
**continues to murder, rape, deny economic/ educational opportuties, overly incarcerate, stereotype, other**
White Person: Don't get angry about something whites continue to do to blacks! Stop being hateful by asking us why we're hateful! This is all your fault! If you weren't rude maybe we wouldn't kill you!
In loving memory of the Black girls who died... →
afrocentricmiss:
abagond etc: Killing innocent black boys/men is nothing new in America. It’s the American way.
fracturedrefuge:
TW: Racism, murder
teanbean00:
”we find that in Sanford, FL, a self appointed “watchman” with no police powers and zero law enforcement training walks free after murdering a teenager. But, incidents of suspicious killings of Black males in America...
I hate the phrase "isolated incident".
ladyatheist:
Whenever a white person kills a PoC, the murder always gets labelled an “isolated incident”. Trayvon Martin’s murder? Isolated incident. Shaima Alawadi? Isolated incident. Sean Bell? Isolated incident. Ramarley Graham? Isolated incident. Dwight Person? Isolated incident. Kathryn Johnston? Isolated incident. Corey Ward? Isolated incident.
I could keep going, but I think you get the...
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"Basically, we pull over black people"
docshoe:
A friend of mine from grade school, Zack, became a cop. He patrols in Naperville, an upscale neighborhood. My brother and I were making fun of him—neither of us are fond of cops—and we asked him what he does in a nice quiet neighborhood like Naperville. This was his answer.
“I am not anti American.
I am simply against those institutions which rule...”
– Emile de Antonio, filmmaker New York, 1971 Via The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (via killingthems0ftly)
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“If capitalism doesn’t kill me.. racism will.”
– Amiri Baraka (via sovereigntyordeath)
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“A boycott is a passive act. It is the most passive political act that anyone can...”
– Stokely Carmichael, 1967
Black Power Mixtape
(via mydearestlola)
newwavefeminism:
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deejaybird:
A Hottentot woman known as Saartjie Baartman was lied to — told she would become wealthy if she showed up in Europe to be exhibited in a sideshow attraction in European circuses under the name of the Hottentot Venus. What was of interest to her viewers was her huge ass. It was depicted in European cartoons as so large that small children could...
This blog has now been created.
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
pocharassed:
As per so-treu’s suggestion - this blog has now been created to archive all the harassment against PoC that tumblr staff do nothing about.
A wordpress will be set up soon, in case tumblr takes this down.
Signal Boost!
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“Her blackness is fine, the blackness of her skin; the blackness of her mind....”
– Me’shell Ndegéocello (via irie-vibes)
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“Christ is a nigger,
Beaten and black:
Oh, bare your back!
Mary is His...”
– Langston Hughes (Christ in Alabama)
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A Different World: Rodney King Verdict
Guy: They just acquitted the officers who beat Rodney King!
Whitley: How could they acquit them? i mean, it was on tape. Hard evidence…We all saw it.
Sister Souljah: Girl, please! They can beat us, kill us, do whatever they wanna do and get off just like they always have.
Whitley: We still have the constitution to protect us.
Sister Souljah: When that piece of paper was written, African...
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“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford...”
– James Baldwin
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