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June Jordan & Angela Davis while filming A Place of Rage
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zora Neale Hurston, 1935
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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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“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglas (via humanformat)
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