February 2012
desliz:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
strudelcuddy:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick...
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ohh boy everybody get yo’ popcorn out
my white ex just fb declared his relationship with his friends sister
….a week after he asked me to marry him and told me he missed being with me
and this friend kinda hates my ex
this is so not going to last and its going to cause so much drama
its gunna be a fun time
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Tumblr: America needs to stop being racist and sexist, pay more attention to women and PoC ok
CBS: Hey guys guess what we decided Watson should be played by a Taiwanese, female actress in our version of Sherlock Holmes
Tumblr: NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT HOW DARE YOU I AM BOYCOTTING YOUR SHOW I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED
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I want a Bindi
heywhitegirlputdownthatbindi:
No, girl. No you don’t.
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my mama used to wear her hair in a loooong braid, colourful shiny langas, have dangly gold bindis falling onto her forehead, a nose ring with a chain but she would get treated awfully by whites, talked down to, stared at and have rude comments thrown at her so she stopped.
but white people can do this and not have any of the flack given to my mom.
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when a white able-bodied man tells a woman of colour to check her privilege…………………
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“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice
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I am sooooooososososo happy Sharmeen Obaid won an oscar really i’m like crying
I don’t even like the oscars because theyre white and racist and i have never sat through one in my life but i just really love this documentary and i love Sharmeen Obaid and her speech was beautiful.
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So, if you put your URL in here, you can listen to... →
mycupofchai:
THIS IS SO COOL
i love this oh mmymy
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7u7:
why everybody talking about oscar
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indo-chic
heywhitegirlputdownthatbindi:
by ananya mukherjea Original Source
Several months ago, a boy I know—a smart and gracious boy, but one I know pretty damn peripherally—asked me casually what I think of all this new “exotic style.” We were walking down Ave. A on a Sunday, and it was very evident that he was referring to the return of chic Third-world fabrics and chic Third-world fashion to the U.S....
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“This is a pretty common perception of White Identity that should definitely be...”
– foxtalbotnegatives (via sapphrikah)
yes yes oh god yes!!
chandism:
i want to be loved.
but more importantly
i want more alcohol.
yes
“All emotions do are oppress me they are the biggest fascists we should beat them...”
– Phredology (via anticapitalist)
baddominicana:
when people justify anti-blackness in academic terms like theyre fucking smart for it: typical whiteness-based fail.
you may be educated, but youre dumb and racist as fuck.
Easiest way to tell if someone on the internet is...
clintisiceman:
They quote Morgan Freeman’s statement about how racism will go away if we stop talking about it.
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“Poor whites are rarely typified as pathological, dangerous, lazy or shiftless to...”
– Tim Wise, Honky Wanna Cracker? Examining the Myth of “Reverse Racism” via darkjez (via mamma-wolf)
lotus-eyes:
wow man can we stop fetishizing cultures like seriously
“spent the morning drinking delightful tea straight from the darjeeling hilltops while munching on baklavas hot from the oven from my favorite armenian bakery oo lala and listened to contemporary japanese violin”
HERE’S A GOLD STAR U CUNT
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“I went on tumblr. I didn’t like it.”
– Dad
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Basically:
PoC: experiences racism
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PoC: continues to encounter racism
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PoC: harassed via inbox
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PoC: responds to racism
Tumblr: WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU! THEY WEREN'T TRYING TO BE OFFENSIVE GOSH! WE'RE ALL HUMAN. YOU'RE THE REASON RACISM IS STILL A PROBLEM!!!1111!!!!
MEANWHILE...
White person: does something racist
Tumblr: *crickets*
PoC: calls that person racist
Tumblr: HDU THIS IS REVERSE RACISM U ARE EVIL
White person: yeah you're evil you monkey ass bitch!
Tumblr: YEAH CALL THAT NEGRO A MONKEY! AHAHA THAT'LL SHOW THAT COON! GO GET LYNCHED!
PoC: responds in kind
Other white people who just come in: HOW DARE YOU THIS IS MY FRIEND THEY ARE A GOOD WHITE PERSON I AM COMPLETELY IGNORING THE FACT THAT THEY CALLED YOU A MONKEY AND TO GO GET LYNCHED BECAUSE WHAT YOU DID WAS REALLY MEAN
PoC who are white-identifying: YEAH!!! THIS IS WHY PEOPLE THINK WE'RE SO BAD!
PoC: :|
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ibuprofit answered your question: tell me a movieeeeeee ?
Me and You and Everyone We Know. It’s on netflix. Watch it now.
i have seen this and i loved it. miranda july is great. i recently saw the future too and i liked it. i don’t have Netflix though because Canadian Netflix is sucky, a lot of movies aren’t available.