March 2012
Shit Racist White People Say to Black and...
White People: Yeah, we did the Natives real dirty. We won the land fair and square! You guys just weren't developed enough!
Indigenous People: -_-
White People: What'd I say? I'm totally not being racist, but you guys didn't have civilizations.
Indigenous People: Iroquois Confederacy? Cahokia? The Mashika? Aztecs? Mayans? The herbal medicines of our ancestors are the backbones of modern pharmaceutical industries. Sustainable farming? Us. Masters of musical styles you haven't even heard of? Us. The U.S. government system? Y'know, where you exert power from a central authority into smaller units? Yeah, that's us too. Where do you think the word "caucus" comes from? Us. Astronomy? Us. Anesthetics? Us. Most of your staple foods you take for granted? Us. Almanacs? Us. Flying machinery? Us. Having a BBQ party? Us. Basketball? Us. Embalming? Us. Advanced architecture? Us. Your ancestors would have died it if weren't for us. Yet you claim everything our ancestors did was built by aliens.
White People: But, like, genocide isn't new to human history.
Indigenous People: It's the only time in history when genocide destroyed and displaced hundreds of cultures in an entire *creed* of people spanning two continents and a collection of islands. Our blood and labor is the backbone of the modern world.
White People: ... Oh.
Indigenous People: Yeah. OH.
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White People: Get over it, niggers! Africa was just ass-backwards! We took you guys from the jungle tribes and educated you!
Black People: -_-
White People: What'd I say? I'm totally not being racist, but you guys didn't have civilizations!
Black People: The West African empires of Ghana, Mali, Songhai? How about Kemet? Kush? Kanem-Bornu? You raided Africa for its natural resources, stripping it of produce and people to feed your fat egos, and you still are. Backbone of modern music? Jazz, rock n' roll, the Blues Scale? Us. Irrigation? Us. Astronomy? Us. First iron-smelters? Us. Earliest expressions of realism in art? Us. Picasso was inspired by West African artworks. Us. Embalming? Us. Alchemy? Us. Flying machinery? Us. First successful Caesarian Section? Us. First successful cataracts? Us. The Greeks transplanted all the knowledge the Kemites ("Egyptians") and Kushites gave them; Religion, architecture and science, and that is the source of the Western World. Yet you claim everything our ancestors did was done by aliens.
White People: But, like, slavery isn't new to human history.
Black People: It's the only time in history that worldwide slavery was inflicted across an entire *creed* of people spanning a continent large enough to swallow some of the world's largest countries, displacing and destroying these people for centuries. Our blood and labor is the backbone of the modern world.
White People: ...Oh.
Black People: Yeah. OH.
Always I assume that I know-
At least a bit more than you think I do.
Watchvonsoco:
“Anna Brown, 29, died on the floor of a jail cell within an hour of being dragged from St. Mary’s Hospital. As blood clots spread from her legs to her lungs the hospital staff was busy refusing her further treatment. She was arrested because she refused to leave, she said she was in to much pain to stand. So she was carried to a squad car and driven to the Richmond Heights Police...
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I don’t want you all to get befuddled by my taste in women. My love extends for women of all creeds, colors and shapes. You hear me? My dick is like communism; it’s for all those who are able to believe that it is the clear alternative to a life of prosperity under the scope that there is no class and state social order.
Put "Babe" in my ask if you would ever date me.
sasasabrina:
early-sunset:
I’m interested. Do this.
“They killed my son, now they’re trying to kill his reputation.”
– Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, in response to the awful things the right is doing (via fearandwar)
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Rest in peace William Quincy Franklin 10/29/1984 -...
My last conversations with my elder brother never leave my mind. I still don’t know how he died. But I’m not bitter towards Gwinnett county police, in who’s custody he died of a “heartattack” in the back of a police car, nor towards the “Justice System” who has made no attempt since his death to help us uncover the truth about that night. I’ve found...
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Anonymous asked: Do you ever feel lonely?
I'm learning that the shoes I make fit many sizes.
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Something I want you to understand.
You know me better than to think that I’m naive; I know that you have other things going on in my absence, word travels faster than you realize, even across the world.
And I’m fine with that. Just don’t insult my intelligence.
As long as you understand why your role in my life will never be further than what you want it to. I feel like that fact will be clearer and clearer,...
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