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thisiswhiteculture: geoekwe: cannotfixstupid: geoekwe: My...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:41:56 -0400

Post I came across in a racist group on Facebook.

The last fully blooded Tasmanian family.

Women and children of men who did not meet rubber quotas in Belgium occupied Congo Free State.

A Cherokee Woman who walked the Trail of Tears.

Artistic rendition of one of the many famines caused by the restructuring of agricultural practices in India to make cash crops primarily for export to England.

thisiswhiteculture:

geoekwe:

cannotfixstupid:

geoekwe:

My response to a racist and ignorant post (top picture) that I saw on Facebook.

The following are all examples of peoples whose livelihoods were destroyed by European settlement or conquest. Most of these “neighborhoods” are discussed more in depth in the Racism: A History series that can be found for free on YouTube which was ironically done by the BBC.

*All the photos are captioned*

Well said, good sir.

Thank you @cannotfixstupid!

Picture captions for people viewing on mobile:

1. Dumbass picture I found on racist Facebook group.
2. Picture of the last full blooded Tasmanian family.
3. Pictures of women and children who were punished for the men in the families not meeting rubber quotas in Belgian occupied Congo Free State.
4. Picture of a woman who was made to walk the Trail of Tears.
5. A depiction of one of the many famines that ruined Indian communities when their agricultural systems were changed to grow cash crops for export to England.

anytime white people have moved in, they have left a trail of pain, destruction, mutilation, rape and murder

but they afraid of brown people moving in?

smh

thegoddamazon: ask4permission1st: thehegira: theedjcagedbird: ...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:19:25 -0400

thegoddamazon:

ask4permission1st:

thehegira:

theedjcagedbird:

ask4permission1st:

orcses:

Bro,white dudes in the military are some of the most racist mofo’s I have ever come in contact with and it’s like they dont even care

smh i bet.

Where is this from?

It’s a HBO show called Generation Kill, and it’s a pretty accurate show

Does no one ever read my commentary on military culture and how it is a fucking CESSPOOL and BREEDING GROUND for fostering, strengthening, and reinforcing racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and rape culture?

Like does nobody understand or get it by now? Jesus fucking Christ.

"Stokely told his audiences that one of the most important aspects of the struggle for Black Power..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:16:45 -0400

“

Stokely told his audiences that one of the most important aspects of the struggle for Black Power was the right to define. Black people have been the victims of white America’s definitions. White people defined black people as inferior, as Negroes and niggers, as second-class citizens. By reacting to white America’s definitions, the blacks allowed themselves to be put in a bag which white America controlled. But now black people must demand the right to define themselves. White America has defined black as evil, Carmichael explains. “I have a little syllogism for that. According to America, everything black is evil; I am black, therefore, I am evil.”

“There is something wrong with that,” he goes on to explain, “because I am black and I am good.” He never fails to score heavily with his audience when he says that.

His favorite example of this always elicited a hysterical response, from both black and white audiences. “Here’s a perfect example of the power to define in action. During the civil rights movement, black leaders would say: ‘We want to integrate.’ And then white people would come along and define what integration means. They’d say: ‘You want to integrate? That means that you want to marry my daughter.’ What the Negro leaders had actually meant was that they wanted more jobs, better schools, housing, and an end to police brutality, and things like that. What we must do is define our own terms. We must not react to white definitions.

”

- Eldridge Cleaver on Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

Taken from the book “Eldridge Cleaver: Target Zero” (pages 99-100)

knowledgeequalsblackpower: thenapturalone: diemeowderkatze: I...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:39:09 -0400

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

thenapturalone:

diemeowderkatze:

I AM SORRY BUT THIS IS WHY I AM EMBARRASSED TO BE AN AMERICAN. IF A HIJAB THAT DORNS THE AMERICAN FLAG PATTERN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BUT SKIMPY ASS BIKINIS OR WEARING THE FUCKING ACTUAL FLAG IS ACCEPTABLE, JUST BECAUSE THE PERSON IS WHITE, I WANT TO FUCKING THROW UP.

(I don’t have a thing against Audrey Kitching, she was just merely and example).

But this fucking disgusts me right here. It makes me want to say, fuck this country and its racism and double standards.

I LITERALLY FUCKING CAN NOT

Give her a bullet to the head for walking down the street, minding her own business?? And they think SHE’S the terrorist.

I am so disgusted by this. There is so much to be done in this world.

Angry Asian Girls United: Dear Kanye,

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:16:05 -0400

Angry Asian Girls United: Dear Kanye,:

angryasiangirlsunited:

Your album Yeezus got leaked, and in a mix of excitement and anticipation I jumped on to the hype of searching up your tracks and listening in on the music you had in store for my ears.

I came across “I’m In It”, the beat so hard, the drop so dirty.

Until the words you uttered sliced my…

Photo

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:07:48 -0400

nbcparksandrec: Today, Ron is feeling hungry. This is exactly...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:03:22 -0400

nbcparksandrec:

Today, Ron is feeling hungry.

This is exactly how I feel right now.

microaggressions: I am sickened by the fact that I feel an automatic surge of gratitude when I have...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:03:15 -0400

microaggressions:

I am sickened by the fact that I feel an automatic surge of gratitude when I have to deal with a sexist. I am not a conventionally beautiful woman, nor a conventionally feminine one. I am overweight, don’t wear makeup, keep my hair short, and prefer gender neutral clothing like jeans and baggy tee-shirts, but none of that makes me any less of a woman. It feels sometimes like the people who belittle me for being female are the only ones who acknowledge that I’m female at all.

Rafael Nadal, the first male to win 8 singles titles at the...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:40:57 -0400

Rafael Nadal, the first male to win 8 singles titles at the same Grand Slam - 8 Rolland Garros Titles and counting.

<3 him.

yoisthisracist: anonymous asked: Don’t you think it’s fucked up that its more socially acceptable...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:32:43 -0400

yoisthisracist:

anonymous asked: Don’t you think it’s fucked up that its more socially acceptable to say some racist ass shit than to call someone a racist?

If you learn to stop being surprised that on a basic fundamental level “polite” society is constructed to perpetuate and ignore racism, you will be able to remain a lot calmer in this world.

Unfortunately, I have found this to be true in personal experience.

18mr: A lot of folks are posting about the Tiananmen Square...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:18:07 -0400

18mr:

A lot of folks are posting about the Tiananmen Square massacre today, of course. I thought we should share it too, but I wanted to write a little bit about what was explained to me about what happened in the spring of 1989 that the western media often overlooks.

I am a 1.5 generation Chinese American leftist. I was two when the massacre happened. My sister had just been born. My father, who immigrated from China to Hong Kong when he was a toddler to escape the Cultural Revolution, and then Hong Kong to the United States to go to college, tells me he was seeking work in China around this time.

Several summers ago, when we were traveling together in China, he told me about what he understood about Tiananmen Square from his perspective as a young, newly naturalized American citizen who still had deep ties to the motherland. He told me the sense of unrest was not just about state control of the media and politics, but a sense that the state was also imposing capitalist reforms on the Chinese economy without input from the people, and with clear preferential treatment for party cadres and others who had an “in” with the powers that be. Students were upset and anxious about what looked like unilateral decisions about the future that weren’t just about opening markets, they were about neoliberalising the country.

When I think about what’s happening in Istanbul, Turkey, I can’t help but think about this. When we remember Tiananmen Square, I hope we remember that this wasn’t necessarily about the struggle of democracy versus Communism, but that it was about people who wanted to take part in determining the future of their country, and who rejected nepotistic neoliberal reforms. Just like with the media narrative around Gezi, American audiences risk being turned around. A million people don’t turn out and go on hunger strikes against their own self-interest. There’s more to this story than meets the eye.

Remember Tiananmen, but remember it for what it was: young Chinese students and workers resisting their country “modernizing” in the age of Reagan, the godfather of neoliberalism. This is the same ideology that young Turkish students and workers are resisting in Istanbul. It’s the same ideology that has decimated the U.S. economy and that we resist when we say “another world is possible.”

When we ask why the Chinese government still hasn’t admitted that Tiananmen even happened, we should remember that China today is just as cutthroat and capitalistic in some ways as the United States is. They have delivered on neoliberalism, but in the style of an autocratic state, where nepotism and party connections had more to do with business success than anything. Students and workers in China in 1989 were emphatically saying no to this system.

contumaciousdee: blua: If you’re unemployed, it’s not because...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 05:23:16 -0400

contumaciousdee:

blua:

If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work.

Just look around: A housing shortage, crime, pollution; we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done.

So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business.

This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else’s profits, the work won’t get done.

Interesting.

Whoever says they love hot weather...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:32:57 -0400

loladelphia:

…never attended school in, or worked at a public school in Philadelphia.

#Realtalk

Truth. Applies to NYC too.

kcvmh: “I feel like all my kids grew up, and then they married...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:29:51 -0400

kcvmh:

“I feel like all my kids grew up, and then they married each other. It’s every parent’s dream.”

eshusplayground: It’s true doe. <3 Mindy

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:02:58 -0400

eshusplayground:

It’s true doe.

<3 Mindy

sbreak: seenecdoche: whirls: theclotheshorse: (via...

Fri, 10 May 2013 20:40:47 -0400

sbreak:

seenecdoche:

whirls:

theclotheshorse: (via sincerelyjoanna)

(“It is made for the brutal pucker of dreaming.” Yes.”)

“your mouth is made for the articulate frenzy of revolution, for the crisp shape of kindness.” so beautiful.

revolutionizethesoul: Injustice, nothing new to America.

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:03:01 -0400

revolutionizethesoul:

Injustice, nothing new to America.

nyleraps: Proud to wear this man’s glasses.

Fri, 03 May 2013 22:19:22 -0400

nyleraps:

Proud to wear this man’s glasses.

Sounds about right.

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:37:56 -0400

Sounds about right.

nbcparksandrec: That’s right. It’s Waffle Wednesday! Nomnomnom

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:50:50 -0400

nbcparksandrec:

That’s right. It’s Waffle Wednesday!

Nomnomnom