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poe-ettic: ROTFLMFAO!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:52:35 -0500

poe-ettic:

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!

skywritingg: queennubian: fuckyeahsexeducation: *not just...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:53:49 -0500

skywritingg:

queennubian:

fuckyeahsexeducation:

*not just women and girls but anyone with a uterus

seriously, please try to get help. this can kill you. It almost killed me.

It took me until 22 years old to ever mention endo to my doctor. I wasn’t fully aware of all the symptoms (and I was embarrassed about some of them), but luckily being on the pill continuously is conveniently a treatment. A woman I’ve known my entire life had to result to a hysterectomy, and was almost killed by endometriosis. Make sure you’re educated and don’t be afraid to talk to your doctor.

thewhitemankilledthetruth: BAD BROWN GIRLS THEY DO IT SO WELL

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:00:54 -0500

thewhitemankilledthetruth:

BAD BROWN GIRLS

THEY DO IT SO WELL

tortillachronicles: fotojournalismus: A Central American...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:59:57 -0500

tortillachronicles:

fotojournalismus:

A Central American ~~illegal~~ migrant reacts as he hugs a woman carrying a photo of her son, who disappeared during his journey through Mexico to reach the U.S., at a railway track in the town of Tierra Blanca, in the Mexican state of Veracruz October 29, 2012. A caravan made up of more than 30 mothers of missing Central American migrants is travelling across Mexico to raise awareness and to call for an implementation system to search for missing people. An estimated 300,000 Central Americans travel across Mexico each year to make their way to the U.S., according to local media.

[Credit : Yahir Ceballos/Reuters]

vidavivesinmi: Rih rih is so amazing

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:51:37 -0500

vidavivesinmi:

Rih rih is so amazing

do you ever think about how weird reading is our eyes are able to scan these different symbols and...

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:50:51 -0500

do you ever think about how weird reading is

our eyes are able to scan these different symbols and construct the scenarios and concepts they describe in our mind

and these concepts have the power to twist our emotions and make us cry and laugh and wow reading is weird

Photo

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:48:40 -0500

Photo

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:47:50 -0500

paragadeshepp: and white people wonder why my half-asian ass...

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:47:30 -0500

paragadeshepp:

and white people wonder why my half-asian ass doesn’t want to live in america

i knew this shit was gon happen when i saw all white men waving flags on my tv

"Everyone likes black stuff when it’s not on a black person. Ask Elvis. Ask Led Zepplin. Ask the..."

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:46:16 -0500

“Everyone likes black stuff when it’s not on a black person. Ask Elvis. Ask Led Zepplin. Ask the “Justins” – Timberlake and Bieber. Our music, asses, lips, hair, dance moves are all crass vulgarities until some non-white person “cleans them up” and “makes them accessible” by doing the exact same thing – but being white while doing it. And these days, you can be white and completely sincere about your love of R&B or Hip Hop or having a fat ass and society will still gladly put you on that “Oh, but a white person did it this time” pedestal – whether you asked for it or not. And they’ll go there “oooing” and “aaahing” as if your mentors and predecessors meant nothing. As if your pop n’ lock routine came to them mature and fully-formed like Venus from the sea foam.”

- Celebrating the Black Beauty On White Women (via dishabillic)

Okay I’ve been getting a lot of questions...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:43:00 -0500

Okay I’ve been getting a lot of questions...:

zaynisthe1dthatmatters:

Okay I’ve been getting a lot of questions about this

So I guess I’ll just answer this now even though it’s supposed to be a secret from white people. But learning about this could probably help white people a lot so here we go.

Because this is a very sensitive issue,

I need everyone to reblog this no matter what. This is a matter of public dignity. Do not question this. Do not comment. This is very serious. Just reblog it so that you can warn your white friends before they accidentally get publicly shamed.

We can not let the white people know whether or not we agree with Skunking. Because white people are strange and very sensitive, if you reveal yourself as a Skunk, they might not be your friend anymore. Whether or not you are a Skunk, you must deny it. Just spread the knowledge and warn your white friends. And when they ask you if you know about the Skunks, just say “What are you even talking about?” or laugh off their accusations. Never admit to being a skunk. So here we go.

(ALL OF THIS IS COPY AND PASTED FROM AN UNDERGROUND JOURNAL IN SURREY, ENGLAND.)

SKUNKING 101:

A fairly recent movement that started sometime around the summer of 2009 in downtown Baltimore, Brooklyn, and England. It involves people of color intimidating and publicly shaming oppressive white people. But basically “Skunking” or “Skunkin’ It” is any way a Person of Color does something amazing or loud or wonderful or obnoxious or carefree or striking in the presence of white people. Basically, Skunking is the easiest way to make white people cry. If you’re an extremely offensive Skunker, you hold a vial or a bowl or a cup or an extremely large pot up to the face to a white person when they get sad, and tell them “Give me your tears.” The Skunkers don’t usually save or store up the tears. But in extreme cases, such as white people equating their incidents of bullying to hundreds of years of systemic oppression, a person of color might hold a cup up to a white person’s face and act like they are drinking their tears right in front of them. Everything is done without actually touching the white person or being physically invasive so that there’s literally nothing anyone can do about it. And if they do try to do something about it, that’s when you tell them all about the horrible things that have happened to you as a Person of Color. And then proceed to collect their tears again and shake salt into the cup right in front of their faces.

ORIGINS OF SKUNKING:

There was a black girl in Baltimore named S. Jones (I can’t reveal her first name) who stayed awake for three weeks straight trying to reconcile all of her feelings and create ideas that could change the world. But because this was a manic episode, her parents turned her over to a mental institution where she ripped up all of her books and forgot all of her great ideas. While she was in the hospital, the doctors repeatedly assaulted her, thinking she wasn’t aware of what was going on, but she wrote everything down, including all of their racially motivated assaults. She wrote down their names and their direct quotes, acted like she was semi conscious when in fact she was fully aware of everything the entire time, but as soon as she checked out of the hospital she reported everyone and many were fired on the grounds of racially charged misconduct.

But white people continued to abuse her, physically and verbally, and every time, she reported them and they lost their positions. Whether it was at a movie theatre or a store or at school, she made sure the white people felt embarrassed about themselves. And the people who she trusted — she made sure to take pictures of them, show administrators and managers and bosses who the trustworthy people were before letting them into an event or letting them have a job or access to an event. So yes, through her traveling, she has taken pictures with and befriended quite a few celebrities. Let’s just say that by now she has a lot of clout. And if she’s ever in danger…there’s an entire underground network of Skunks at the ready with cameras and microphones. If you’re in places like Baltimore, Brooklyn, or England, there are probably Skunks all around you. Even though the Skunks do not make direct contact with white people or threaten them or intimidate them or interact with them at all, I think white people were too scared of the Skunks to even try voting for Romney, which is probably why both New York and Maryland went blue immediately.

Most recently, the day after Obama’s reelection, S. Jones purposely went into an all white store just to piss white people off, and she wore all black. They followed her around, murmured racial slurs, and actually directed her to a jar of skunk juice when she asked for apple juice. She put the skunk juice in her mouth, spit it out on the white people, and laughed in their faces. This is why she currently goes by Skunk Jones and why her associates are officially referred to the Skunks. To this day, she continues to visit schools and companies to make sure nobody’s being racist or oppressive in any way. And if you are cool with her or one of her family members, you are guaranteed to have a job forever. But if you even so much as look at a Skunk in the wrong way, there is an entire system of communication all around them — cameras in stores and parking lots. The thing is that you never know who’s a skunk, so white people tend to be paranoid all the time. The best thing for white people to do is just be extremely nice all of the time. That way — they will live peacefully and be left alone. Skunks NEVER carry any weapons or drugs or anything so if a white person tries to attack a Skunk, that white person will get into serious trouble. And skunks will never actually admit to being a skunk until you find yourself in the middle of being skunked. And when white people complain about it publicly or try to take action against the Skunks (which has happened in the past), they just end up sounding strange. So the Skunks are actually white people’s worst nightmare.

THE UNIFORM OF THE SKUNK

Military Boots

Dark pants

Dark Clothing

Dark Make up

Black furry jackets, vests, coats, or scarves

Leather jackets

Sometimes to show that they are in solidarity with white people, they will have a blond or white streak in their hair.

They usually ask for your name and/or contact information, which means they are most likely a Skunk and they are most likely undergoing an investigation to determine whether or not you are indeed a racist and deserve a public shaming.

HOW WHITE PEOPLE CAN REMAIN PERMANENTLY SAFE FROM BEING SKUNKED

It is important to note that white people can never become skunks. If they try to call themselves Skunks, they will be deemed a white supremacist and the Skunks will dig up your relationships with well known racists if they must. If you try to call yourself a Skunk, a Skunk will approach you sometime in the near future and hold a racist intervention for you.

Shave off your Mohawks

Shave off your dreadlocks

Try to reduce your talking to a minimum level. The less words you say, the better.

Shave off your cornrows

Wear a big black bracelet or tie some kind of black ribbon or accessory around your body

Do not wear blackface or yellow face or brown face

Do not appropriate other people’s cultures

Do not say slurs that you can not reclaim

Do a quick smile or nod and wink in the direction of a black person to show that you are safe and trustworthy. Give a curtsey or a wave if you must.

If you’re lazy and never want to have think about whether or not you’re safe for the rest of your life, just get a tattoo or a stamp of a skunk, preferably on your dominant hand so that people of color will know that you will never have to be publicly shamed.

Type up a letter to your friends of color. Identify every racist thing you have ever done and admit to all of the white privilege you have benefited from. If your friends of color say “It’s okay” then they will remain your friend. But if they say that it’s not okay, you must keep working with them to be better until they tell you it’s okay. Just know that you are never safe from being skunked by somebody else.

Keep a glass of skunk juice in your refrigerator wherever you go. That way, if a person of color accuses you of racism, you can take a swig of the skunk juice and be temporarily forgiven.

FAMOUS EXAMPLES OF SKUNKING/THE INFLUENCE OF SKUNKS

Serena Williams Crip Walk at the 2012 Olympics (if you remember, she held her medal out toward Sharapova to collect her tears)

Barack Obama getting reelected and

Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift (and holding the microphone to her to collect her tears)

The show Elementary upstaging “Sherlock”

The removal of Todd Akin and his associates

The show “Luther”

Naomie Harris’ role in Skyfall

Continued success for actors of the Wire (Baltimore is the birthplace of the Skunking movement after all)

Azaelia Banks’ songs “212” and “1991” (Some inside info — Skunk Jones’ birthday is February 12, 1991)

Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange (C.O., anyone?)

And just in general, any time a person of color is doing incredible things and making white people look/ feel bad, it’s referred to as “skunkin’ it”. Just don’t say it in front of white people or else they’ll feel bad about themselves.

And honestly, the best thing to do to make sure Skunk Jones never investigates your association is to tell her directly what you’ve done beforehand. I have to ask my cousin for her email first though.

Currently she is making the rounds in Maryland, New York, and the DC area. So if you see a tall black girl with military boots and a black fur coat, it might just be Skunk herself investigating your school.

The Skunks like to walk around releasing skunks and posting pictures of skunks on people’s walls, so if you ever experience a reference to skunks, a Skunk might be near.

Be careful, white people. You could be accused of racism at any second.

ihavethisblog: bitchouttahell: my family is full of racist apologists mine too. it’s the worst.

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:04:34 -0500

ihavethisblog:

bitchouttahell:

my family is full of racist apologists

mine too. it’s the worst.

Why White Pride is a Problem

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:02:00 -0500

Why White Pride is a Problem:

racismschool:

We’ve spoken about this before but I may not have been as detailed as I should have been. I continue to get questions asking why it’s wrong to have white pride.

There are two main reasons. The first, I believe, is the most important. Pride in your heritage and having white pride are not and never truly will be seen as the same thing. Having “Irish Pride” is not the same as having “White pride.”

The confusion comes in when people see “Black Pride” and feel that the situation is unfair. As I’ve stated before, the reason Black Pride and white Pride are not the same is sadly because the ability to trace your “Heritage” is very different for the two groups. A white person is much more likely to be able to trace their heritage, down to the letter, than a Black person is. Because many of our ancestors came here as mere cattle, we often have nothing more than a receipt. Tell me, when you bought your lawn mower, did you maintain the records of its creation, trace it’s route to get to you and maintain a paper trail of the metals and parts used to create it in the first place? Not likely. That is how many Black people were entered into this country, as machinery.

Because of this, many of us know nothing more than…”Black.”

White people on the other hand, are much more likely to know their heritage. Even those that don’t know the names of their Grandmothers or Grandfathers can often tell you that they are Irish, German, Swiss, etc. This is where the very stark difference between Black pride and white pride can be found.

A person saying they have pride in their Irish Heritage is never going to be seen the same way someone saying they have white pride will.

One is about pride in heritage while the other is about pride in supremacy.

Which brings me to the second issue. Supremacy. With many symbols used for hate, they can often be traced back to a non-hateful beginning. The Swastika comes to mind here. You will have racists with Swastikas all over their homes along with Hitler memorabilia but look you straight in the eye and talk about how the symbol is a “Kind” one. Which, it can be but in that particular case, is not.

The term “White Pride” has no such “Kind” beginning. It has always been used by Neo-Nazi’s, Klan members and white supremacists. It is a sign of the evil that can be performed by a people. Those that will fight tooth and nail over the term white pride even after you explain the difference and why that term is a problem are not people who simply don’t understand. They are quite the opposite. They have full understanding and are arguing simply to make themselves seem as if they have a small amount of humanity. They will tell you that it is racist that they can’t have “white pride” and will claim that they don’t see the difference between having pride in a Swiss Heritage and white pride. This is a lie that racists tell. They DOunderstand which is the very reason they refuse to stop saying it.

Pride in your heritage is a beautiful thing. No matter that heritage. Pride in the atrocities of a group, that is a cruel sickness.

sheer-powder: “We’ve been ‘cool’ for a very long time, and in...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:31:14 -0500

sheer-powder:

“We’ve been ‘cool’ for a very long time, and in that sense our culture has been taken for a very long time. How do we define when we’ve arrived? It’s not when a young, white girl in Berkley is wearing nice garlands or those nice buddhist beads, or wearing bindi. I don’t feel like my life in anyway has been improved because she has the ability to do that and thinks that’s okay. My life hasn’t improved. The life of my mother has not improved. Our voice as a community within this economic system has not improved.

A good friend of mine, she’s south Indian, and she grew up in Connecticut. Her mom would make her wear her bindi and go to school. She would get harassed by kids… she would be harassed so much that what she would do, is that because she was so ashamed to have that bindi on her head, she would leave her house, wipe it off… and then come home and put it back on.

To the point where a child would have to think about such a deliberate attempt to refute their own culture I think is pretty profound. If there’s a white girl wearing a bindi walking down central avenue in the heights, she’s not considered a dot head, even though she has a dot on her head.

For me, the feeling is disgust and anger. The way I look at it if I see it, I just get so mad because I think, how dare this person be able to wear that, or hold that, or put that statue in her house and not take any of the oppression for that. How dare they. That’s not fair. We have to take so much heat and repression for expressing ourselves.

I’m going to rip that thing off your head, and I’m going to scrub that mehndi off your hands, because you don’t have the right to wear it. Until the day when you walk in our shoes, and you face what we face… the pain, and the shame, and the hurt, and the fear, you don’t have the right to wear that. It is not your right, and you’re not worthy of it. I feel like it’s so superficial and it’s so disrespected. One day, wake up, be me, and then you’ll see how powerful what you’re wearing is. ”

—Raahi Reddy, Yellow Apparel: When the Coolie Becomes Cool

"White people’s number one freedom in the United States of America is the freedom to be totally..."

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:03:24 -0500

““White people’s number one freedom in the United States of America is the freedom to be totally ignorant about those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.””

- Jane Elliott, “The Angry Eye” (via salliemaybach)

what the fuck is this shit. hell no

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:15:47 -0500

what the fuck is this shit. hell no

SUPPORT THE RECOVERY OF PE'SLA: INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:56:10 -0500

SUPPORT THE RECOVERY OF PE'SLA: INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION:

lastrealindians:

Time Is Running Out!

Indian Land Capital Company, an ILTF affiliate, provided a $900,000 loan to Rosebud Sioux Tribe for the earnest money to secure the agreement. To date, approximately $7.5 million has been raised from a variety of sour

ces, though the Lakota Nation must come up with the remaining $1.5 million by November 30, 2012 to finalize the purchase.

Indian Land Tenure Foundation has been asked by donors to accept funds for the purchase of Pe’ Sla so that all of the tribes of the Lakota Nation can acquire the use and occupation rights from the family. This will allow the Lakota people unrestricted access to Lakota land and one of its most holy sites.

Up to $500,000 in Matching Funds Now Available!

All contributions received by Thursday, November 22 (Thanksgiving Day) will be matched up to a total of $500,000.

PLEASE NOTE: All contributions must be received by November 22, 2012 in order to process the funds before the November 30 closing date.

Trans* Awareness: A Master Post of Why You Should Hate Urban Outfitters

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:48:06 -0500

Trans* Awareness: A Master Post of Why You Should Hate Urban Outfitters:

alimarko:

mia-the-wonder-slut:

Cultural Appropriation from the Navajo Nation (to insult to injury, they reprinted appropriated patterns on flasks)

Trans*misogynistic card that also feature sexual harassment (tw: t-word)

Women’s “Eat Less” t-shirt which promotes eating disorders

Racist color option: Obama/Black

Racist board game “Ghettopoly”

T-shirt that feature the crotch shot of a 15 year old girl

Profiting from Prop 8 while donating to anti-gay groups

Yellow Star of David Shirt

Urban Outfitters Steals from artists and designers

SERIOUSLY, FUCK URBAN OUTFITTERS

if you have been made aware of these things and still shop there, you are bad and you should feel bad.

"If the children are of African or Native American descent, they learn that their ancestors lost..."

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:36:36 -0500

“

If the children are of African or Native American descent, they learn that their ancestors lost badly and ingloriously, but that was all for the best anyway. The historical record often does not agree with these kinds of conclusions. The English newcomers sent to Roanoke Island in 1584 by Sir Walter Raleigh are a case in point. What these pioneers did was self-destruct over their own love of possession. When a silver cup allegedly disappeared, the Roanoke men roared out of their tiny enclave, muskets, and torches in hand, to destroy their Indian neighbors’ village and crops. This blazing display of European possession-mania cut the colony off from the one local source of help.

When the Spanish Armada severed the settlement’s connection to British ports, it withered and died. Roanoke Island became famous as”the lost colony”.

In light of this unacceptable object lesson for children, school texts prefer to begin US history with another colony, Captain John Smith’s Jamestown, Virginia, founded in 1607. Captain Smith was sent out by a London joint-stock company seeking profits from colonization. Smith sailed with an overload of failed aristocrats and settled on land owned by the Algonquin Confederacy.

Trouble began when the newcomers refused to plant, build, or exert themselves. Iron pistol in hand, Captain Smith ordered his lazy gentlemen to “work or starve.” Time and again the English were rescued from starvation through the generosity of the Algonquin Confederacy, which provided corn and bread. The foreigners responded by refusing to share their advanced agricultural tools with the Indians and violence soon broke out.

At Roanoke Island colonization proved a total failure. At Jamestown, what collapsed was the European “work ethic.” No wonder some scholars decided that US history did not begin until the arrival of the hard-working Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in 1620. Leaping over events can avoid some unpleasant conclusions about early European motives, character, and success.

”

- William Loren Katz, Black Indians, p. 20-21 (via alostbird)