diversity

[mgs-1]

If there’s too many white people I get nervous.

Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington “Get Out” (via mgs-1)

[mi3777-blog]

Don’t you know the size of your library is in inverse proportion to the size of your penis?

Some Instruction on Black Masculinity - Ross Gay (via mi3777)

[lbn001-us-blog]

Sometimes I can’t believe my eyes.

Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue– Ross Gay (via lbn001-us)

This is a nice touch to end the text. It shows how all the stereotypes made in the text were suggested through shallow observations that discriminate individuals by their appearance (in this case, race). As much as it is important to acknowledge people of color and their heritage, it is critical to avoid comparing PoCs to stereotypical templates which tend to bind them. Each individual is unique and undergo different experiences in life, despite the social constructs that surround their heritage. Fitting someone into a stereotype or rejecting their individuality due to inconsistencies in regard to the 'norm' is an abhorrent social habit that should be avoided at all costs in order to stop the culture of prejudice and discrimination.

[aa2367]

Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’

[aa2367]

Because you are not funky. I mean, I've seen you dance.

Ross Gay 'Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue'

[aa2367]

I say fuck the police, thats how I treat em We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom

Kanye West, 'All Falls Down'

[aa2367]

John Oliver, ‘Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’

[aa2367]

Rihanna - American Oxygen

[aa2367]

Hashtags offer a window to peep through, but it is only by stepping through that window and “following” (in both Twitter and non-Twitter terms) individual users that we can begin to place tweets within a broader context.

Rosa; Bonilla, ’#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States'

[aa2367]

The spheres of influence created and sustained by African-American women are not meant solely to provide a respite from oppressive situations or a retreat from their effects. Rather, these Black female spheres of influence constitute potential sanctuaries where individual Black women and men are nurtured in order to confront oppressive social institutions.

Patricia H. Collins, ‘Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination’

[er-85]

Rankin, from Citizen

Certain moments send adrenaline to the heart, dry out the tongue, and clog the lungs. like thunder they drown you in sound, no, like lightning they strike you a cross the larynx.Cough. After it happened I was at a loss of words.  

[mgs-1]

This section of the text is so important because this is how you feel when you want to speak up after a micro-aggression, but can’t bring yourself to. That inner struggle is always present and makes it had to speak up for yourself as a person of color.

[aa2367]

But what really got Zachari exasperated, causing Aaliya and me to sit up from our vegan rancheros, was their pointed question: why does racial “progress” seem to require acts of violence, including the taking of Black lives?

Richael Faithful, ‘#BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk’

[nh013-blog]

-Rankine, Citizen

[aa2367]

This is a very interesting example of how racism and prejudice do not only come in either physically or tonally aggressive forms - which are immediately recognizable; instead, it can also come subtly through statements that imply racist and prejudiced thinking. When these situations arise, marginalized parties or people of color will not always provide an immediate or appropriate response. Often times, as shown in ‘from Citizen’, the protagonist faces an internal dilemma and stresses over deciding how to approach this statement. Is it malicious? Is it intentional? Nevertheless, it is wrong for anyone to make this kind of fallacious connection in a statement. I, for one, believe the appropriate response would be to question back the person, asking them: “Do you really believe so? Why do you think so?”. This way, depending on the answer, you will at least save yourself from the mental stress of unmasking their bigotry internally.

[aa2367]

And the fact is that the lives of Black people—not ALL people—exist within these conditions is consequence of state violence.

Alicia Garza, ‘A Herstory of the Black Lives Matter Movement’

[aa2367]

Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her own voice saying silently to whomever - you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her

Rankine, ‘from Citizen’

[aa2367]

Thus we have to ask in the context of the expansion of the prison-industrial… prison and policing-industrial complex under neo-liberalism: What does it mean to utilize the police as a protector of gay and lesbian rights?

Cathy Cohen, ‘Whose Black Lives Matter?’

[aa2367]

All Falls Down - Kanye West