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S/O to the:

“weird” black girls Hippie black girls Anime loving black girls Socially awkward black girls Stoner black girls Conscious black girls Still trying to find themselves black girls Nerdy black girls So shy that your voice crackles black girls

To the black girls that the world tend to sleep on, I got love for you girl!

chicks2010

kibumsfreakk

Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK

nyangibun

This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, it’s completely normal to live with your parents when you’re an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until they’re married ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

thenutofroyalty

Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent 😂

beatrice-otter

In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthood–sometimes until they married, sometimes longer. In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job. Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.

And now those jobs don’t exist, or are few and far between, and guess what! People are living with their parents again. But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as “failures” because the economics have changed.

bogleech

A very great deal of Western culture, ESPECIALLY America, is actually still based on a memory of the 40′s and 50′s as the baseline of normalcy despite them being a total fluke at the time. World War II and McCarthyism created a massive shift towards rabid patriotism, Christian fundamentalism and the ideal of the “nuclear family” that resembled nothing before it and we’re still recovering from as the majority of our most powerful politicians are old enough that this period of sudden fanaticism is their “nostalgic good old days” and the way they think things are “supposed to be.”

heaven-nor-hell

I love when these posts randomly become tiny history lessons, it soothes me

alwaysbewoke

overpricedvodka

Wow. Black women are *really* taking over September Issues this year.

Let’s celebrate that.

letmeprosper

And in color. And not white washed! We’re really winning rn 😍

alwaysbewoke

i’ll just leave this right here…

fluoresensitivearchive-deactiva

Black people have literally done nothing to nobody but non-Black and white people act like we are the most violent, vile people. Like we started all the evil shit in the world, like we should feel guilty for being killed and being a constant target of brutality. We can’t do this solidarity shit until y’all figure out why you want us to be pack mules, soldiers, shields and whipping posts.

oscarwildesuggestions

Do it for the aesthetic. Do everything for the aesthetic. Aestheticism is the only thing worth pursuing, and even it is pointless.

tani-b-art

Casting directors…

These young Black actresses exist

tani-b-art

bakarilennox

It’s truly sad that I only know a small handful of these names. smh

foxfairygender

oppression isn’t generational and trying to frame politics as “the old people are wrong and the young people are right” erases the fact that there are old people who have been fighting the good fight for decades and the fact that there are young people who are literally nazis

theglowpt2-deactivated20200101

if you’ve seen the breaking news that trump just signed an executive order today to end the family separation policy here’s some quick info to keep things in perspective

this doesn’t end the “zero tolerance” policy of prosecuting anyone who crosses the border “illegally”

the only thing this changes is that going forward, entire families will be detained together while awaiting prosecution

this offers no solution for freeing the thousands of children currently held in ICE child prisons or any path to reuniting them with their families

children will still be detained and treated as criminals

this will likely lead to thousands of families being held in ICE facilities and tent cities that will face the exact same issues of overcrowding, abuse, and inhumane conditions that exist in the child prisons

this is not a victory or a solution. This is the administration trying to cover their asses and avoid any more public outrage. They want people to see this as the end of the news story and go back to their lives. They want people to forget the thousands of children they are still keeping in cages in ICE facilities across the nation. This issue is not over and we cannot stop being outraged until we are given proof that the thousands of kidnapped children are returned to their families, and that the policy of arresting and prosecuting people who cross the border is ended.

alwaysbewoke

lmao, they be shocked. white privilege is not having to think that your “heroes” wanted to see your people in chains forever.

alwaysbewoke

White people: well everyone thought slavery was okay.

Me: Yea I bet the 3 million Africans sure as hell didn’t. But since you didn’t think of them as human you didn’t consider their opinion or lives valid. Seems like you STILL think that today.

mjalti

me: why burden ur friends with ur problems when u can shut Up?

my other self: when you keep your human side hidden from the people you claim to love, you are robbing them of the opportunity to act as a friend & yourself of the opportunity to experience human compassion

me: ok….but…….. .. ok so but. ..