Beyond the Laughs

The (un)spoken thoughts of a junior at Wellesley College

[hbcreative]

#FERGUSON

     I won’t soon forget the events that took place in #ferguson…will you?

[midnight-sun-rising]

This is amazing.

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Video

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Facts.

[feministcaptainkirk]

Spot the lie. Oh wait, trick question

[forevrdreamingofbetterthings]

This is SPOT ON!!!

[ms-opinion]

come on now, I clap when the plane lands! lol 

[stupidfuckingquestions]

[micdotcom]

Powerful illustration shows how the media is misrepresenting Ebola 

[micdotcom]

Graduates use red tape to silently protest mishandling of sexual assault by colleges

This year, more than 50 schools have been rocked by Title IX investigations, responding to students’ complaints that these schools have not been adequately addressing on-campus sexual assault. While the issue has garnered widespread media coverage, student activists have also been working hard to express their frustration and pressure their schools to respond better to sexual crimes. For seniors, their commencement ceremonies became their final opportunity to stand up publicly for victims of sexual assault by donning the “red tape” that surrounds many of these investigations.

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[rabbitglitter-deactivated201906]

At some point, being Black became profitable to anyone and everyone who wasn’t, in fact, Black.

Jack Qu’emi, The Appropriation of Black Culture through White Consumption of Hip Hop, 2014 (via chiquitalucecita)

[stereoculturesociety]

DailyPBO: The President & The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation - June 2014

The crowd to President Obama: “We love you President Obama! You’re our hero!”

President Obama: “I love you back!”

Obama became only the fourth sitting president to visit an Indian reservation. Attending with the First Lady, it was a truly inspiring event at the Cannon Ball Pow Wow Grounds in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The Native American community was bursting with pride over the president’s visit and when he spoke Lakota during his speech, they were completely moved. It was a wonderful day for a community that never (and I mean NEVER) gets the respect they deserve. Bravo, Mr. President.

For more reactions, check the Twitter hashtag: #PrezRezVisit

[slipnslideprincess-deactivated2]

The thing is I live in North Dakota and the only reason he visited the reservations was because they were the only big groups of people who voted for him minus some people scattered across the state. Nothing against him just stating a fact. If he would have visited somewhere else in the state those people wouldn’t have been to excited.

[stereoculturesociety]

"Nothing against him just stating a fact."- slipnslideprincess:

And your ‘fact’ would be what exactly? He would have gotten a less receptive response from the Tea Partiers & Racists in ND and somehow THAT would make this visit more legitimate? As if the response from the Native American community is LESS important or worthy? Yeah, we see you. Thanks for commenting.

[5centsapound]

Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series (1990)

*for the other kind of valentines day

[chwylives]

[aubreylstallard]

Kevin Harris

[puddleofmuddofficial]

this guy’s stuff is awesome

[rishu-jpn]

Brazilian police clash with indigenous groups protesting World Cup.

[carnivaloftherandom]

This is important.

[duckyshepherd]

The only kind of thing I’ll be posting about the World Cup

[racism-sexist-ableism-ohmy]

We will not see this on the main stream news.

[blkproverbs]

"ting deh"

-A word used in Jamaican households to replace the name of any existing noun

Exhibit A. “Go inna di kitchen and get di ting deh”

Exhibit B. “Mi cyaan find mi ting deh”

African American Black Proverb: Diaspora Edition

(via blackproverbs)

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Jim Crow | Jean-Michel Basquiat

[lonedidion]

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

James Baldwin (via junkycosmonaut) because we are most empowered and most threatening when we understand EXACTLY what is happening to us and HOW. see: Toni Morrison: “Unspeakable Things Unspoken”; Audre Lorde: “On the Uses of Anger.” (via ghasedeh)

Mhm

(via ashesforjustice) Precisely why this white man at my job is out to get me.  He knows that I know exactly why he’s doing what he’s doing. 

(via tashabilities)

[fuckyourracism]

Higher Learning. John Singleton. 1995. Columbia Pictures.

[earlswayze]

[phuckindope]

Facts

[fallontonight]

Dave Chappelle’s Kanye West story > all other Kanye West stories