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plastic bag lady. flimsy white fork to snap in half. dispose of me.

Franny Choi

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Redemption Song - Bob Marley

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;None but ourselves can free our minds.

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But  we  refuse  to  believe  that  the  bank  of  justice  is bankrupt.  We  refuse  to  believe that  there  are  insufficient funds  in  the  great  vaults  of  opportunity  of  this  nation.

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Just Another Day

Every week it’s like there’s another story

About some race fueled violence

Another law targeting minorities

Never saying it outright

But we all know, on every side

It’s just another chapter

In the history of a nation

Steeped in intolerance and bigotry

Just another day

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Black Feminist Thought

”Because Black women’s ideas have been suppressed, this suppression has stimulated African-American women to create knowledge that empowers people to resist domination.”

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The fact that women, especially black women, have historically endured patriarchal oppression, has given them a unique experience that now informs their activism. Their resistance has become part of being a women in the United States, and the fruits of that resistance are more apparent every day. 

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You fear the night is being locked in and coded on a cellular level and want time to function as a power wash.

From Citizen, Rankine (via erinms5)

The level of damage implicitly racist sentiments cause are often ignore by the general public. To white people, the experience is foreign, but to black people and other groups who don’t enjoy the institutionalized privilege white people do, these experiences are part of everyday life, and take a larger and larger toll, both physically and mentally, over time. 

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All categories of humans labeled Others have been equated to one another, to animals, and to nature.

“Black Feminist Though”, Hill Collins (via marinad1)

The separation of people into categories, where one acts as the dominant majority and the other is subjected to majority will, creates a dynamic where the subjugated group is largely dehumanized and considered less than the majority. This justifies, in the majorities view, the treatment of the “Others” as less than human. 

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Dear White People

Dean Fairbanks: Your show is racist.

Sam White: Black people can’t be racist. Prejudice, yes, but not racist. Racism describes a system of disadvantage based on race. Black people can’t be racist since we don’t stand to benefit from such a system.

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White racial dominance over other groups that has existed since the countries conception and the institutionalized disadvantages established by white people over minorities are what established racism. Prejudice will probably always exist, but racism is a level of enforced racial disparity that violates basic human rights. 

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Selma

“There is no Negro problem.

There is no southern problem.

There is no northern problem.

There is only an American problem.”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Voting Rights Act Address

March 15, 1965

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This speaks to the attitude towards racism today. That it is not a problem, that it doesn’t even exist in any substantial form, and that the country is not actually divided. In reality, racist attitudes still permeate modern society, finding their way into every aspect of life. 

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Whiteness determines who has wealth in this country, who can expect to get justice, who constantly gets the benefit of the doubt. Whiteness and the racism it facilitates are not personal. That’s why a white man or woman doesn’t have to do anything particularly well to end up with above average success

“Low Standards for Whites. That’s What’s Killing Us”, Koritha Mitchell (via morganb228)

White privilege in the Untied States allows those who may not deserve it to achieve prosperity and security in a country that too often denies that to many in minority communities. This advantage extends to how white people are treated in the justice system, political system and virtually any other consequential aspect of life, perpetuating a system whereby minority communities are continually kept underfoot.

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...engaging in “hashtag activism” can forge a shared political temporality, and, additionally, we examine how social media platforms can provide strategic outlets for contesting and reimagining the materiality of racialized bodies

Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa, “#Ferguson:Digital protest,hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States”

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Haven't you said this to a close friend who early in your friendship, when distracted, would call you by the name of her black housekeeper? You assumed you two were the only black people in her life.

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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dead meat. butchered girl chopped up & cradled in styrofoam. you candid cannibal. you want me bite-sized

Franny Choi, “To the Man Who Shouted ‘I Like Pork Fried Rice’ to Me on the Street”

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You think 50 Cent reads? Allen Iverson? What you ought to do is put some of your people's streets in that L.L. Bean satchel. Trick that thing out.

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