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If you have my number and choose to text me via snapchat rather than texting my phone, you can’t be mad if I don’t answer right away. I don’t check my snapchat messages like that. If it’s urgent…just freaking text my phone. Or better yet, call me. Like wtf.
This is a message right here. Yep. Hell, maybe even a sermonette. #ThatsLaw
Oh shit.
Of all of these, Pooh Bear got me bad.
i almost cried
I was not prepared for any of that
The Tiana one though :/
Y’all didn’t have add that Tiana one….
Yeah we did. To show that black issues need to be spoken on
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Support black kids
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Empower the black kids
LOVE THE BLACK KIDS
Protect the Black kids
Mentor the Black kids
Obama and Michelle
They look at each other like there is no one else and they are the most beautiful things and it melts my heart.
Nate Parker is not playing around, and Birth of a Nation is going to be 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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This picture is breaking Twitter: Woman confronts police at BLM protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Who is she?✊🏾
All that riot gear and they look shook and all she got is a sundress and her will. Black women are a force.
Her name is Leshia Evans per Twitter, arrested for impeding traffic (even though all those officers in the way 😒), apparently she’s been released now. She’s a mother to a 5 year old.
“This is my first cabbage! You know, a lot of times they’re kind of soft, but this one is solid! It’s going to be good eatin’!“ “What are you going to make with it?” “Well, this one I’m giving to my parents. You have to give the first one away or you just spoil the whole spirit of gardening.”
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THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY EVERY TIME I SEE HER!!
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Issa will forever be an amazing individual , love her
this is one of the guys who killed Alton Sterling tweeted about a week ago.
this is toxic misinformation spread by trolls. Robert Kinnison isnt a police officer, just a trump supporter and Sam Hyde is a youtube commedian, and subject of a meme “sam hyde is the shooter” whose point is to putposely spread false information in the immediate wake of a tragedy. The real names of the officers were recently released as Howie Lake II and Blane Salamoni
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Thank you!!
Ramsey also explains how Beyoncé has been political her whole career.
Piers Morgan makes my blood boil 🙄
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Beyoncé’s “Love Drought” Video, Slavery and the Story of Igbo Landing
[image description: Beyoncé in the music video for “Love Drought” marching into the water followed by a procession of black women]
Beyoncé’s LEMONADE is filled with incredible artistry and stunning imagery. One of the most striking images for me on the visual album, though, occurs in the video for “Love Drought”. Much has been said about how LEMONADE draws influence from Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, but less has been said in these same conversations about how the story of Igbo Landing is central to Daughters of the Dust and how the story of Igbo Landing- an act of mass resistance against slavery-also shows up in a really pronounced manner in the “Love Drought” Video.
[Image description: Donovan Nelson’s artistic depiction of Igbo Landing in charcoal. It shows the Igbo slaves marching into a body of water with the water already up to their necks and their eyes closed. Image via Valentine Museum of Art]
For those who don’t know, Igbo Landing is the location of a mass suicide of Igbo slaves that occurred in 1803 on St. Simons Island, Georgia. As the story goes, a group of Igbo slaves revolted and took control of their slave ship, grounded it on an island, and rather than submit to slavery, proceeded to march into the water while singing in Igbo, drowning themselves in turn. They all chose death over slavery. It was an act of mass resistance against the horrors of slavery and became a legend, particularly amongst the Gullah people living near the site of Igbo Landing.
Not only is the story of Igbo Landing one of the key themes of Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, which influenced LEMONADE, but its imagery also appears to be central to the “Love Drought” video. In the video, Beyoncé marches into the water followed by a group of black women all in white with black fabric in the shape of a cross across the front of their bodies. They march progressively deeper into the water before pausing and raising all of their hands toward the sunset.
[Image description: Beyoncé marching into a large body of water by a beach followed by other black women]
This scene and the video as a whole also occurs in a marshy, swampy landscape, matching African-American folklore descriptions of the location of Igbo Landing. In addition, this is all mixed in with imagery of Beyoncé physically bound in ropes and resisting their pull, which directly evokes slavery, resistance and the events at Igbo Landing for me.
[Image description: Beyoncé on a beach leaning backward as she appears to be resisting the pull of a taught rope]
Lastly, I would like to note how Beyoncé and the group of black women she is with very deliberately rose their hands while in the water toward the sunset. For me this recalled how the act of mass resistance at Igbo Landing was mythologized in many African-American communities as either the myth of the “water walking” or “flying” Africans. In the latter legend, the Igbo slaves walked into the water and then flew back to Africa, saving themselves in turn.
Below is the myth of the “flying Africans” at Igbo Landing as told by Wallace Quarterman, an African-American man born in 1844 who was interviewed by members of the Federal Writers Project in 1930 (via wiki):
Ain’t you heard about them? Well, at that time Mr. Blue he was the overseer and … Mr. Blue he go down one morning with a long whip for to whip them good… . Anyway, he whipped them good and they got together and stuck that hoe in the field and then … rose up in the sky and turned themselves into buzzards and flew right back to Africa… . Everybody knows about them.
[Image description: Beyoncé and several black women partially submerged in water by a beach and raising their arms toward the setting sun]
Seeing Beyoncé and a group of black women marching into the water and raising their hands collectively toward the sunset reminded me specifically of this last interpretation of the story of Igbo Landing where the slaves flew to their freedom.
There are lots of potential interpretations for this video and the visual album as a whole but the core imagery of the “Love Drought” video - marshy landscape matching folklore descriptions of the location of “Igbo Landing,” images of Beyoncé bound in ropes and resisting their pull, a collective march into the water and holding their hands out toward the sky as if they were about to fly away together-basically screamed out to me as the story of Igbo Landing as I watched the video. It’s such a powerful act of mass resistance against slavery and as an Igbo person living today in America, it was moving to see imagery which reminded me strongly of it in LEMONADE as well.
Learn more about the story of Igbo Landing: Here
