Liz

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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One Afro-Colombian hip-hop group is not afraid to challenge racism in Latin America.

“We are talking about a problem that’s alive and real. We are Colombians and we live the issue of racism daily,” | Photo: AFP

In a region where anti-Black racism is either an unspoken or neglected issue, the Afro-Colombian hip-hop group ChocQuibTown is leading the conversation through sharp lyrics of protest and beats that honor and celebrate African-Latino culture.

“In Latin America people don’t talk about the issue… We are talking about a problem that’s alive and real. We are Colombians and we live the issue of racism daily,” said the percussionist and singer of the band Carlos “Tostao” Valencia in an interview Tuesday with Agence France Presse.

The Colombian group, which gained international fame after winning a Latin Grammy for Best Alternative Song in 2010 and a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Band in 2015, believes it can make "a difference” with its music, which addresses discrimination with lyrics of protest.

“Invisibility, nationally and internationally,” says their critically-acclaimed song “De Donde Vengo Yo” (Where I Come From), “self-discrimination without reason, imminent racism, a lot of corruption … war machine, displacements for land interests,” the song continues.

“We will always touch upon this thorny issue freely,” Valencia said.

After 15 years of creating music, Valencia said their new and fifth album “Behind the Machine,” is even more defiant than their previous work.

“When you recently begin you are not as daring like now. This album is more defiant, in its lyrics, music and interpretation,” Valencia added.

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So in love with ALL of this from Girl Code’s race episode. 

Want to work on your own racial biases? Check out our racial bias cleanse.

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Ernest Shaw for Open Walls Baltimore. Malcolm X, Nina Simone, James Baldwin.

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I like this

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omg

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Stills from the 2-hour documentary! 

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ONE TWEET. THIS FIT IN ONE TWEET. IF YOU FUCK IT UP YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.

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and stop viewing feminists as man haters!

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Oh, hey; so my shitty boss uses “cute” names for everyone (admittedly, regardless of gender) and when I complained to HR about it, the woman told me, “Oh, that’s his way.”

And that’s when I realized, no one in a company actually cares for the cogs in the machinery; just the machinery.

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ignore anyone who tells you otherwise.

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No white girls?

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no

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Why? You do t think white girls should be told they’re beautiful?

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The amount of white whine in the notes…it’s ridiculous.

Every time we ask for the inclusion of young girls and women of color in pieces similar to this, where everyone is white, we’re told

"If you want representation then make it yourself and shut up about this!"

“Let the artist make whatever they want and include whoever they want! Freedom of expression!”

"If you need to see someone who looks like you in order to feel included then you are the real racist."

Yet all I see in the notes are:

"If you want equality you have to include EVERYONE including white girls and guys!"

“it’s pathetic that the only way you can feel good about yourself is by excluding others.”

No doubt they feel some type of way with their own bodies but what is dedicating a piece such as this to women who fall no where near the Eurocentric standards of beauty taking away from white women when they have so much representations and campaigns centered around them.

~Eon

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In case people like lifandiveira would like a simple explanation as to why white girls are not needed, go to images.google.com and type the word “beauty” and tell me what you get.

Seriously.

If you’re not blown away by the insanely disproportionate amount of white women depicted with a dash of women of color scattered about, then I don’t know what to tell you.

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Some of the anti-black bias among non-black Latinos is driven by the misconception that black people do not support the immigrants’ rights movement. But this erases the fact that there are black immigrants from the Americas and elsewhere, and it assumes that there are not already entire black organizations that focus on immigrant justice. But the argument also expects black people to be working on behalf of non-black Latinos as if that work is automatically owed to us. The unchecked entitlement packed into the argument that black people need to support non-black Latinos demonstrates not that non-black Latinos are aspiring toward whiteness — but that we already actively employ some of its trappings. In the immigrant rights community in particular, non-black Latinos use the term Juan Crow to reference the systematic terror that undocumented immigrants face in the South. This is a powerful articulation of the injustice experienced by undocumented immigrants, but it is often employed without recognizing how the most recent struggle of Latino immigrant communities is distinct from the nearly century-long struggle of black people under Jim Crow. When babies born to undocumented immigrants are hatefully described as “anchor babies,” we cite birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Yet we rarely acknowledge that doing so takes advantage of a piece of legislation created to confer citizenship to formerly enslaved black people following the Civil War. The citizenship we envision for ourselves, however, is not the limited form of citizenship that black people still experience today. Black citizens — whose very right to vote remains contested — may not be slated for deportation, but they are disproportionately targeted for stop-and-frisk, for jail and prison, for violence, and for death. Whenever non-black Latinos claim or even aspire to citizenship without also advocating for the recognition of the full humanity (and full citizenship) of black people, then we are allowing white supremacy to operate unchallenged. We may, indeed, creatively acquire a fuller citizenship through a piece of legislation that was historically intended for black people, but it is immoral to do so at the cost of preserving a racial hierarchy that maintains that those same black people are a little less than human.

Aura Bogado | “A matter of death and death”: Confronting anti-black racism among Latinos (via america-wakiewakie)

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im not impressed by white girls with vaguely ethnic features so what u got some lips congratulations ur species is evolving

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LMAO

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hiphoptoday:

New Soulo video :)

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White women get credit for just looking basic.

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Shit….

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LMAOOOO 

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Mexican BBQ 💚❤️🍺❤️💚

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Truuuu

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Yo quiero carne asada <3

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Emmy Award-nominated Liza Garza is a poet, vocalist and songwriter. Infusing the cultural soul of Mexican folk tunes in modern ballads with the intricacy of Hip Hop rhyme schemes, she bridges the ancestral with the modern. With perfomances that include The Lincoln Center, The Apollo, the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture, HBO Def Poetry Jam and numerous stages world wide, diverse people are finding a home in her voice. [x]

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Liza is amazing. This Mexican-American Muslim Latina sings about social inequities and structural violence. She has performed with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Amir Sulaiman, Mos Def, and Jill Scott. Garza graduated from the University of Michigan, where she formulated her own degree in Performance Activism. Watch to her perform “My Everything” on HBO Def Poetry. You can also learn more about her here and follow her on tumblr here. 

Oh! And she also makes and sells some seriously cool earrings. 

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MAYA ANGELOU ‘Phenomenal Woman’

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Girls get mocked for liking high heels and lipstick. Girls get mocked for liking sports. Girls get mocked for liking tea and books. Girls get mocked for liking comics books and video games. Girls get mocked for liking math and science. Girls get mocked for liking boys. Girls get mocked for liking girls. Girls get mocked for liking both. What the fuck are we supposed to like? Water? Air? Come on, tell me. I’m dying to know. 

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This comes from a profile of a type of abuser from "Why Does He Do That?" by Lundy Bancroft

MR. SENSITIVE

Mr. Sensitive appears to be the diametric opposite of the Drill Sergeant. He is soft-spoken, gentle, and supportive—when he isn’t being abusive....

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Alexander retrial delayed by 'warning-shot bill'

Okay, major update: Marissa Alexander’s trial has been POSTPONED to December 8th, with jury selection beginning December 1st.  The reason given was that the judge and her defense team wanted more time to see how the recent changes in the Stand Your Ground law will impact her case.

Marissa’s next court date is scheduled for August 1st when the judge will (finally?) render a decision about whether she will get a new Stand Your Ground hearing, according to the news article at the link.

We’ll post updates as we learn them.  We’re so grateful that Marissa is home instead of behind bars as she waits for this case to unfold.  Send her a letter letting her know you have her back!

Marissa Alexander P. O. Box 23872 Jacksonville, FL 32257