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“Power”, Audre Lorde

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“Power”, Audre Lorde

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#Blessed

There’s a number among us

Who were born “different” from the rest

Who don’t get the daily privilege

Of being #blessed

There are millions of people

Who just want equal rights

Who were not handed the benefits

Of solely being white

There are thousands of victims

Who know it is better to try

To better the lives of all people

To not just stand by

So let’s remember the marginalized

Who are treated as less

Let’s remember the people

Who have been #oppressed

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To the Man Who Shouted I Like Pork Fried Rice at Me on the Street -

you want to eat me out. right. what does it taste like you want to eat me right out of these jeans & into something a little cheaper. more digestible. more bite-sized. more thank you

come again

~Franny Choi

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This disturbing imagery by Franny Choi makes the audience realize the full impact of exactly what is going on when she is catcalled on the street. There are so many implications of that experience that the audience doesn’t fully understanding the degenerating effects of it until after she compares herself to take out and includes graphic language. This is so important and she made her point very well

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“American culture lies to create the assumption that whiteness brings excellence. The truth is that our country’s standards for white people are so low that most of our problems—including the unrelenting violence against people of color—can be traced to those low standards.”

-Mitchell, “Low Standards”

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This is an interesting twist on a view I understand but have never encountered before. The idea that main lines of racism and conflict are built behind “standards” rather than ignorance is surprising and also intertwined within many issues

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…it is important to examine how and why digital activism has become salient to particular populations. It is surely not coincidental that the groups most likely to experience police brutality, to have their protests disparaged as acts of ‘rioting’ or 'looting’ and to be misrepresented in the media are precisely those turning to digital activism at the highest rates.

“#Ferguson” Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa (via erinms5)

This is such an important point to recognize. Beyond just recognizing that certain groups are more likely to experience police brutality and other modes of discrimination turn to digital activism is the reason by this correlation. These groups often don’t have a voice, or their words are portrayed as something different or negatively. These digital outlets are a way to express uncensored thoughts and ideas on controversial topics. Their voices aren’t put through a negative filter. 

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Once again, the media focused not on state action buton the worthiness of black bodies. Local news immediatelyran profiles of Rice’s parents, noting that they both had “vi-olent pasts” (his father had been charged with domestic vi-olence and his mother with drug possession). This history,reporters argued, could help explain why Tamir Rice wouldbe inclined to play with a toy gun in a public place. - #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the US,” Bonilla and Rosa

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American expectations of whites are so low that they are never assumed capable of identifying with anyone but themselves. If you’re going to finally make a movie that doesn’t cast Muslims as terrorists—the film about the famous scholar and poet Rumi, for example—then naturally, you have to cast a white actor to play Rumi. You can’t expect whites to support something if they aren’t the center of it. -  “Low Standard for Whites. That’s What’s Killing Us,” Mitchell

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Blackness as the Second Person, Sharma

In Citizen, Rankine also meticulously analyzes the experiences of public figures like Serena Williams, who, in maneuvering her rage against “the so-called wrongness of her body’spositioning at the service line,” epitomizes the way in which the black body is caught between a state of invisibility and hyper-visibility

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from Citizen, Rankine

Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her voice saying silently to whomever-you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn’t belong to her

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To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street - Franny Choi

what does it 

taste like: a takeout box

between my legs.

plastic bag lady. flimsy white fork

to snap in half. dispose of me.

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Dear White People

President Fletcher: Racism is over in America. The only people who are thinking about it are, I dunno, Mexicans probably.

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Dear White People

Gabe: So, Sam, how would you feel if someone started a "Dear Black People"?

Sam White: No need. Mass media from Fox News to reality TV on VH1 makes it clear what white people think of us.

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#BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk-Richael Faithful

The levels of violence against a people whose ancestors were subjected to the largest forced migration inhuman history—in the belly of intercontinental slave ships—is shameful beyond word.  

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I find this point particularly powerful. Even the idea of this seems ludicrous and yet it is the very foundation of systemic racism that our country has largely been built upon. It’s crazy to think that some people require the validation of needing to feel as though they were simply born better. It doesn’t make sense at all, and yet it’s so prevalent, especially with who is in charge of our country now

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The daily levels of violence often faced by gender non-conforming/queer folk of color are routinely ignored and #BlackLivesMatter has not necessarily changed that fact

Richael Faithful, #BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk