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twixnmix

Michael Jackson photographed by Michael Putland in New York City, 1977.

the-afro-elf-deactivated2020072

Michael was such a cutie pie before the plastic surgery.

the-middle-eastern-feminist

Stop celebrating war criminals.

sataniccapitalist

Black farmers in the Mid-South region surrounding Memphis used science to uncover a multi-million scheme to put them out of business and steal their farmland, WMC News reported Tuesday. At the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show show in March of 2017, African-American farmers believe that Stine Seed Company purposefully sold them fake seeds. Thomas Burrell, president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, explained how black farmers were receiving one-tenth of the yield as their …

arctic-hands

“Mother nature doesn’t discriminate,” Burrell said. “It doesn’t rain on white farms but not black farms. Insects don’t [only] attack black farmers’ land…why is it then that white farmers are buying Stine seed and their yield is 60, 70, 80, and 100 bushels of soybeans and black farmers who are using the exact same equipment with the exact same land, all of a sudden, your seeds are coming up 5, 6, and 7 bushels?”

ilyena-sylph

i am losing my shit all over the fucking place because yes I believe this company would do this, god damn them.

kimreesesdaughter

Black people ARE social media. We make everything pop. We are VINE, we are Instagram, we are Twitter. We are media and marketing. We are trends and hashtags (both ways). The one thing we are not is credited. We molded social media and all they ever call us is ghetto.

desscribes-deactivated20220625

This tea is scalding

yellowxperil-deactivated2026012

can you elaborate on people "slipping" into aave?

i describe it as “slipping into” bc people put on the dialect at very specific times for very specific reasons. train yourself to see it. look at these viral posts and think about

what these people or characters are trying to portray and

how the intended characteristics correlate to identifiable antiblack stereotypes (the answers are at the bottom)

a) sassy, loud, hysterical, confrontational; b) vocally lascivious; c) animalistic, dirty, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unhygienic, rude; d) sexually predatory

rapeculturerealities

Bystander intervention is seen as one of the most powerful tools in preventing on-campus sexual assaults—but a new study shows that white students feel "less personal responsibility" to help their black peers.

You’re at a house party off-campus—perhaps you’re coming out of the bathroom after finally breaking the seal or you’re walking out of the kitchen, drink in hand—and you notice a black woman who looks much more wasted than you do, being led into a bedroom by a relatively sober guy. Being the good feminist you are, you register that the situation looks suspect. What do you do?

According to a new study, white women aren’t likely to intervene and help. The study, published in The Psychology Of Women Quarterly, posed a similar scenario to 160 white female undergraduates. The students were randomly assigned whether the intoxicated woman in the story had a “distinctively black name"—LaToya—or an ambiguous name—Laura, as a control.

When asked to report on their intent to intervene and how they viewed the situation and the potential victim, the white undergrads said they would be less likely to help when they perceived the woman who was at risk of being sexually assaulted was black, because they felt “less personal responsibility.” Secondarily, they also “perceived that [the black victim] experienced more pleasure in the pre-assault situation” at a slightly higher rate than the control group. (The control group given the scenario with the non-racialized name uniformly perceived the victim to be white.)

“We found that although white students correctly perceived that black women were at risk in a pre-assault situation, they tended not to feel as personally involved in the situation,” the researchers at SUNY Geneseo, Jennifer Katz and Christine Merrilees, said in an interview with PsyPost. In other words, “despite their shared status as women, white female bystanders in the current study may have felt that a Black woman’s plight was not as personally relevant because race has a more powerful effect than gender on intent to intervene and feelings of responsibility to intervene,” they write in the study.

Previous research has found that white people, in general, are less likely to help black victims. A 2008 study on racial bias in helping behavior troublingly found that “as [a situation’s] level of emergency increased, the speed and quality of help white participants offered to black victims relative to white victims decreased.” When the victim was black, the white participants also viewed the situation as less severe.

pure

(man of color voice) patriarchy is cool when i do it and wrong when whites do it

visibilityofcolor

Japan and China have always been on imperial ish. East Asians don't want to acknowledge the privilege they carry over black people and other people of color, all while China exploits Africa, The Caribbean and Latin America in 2018, and Japan reverts to imperial nationalism. It's all trash and it's why I don't have solidarity with dem folk. Like that crazyangryasianman headass. Him and his followers are like a fountain of antiblack energy.

Yeah.Like damn when i figured out about the imperialism in the carribbean and in africa by china, i was so saddened . i had no idea that was happening. and like…it just really broke my heart to know that. i am still processing that the carribbean and africa are getting colonized AGAIN but no one is talking about it. i don’t follow that blogger so tbh i wouldn’t know that much atm. i’ve heard some stuff a while ago but lately haven’t known that much tbh. but like in general, you ask is so true and i hate it. i hate that no one is talking about the carribbean and africa. no one ever does!

myprofisproblematic

prettyboyshyflizzy

Yoooo I’ve watched this man be politically correct and respectful on this issue for years he finally snapped and had his fuck this job moment ✊😄

etherealflowergoddess

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas

hesgreatness

That was real

arievogues

“That’s my nigga!!!”

It’s a sign of familiarity!!!

majaminxx22

This is fuckin beautiful. Yt folk don’t learn and sometimes you gotta real uncut facts and use language to go with it. They just don’t get it otherwise.

porterdavis

freemenofcolor

Racial/class genocide

-D

visibilityofcolor

What do you think about white people converting to non-western religions like Islam and Buddhism? Excluding closed religions like Zoroastrianism and some forms of Hinduism, of course, which don't allow for converts.

Islam doesn’t have a race but you see, it is a racialized religion. I think that when it comes to white people converting to Islam, they have to understand that they automatically have privilege over people who were born into that religion, or people who have brown or black skin. And they need to speak out for their black and brown bros and sisters who are currently being attacked and oppressed for being dark skinned and muslim. White muslims aren’t racialized like black and brown muslims. They don’t have to worry about being accused of terrorism, they don’t have to worry about islamaphobic racist driven attacks.

As for Buddhism, i am iffy about white converts. Because of western imperialism, a lot of Buddhist people, or families who were originally Buddhist are now Christian. The amount of Asian Buddhist people isn’t the same as it was years ago BECAUSE of white people. I have a friend who is from Vietnam, both parents are vietnamese but her mother is catholic her dad was Buddhist. Her mom basically forced the dad to become Catholic and the kids thus were catholic but are resentful because they cannot connect to their Buddhist roots. Their mom had a colonized mindset because of white imperialism and that like, broke my heart and their dad is too afraid to teach them…

There are a lot of asian kids who are christian now but want to get back to their roots but they literally cannot because of a colonized mindset (according to my friend!).

so it makes me feel a certain way when a lot of white people are becoming buddhist and becoming to the “face” of modern day Buddhism, but my friend can’t even connect to her culture because these very white people who colonized her mother’s family now want to take the culture.

To me, it’s very similiar to santeria and even hoodoo (which is closed). santeria isn’t closed, and so many white people now wanna be santeras when they were the ones who were oppressing black and latine santeras and rootworkers. they were the ones who colonized them and now want a part of a culture that was at first, exclusive to black and latine people. Now white people are the face of santeria. they are also the face of new orleans voodoo.

i am not for white people becoming a part of cultures they either demonized or misrepresented in media.

spiritroots

Just throwing in my two cents on this… it’s VERY true as you said that both religions face a lot of issues from being white dominated and white washed. However, Buddhism and Santeria are quite different in terms of how they developed and who they are intended to be practiced by - so I just want to share a little more context on that in this discussion.

Buddhism as taught in the literature we have recorded as having been said by Siddhartha Gautama (the historical Buddha) is 100% meant to be a universal religion. It is a core part of the teachings that it is meant to be spread and taught to all of humanity (and even beyond humanity to spirits and other beings sentient enough to understand the buddha dharma).

I completely and wholeheartedly agree that Buddhism in the West has become white-dominated and Westernized in a way that is extremely problematic, marginalizes Asian Buddhists (and also other Buddhists of color tbh), and that often obscures and misplaces the original teachings of the buddha dharma. It’s easy to cite lots of examples of this, and even easier to show many examples of Buddhist symbols and concepts being culturally appropriated completely outside of actual Buddhist practice as well.

These issues are very real and are a huge problem, but it doesn’t change the fact that Buddhism has always been meant for all beings regardless of race or culture since its very beginnings. That’s why Buddhism was eventually spread all across Asia and incorporated aspects of different Asian cultures. As a non-Asian Buddhist I’ll always defer to Asian folks for whom Buddhism is also a part of their culture, history, and heritage where it isn’t at all mine. I always try to stay very aware that I am a guest in this religious tradition, but I’ve never been told that I am an unwelcome one - Siddhartha intended for the message of the buddha dharma to be carried around the world and that sentiment has been reflected to me in every (non-white dominated) Buddhist community that I’ve been a part of over the years.

This is NOT true in the same way for Lucumi/Santeria (for those who arent familiar - those are two names for a very closely related group of Orisha traditions from Cuba that can be seen as the same general religion with more or less Catholic syncretism). Yes, aborishas, olorishas/santeros, and babalawos of the Lucumi religion sometimes say “this is universal,” but this Afro-diasporic religion originated from the indigenous culture of the Yoruba people in West Africa. Lucumi/Santeria is the diasporic passed down branch of an indigenous African religion - that’s why connecting with one’s ancestors are so important in Lucumi. It’s about ancestry, it’s about cultural heritage, it was never intended from its inception to be about all people and all of humanity - it was the culture and religious tradition of the Yoruba people specifically.

Anyone can receive a reading from an olorisha/santero or a babalawo and be called to practice and worship the Orishas, but originally it was only the Yoruba people who would ever go and do that. Now because of slavery there are descendents of the Yoruba people all around the world, so it’s one thing for black people to go and get a reading to see if they are called to practice and very different for anyone who doesn’t even have a possibility of that ancestral connection to go and do so.

Regardless of what folks try to argue, I don’t see how the origins of Lucumi/Santeria in the Yoruba religion support it being absolutely meant for the whole world. Whereas this is definitely the case for Buddhism, as its something that Siddhartha made very clear and its a message woven across countless traditional, cannonical sutra texts.

I don’t wanna downplay the issues that you raised, @visibilityofcolor because they are very serious issues and I think it’s extremely important to protect all closed and semi-closed religions and religions as they relate to the cultures and heritage of people of color. I just think it’s also important to understand the differences between religions as well and know what the religions themselves teach in terms of who they are and aren’t for.

Note: Whoops, sorry I tagged you @witches-ofcolor 😂🙈

visibilityofcolor

You didn’t downplay anything and thank you for explaining this to me (in depth!!) however, i think that you made this mistake in tagging my sister’s witch blog and not me! but it’s okay!!

wait @spiritroots i just saw you like corrected yourself lmao, ignore the last part of my reply T-T

mahakavi

wow this sentinel island news story really blew up on social media. american dude, possibly a missionary, travels to meet a community that historically has resisted contact from outsiders and ends up getting himself killed….

mahakavi

i mean aside from the fact that he could have wiped out the whole community by bringing them in contact with diseases that have no immunity for, he also had zero concerns for his own safety and welfare?? apparently he got shot with arrows the first time, returned to his boat, and then at night decided he would TRY AGAIN like what a fucking idiot

tariqah

He deserved to die imo, people including anthropologists have died trying to make contact before…and it was made illegal to contact the people of Sentinel Island in 2006… I have no qualms

thebigblackwolfe

he really was lost in the colonizer sauce like he thought he could win those people over by bringing a soccer ball and scissors like the fact that he had to bribe someone to take him there in the first place should’ve told him not to do it but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sauvamente

What is the point of trying to go to an unconnected people anyway and with a fucking Bible when they speak a dead language and have been chilling for thousands of years colonizers are crazy he got what he was asking for he went to see Jesus

meangirlnurse

“The British colonial occupation of the Andaman Islands decimated the tribes living there, wiping out thousands of tribespeople, and only a fraction of the original population now survive. So the Sentinelese fear of outsiders is very understandable.”

[…]

“It’s not impossible that the Sentinelese have just been infected by deadly pathogens to which they have no immunity, with the potential to wipe out the entire tribe,” said Mr Corry.

just want to highlight the history of the situation and the potential consequences for the people this man has endangered

kiwianaroha

He left behind journals that are incredibly revealing:

Why did a little kid have to shoot me today? His high-pitched voice still lingers in my head.

Why does this beautiful place have to have so much death here?

Lord, is this island Satan’s last stronghold where none have heard or even had the chance to hear your name?

(source / source / source)

Also, the language or languages of the Sentinelese are not “dead” just because we don’t understand them.

wxzvrdkelly

A little known black history fact

queenscribe

There is a closely guarded secret that has been deliberately buried by mainstream media and historians: After the Civil War (and during the

dynamicsymmetry

Okay, I know these are very treacherous waters to wade into, but as someone who does social history work I gotta.

While there were undoubtedly plenty of atrocities committed against Black slaves and escaped/freed slaves during the American Civil War, this is almost certainly at best an exaggeration. It seems like OP might be conflating concentration camps and “contraband camps”, which weren’t amazing but weren’t Nazi/Ustasha/Khmer Rouge-style extermination camps like the one described here.

There were refugee camps during the war, and conditions in them weren’t awesome, especially because of overcrowding and a lack of planning and resources. People died, sometimes in significant numbers. But it wasn’t like this, and it wasn’t done like this.

(I wish I could provide better citations here, but that’s because I literally couldn’t find a single decent one that cited any primary or even good secondary sources. The one “historian” talking directly about this, as far as I can see, is a woman who also leads ghost tours and considers herself an expert on the paranormal. Which for most historians isn’t a great sign. All other blog posts and articles seem to be taking their cues from her, though they may not cite her. Otherwise the best I can do is secondhand stories about local historians in the linked thread. Plenty of things are hidden histories, but if you can’t find any primary sources related to them at all, that’s a red flag. People hide stuff, but rarely that well.)

Why does it matter to get this stuff right?

Well, first of all, it matters because it matters. But it also matters because it’s absolutely true that every time atrocity or genocide happens, someone works to cover it up. My doctoral dissertation deals with Nazi extermination camps, with a special focus on the lengths to which the SS went to conceal the existence of camps like Bełźec and Sobibor, down to razing them to the ground and camouflaging the remains as a farm. It matters to get this stuff right precisely because other people are working so hard to erase these things from history, and we have an obligation to not further muddy the waters.

We owe it to the dead to make sure that what we have is accurate.

wxzvrdkelly

All you had to do was shut up and scroll but you decided to come here and sound off where you should’ve just been quiet. But I got time for it today. So by definition, the Devil’s Punchbowl WAS a concentration camp being that freed slaves were forced to do hard labor and were killed in mass numbers with an estimated 20,000 black slaves killed my the Union army by way of either execution, disease, or simply just exhaustion.

Did I mention that the working and living conditions in this camp were so bad that these freed slaves would often times beg to be put back on the plantations? When they died or were murdered at the hands of the Union Army guards, they couldn’t take the bodies outside the camp so the guard would throw the prisoners a shovel and say “bury em where they drop.” Every once in a while when this area is flooded by the Mississippi River, skeletal remains of deceased slaves will wash up.

So no, in no way, shape, form, or fashion is this an “exaggeration at best” as your irrelevant little misinformed soul put it Becky. I’m very well versed in the history of MY people. So now just mind your little business and keep scrolling like you should have the first time

meanmisscharles

Whites are fucking psychopaths when it comes to Black death.

Mouthy bitch….

phoenix-ace

And this is why we have no patience for people who insist on denying the stuff that was done to us. People frame it like they’re “preserving the integrity” of genocide and really think recognizing this stuff is “muddying the waters” and it’s disgusting that they would try to use another genocide as an excuse to do this as if white supremacists dont say the exact same “denying/this is an exaggeration” statements to those victims.

jamaicanblackcastoroil

How the fuck could we be refugees in this country

lj-writes

nerd*asians tweeted about the D&G anti asian commercial and they said "Love the zero-tolerance racism policy!". Then black people replied “China doesn't have a zero-tolerance racism policy for blacks & others”. They never replies when someone point anti blackness, I stop follow them when they called out BobaGuys, that belongs to two asian men, but they were like "now white people are selling boba milk tea" and just deleted the tweet weeks later

Ugh so many blogs run by Asians are completely oblivious when it comes to antiblackness. I mean it’s understandable since it’s not part of their experience and they reflect their own communities’ antiblack biases. I’ve never experienced antiblack racism on a personal level and I’m ignorant about it too! The problem is that they’re not willing to listen and correct themselves, or to admit mistakes.

freemenofcolor

They're not oblivious.

Non-Black PoC want Black American support because of our hypervibility, so it's in their best interest to sweep their community's anti-Blackness under the rug.

-D

micdotcom

startingtofly

#TheHomelessPeriod exposes the unique menstruation problem homeless women face

The new campaign shines a light on homeless women who need assistance caring for their menstrual cycles. According to the Guardian, approximately 26% of people in the U.K. who receive “homelessness services” are female. But in most shelters, “sanitary ware or any kind of period ephemera is scarce,” Vice reported earlier this year. Three women have a plan to fix that.

Guys, please sign the petition! https://www.change.org/p/help-the-homeless-on-their-period-thehomelessperiod

backtoabnormal-deactivated20180

My school had a fundraiser for this. Man you never think of these things

prolifeproliberty

Thank you all for sharing this, because it reminded me that I’ve been meaning to donate some pads/tampons to a local shelter/food pantry

amilynh

This seems like a perfect opportunity to mention that menstrual cups, for those who can use them, would be a *sustainable* option (in that women would STILL HAVE THEM each month and not have to search for supplies). Not all women would be able to use them, but for those who could…it would be a HUGE boon.

mouse-named-minerva

☝🏾☝🏾 this this this.

wrongmovehoe-deactivated2020013

LOSING it

susiethemoderator

No, it’s because she’s a Trump supporter

dicapito

Oh shit :0 …

xmagnet-o

She’s a what??? How the fuck???

blvckgeezus

Lmfaooooooooo how New York talking bout “men of a certain age” wasn’t you on tv competing for flava flav old ass

miizzyybabyy

lmaoooo^^^^

bcpk-deactivated20210131

I googled it and she really is on her Kanye West shit….

clamchowdurr-deactivated2022040

Disgusting!! Drop that bitch, Robert!!

thechanelmuse

Gina Rodriguez is jealous, obsessed, and uncomfortable with the successes of Black women, and demonstrates a fake happy demeanor anytime Black women or their accomplishments are praised, whilst using our visibility or accomplishments as a platform to create opportunities for certain Latinas like when she proposed a Latin version of Girl’s Trip and a Latin superhero film after much talk about the record-breaking Black Panther or she diverts a conversation to be inclusive for “ALL women.” Like that time she tried to correct the interviewer below.

Go to the 2:00 mark.

The exchange probably appears to be an innocent complementary gesture by Gina towards Yara for people who are unaware of the usual overstepping sentiment of hers. Yara is indeed a great role model for young women. But correcting an interviewer so you can feel comfortable and included in a statement that solely praises the representation of a young Black woman for her fellow young Black women is fucking rude and uncalled for.

There are people of color who only care about phrases like “inclusivity” and “representation” solely when it benefits their race and/or ethnicity and they want the efforts of others—particularly Black people—to do the work for them.

Now with Gina’s recent remarks, she stated the following:

Her full statement: “I get so petrified in this space talking about equal pay, especially when you look at the intersectional aspect of it, right? Where white women get paid more than Black women, Black women get paid more than Asian women, Asian women get paid more than Latina women, and it’s like a very scary space to step into because I always feel like I fail when I speak about it because I can’t help but feel already so gracious to do what I do and I feel like, culturally, I feel like I was raised to just feel so appreciative of getting here.“

I’m not about to play no oppression Olympics over which race/ethnicity of actresses gets paid the least, but I’ma just leave this right here:

Back to the tweet by HP Latino Voices and Gina’s statement. Notice anything?

Pairing the long fought for achievements of Black people (Black women, in this case) with a “What about us Latinxs?” attitude is not only anti-Black AF, but continues to push for and perpetrate the erasure of Latinxs who are predominantly of African descent that is carried out and historically embedded in the DNA of Latin America.

BLACK LATINAS EXIST. BLACK LATINOS EXIST.

Not Black or Latinx. Black AND Latinx. Latinx is not a race, whereas Black is.

We’ve talked about this.

But when you’re Gina and do deliberate things like hosting a “Latina Power Lunch” and only invite certain shades and types of Latinas,

or longing for a colonialist superhero movie if she would pen one,

“I think it would be about Christopher Columbus coming over, the migration of the Spaniards, and the influence of the mixes [of people] in South America and in the Caribbean. That’s were my superhero movies would lay, like the 1400 or 1500s.” (Source)

how can one not suspect an agenda?…

On the same day the cast of Black Panther attended San Diego Comic Con and articles were being written left and right due to the film’s high anticipation, here goes Gina…

Carlos Valdes. Dania Ramirez. Gabriel Luna. Jessica Camacho….

Nevermind that some of that actresses listed are Black Latinas, which includes her homegirl Rosario….

maybeantonioj

She bypassed all the afro latina women…

christel-thoughts

I was waiting on someone to put it all together because whites (including white Latinas) keep acting like this isn’t a pattern with her. And like i stated on Twitter, i would be shocked to find that the disparity between the pay of Black and Asian women or Black and non-Afro Latina women is anywhere near that of white women and literally any other group of women in Hollywood. So for her to choose, consistently, to frame it as Black people having some sort of privilege handed to us over Latino people while ignoring Afro-Latinos is an exercise in anti-Blackness and nothing less.

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