Growing Pains @hazel-isis - Tumblr Blog

everything I approach these days feels and looks very different from previous ones. going to the beach or exploring new places in the woods (for example) has new meanings now. before, it felt like a luxury and a choice to get away from everything else. now those things feel like a necessity, like if I don't find time to recharge and replenish, I may go completely insane. ▪️ ▪️ ▪️ I decided to take a huge break from social media posting because suddenly these platforms have become more than just a simple update on your life (especially this year). there's now so much weight to carry in each post we make or some sort of goal everyones reaching for (the clout). call me old school but I miss the old MySpace days where not too much mattered. things were fun, much simpler and ultimately ZERO PRESSURE. ▪️ ▪️ ▪️ pressure seems to be a word that comes up a lot for me. pressure to post, pressure to be heard, pressure to speak out as a queer black woman, pressure to make choices for white people who want/need answers, pressure to be. rn even, making this post, makes me so anxious, but it's a start. A start to going for it and being proud of it!! so here i go.. this is me, letting go of all that pressure and truly living for myself and the things that I want and need, without the pressure. ▪️ ▪️ ▪️ #foodforthought #freeyourmind #clarity #normalizementalhealth #blackwoman #queerblackwomen #queer #selfawareness #lettinggo #fuckpressure #learntoloveyourself #newdiscoveries #journey #love #selflove #locs #locjourney https://www.instagram.com/p/CD4CHAMpz091at48ERc7b06lpyEFgLzmVKrd_Q0/?igshid=1b5w4rcsp4xi2

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assyrianjalebi

clavicula-diaboli-prolis

Forgot the best part:

animirana

Happy 10th Anniversary, Princess and the Frog!

nitrons

OK BUT LOOK AT MY EYE

aoca

bellygangstaboo

msladyjay

GO 👏 THE 👏 FUCK 👏 OFF. Also, the American educational system is trash. I applaud this child’s parents for giving her a voice and standing up against bias authority.

fridakahloblvd

(Can someone caption this?)

nico-incognito

Classroom full of mostly black and brown students:

Black student: [unintelligible—and then] …and then throwing everything away beneath it because it doesn’t pertain to you. I’m sorry —

White teacher: —you know what, I’m sorry -I’m sorry…

Black student: —No, no, no…I let you talk -I let you talk, you’re gonna let me talk.

[Other students gasps]

White student: Go ahead. Finish.

Black student: I’m sorry that this is the way that it is. You’re right, it is fucked up. But white people control everything…and that’s not fair. And when anybody, any other minority tries to say anything about it or change it, we’re complaining or we’re ungrateful or all this other stuff because we still have this or that. But then you say something about ‘Oh, I don’t want—there’s too many Latinos and there’s too many—’

White teacher: I didn’t say that—

[Various students disagree]

White teacher: I said I want to control the border!

Black student: You said you don’t want this to turn into a Latin country because there’ll be too many

White teacher: I did not say that.

[Various students disagree]

Student 2: You said you want to preserve the American culture.

Black student: There is no American culture. American culture is EVERYTHING.

[Various students agree]

Random: Mayonnaise!

[Students laugh]

Black student: And because you are white and so closed-minded, you refuse to accept that, you refuse to accept—

White teacher: Don’t tell me I’m closed-minded—

Black student: Everything you’ve said to me is closed-minded.

White teacher: Just because I don’t agree with you doesn’t mean I’m closed-minded.

Black student: You don’t need to agree—I -I’ve had conversations with people that don’t agree with me, but if they at least listen and try to accept—you’re not accepting the truth.

White teacher: Why do I have to accept what you think is right?

Black student: You need to accept the truth! Not what I think is right, what is actually happening right—

White teacher: Well, let me tell you what I think. You said white people have been in control of everything….who is the president of the United States right now?!

Students: A black man!

*Various sounds of incredulity*

Black student: WITH A WHITE CONGRESS! WITH A WHITE SENATE! WITH WHITE EVERYTHING ELSE! HE DOESN’T HAVE THE CONTROL OF EVERYTHING!

Random: GO OFF

Other Random: GO OFF–

*The class is in an uproar*

Random student: YOU ARE SO PRIVILEGED THAT YOU JUST DON’T SEE IT!

White teacher: Do we have to yell?!

Black student: Yes, because I’m mad.

suitepetite

Reblogging for the captioning. Thanks!

bando--grand-scamyon

YES, BECAUSE I’M MAD.

lordrachaelmarissa-deactivated2

This gives me hope. I’m 22. I’m not that old, but I’m assuming I’m older than these students in the video. To see this young intelligent woman school her teacher on white privilege and the affects of white supremacy gives me hope. They are young and using their voice! This is gives me hope ya’ll.