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Dawg as a nurse …. this shit hurts me.
I swear if I caught a co worker doing that, I would of lost my license and gone to jail for beating her ass!!!!
I warned y'all about these racist ass nurses.
IF YOU ARE NOT PASSIONATE ABOUT CARING FOR OTHERS DO! NOT! DO! IT!
This is why i said my babies with me always or with whoever is with me. Too much crazy stuff happens in hospitals. Thank god we still somewhat safe over here. They never to be fired with jailtime.
Today we had pancakes and smoothie (banana.avocado.raspberries.cocowater) for breakfast. Went for a morning stroll. Had a long nap. Lunch (chia pudding and berries) Splashed around the fountains. Then finshed our dayout at the ludothèque. Let’s see where tomorrow will take us. Goodnight
That is totally unacceptable. Please make JOSEPH PRESLEY & the judge CALVIN R HOLDEN who let him off (in)famous.
#StayWoke
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This is just pur wickedness. I hope someone rape his ass. See how yoh feel then
Denzel Washington accepts the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for “Fences”
Well shit. I needed to hear this right now.
“See you at work.”
That last line is what’s about to make me go to all my classes and work and finish all of my homework early. Thank you so much
Denzel Denzel Denzel. Always saying wisedom
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.
(Can someone caption this?)
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.
FOR THOSE WHO STILL DONT THINK THE #CHARLESTONSHOOTING WAS ABOUT RACISM HERE’S A HEALTHY DOSE OF REALITY FOR YOU.
@foxnews I’m talking to you
It’s been discovered that Dylann Roof left a zip file of his photos, which do appear to be selfies, and what appears to be his manifesto. ( where he explains his hatred for different minority groups)
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88 stands for HH, since H is the eight letter of the alphabet. HH stands for “Heil Hitler”. 14 represents 14 words said by David Lane “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” You’ve got to know your enemy to fight them, that’s how I know.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ATTENTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
White Supremacist Bikers Are Gathering Together In Anti-Muslim Protest Outside Arizona Mosque
PHOENIX (Reuters) - About 75 protesters gathered on Friday in Arizona outside a mosque for an anti-Islam demonstration featuring cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, weeks after a similar event in Texas came under attack from two gunmen who had worshiped at the Phoenix center. Some protesters were armed and carrying guns at the event outside the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. The event was organized by an Iraq war veteran who posted photos of himself online wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Fuck Islam” on it and waving the U.S. flag.
“This is in response to the recent attack in Texas where 2 armed terrorist(s), with ties to ISIS, attempted Jihad,” the event’s Facebook page said.
It was scheduled to start at 6:15 p.m., about the time evening prayers are taking place inside the center. The rally also features its own cartoon contest, similar to the one targeted in Texas. “I think the whole thing, the cartoon contest especially, I think it’s stupid and ridiculous,” Ritzheimer said, “but it’s what needs to take place in order to expose the true colors of Islam.”
Now you may be asking yourself “Where are the cops? What are they doing about this?.”
Well, have no fear! Police Chief Joe Yahner is personally involved in arranging public safety around the event, he told CNN affiliate KPHO.“There’s a lot of things in the works. The intelligence related to the crowd is changing all the time,” he said.In fact, he even says Police will use cameras to record the event “to capture things that go on” and will close roads, said Sgt. Trent Crump, a Phoenix police spokesman.
That’s right. when a bunch of armed bikers come together to terrorize a group of people for their religions you can always count on the police to “keep an eye on things.”
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Black and White Symbolism: A Look into the Trope
We’ve noticed a volume of questions on the topic of Black and White symbolism in works. Light and white symbolizes good and pure. Dark and black is bad and evil. It’s an age-old trope deeply engraved throughout Western society, language, and cultures.
She’s having a “black day.” He’s the “Black sheep” in the family. The evils of “Black magic.” They’re “Black as one is painted.”
On the other hand…
They told an innocent “white lie.” He’s “whiter than white.” Good ole “White-collar” jobs.
These were just a few phrases found in the dictionary. The most frequently used dictionaries were written by racist old white men, so most of the language has been shaped by them.
If you flip further back you find entries like these:
Now, this guide comes from a western particularly American lens of the view of Black and White and its connotations. We recognize that B&W color symbolism and meaning varies across cultures.
However, western society imports its racist views across the globe, strengthening the Black as Evil and Good as White association within its “conquest” of mass media.
The Trope Incorporated into our Media
This trope is so normalized in Western culture that it is often unconsciously used and incorporated throughout many aspects of culture. It can easily be found in media, such as our TV-series, movies and literature:
The black, darkly-dressed or featured characters are often the villains or antagonists,
The white or light-featured characters are often the heroes, dispelling the world of the dark Others.
Also note that usually when good guys wear black, they’re more anti-heroes than full-heroes.
Tolkien really let himself go with this trope in Lord of the Rings and has the pure white race of elves be ethereal, wise, super good and natural *angelic singing*. Then there’s the orcs on the other side who are barbaric, unintelligent, violent and disgustingly ugly. Their language is black speech by the way.
“The Black Speech, also known as the Dark Tongue of Mordor, was the official language of Mordor. Sauron created the Black Speech to be the unifying language of all the servants of Mordor, used along with different varieties of Orkish and other languages used by his servants.”
“It is notable that the letter “e” is totally absent from the Black Speech. It was omitted on purpose for being a favourite letter of the Elves, and for forming a smile when uttering it.”
“In real life, J. R. R. Tolkien created this language with the intention of making it harsh and ugly…” then later on in the same piece is written: “…the forces of good refuse to utter it.” and “Tolkien designed it to be unpleasant in his own mind…”
So with these quotes you can see the link between calling it “Black speech” and the unpleasant, evil and anti-social aspects of the named. Quotes are taken from here.
Many epic fantasy writers mimic Tolkien in his use of fantasy races and themes and such, so they unconsciously also mimic this trope.
Game of Thrones also plays with the good vs evil but switches up the color code with the Kingsguard wearing white and the Night’s Watch wearing black. This posts speaks of the symbolism pertaining to the white cloaks of the Kingsguard.
Attracted to gray characters instead of orcs and angels, Martin regards the hero as the villain on the other side. The Wall’s Night’s Watch, whom Martin described as “criminal scum [who] are also heroes and they wear black”, was a deliberate twist on fantasy stereotypes. Furthermore, the use of black as the identifying colour for the essentially good Night’s Watch and the use of white for the much corrupted Kingsguard is another example of Martin subverting traditional fantasy which tends to link light colours with good and darker ones with evil. From here.
Then there’s Disney that’s notorious for their ingrained racism
This is easily seen in their visuals when portraying villains. When you look at the heroes vs villains, the villains are often portrayed as darker, more “ethnic” (see: Mother Gothel, Jafar) and sometimes queer-coded (like Ratcliff and Dr. Facilier).
Another example: the shadowy,dark huns in Disney’s Mulan. They have greyish, dark skin with strange eye coloring, and they all look the same.
On the left: a hun as portrayed by Disney in Mulan.
Furthermore, Disney typically depicts baddies as “less beautiful” with some exceptions of very beautiful and vain evil ladies (they have a trope with two types of beauty where one is pure and wholesome while the other is vain and egocentric. The second is also usually an older individual).
The Oz film was pretty visual, colorful, and magical until the evil witch and her black monkey minions come and then everything is dark suddenly. Oh, but there’s the “good” monkey, depicted in bright and lighter coloring.
Angels and Demons
Then there’s the trend where angels are always white and demons black/dark in fantasy. This doesn’t have to be and why this is a biased way to depict them, at least from a non-religious point of view, and as far as I know I never found a mention of white wings if wings at all when angels were mentioned. Exceptions go to the angels in higher orders, but still no white mentioned. Fallen angels suddenly have black wings, when they still have them.
The Harms of the Trope
Why is the B/W - Good vs Evil- trope harmful? Well, look at how the colors are associated. Dark as bad, evil. White as good, pure. But then you group a whole people as Dark + “Black” and the other as Light and “White” and you’ve literally set these people in opposition of each other.
There are Black people in the world. There are white people in the world. “Black” as a word is literally viewed as synonymous with darkness and evil. “White” is literally viewed as synonymous with goodness and purity. There’s an intentional pattern here.
Malcolm X’s discussion regarding how Black is used to describe a people adds clarify to this.
Read about it here.
Martin Luther King Jr. also discussed the association of Black to Evil and White to Good.
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It’s always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it’s always something pure, high and clean. Well I want to get the language right tonight.
I want to get the language so right that everyone here will cry out: ‘Yes, I’m Black, I’m proud of it. I’m Black and I’m beautiful!
Check out the clip from this speech here.
Another notable example of the result of these engraved associations and aversion to Blackness is how racist fans reacted to the Rue character from the Hunger Games being (rightfully) portrayed as a Black girl in the movies.
A lot of these reactions can be found online. Like this one.
The trope is deeply ingrained into people’s minds and reinforced by the media that combined with systematic racism Black people and even Black children cannot be seen as pure and innocent. These traits incorporated in the Black and White Symbolism is enforced on Black people (and white people to some extent). The symbolism has been influenced further with racism and that is why it can be harmful.
What to do with the trope
Now, we don’t believe people should stop using Black and white in relation to people; running away from the word, even given its history, would only reinforce Black as a badge of shame when that’s simply a lie. We think the better solution is to built up a new dictionary. To stop using black to mean all things sinister and evil and white as all things blameless and good.
Black & White in our Writing
While it’d be difficult to deconstruct these associations overnight, it’s definitely not impossible to be more conscious of how one might be perpetuating the B&W trope within their works.
Pay attention to your writing and the color symbolism there.
Where do you find Black & White imagery? How is it being used?
Are you using shadows and night skies to foreshadow bad things to come?
Morning light and white dresses to symbolize purity and hopefulness?
Now even these aren’t inherent pitfalls.
The following are some ways to make sure of that:
Defy the Trope
I was watching the first season of Sleepy Hollow, when there was an episode with a playful little girl running in the forest wearing a white dress. A little Black girl. While I don’t recall if she were meant to symbolize good or evil so neatly, but simply featuring this young child in white, both common emblems of “innocence” felt like a deviation from the typical white or pale girl to play such a part.
Even when using typically good and white symbolism, including Black and brown people to take part in these roles is a better option that shunning them out of such roles and thus the associated symbolism. How many dark-skinned angels do you see in media? How often are characters of color associated with beings that typically represent purity and goodness?
It’s like with heroes and villains. It’s more preferable to have a diverse mix of characters who play positive roles as opposed to making all your Characters of Color villains or antagonists.
Another example of deviating from the trope can be found with George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series as mentioned further up this post.
Subvert the Trope
Suppose Black represented good. Suppose Black represented life, innocence, and good things to come.
Now suppose White symbolized evil. Suppose White represented death, immorality and ominous things on the horizon.
Subverting the B&W trope is another way to handle it in your writing. If your story is one based on a non-western or even fantasy culture, it’d be easier to sell the idea that this is simply a world that doesn’t treat Black as evil but of neutral or good (and here’s how & why). Attempting to pass this off in a more westernized culture might get confusion or skepticism from readers, though.
One idea is to subtly apply the symbolism. Death always or often occurs under bright, white lighting or sky. The dark, black forest protects the character who is being pursued by evil. A Black cat brings hope and good news.
And before you say this is enforcing “reverse racism!” Nah. Just like if you felt like having all white villains, there is no engraved association with whiteness that exists today that could actually reverse society’s overarching association of white to good and black to bad.
Not All Evil
Say you do have some negative imagery in connection to darkness. First, evaluate how heavily you’re enforcing Black as bad and consider if a change would be good.
You could also avoid reinforcing the message of dark as only/always evil if you were to balance out your associations of darkness by also having some positive or neutral connections to darkness.
New B&W Meanings
Black & White don’t have to mean good or evil at all, as in not the case in every society anyhow. There are other associations with the colors you could emphasize in your writing. Take some of these examples below:
Black Associated Meanings:
Beautiful
Bold
Calmness/Comfort
Elegant
Health/Fertility
Heat/Warmth
Hidden
Life
Magical*
Mysterious
Protection
Seduction
Strength/Power*
Wealth
Wholeness
*Additional Notes:
Avoid strong = Black people tropes
The term “Black magic” is rooted in racism. Read about this as for alternatives to “Black magic” here.
See here for more associations with Black
White Associated Meanings:
Cold
Confusion
Death
Distance/aloofness
Emptiness/Absence
Fairness/Balance
Isolation
Opportunity
Order
Organized
Peace/Calm
Plain
Protection
Sterile
Additional Notes:
The point with the White list was to provide more symbolism besides the typical good – pure – innocent therefore some of the images are less neutral and positive than that of the Black list.
See here for more associations with white.
Construct New Images
Black & White aren’t the only colors that can oppose each other.
What about contrasting colors? Primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors? Earthy colors/oceanic colors?
You could even use bright and dimness as a means of symbolism, as discussed in this post.
There’s so much more you can do with the Black vs. White trope. Getting away from the Black/Evil - White/Good overarching symbolism can add something fresh to your writing.
We hope this post inspires you to at least be more conscious of the color symbolism in your writing.
More discussion on Black & White can be found in our color symbolism tag.
–Mods Colette and Alice
Black women doctors show appreciation for Doc McStuffins!
We have written a couple of entries in our blog about why we love Disney’s Doc McStuffins. We have discussed how we believe that this program featuring a little African American girl and her family is crucial to changing the future of this nation.
We also started a campaign to express our thanks to Disney and Brown Bag Films for creating, producing and airing Doc McStuffins. What started out as a simple collage of a few African American women physicians expressing thanks to Disney and Brown Bag Films has now taken on a life of its own. When we first started the collage we never thought we would get anywhere close to the current number of physicians who have agreed to lend their image to this project. But here we stand today with what we believe may be one of the most moving visual images of African American women in some time.
Our latest version of the We Are Doc McStuffins collage is made up 131 African American women physicians from around the world. They represent physicians from Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, Pediatric Anesthesiology, Ob/gyn, Cardiothoracic surgery, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Orthopedic Surgery, Occupational Medicine, Emergency medicine, Internal medicine, Family medicine, Dermatology, Cardiology (Electrophysiology), Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Neuro-otology , Otolaryngology (ENT), Sports Medicine , Urgent Care, Pediatric Hospitalist, Geriatrics , Medical Oncology, Infectious disease, Preventive Medicine, Allergy & Immunology, Naturopathic medicine, Pediatric Emergency medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehab (PM&R), Naturopathic endocrine/oncology, Urogynecology & Reconstructive Pelvic surgery, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Transplant surgery, Internal medicine hospitalist, General Surgery, Med/peds, Nephrology, Podiatry, Psychiatry and Public Health/Community medicine.
These strong women are graduates of some of our nation’s most prestigious institutions of higher education. The list includes Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Brown, Stanford, MIT, Xavier University of Louisiana, UC Berkeley, UCSF, Univ of Pennsylvania, Columbia, USC, UCLA, Princeton, Purdue, Yale, Duke, Georgetown, Emory, Howard, Morehouse, Baylor, Case Western, University of Arkansas, University of Washington, Temple, SW College of Naturopathic Medicine, UT Houston, UT Austin, UNT Health Science Center, Spelman College and the University of Alabama. A special note is that 44 of these great physicians are products of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
These amazing women are providing healthcare in every major US city, plus South Africa, France, the Caribbean and Italy! We are trailblazers. We are women of color. We are physicians. We ARE role-models. We are Doc McStuffins all grown up!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT THIS SHIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!
An Unarmed Black teen was just shot dead by police on #BlackOut Day.
19-year-old unarmed teen, Tony Robinson, was shot and killed by police in Madison, Wisconsin last Friday night. According to several news sources, Madison Police Chief Koval said they received calls looking for a man who had committed battery and was jumping in and out of traffic One of the police officers, Matthew Kenny, spotted Tony and then proceeded to follow him into his apartment and forced his way in after claiming to “hear a disturbance inside”. the unarmed teen then “got into an altercation” with the Officer who then shot him 5 times in the chest, and dragged him out to the street while he bled out. He was later rushed to the hospital where he later died.
Large Protests have already begun in Madison and are quickly spreading all over.
#StayWoke #BlackLivesMatter
Sorry to ruin #BlackOutDay but this is why it exists in the first place.
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Racism and ignorance clearly evident in our society, as experienced by my friend’s sister. This is what her potential dorm roommate, whom she had never met or talked to before, tweeted about her.
"Today I googled my last name and found this as one of the search results. Apparently, just by looking at my profile picture, I am Indian and I can barely speak english. This, my friends, is a prime example of racial profiling. I am an American citizen. I was born in Houston, Texas. My roots are not from India but from Africa. My parents are Algerian. I am Algerian American. English is my primary language and it is a struggle for me to speak my parent’s native tongue. My name is pronounced exactly as it is spelled. I wear a hijab (a head covering), and not a niqab ( a facial covering that excludes the eyes) though I do admire, respect, and find the beauty in all those who do choose to wear the niqab. But this girl is right, I probably would have had a heart attack living with a person who could not, and refused to, respect me and my beliefs. I can only thank God for an opening of a single room shortly after they assigned this roommate, way before I knew she had posted any of this. Alhamdullilah. I also thank God for being born in Houston, one of the most multicultural cities in the United States, and not experiencing racism like this everyday of my life. Sunday is my move in day and the start of my college career. This can be nothing but a good sign for the years to come, inshaAllah. In conclusion, I urge everyone, please, don’t judge a person by their appearances. Racism exists in this nation because we continue to do so. We have to look beyond the covers of appearances and read the texts of their characters. Stand with me and #stopracism.” -Roukaya Mabizari
STOP RACISM
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