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[sakhardande-3-blog]

Many have disparaged hashtag activism as a poor substitute for “real” activism, and, indeed, some suggest that the virality and ephemerality of social media can only ever produce fleeting “nanostories”

-YARIMAR BONILLA and JONATHAN ROSA

[jmacksey-blog]

I agree that twitter is not the solution and that twitter activism is only a base that people can act off of and spread awareness. Although twitter and other social media can help a lot in creating awareness, more still needs to be done besides just hashtag activism.

[trevore206-blog]

The mayor cannot say there had never been a sense of racial tension here because that sentence has not been true anywhere on this earth.

John Oliver (via trevore206)

The statement carries a lot of truth and is comedic so it helps to convey the message to a broad audience. 

[jmacksey-blog]

And let's make the jail cells more colorful is entirely appropriate if you're an interior designer with a folder full of paint swatches

John Oliver

[jmacksey-blog]

If Americans used standards, like does this person contribute to society, to the common good, then we’d have to admit that many white people don’t measure up and don’t even try to measure up because they are not expected to. White people are considered to be good based on their demographic, not based on any actual criteria.

Koritha Mitchell -  Low Standards for Whites. That’s What’s Killing Us.

[jmacksey-blog]

The increased use and availability of these technologies has provided marginalized and racialized populations with new tools for documenting incidents of state-sanctioned violence and contesting media representations of racialized bodies and marginalized communities

Bonilla and Rosa - #Ferguson

[jmacksey-blog]

We sweat for a nickel and a dime Turn it into an empire Breathe in, this feeling American, American oxygen

Rihannaa - American Oxygen 

[jmacksey-blog]

I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn’t be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we’re in.

[jmacksey-blog]

Yes, and you want it to stop, you want the child pushed to the ground to be seen, to be helped to his feet, to be brushed off by the person that  did not see him, has never seen him, has perhaps never seen anyone who is not a reflection of himself.

Claudia Rankine - Citizen

[jmacksey-blog]

Dear white people, the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, but your weed man, Tyrone, does not count.

Dear White People

[jmacksey-blog]

Cause they make us hate ourself and love they wealth That's why shortys hollering "where the ballas' at?" Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack And a white man get paid off of all of that

Kanye West - All Falls Down

[jmacksey-blog]

See, I only date hood. My last man? He never even met his father. Four women, six kids. Three of whom are named after luxury cars. Child support? Do you know anything about your people?

Ross Gay

[jmacksey-blog]

but i’ve been watching from the slaughterhouse. ever since you named me edible. tossed in a cookie at the end. lucky man. go & take what’s yours. name yourself archaeologist

Franny Choi -  To the Man Who Shouted,

[jmacksey-blog]

It’s as if a strong visceral reaction to these real threats to our existence makes us even more deserving of further violence. Under white supremacist logic, a group of people whose survival is at stake should not assume a naturally defensive posture.

Richael Faithful - “#Blacklivesmatter Kitchen Talk”

[trevore206-blog]

There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.

Selma, Lyndon B. Johnson (via trevore206)

This quote still remains very relevant today. Problems such as police brutality need to be understood by and dealt with by the entire country. If one group has a problem then that is America’s problem.

[jmacksey-blog]

Well, Mr. President, I'm here to speak specifically about the denial of a basic American right for the Negro citizen. The right to vote.

“Selma” 2014

[valgal17-blog1]

I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils

Beyonce, “Formation” (via valgal17)

I like the message behind the lyrics that all different types of people are beautiful. And the hashtags used really go along with the message that black is beautiful.

[jmacksey-blog]

Subjugated knowledges, such as a Black women's culture of resistance, develop in cultural contexts controlled by oppressed groups. Dominant groups aim to replace subjugated knowledge with their own specialized thought because they realize that gaining control over this dimension of subordinate groups' lives simplifies control

Patricia Hill Collins - Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment