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Dear black men (and boys),

You do not have to be muscular, fit, toned, have clear skin, a big penis, listen to rap music or hip-hop, you don’t have to be a “thug” or be tough, you don’t have to be aggressive, or demanding, you don’t have to fit into this tiny little box the world has told you, you have to fit into. You can read books, play video games, have acne, eczema, stretch marks, you can be yourself. Do not think you aren’t a man or a “black man” if you don’t look or act a certain way. You are just as worthy as anyone else. Don’t be so hard on yourself. You are loved.

hipster

date a boy who works hard, loves his momma, loves dogs, and sings in the car with u

postingwhileblack

please, do not ignore this

pinkcookiedimples-deactivated20

The amazing Jane Elliott came to my campus today to speak on her Blue and Brown eye experiment (racism) and one of the FIRST things she did was tell everyone that they originated from Black women, then she had all the Black women stand up and say “You all better thank them.” LAWD WON’T HE DO IT

Then she went on a rant about how white people shouldn’t be racist because they didn’t create shit and wouldn’t be here without POC 😂

lanadiaries

She plays no games

fatandbougie

she’s like 8 centuries old and still spreading the good word.

onedropcolors

She’s been the truth.

mascgf-blog

this is just my two cents but hypermasculinity is a problem because encouraging men to maintain an air of superiority through aggression and promote misogyny and heterosexism gets women raped and killed and gets lgbt people killed not because it disallows precious sensitive cisgender heterosexual men their freedom of expression

pinkcookiedimples-deactivated20

The amazing Jane Elliott came to my campus today to speak on her Blue and Brown eye experiment (racism) and one of the FIRST things she did was tell everyone that they originated from Black women, then she had all the Black women stand up and say “You all better thank them.” LAWD WON’T HE DO IT

Then she went on a rant about how white people shouldn’t be racist because they didn’t create shit and wouldn’t be here without POC 😂

lanadiaries

She plays no games

fatandbougie

she’s like 8 centuries old and still spreading the good word.

onedropcolors

She’s been the truth.

thebigkelu

Codsiogo, a Native American (Shoshone) man - 1884/1885

thebigkelu

She Came Spotted and an unidentified Native American Sioux woman, posed outside on a fur skin rug in front of a painted backdrop of a Lakota style Indian war record, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota - Morledge - 1890/91

mcavoy

#mood

April 12, 2017

Damn I haven't been on this in a while. Hello peeps :)

Video shows teen’s body dragged after shot by LAPD

August 31, 2016

| By Boyle Heights Beat

A video from a security camera shows the body of José Juan Méndez, the teen shot by LAPD during a traffic stop in February, being dragged several feet by two police officers after the shooting. The existence of the video –discovered by the teen’s parents and their lawyer– was reported this week by the LA Weekly.

Attorney Arnoldo Casillas –who says he will represent the teen’s family in a civil lawsuit against the city– allowed the publication to review the video but not to publish it online. He said he and José’s parents, Juan and Josefina Méndez, discovered the video the day after the Feb. 6 shooting while visiting the scene. The Weekly reports the video shows the moment the vehicle the 16-year-old Méndez was driving comes to a stop in a residential driveway on East 6th Street. Immediately a patrol car pulls in, two officers exit the patrol car with their guns drawn and pointed, then circle the vehicle with Méndez still at the wheel.

The video does not show the actual shooting because the glare from the patrol car obstructs the view, but a few minutes after the shooting the officers are seen dragging the teen’s body about 30 feet from the driveway and laying him face down on the sidewalk. Later, according to the Weekly’s account, officers remove an object from the teen’s shorts and he is handcuffed with his hands in the back.

The LAPD did not mention that they body was dragged when the department’s original findings on the shooting were released in February. A public information officer interviewed by the Weekly said she had not seen the video and did not know that the body had been moved.

Except for some extreme circumstances, bodies in shootings or crime scenes are not supposed to be moved unless authorized by the Coroner’s office.

According to the police account of the events, when the officers approached the vehicle the driver’s door opened. The officers claim they saw Méndez point a sawed-off shotgun at one of the officers before the officer-involved shooting occurred.

The LA County Coroner’ office has not released its autopsy of Méndez’s body but Casillas hired a forensic pathologist to perform a private autopsy, which concluded the teen received numerous shots to the head and three to the back. There were 13 gunshot wounds in the body, according to the private autopsy.

According to the family’s attorney, the time stamp on the video is in disagreement with the LAPD’s account of the shooting. Méndez was declared dead at the scene at 10:56 but the video shows the body being moved at 10:46, after he was presumably dead.

5centsapound

Terrance Houle: Urban Indian Series (2004),

In a practice that ranges from performance to photography to film and video works, Blackfoot artist Terrance Houle remakes the troubled history of colonialism and First Nations identity with a roguish wit and punk-rock edge. His strategy matches self-deprecating humour with an uneasy undertone; the results cut away at both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal notions of an urban Indian status quo. In his Urban Indian Series (2004), Houle is pictured grocery shopping, working in an office cubicle and riding public transit—all in elaborate powwow regalia.

In the performance video Friend or Foe (2010–11), he plays off cultural and historical gaps in communication while dressed in a loincloth and communicating by sign language.

jessicajean08

@Regrann from @ellenalways - On August 31, 2016, early in the morning hours, Dale “Happy” American Horse Jr. chained himself to a large backhoe to prevent digging for the Dakota Access Pipeline next to Highway 6, 14 miles north of the Cannonball River. Happy ended up chained to the backhoe for six hours as law enforcement attempted to remove him. Songs, prayers, chanting, and the burning of sage and attempting to persuade law enforcement to join the protestors for the sake of their children lasted throughout. Approximately ten people total were arrested during this action. #NoDAPL #rezpectourwater #waterislife #honorthetreaties #indigenous #standingrock #savetheearth - #regrann