Dancing in Diversity

I'm a tiny American (of African,Puerto Rican,& Dominican descent). Butterfly and book enthusiast.

[bellaxiao]

4 years in prison for recording a video of someone getting killed and the cop who actually murdered Eric Garner gets what? Nothing?! Yeah right..

This is not fair! What’s wrong with our justice system? Were the police made feel uneasy by the fact their crime was filmed? Cause that’s the only reason this guy is going to prison - he got in the way..

#StopPoliceBrutality

#NoJusticeNoPeace

[onevagabond]

“Liberty and justice for all”

[guinifiku]

[2jam4u]

um ME?!??!

[thatadult]

I’m not wrong..

[parkerwoods]

4th of July weekend with James, Karla, and Rosalie 

[theperksofbeingaperk]

[hqrihanna]

[malamente1992]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEmb17Lx3Wx

[livesimply25]

[meanwhileinpdx]

 Michael Strickland, conservative blogger, arrested after brandishing gun at Black Lives Matter protesters - Washington Times

The man, identified by police as 36-year-old Michael Strickland, was at the demonstration near Pioneer Square taking pictures when he got into an argument with protesters, reported a local Fox News affiliate, which caught part of the incident on video.

Mr. Strickland pulled out a gun and held it out in front of him for a moment before putting it back in his waistband, Fox reported.

Mr. Strickland, a conservative activist who contributes to the Progressives Today blog, according to the Portland Tribune, later explained his side of the story.

[poltxsexkitten]

wow, a white man waving a gun at BLM and all that happens is him getting arrested? You mean, he wasn’t killed by police? Shocking.

[thisloveisglowing]

[17mul]

@afroblossom

[buzzfeednews]

Popular Pakistani model and social media personality Qandeel Baloch was killed by one of her brothers for “dishonoring” their family, police say.

Baloch was a an at-times controversial internet star who starred in viral videos – the provocative selfies she shared prompting her to be dubbed Pakistani’s own Kim Kardashian. She was murdered after her brother warned her to stop posting photos and videos on social media, her parents said according to The Express Tribune.

Just three weeks ago, she had asked police for protection after receiving numerous death threats, particularly on social media where she was the target of misogynist abuse.

[adulthoodisokay]

Baloch’s brother Wasim, 30, is still at large, while her parents are in custody.

[brandiglanville]

[maabebe]

Lesson: be kind, don’t drag innocents into your fight.

[taviacw]

She told her to scoot over! How fucking kind 😂

[legendaryshayne-deactivated2019]

Lmfaoing p

[whiteguiltconfessionals]

I’M FUCKIN CRYING

[dpohmeanutha]

I’ma store this one away for later.

[flukeswifeyriddim-deactivated20]

Moncler is selling $1500 jackets decorated with a minstrel/golliwog inspired character called ‘Malfi’ created by art collective Friends With You

I’m disgusted

[autohaste]

why do people hate us so much 

[fuckyeahqueenbeyonce]

[frankenfemme]

[danceivyou]

“There’s a secret language shared among black girls who are destined to climb mountains and cross rivers in a world that tells us to belong to the valleys that surround us. You learn it very young, and although it has no words, you hear it clearly. You sense it when you walk into rooms with your hair in full bloom, each coil glorious, your sway swift and your stance proud. You feel it like a rhythm you can’t shake if you even dared to quiet the sounds around you.”

Happy 30th Birthday Solange! Thank you for sharing your magic with us ♡

[trapcard]

white ppl being able to like pin point their family origin down to like the city or town and for them to have records of their ancestry for hundreds and hundreds of years is an example of white privilege. being able to say that your great x 16 grandpa was a shoemaker in some remote village in Ireland is literally so crazy to me cuz so many Africans in the diaspora can’t even tell you their great-great grand parents names let alone where they came from. and it infuriates me to the core lmao

[hansnotdead-deactivated20201227]

Just about every single member of my grandfather’s extended family got killed in the holocaust, but thanks for pointing out how lucky and privileged I am to know what town they lived in before they were taken to the concentration camps by the nazis.

[jewishwarriorprincess]

^

[prime-minister-hayato]

It’s not just white people that have good genealogy. Most families in the Philippines have extensive recordings of family trees past exponentially massive generations. We’re all either brown or yellow over there, what’s your excuse black people?

[trapcard]

we were enslaved and had any records destroyed????? are y'all like stupid or dumb I’m thinking both lmfao

[melongorl]

“what’s your excuse black people” I’m gonna scream what’s wrong with u freaks!!!!

[ja-ll]

also @ Jewish ppl on this post, this isn’t meant to pinpoint how “lucky” many ethnic groups are for being able to track ancestry, especially when that ancestry is confronted with genocide. it’s meant to highlight that a scarily large quantity of black ppl in North America have zero access to things as easy as our ancestors names. we know damn well that our families were confronted with genocide, but we don’t know exactly where, when or who, which leaves us with this empty feeling of not knowing where we came from. doesn’t make you luckier to know your families died horribly; we know that too. but we don’t know who our families ARE. let that sit for a minute please.