gently falling fast

Hiding hiding behind my bedroom door

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

reblog or the gods of glo up will not bless you

[kamonra]

This is the money pentacle. Reblog and unexpected money will come to you!

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

[gqa1]

Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck

[bigudagodsview]

(via TumbleOn)

[outwiththeoldshit-deactivated20]

Don’t Be That Guy.

[caitlinhill]

Great campaign! Great point!

[cliffordpanties-blog]

signal boosting the shit out of this

[ani-oppa-san]

you can never NOT reblog this

[yes-this-is-groot]

[khenti-renaissance]

Vintage Photography: Women of Egypt ca 1905

[prepaidafrica]

In a Country Where Rappers are News Anchors, Viewership Soars

Meet the rap artists who have found a way to get Senegal’s youth to pay attention to current events.

[komradesparx]

What do you do if you're no good enough to date?

[historium]

“Firmly support American Blacks in their righteous struggle!” People’s Republic of China poster. 1963

[noircommejesuis]

the president of nigeria is about to fuck boko haram up and cut his own salary in half and criminalized female genital mutilation

the president of guinea built/is building infrastructure and school and wells all over the country and is decreasing youth unemployment exponentially

the president of cote d’ivoire made school mandatory of children ages 6-16 and banned plastic bags while also building ultra modern trasportation infrastructure

the future is for real in africa 

[incandescent-justice]

I think this should have a hell of a lot more notes on it than it does. This is what good news looks like folk, and the continent of Africa surely deserves a shed load of it.

[houseofhaleth]

Today (April 7th) is Remembrance Day for the Rwandan genocide. While Rwanda still faces challenges, their recovery has been incredible. They now have the highest percentage of women in parliament around the world (one of only two countries to have over 50% women), their gross national income has risen each year, and life expectancy has risen from  48 in 1990 to 65 in 2013.

[itschinyere-deactivated20200201]

[itschinyere-deactivated20200201]

This is the money nigga.

It only appears every 587,432,258,943 posts. Reblog in 12 minutes, and money will make its way to you in the next 48 hours.

[peak-widow]

The Panthers used to ride around and follow the police.

So the cops would pull over some sorry black person, and get ready to rough him up, but then there were the Panthers right behind them. Watching, armed to the teeth, and citing legal statutes. It’s inspirational.

[ssstop-it-sunflowa]

Bring it back.

[pumpkinmcqueen]

Bring this back.

[cosmic-noir]

For real.

[thefandomdropout]

That’s why the FBI broke them up, isn’t it ?

[goddesscru]

That among other community initiatives. They had weapons training, self defense, their free breakfast program and ran a newspaper. They raised money to pay for bail and legal funding for people. And they used to notify the community of their rights and encourage people to know the laws and protest the one which were unjust. That type of shit irked the local police and damned sure struck a nerve with the FBI. They were taking back the streets and providing the protection the police were never interested in bringing to their neighborhoods from the very start. So it’s always fuck the FBI for me.

[bossymarmalade]

Also let’s be starkly clear about this: under COINTELPRO the FBI raided the homes of Black Panthers and outright murdered them. They conspired with local police forces to harass, assault, and concoct false evidence against anybody affiliated with the BPP. And they didn’t keep their operations confined to the black community directly. When a white woman working in civil rights was killed by the KKK (they were aiming at her black passenger) the FBI excused the KKK by claiming that she was a communist and slept with black men. They refused to accept the reports of white agents who said that the BPP were no threat and demanded that the agents falsify information to paint the BPP as violent domestic terrorists. The FBI was determined to quash revolutionary black movements that were chiefly devoted to community protection and development and they stopped at nothing in their attempts to reach this goal.

[kemetic-dreams]

SHE BETTER THAN ME, THEY WOULD HAVE HUNG ME!

[rob-walks-deactivated20210614]

this is really bonkers. i passed this place today in Park Slope and i was at a loss for words.

[kny111]

i'm white. does that make me bad?

yea

[lisawithabee-blog-deactivated20]

p much

[grrspit]

Why do white people ask questions like this?  Whenever I get this question, or the thematically similar “Do you hate white people” I just answer with “yes”.

Because that’s the only answer they want to hear.

[atchka-blog]

In context, it makes sense. To a lot of white people, being black IS bad. You can see this evident when a white person tells a black person that they’re “one of the good ones.”

Whites allow for nuances in character for their own race. Rarely are white people grouped into “good” and “bad” categories. You can be a white person who is mostly good, then makes a terrible, terrible decision, but your lifetime of goodness mitigates that bad decision. In other words, white people accept that other white people are complicated and people are the sum of their choices, not merely a reflection of a “good” or “bad” moment.

But Whites LOVE to categorize Blacks as “good” and “bad.” You just have to look at the coverage of Trayvon Martin to see that the fact that he was arrested for smoking pot clearly put him in the “bad” camp right away. After that, Martin’s death was framed as him being the “bad” guy and Zimmerman was helpless but to defend himself.

So, when white people ask “I’m white. Does that make me bad?” what they are REALLY saying is, “I’m white. Are you going to hold me to same simplistic, binary judgement system I hold you to?”

[grrspit]

Bolding for truth