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[liberalsarecool]

Keep in mind, Amazon workers rely on food stamps while Amazon posts record profits.

[honeynutcheerio]

If you guys didn’t see some white girl posted a montage of her colonizer experience in Hawai'i and has been getting dragged for days now lmao I’m not gonna link it cause it’s just her and some other haole girls she met her literally dancing on graves and sacred places and showing off her dirty hair.

But I did a little thread on why these romanticized ads of our home harms us (not super in depth but touches on some important points). And I was a lot nicer about it cause I actually do care if you come to visit and I’d actually prefer that everyone leave us alone forever but colonizers gonna colonize and settlers gonna settle 🤷🏽‍♀️

[quixoticsweetheart]

[Images: a tweet from user @WatkinsLondon that says: “This year I packed up my life into a tiny suitcase and moved to a little rock in the middle of the ocean. I fell in love with Hawaii, I fell in love with these people. But above all, I fell in love with being alive”.

This tweet is followed by a tweet thread from user @angelcurlsss that says:

“That stupid video of that haole girl who moved here for 4 months is just showing how fucking ignorant the general population is about Hawai'i and what has happened/is happening to Native Hawaiians.

1. HAWAI'I IS AN ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED SOVEREIGN NATION.

2. Native Hawaiians (Kānaka Maoli) used to make up 100% of the population. It’s estimated we make up about 20% of the state’s population now.

3. Hawai'i was once the most literate nation in the WORLD, about 91-95% of the kingdom by 1834.

4. ‘Olelo Hawai'i (native Hawaiian language) was illegal to teach in schools until 1978, but didn’t get taught again in schools until 1987. People don’t understand how recently they had their colonial policies forced on us. 1978… my mom was born in 1973. She could’ve been beat just for speaking her native tongue on her native land.

5. Despite making up less than a quarter of the state’s population, native Hawaiians make up about 60% of the prison population (mostly nonviolent crimes).

6. Native Hawaiians also make up most of the homeless population. Hawai'i has the largest population of homeless people per capita in the U.S.

7. As of 2018, the average price for a single family home in Hawai'i is $795K. There are no regulations for foreigners owning land.

Including (but not limited to) these facts and statistics, native Hawaiians are one of the most disenfranchised communities in Hawai'i. Our own ‘āina. When people treat our home as a playground for their own selfish needs, they change everything here except the price of living. Native Hawaiians and locals are leaving Hawai'i by the dozens. They recently estimated it to be 11 locals leaving PER DAY.

I don’t care if you want to come visit. Our home is beautiful and I don’t blame people for wanting to see it. But I do care when you poison our land, romanticize our lifestyle, fetishize our people, and cheapen our culture. Unless you’re coming to pour money into our communities and work for our betterment and sovereignty (I know you’re not) you bring nothing of value to Hawaiians. Please come and enjoy, but don’t forget when it’s time to leave.”

Timestamp of last tweet: December 26, 2018. 12:09 p.m.]

[quiet-nymph]

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[joeinct]

Cyclist, Photo by Robert Häusser, 1953

[aqqindex]

The Gurunsi

[birikforever]

[arse-thetic]

[signorformica]

Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, from Hungarian Anjou legendary single leaves ~ ca.1335 Morgan Library.  Bibliothèque Infernale on FB  

[wxzvrdkelly]

A little known black history fact

[queenscribe]

Never Forget: The Devil's Punchbowl - 20,000 Freed Slaves Died After Being Forced Into Post Slavery Concentration Camp

There is a closely guarded secret that has been deliberately buried by mainstream media and historians: After the Civil War (and during the

[dynamicsymmetry]

Okay, I know these are very treacherous waters to wade into, but as someone who does social history work I gotta. 

While there were undoubtedly plenty of atrocities committed against Black slaves and escaped/freed slaves during the American Civil War, this is almost certainly at best an exaggeration. It seems like OP might be conflating concentration camps and “contraband camps”, which weren’t amazing but weren’t Nazi/Ustasha/Khmer Rouge-style extermination camps like the one described here. 

There were refugee camps during the war, and conditions in them weren’t awesome, especially because of overcrowding and a lack of planning and resources. People died, sometimes in significant numbers. But it wasn’t like this, and it wasn’t done like this. 

(I wish I could provide better citations here, but that’s because I literally couldn’t find a single decent one that cited any primary or even good secondary sources. The one “historian” talking directly about this, as far as I can see, is a woman who also leads ghost tours and considers herself an expert on the paranormal. Which for most historians isn’t a great sign. All other blog posts and articles seem to be taking their cues from her, though they may not cite her. Otherwise the best I can do is secondhand stories about local historians in the linked thread. Plenty of things are hidden histories, but if you can’t find any primary sources related to them at all, that’s a red flag. People hide stuff, but rarely that well.) 

Why does it matter to get this stuff right? 

Well, first of all, it matters because it matters. But it also matters because it’s absolutely true that every time atrocity or genocide happens, someone works to cover it up. My doctoral dissertation deals with Nazi extermination camps, with a special focus on the lengths to which the SS went to conceal the existence of camps like Bełźec and Sobibor, down to razing them to the ground and camouflaging the remains as a farm. It matters to get this stuff right precisely because other people are working so hard to erase these things from history, and we have an obligation to not further muddy the waters. 

We owe it to the dead to make sure that what we have is accurate. 

[wxzvrdkelly]

All you had to do was shut up and scroll but you decided to come here and sound off where you should’ve just been quiet. But I got time for it today. So by definition, the Devil’s Punchbowl WAS a concentration camp being that freed slaves were forced to do hard labor and were killed in mass numbers with an estimated 20,000 black slaves killed my the Union army by way of either execution, disease, or simply just exhaustion.

Did I mention that the working and living conditions in this camp were so bad that these freed slaves would often times beg to be put back on the plantations? When they died or were murdered at the hands of the Union Army guards, they couldn’t take the bodies outside the camp so the guard would throw the prisoners a shovel and say “bury em where they drop.” Every once in a while when this area is flooded by the Mississippi River, skeletal remains of deceased slaves will wash up.

So no, in no way, shape, form, or fashion is this an “exaggeration at best” as your irrelevant little misinformed soul put it Becky. I’m very well versed in the history of MY people. So now just mind your little business and keep scrolling like you should have the first time

[meanmisscharles]

Whites are fucking psychopaths when it comes to Black death.

Mouthy bitch….

[phoenix-ace]

And this is why we have no patience for people who insist on denying the stuff that was done to us. People frame it like they’re “preserving the integrity” of genocide and really think recognizing this stuff is “muddying the waters” and it’s disgusting that they would try to use another genocide as an excuse to do this as if white supremacists dont say the exact same “denying/this is an exaggeration” statements to those victims.

[jamaicanblackcastoroil]

How the fuck could we be refugees in this country

[phoenix-ace]

I love how they feel like they were qualified to dismiss all of this as an exaggeration. People really just have no logic or compassion when they talk about anything centered on slave descended black people.

[dicapito]

She writes pedo fanfics so I’m not surprised that shit came from that user.

[phoenix-ace]

…of course she does.

[liberalsarecool]

Deregulation will get you killed. Republican policies make your life worse.

[hedhehog]

[humansofnewyork]

“My father was a talented engineer.  He could fix any type of truck, and he used his income to help the poor.  Our neighbors’ school fees and hospital bills were always paid.  My mother would bring needy people to our table, and order us to give them the best portions of meat.  She’d explain that these people rarely had the chance to eat well.  Both my parents were very religious.  But they always taught us: ‘Humanity first.  Everything else comes after.’  When the genocide began, they invited our Tutsi neighbors to hide in our house.  There were seven of them.  Some lived under the beds.  Others lived in the cupboards.  I was a teenager back then and my job was to change the waste buckets.  It was a miserable existence, and it went on for months.  But we prayed with them.  We tried to give them hope.  We told them that God was in control.  At night we’d give them Muslim dress so they could go in the backyard and get fresh air.  Our neighbors suspected us because our curtains were always closed.  We never slept because we knew the penalty for hiding Tutsis was death.  But all seven people in our house survived.  Unfortunately my mother and father died a few years ago, so I must tell their story for them.  Their names were Mukamunosi Adha and Gasano Juma.  They saved seven lives.  And they valued love and humanity more than anything.”   (Kigali, Rwanda)

[humansofnewyork]

“I used to walk 12 kilometers to school.  And every day along the side of the road, there’d be an old woman who was so sick that she couldn’t move.  The sun would beat her.  The rain would beat her.  And nobody would help.  I was only seven years old.  I couldn’t stand it.  But my parents wouldn’t agree to bring a total stranger into our house.  How are we OK with people dying like chickens on the side of the road?  Millions of people in this country haven’t even taken a single meal today.  I can’t stand it.  I’m thirty now and I’m struggling.  But I’m still trying to help even though I don’t have money.  I taught myself to treat diabetes with herbs.  I’ve treated ten people so far who can’t afford the hospital.   But I want to do more.  I’ve given myself a timeframe.  I’ve been working at this conservation center for three years now, and I’ve learned a lot.  In a few years I’m going to open my own center.  I can use the profits to build houses for people who have no place to stay.  Each person can stay for a year.  Maybe if they can just rest their head for a month, they’ll find a way to feed themselves.  And if they eat for a week, they’ll start to reason like a human being.  At the very least they’ll see that it’s possible to be loved by someone.  And maybe they’ll realize that God loves them too.” (Lagos, Nigeria)

[dynastylnoire]

Loc Appreciation Day is September, 28th 2018

If you have baby locs

Short locs

Med length locs

Long locs

Free form locs

Colored/dyed locs

JOIN US SEPTEMBER 28TH 2018

Post your pics, gifs, stories, advice, maintenance tips and experiences ( why you got them, why you love them, how you take care of them, why you cut them off, job stories, horror stories, discrimination stories, love stories, etc.)

Also Definitely rep your hair salon/stylist/loctician or what techniques or products you use.

People with Faux locs, twists, and braids please don’t jump in this. This day is day is strictly for people with authentic locs.

Everyone without locs feel free to reblog and boost!

[ummreallyriley]

Ayyyye, see y’all soon faaaam…

[90sdefect]

I’m with this shit

[humansofnewyork]

“My grandmother was the first in our family to discover it.  One day she joined a meditation in the park.  She was taking so many medications at the time, but she threw them all away and never took another trip to the hospital.  That was before the crackdown.  At one time were one hundred million followers of Falun Gong in China.  It’s a peaceful religion.  But the following grew too big.  Our teacher seemed like a threat to the government.  They said crazy things on state media.  They called it a cult.  They said we’re terrorists and that we kill our parents.  They began to arrest us.  They even harvested our organs.  I know it sounds crazy, but you can Google it.  We tried to resist.  We practiced inside our home.  We secretly handed out fliers to push back against the propaganda.  But they caught me on camera.  Everywhere there are cameras.  They followed me to my home.  They shoved me in their car.  For eight months I was in detention.  The first thing they did was take a sample of my blood.  For hours every day they put us in a room and forced us to watch television about how to be a good citizen.  If anyone looked away, the whole group was punished.  Eventually my family bribed the court with huge money and they let me go.  But for three years I had to write a letter every month saying that I am a guilty person.  When my probation ended, I left the country.”

[regardintemporel]

Hiroshi Yamazaki - The Sun is Longing for the Sea,1978

[browsethestacks]

Original Art - Spider-Man/X-Factor #01 Pg 26 Hand Painted Colorguide With Overlay

[salafistallion]

One act of kindness can change your whole life.