The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
George Washington Carver (via landscape-photo-graphy)
2015 - Here are some gifs of Donald Trump being attacked by a bald eagle named Uncle Sam, literally the least patriotic thing that can happen to an American. [video]
Emotionality matters, but it is too often set aside or overlooked in battles for a justice that looks like a courtroom verdict or legislative victory
In the US, the scant media coverage on the trial of former Oklahoma police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who is accused of sexual assaulting 13 black women, is just one example of the deafening silence and apathy around violence toward black women. Only a few op-eds on websites covering the African American community have led the charge and asked, where is the outrage?
Some scholars and activists maintain that what’s missing are in-depth statistics regarding women and girls victimized by police. For others, the oversight is part of a broader problem: the media’s failure to provide a detailed context of how racism affects black women.
But all agree the core problem is the lack of acknowledgment that an offense has even been committed. As a result, victims have to survive the violence itself, but also deal with the pain of never having their pain recognized, either in courts or within their communities.
Armah says black people have a legacy of intergenerational trauma due to unrelenting cycles of violence. She coined the term “emotional justice” – the process toward remedying it. It requires finding and creating the language to describe this trauma and articulating it as a reality; creating space to explore it; dealing with it by developing a counter-narrative.
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The reality of black male privilege may be hard for some to discuss or envision against the backdrop of well-documented cases of unarmed black men being killed by police. Yet, when looking within African American communities, there are some spaces where men’s issues dominate conversations, while ignoring what’s happening with black women and girls equally.
“It’s been very painful for black women and girls to remain silent and to be sacrificed. We’ve been made martyrs in the racial justice movement,” says Farah Tanis, co-founder of Brooklyn-based human rights organization Black Women’s Blueprint (BWB).
Conviction rates for suspects accused of raping black women are lower than when the victims are non-black, says Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, the director of the African American Policy forum and co-author of the #SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality Against Women report.
Crenshaw and others began using #SayHerName at Black Lives Matter protests in 2014 when they noticed the absence of the names of women and girls who were killed by police. And while the case of Sandra Bland in July 2015 recharged the momentum behind the phrase, Crenshaw still wants black women to be put at the “center of our concerns”.
“We can say ‘SayHerName’ but if you don’t know the names of women also killed by police, we don’t know the different circumstances under which they are also vulnerable to losing their lives,” she says.
“Until we can remember the names Michelle Cusseaux, Tanisha Anderson,Natasha McKenna along with the names of Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and Michael Brown, the movement will be limited to only the things that we can see, and those have largely been understood as the things that make black men vulnerable to police violence.”
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Valerie’s grandmother was murdered. A white drunk driver purposefully ran her down in Jim Crow-era South Carolina. There was no arrest, no public condemnation and no real closure for the family.
Now in her late 50s and living in New York, Valerie (not her real name) pours water into a bowl of soil to lift up her grandmother’s spirit. She pauses, before saying: “What my family won’t talk about is that my grandfather used to beat my grandmother regularly, and she may have been walking around with a concussion on the day she died.”
if you have any love for black women in your heart, you’ll read this and adjust accordingly.
I will be your
7 AM sleepy kisses
8 AM French toast
9 AM rushed goodbyes
10 AM love calls
11 AM daydreams
12 PM lunch notes
1 PM new email
2 PM coffee break texts
3 PM reminiscent thoughts
4 PM longing
5 PM drained love
6 PM post-work hugs
7 PM dinner companion
8 PM wine bottle
9 PM tango
10 PM readying for bed
11 PM bedtime stories
12 PM Midnight Sonata
1 AM confessions
2 AM heavy snores
3 AM morning sex
4 AM driftless sleep
5 AM frenzied fantasies
6 AM rapturous sleep
I will be your
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DJ Deckstream (R.I.P.), Substantial, & Nujabes (R.I.P) - January 2000 in Asakusa
Hip Hop lost another insanely talented beat maker.
I learnt about Deckstream back in 2011 (or late 2010) while searching for HydeOut’s early vinyl releases… He was Monorsick, at that time and his remixes had deeply impressed me. I fell in love with his music’s unique style.
The first song I listened to was his remix of Ain’t no Mystery (Nujabes & L Universe)… Like… WOW! Then came the remixes of “Lyrical Terrorists” (Subs & L Uni.), ”Don’t Even Try It” and it was a magical mindblown.
After finding him on facebook, and seeing that he changed his name to Deckstream, and the first song I listened to (by Deckstream this time) was “Life is Good” feat. Mos Def. You should totally listen to his remix of CL’s “Bozack”, Exit Sign feat. Nikki Jean and literally all of his releases & Soundtracks.
Marcus D made a playlist with his favorite DJ Deckstream tracks on soundcloud for those who aren’t familiar his music. Another traffic car accident. R.I.P. Monorsick aka Deckstream. One luv.
His biggest song with Subs is ’Home Sweet Home’ which people often mistake as being produced by Nujabes. He also produced More Than A Game & Kalitwutchuwon2 and a slew of remixes from Subs’ debut album, To This Union A Was Born (2001).
“He’s also worked with a lot of amazing artists from around the world such as Lupe Fiasco, T-Boz (of TLC), Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Verbal (of m-flo), Shing02, Nikki Jean & many more.”
Read Substantial’s heartfelt note with his feelings and memories here. That’s the source of the photo.
Silence such a blessing to embrace the infinity in front of you And behind The blink the breath the heartbeat Life compressed into infinite moments in time The minute quickenings of life
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