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Chicago police were incredibly worried that releasing the brutal footage of an officer shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times would incite violence across the city.
But after the video was released Tuesday night, something powerful happened: No violence broke out. Hundreds of outraged residents took to the streets and exercised their right to peacefully assemble. They yelled, cried and chanted. By nightâs end, it was clear they want major change.
Celebrated spiritedpursuitâs first anniversary with close friends and family by hosting a garden supper last night. Canât wait to share more details on the site.
I just finished up a research paper on David LaChapelle and his surrealist style as a fine art and fashion photographer and I kept coming across pictures of Kim. A lot of the iconic pictures you find of Kim (The Louis Vuitton symbols, the Viva Mac campaign, Notorious KIM, and all of the ones pictured above) were taken by him.
David took a particular interest in Kim because he loved hip-hop culture and the attitude behind it. I donât know if he explicitly said why he garnered so much inspiration from her, but I would assume that it was because they had similar attituides towards fame and not letting it change who they were.
âThereâs an attitude, thereâs a distinct style, and itâs all woven into a narrative story, which is ideal for my photography.â said David LaChapelle.
1. Stop slandering our natural features. Stop with the dark skin jokes. Stop with the natural hair jokes. Stop dehumanizing black women for our features. Black womenâespecially young black girlsâinternalize these âjokesâ and grow to sincerely hate their blackness. Cut it out.
2. Respect our choices. All of them. You donât have to like it but you need to respect it. If we choose to wear our natural hair, respect it. If we choose to wear weave, respect it. Stop chastising us for the choices we make for ourselves. Stop policing how we choose to live our lives. Let us be great. Gahdamn.
3. Stop with the respectability politics. You canât say you love black women and then pick and choose which black women youâll respect based on your standards. You still give a black woman respect regardless of how she chooses to live her life. You respect all black women because we are human just like you, not just the ones who wear natural hair, listen to erykah badu and shit.
4. No means no. If you approach a black woman and she says sheâs not interested, oh my fucking god, my nigga, just leave her alone. Move on. Let it go. Please do not persist. Take the rejection gracefully. Donât call her out name, donât follow her, donât assault her. Let her be. She doesnât owe you an explanation. Her ânoâ is enough and you will deal my friend.Â
5. LISTEN. Bruh, when black women are telling you something youâre doing is harming them, can you put your ego aside and just L I S T E N. Why is that your first reaction is to get defensive? If you love black women like you say you do, wouldnât you want to know when youâre doing something harmful to them? Stop getting defensive every time a black woman calls out your misogynoir. Stop brushing that off as âbashing black men.â Stop calling black women âshea butter bitchesâ for calling out how you harm black women. Black women are just asking for empathy at the end of the day. Thatâs the least you can do.
6. Stop slut-shaming. Stop shaming black women for their sexuality. Stop calling black women âthotsâ and all kinds of hoes because her sex life is something YOU disagree with or because she presents herself in a way that conflicts with YOUR standards. Someoneâs sexuality has nothing to do with you and you donât have the right to police what a woman does with her body. Stop reducing a black womanâs worth because you donât like what she does with HER body.
7. Understand that our identity intersects. Stop telling black women they have to âpick a side.â Black women arenât black men or white womenâs âside kicks.â We are our own people with our own unique struggle that, yes, may have similarities to BMâs and WWâs struggles, but is not identical to theirs. We are black and we are women. You canât be an ally to black women and not be intersectional when our existence is the epitome of intersectionality. Black women donât just experience racial violence, we experience gender violence as well. Stop insisting that we have to divide our identity down the middle to suit you.
8. Say something when you see black women being attacked. When you see black women being harassed online and offline, do something. Yaâll gotta start holding each other accountable. Stop @-ing me telling me how terrible it is that Iâm being attacked. @ ole dude whoâs attacking me. Tell them to stop. Have my back. Intervene in the best possible way you can. Stop allowing the violence against black women to persist right in front of your eyes.
9. Please kill the âstrong black womanâ narrative. Placing this title on us constantly, denies us humanity. Black women arenât allowed to be vulnerable like everyone else. Weâre constantly told be strong or weâre written off as only angry and bitter. Weâre told how weâre suppose to feel and how to respond to violence against us. Black women are humans. We laugh, we cry, we smile. We canât be your idea of âstrongâ all the time.
10. Show up for black women. Black women consistently show up for everyone else but when it comes time for us, hardly anyone is there to be found. Police brutality doesnât just happen to black men. Recognize it. Know the names of the many black female victims of state violence. Know their stories. Share their stories. Fight for them like you fight for Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Sean Bell. Fight for black women like black women fight for you. Organize and show up for black women. Stop leaving us hanging. Stop expecting our support and giving us little to none in return.
Today's #wcw: Legendary jazz musician Abbey Lincoln Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 â August 14, 2010), known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress, who wrote and performed her own compositions. She was a civil rights advocate during the 1960s #blackmen #blackhistory #blackisbeautiful #becauseiam #blackking #blackkings #blackmenwelove #blackculture #dallas #blackarchitect #blackentertainment #entertainment #blackfamily #blackartists #blackbusiness #lovemyblack #lmb #blacklives #blacklivesmatter #dallas #blackqueen #melanin #blackbeauty #abbeylincoln
We cannot continue to raise our generation with the ideals of âBlack people donât do that.â Because thatâs destroying the what ifs in us black girls. Countless times Iâve thought about taking my piercings out, covering my tattoos and taming my hair in hopes theyâll stop talking about me⊠That Iâll be accepted.
We gotta stop telling black girls who are alternative that theyâre trying to be white or make assumptions of their sexuality because of their stretched ears and piercings. We gotta stop telling black girls with natural hair that their hair is too nappy or they donât know how to do their hair and need a perm. We gotta stop telling the black girls with a sleeve of tattoos that theyâre trying to be white and no man would want them covered in ink. We gotta stop sexualizing young black girls and telling them not to dress comfortably because of men around them, stop demonizing black children and start questioning the male family members and friends that stare inappropriately. Your child isnât grown the person staring is a pervert and needs to stay from your kids.
Its honestly frustrating when other races tries to keep black people is a status quo beneath them, but it breaks my fucking heart⊠It brings tears in my eyes as Iâm writing this that my own people would rather put me in a box and tell me Iâm not worthy of my own race than let me flourish and be myself but and would rather tear me down to their ânormalcyâ to make them comfortable.
We cannot continue to raise our generation with the ideals of âBlack people donât do that.â BECAUSE BLACK PEOPLE CAN DO WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT.
The South Carolina House of Representatives passed legislation early Thursday to remove the Confederate flag at the Statehouse, but they werenât the only ones who wanted to put the flag away.
Late last month, Josh Clark, a young Tennessee man and patriotic Southerner, posted a picture of himself with the flag on Facebook explaining that while he used to associated the flag with heritage and history, heâs more recently come to the conclusion he was wrong and âthe only place for the Confederate flag is in our history books.â
âI had grown up seeing the flag regularly, and although I had seen it used in negative ways on occasion, I chose to accept the âHeritage not hateâ and 'Pride not prejudiceâ interpretation of the flag,â he wrote. âIf you had asked me back then, I wouldâve told you that it was a symbol of Southern pride and had nothing to do with racism.â
While the moving post was published June 27, it only appeared to gain viral traction from Tuesday onward, given the timing of the majority of comments. In the post, which has more than 120,000 likes, Clark writes that as an adolescent and young man, he often sported clothing emblazoned with the Confederate flag and even had a bump it sticker advocating the flying of the flag.
But when the Nashville native started thinking independently and autonomously while at university, he writes, he decided to do some research of his own.
âThe more I researched about the history of the flag, the worse I felt. What I had been told about its history was wrong,â he states. âThousands of southerners still fly the flag with no racist intent. They still defend the good things theyâve been told about the flag. They, like I once was, are WRONG.â
Clark grew up in a multicultural society, with many friends of disparate backgrounds, so he says racism was the farthest thing from his mind when he celebrated the Confederate flag. But when he came to properly understand itâs history, he could not separate a bigoted ideology from the flag itself.
âThe flag is a symbol of a way of life that was wrong. Not that it needs to be stated, but slavery is one of the most evil and cruel things this world has ever seen. The Confederate flag represents this evil,â Clark expounds.
âWhere is the pride in that? The Confederate flag is also a sign of division. How can you truly be a patriot of this country and fly this flag? Do we really need to fly a flag to show that we are southern, or that we like to hunt and fish, especially when itâs offensive to so many? It is not a kind thing, a good thing, or the right thing to do.â
Many black Americans commented on Clarkâs post, expressing gratitude for his views, taking the time to share them and encouraging others to rethink the meaning of the flag too. A white man, Thomy Eaton, pertinently from North Charleston, South Carolina, simply wrote, âAmen brother.â
Unlike the countless politicians who are debating what the flag stands for and where its place is in history, Clark took the time to do some straightforward research. He discovered it unequivocally represents an old version of the U.S., when slavery was the status quo, which should have nothing to do with the current iteration of this country. The Confederate flag was unthinkingly a part of many peopleâs lives before the Charleston massacre. But, since that tragedy, the country was finally prompted into properly examining what the flag means and many discovered its a symbol of hate, not patriotism.
My disdain for the Kardashians has absolutely NOTHING to do with the truth that Armenianâs are white people from southeastern Europe. Here is the 2015 world Atlas confirming that Armenia is indeed a Southeastern European country.
 I am aghast to witness the strides of so many young âPOCâ on Tumblr attempting to transform their favorite white people {NOTEDLY, WHITE PEOPLE WHO NEVER ADVOCATEâS FOR POC IN ANY WAY}  into PEOPLE OF COLOR! Itâs an absolute affront to real PEOPLE OF COLOR when you falsely associate/identify white Armenianâs as Asian or Middle Eastern people.
Itâs tantamount to stating that Justin Timberlake is black because heâs appropriated and exploited black culture, oh the more you knowâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠ.
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