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Amerikkka's history they want to erase

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Cultural Appropriation happens when the oppressors takes preexisting/established parts of anothers culture such as Locs or Braids and change the name then claim to have created it. The best example of culture Appropriation would be the Kardashians they steal everything Black Women made/done then rename it as if they're the sole creators. Culutre Appropriation is done by those we deem Culture Vultures because they have not created or done anything significant so they take on other people's culture in order to "Fit in" with said culture even if its insulting, disrespectful and outright wrong. They take things deemed to urban and make it more mainstream meanwhile never giving credit to the culture they're appropriating.

Culture assimilation is trying fit in with society going through extreme lengths as to have them accept you as one of their own. Perming ones hair in the 1920s is such a result, bleaching of your skin, talking a certain way to not be deemed to ghetto or ratched, sending our children to white schools for a "better education" even down to what you see hear on television trying to mimic it is a form of culture assimilation. It's a brainwashing that's been conditioned into black people so that we lose more ourselves to become more like them. ADOS is one such group they don't want to destroy the system that's against them rather elevate themselves into it. Which I don't think many people see or understand yet they support them blindly. I mean they call themselves American Descents Of Slaves. That alone shows how far assimilation had gone.

Let's take this a step further we have a Black Woman with Locs and a White Woman with Dreadlocks. Society will say the Black Woman's locs are untidy, unprofessional she'll be judged people will say her locs smell off weed even if she doesn't smoke or around anyone that does. Meanwhile the Stringy matted dog hair weed smoking welfare queen mess won't have any of those stigmas attached to her. Yet society will say its okay for her they'll even say its just a phase.

Lastly let's clarify something when talking about Black women with blonde hair. We're not talking about the people of Melanesian; The people of Melanesian as you are naturally born with blonde hair. In this case we're talking about everyone whose born in North America, South America or even Europe whose African or of African descent born with black hair who grew up in a society that tells them their hair is ugly that their hair is unprofessional. So they change themselves to fit into society in order to be accepted. Distreguarding their culture for someone else's. Black women are creators of various hairstyles and various cultures throughout the world this is true so let's stay grounded in reality not ever black woman in this day and age outside of the Soloman Islands are born naturally blonde. Of course not many even know about or of the Melanesian people their culture their religion or anything unless you're researching them. Credit is always given nor is anyone putting pressure on what you should look like or telling black women how to behave. This is grounded in reality that many watch TV growing up envying white skin, straight hair, their body types killing themselves to look like white women while white women killing themselves to look like you. It's a conditioning process that's been installed. Many have no fallen for the programming to the point they have their skin, their hair, they bleach they straighten their hair to be as close to white as possible. This has nothing to do with self hate? Or bashing of any kind this is all about awareness if you or any black woman lose themselves to another person culture you should be aware as to why. Otherwise do what makes you happy just don't get caught up in loving someone else's culture you forget or lose your own in the process trying to be someone else.

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During the 1850s, Frederick Douglass typically spent about six months of the year travelling extensively, giving lectures. During one winter -- the winter of 1855-1856 -- he gave about 70 lectures during a tour that covered four to five thousand miles. And his speaking engagements did not halt at the end of a tour. From his home in Rochester, New York, he took part in local abolition-related events.

On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his audience, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." And he asked them, "Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?"

Within the now-famous address is what historian Philip S. Foner has called "probably the most moving passage in all of Douglass' speeches."

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

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Mahalia Jackson was a gospel singer, possessing a powerful contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel". Jackson became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world and was heralded internationally as a singer and civil rights activist. She was described by entertainer Harry Belafonte as "The single most powerful Black woman in the United States".

She recorded about 30 albums (mostly for Columbia Records) during her career, and her 45 rpm records included a dozen golds—million-sellers.

"I sing God's music because it makes me feel free," Jackson once said about her choice of gospel, adding, "It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues."

LEGACY: 🎤Mahalia Jackson's music was played widely on gospel and Christian radio stations, such as Family Radio. Her good friend Martin Luther King Jr said, "A voice like this one comes not once in a century, but once in a millennium."

🎤She was a close friend of Doris Akers, one of the most prolific gospel composers of the 20th century. In 1958, they co-wrote the hit, "Lord, Don't Move the Mountain". Mahalia also sang many of Akers' own compositions such as "God Is So Good to Me", "God Spoke to Me One Day", "Trouble", "Lead On, Lord Jesus", and "He's a Light Unto My Pathway", helping Akers to secure her position as the leading female Gospel composer of that time.

🎤In addition to sharing her singing talent with the world, she mentored the extraordinarily gifted Aretha Franklin.

🎤Mahalia was also good friends with Dorothy Norwood and fellow Chicago-based gospel singer Albertina Walker.

🎤She also discovered a young Della Reese.

🎤On the 20th anniversary of her death, Smithsonian Folkways Recording commemorated Jackson with the album I Sing Because I'm Happy, which includes interviews about her childhood conducted by Jules Scherwin.

🎤The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences created the Gospel Music or Other Religious Recording category for Jackson making her the 1st Gospel Music Artist to win the prestigious Grammy Award.

🎤In December 2008, she was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

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When Michael Jackson released "They Don't Care About Us" on his 1995 HIStory album, he intended it as a direct protest against racism, police brutality, and systemic neglect. The track’s driving beat and defiant chorus framed Jackson not as a superstar but as a voice for the marginalized, echoing histories from chain gangs to redlining that many Black communities had already lived. In the video, Minister Louis Farrakhan argues that Jackson was documenting lived conditions rather than provoking hate, reading the lyrics as a translation of collective pain into public record. The controversy ignited quickly after the original lyrics included phrases like "Jew me" and "kike me," which drew immediate condemnation from Jewish organizations who called the language anti-Semitic and harmful to Jackson’s global audience.

Facing backlash, Jackson defended the song as an anti-prejudice statement aimed at exposing injustice, not perpetuating it. He later apologized, saying the wording unintentionally hurt the people he meant to stand with, and re-recorded the lines to "sue me" and "kick me" for future releases. Farrakhan’s sermon reframes this moment as part of a broader pattern where survival and defiance are misread as aggression. Decades later, the song endures because the issues it addresses haven’t disappeared. It wasn’t written to be liked or sanitized, but to force listeners to confront uncomfortable truths about how power operates and how resilience persists despite it.

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Natalia Wunderlich, long board surfing with turtles at Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii 🌊

Natural Mystic - Bob Marley & The Wailers 🎶

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Alicia Kelley dancing on the waves at the south shore of Oahu, Hawaii 🌊

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac 🎶

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What is under the executioner's hood? A candle or a light bulb?

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Asking random people in UK a few simple questions… How are the British doing? 🤦

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Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.

(Maya Angelou)

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One thing that I try to do and I encourage EVERYONE DO, Let's say that you order something in a restaurant and don't want to finish it AND also don't want to take it home with you (for whatever reason), ORDER IT TO GO AND GIVE IT TO THE FIRST HOMELESS PERSON YOU SEE, like it's literally free kindness, you can help hundreds of people across your life with this simple habit and if everyone did it practically no one would go hungry, I don't usually ask people to reblog my posts but genuinely if everyone in the world did this simple and free habit we could make the world significantly better place so PLEASE