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Do you know anything about your people? Your father probably took you fly-fishing, helped you with your geometry homework after coming home from work. You’ll probably do the same

Some instructions on black masculinity -Ross Gay (via im-notbatman)

The woman Gay’s friend is dating makes activities like fly fishing, helping with homework, seeing the father involved in his son’s life, the priority of education in the house hold, all positive things, seem like African-Americans can’t do these activities or care about them. She is buying into stereotypes that education isn’t taken seriously, or that fathers aren’t a part of their son’s lives for people of color, thus equating these things with traditional “black masculinity.” Instead of praising her boyfriend for being a good future father, she demeans him, making fun of how he seems “white,” even though being black goes way beyond cultural stereotypes.

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“If I could, I would have voted for Obama for a third term.”

-Get Out, directed and written by Jordan Peele

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“Don't you know the size of your library is in inverse proportion to the size of your penis?”

- “Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue” Ross Gay

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“We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need em Things we buy to cover up what's inside Cause they make us hate ourself and love they wealth That's why shortys hollering "where the ballas' at?"

-”All Falls Down” Kanye West

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“Whereas in most mainstream media contexts the experiences of racialized populations are overdetermined, stereotyped, or tokenized, social media platforms such as Twitter offer sites for collectively constructing counternarratives and reimagining group identities.”

-”#Ferguson” Bonilla and Rosa

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-”American Oxygen” Rihanna

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“I know the police love their ridiculous, unnecessary military equipment, so here’s another patronizing test: let’s take it all away from them and if they can make it through a whole month without killing a single, unarmed black man, then and only then, can they get their fucking toys back.”

-”Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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“Black women's experiences as bloodmothers, othermothers, and community othermothers reveal that the mythical norm of a heterosexual, married couple, nuclear family with a nonworking spouse and a husband earning a "family wage" is far from being natural, universal and preferred but instead is deeply embedded in specific race and class formations.”

- “Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination” Patricia Hill Collins

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The man at the cash register wants to know if you think your card will work

Citizen–Rankine (via lbn001-us)

Sometimes people don’t think about how deeply institutionalized racism can affect even day to day interactions. It’s subtle yet insulting comments like these that remind people of color daily that they are viewed as stereotypically lesser in America. Judge someone’s character, not their skin.  

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“If we are serious about the meaning behind #BlackLivesMatter and want to honor the sacredness of all Black life, we must be willing to interrupt whites’ long- preoccupied fear of Black men, challenge pervasive myths that ignore acts of state and inter-personal violence against Black women, and stop tolerating violence against trans and queer people as normal or fun or helpful, at the same time.”

-”#blacklivesmatter kitchen talk” Richael Faithful

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“Please do not change the conversation by talking about how your life matters, too. It does, but we need less watered down unity and a more active solidarities with us, Black people, unwaveringly, in defense of our humanity.”

-”A Herstory of the Black Lives Matter Movement” Alicia Garza

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“Yes, and you want it to stop, you want the child pushed to the ground to be seen, to be helped to his feet, to be brushed off by the person that did not see him, has never seen him, has perhaps never seen anyone who is not a reflection of himself.”

-”From Citizen” Rankine

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“They were abusing and dependent on state support, specifically tax payer money. Suggesting of course that they themselves were not tax payers. They were characterized as violent, manipulative, and engaged in illegal activity. They were described as being hyper sexual, having multiple children out of wedlock, and of course uninterested in raising those children. This other was fundamentally in need of state sponsored surveillance and policing...It was this process of ‘othering’ under neoliberalism that fueled what...label white resentment politics.”

-Cathy Cohen, “Whose Black Lives Matter?”

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“I see it, I want it, I stunt, yellow-bone it I dream it, I work hard, I grind 'til I own it I twirl on my haters, albino alligators”

-”Formation” Beyonce

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