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Casting Jason Mamoa as Aquaman has been nothing short absolutely genius.

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Yo.

theblackmanonthemoon

Still one of the hardest bar I’ve ever heard

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today is the only day you can reblog this

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Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

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Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

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(via TumbleOn)

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What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

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Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

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Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

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Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

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Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year.

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

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Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

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oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians. So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

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Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

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I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

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oh snap

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REBLOG.

FOREVER.

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This is an actual Therapist Recommended method for dealing with a runaway “inner critic” and this comic is perfect ❤️

I thank God for blessing me with a loving heart but sometimes I really wish I didn't care so much. But in the words of my Late Grandma I'll Stay Sweet for that's how God intended me to be.

I know this time is suppose to be when I focus on me and what I need to do in my life and I do. I work, I hustle, I have my own and Im getting my masters. But I can't help but think about him. I tell myself I've let him go but that's a lie. I tell myself I've moved on but that's a lie. I keep thinking he'll come back to me but that's a dangerous lie. But I'm afraid. If I let him go and focus on me will I be able to accept him or anyone into the life I've constructed special for me and me alone? Why can't we establish an empire together? I'm so confused. And I want to talk to him about it but at this point I've said all I could say. He knows how I feel and if he had any of the same feelings for me he knows how to contact me. Ugh. I wish I didn't have these emotions.

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white ppl 500 yrs ago: literal created the entire concept of race and constructed a global hierarchy from it thats still in place now 2015

white ppl now:

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UNMUTE THIS

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😩😩😂😂😂😂

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LOL

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Chance the Rapper x Childish Gambino

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Al she needed was some

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Guys, it doesn’t matter that it happened 2 month ago, our brother is still missing! We know how dangerous it is to be Black and alone in America.

Let’s help to find him!

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“I didn’t say anything”

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It’s crazy the folk really watched this and say she “beat” Trevor…

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In 1989, George Bush gave a speech about crack. During the speech he pulled out a bag of crack and said “this bag was seized right across the street from the White House in Lafayette park.” Turns out, his speech writers had the idea to pull out a prop during his speech and in order to make it believable they had the DEA plant crack on this random 18 year old black kid. They lured him there. He didn’t even know where the White House or Lafayette park was. When he got there, they arrested them. The plot was discovered by a journalist.

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What journalist

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Gary Webb

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And then Gary Webb killed himself after he revealed that the CIA let crack infiltrate black communities through drug cartels making deals with the CIA. His wife left him and his career was ruined for exposing the drug war as a war against people of color.

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There’s a really well done movie called Kill the Messenger (x) I suggest everyone should watch. It was done in partnership with his family and details the events from beginning to end.

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A classic case of “I don’t care about your rights but once they wronged me, it’s over”

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Was I supposed to feel sorry for her?

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I just saw her tonight being interviewed on tv saying her and many other people she knows have buyers remorse and were infuriated when Trump nominated Mnuchin. She added “instead of draining the swamp, he’s filled it with alligators” and I’m just like