Saved by the buoyancy of citrus.

Here you will find all things what tickle my fancy and a few that do not. Sidebar, icon and header is mine.

[memewhore]

[alwaysbewoke]

links within this thread:

https://t.co/87kYpZ4LJr

http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b015-i208

https://t.co/FpxrGYd5dJ

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-03-17/curious-origins-irish-slaves-myth

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2018/0316/No-the-Irish-were-not-slaves-in-the-Americas

https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74#.xhxaucbu2

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/white-debt.html

in addition to this great thread, i recommend reading “how the irish became white” by noel ignatiev.  i do expect a lot of fighting against these facts because these lies and myth are so ingrained and now have become a part of the community and the sense of self and pride of irish people. 

[bintimombasa]

Anti-Blackness is such a thing amongst the Irish till this day Black people find it so difficult to get work here in Ireland and if they do get work they often get harassed for being Black. I had a feeling that the ‘Irish slave’ wasn’t a thing, I’m glad to know in fact it wasn’t.

[yemme]

This is why history is so important.  People try to bury this because of shame and some still feel no guilt.  The Irish are not the only ones who have done this.  Everyone who landed on this rock was the new negro on the block and tried hard to exclude themselves.  No matter how many times you check white on an application you will never be white.  You are just a means to an end. 

[saturnineaqua]

the funniest thing about the Irish slave myth is that it was started by non irish (norwegian) white supremacists as a trap for Irish people who really didnt know their own history but claimed whiteness. and it worked. 

[parkchanwoohoo]

My phone almost fell into the toilet at work and I straight up entered bullet time. You know how parents experience enhanced reflexes and strength when their child is in danger? It was like that. My hand was like a viper poised to strike and I heard the crack of a whip as I snatched that sucker out of the air. I’ve never moved so fast in my life

[tigerexe]

stop the straights

[new-fashionedqueer]

@straight people: why do you not only hate us but also yourselves??? It’s very confusing

[audible-smiles]

its. the same thing. its the same thing. the same thing. its the same th

[fishnetandfundip]

When your grandma finds out you haven’t eaten yet…

[amnesiaguy]

tfw you come out in class because the discussion needs a gay voice and all of a sudden everyone looks either uncomfortable or like they are charging up their Ally Cannon to blast off as soon as you’re done speaking

[amnesiaguy]

straight people just don’t understand that coming out happens every fucking time i want to talk about being gay with a new group of people, be it classmates or teachers or friends or whatever, it’s constant and constantly exhausting

[alexazombie]

Not to hurt anyone’s feelings but legalization of marijuana means NOTHING if it doesn’t come with the release of the millions of black and brown people, who have been in prison for DECADES because of it.

[theweirdwideweb]

[k-lionheart-deactivated20171126]

Reblog if you’re a petticoated swashbuckler and would stab a man with a hairpin

[swolerbear]

honestly I love history that reminds us that the assholes of today are exactly like the assholes of yesteryear

[blackberryshawty]

I will forever shame like those older men who are like exclusively attracted to like barely legal twinks like just say you’re an ephebophile who’s skirting by on technicalities and go

[strixkid-deactivated20240927]

me @ these men

[blackberryshawty]

Who needs a fidget spinner when you can just wear a watch with a rotating bezel

[enemy0gene]

Whenever we get watch with rotating bezel money

[pinnocck]

3/? Hurricane Bianca scenes

teaching them gay kids to get back at the bullies 

[wordsnquotes]

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson Mccullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (via wordsnquotes)

[honeyrolls]

Mochi Ice Cream

[totobyafrica]

[catsandjammer]

Have you exercised your right?

[burning-stmandard-deactivated20]

#NeverAgain

Source: The Atlantic

[littleblackchats]

when their leaders act like children, children become the leaders they need