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littlemisslez

RIP Vine †

my-lil-spot

THE 1ST ONE.

iminyjo

This is almost all my favorite Vines TOGETHER!!😁

visibilityofcolor

Didn’t Africa sell their own people on slave ships because I did some research on it

yes--but that also doesn’t make africa responsible for racialized chattel slavery---and they weren’t their ‘own people’.

yes they were other african tribes, but that’s what they were--tribes of different people and communities. it is unfortunate, but when enemy tribes captured others, they were either executed or seen as prisoners of war, and sold to other neighboring tribes or so forth. it never ever had anything to do with race. i am not trying to excuse anything--bcs slavery and selling ppl in general is awful.

but it is more nuanced than ‘african sold their own people’ because it is soo much deeper than that. and people say this to excuse literal racialized chattel slaery when you just cannot. because african tribes could never, in a million years realize what selling captured people to white people would mean. they didn’t do that with the intent of the racialized, trans atlantic slave trade. selling and trading captured prisoners--of OTHER tribes was a common practice.

also--white people afterwards literally just started stealing african people from any and everywhere--

mulatt-hoe-deactivated20220422

People are so clownish when they say this shit, cause it ignores how the slave trade of Africans still started with nonblack people, with the Arab slave trade and then with the Portuguese and Dutch dominating those trade routes. Also, chattel slavery was very different literally by the name itself, its the first time human beings were considered CHATTEL, as in LIVESTOCK, like literal non-human property.

And as @visibilityofcolor mentioned, y’all also like to ignore how when African nations realized what was happening when Europeans were taking slaves, they often revolted and Europeans violently suppressed them. This idea of a passive Africa that was 100% okay with this all the time and never revolted is literally a eurocentric fantasy. Many nations were colonized violently. Remember, the first displacement. colonization and genocide of indigenous people by Europeans was in Africa, and then they took that shit to the Americas.

People are willful ignorant when they say this shit.

queerlyfunctioning

To reiterate the last point, I think people gloss over how little Africans actually ended up "profiting" from slave trade. Economically, Africans gained profit comparatively for all of 2 seconds before it became an uneven and deeply exploitative relationship where virtually every European involved benefitted, while very few Africans did in any meaningful way. And then in return, the entire social and economic structure and network of the whole Western coastline and interior of the African continent was decimated, so.

lkeke35

We need to talk about how at first African tribes were coerced onto grabbing other tribes from the interior and surrounding areas but threats of being “stolen” themselves. These tribes would attempt to save themselves from this fate by grabbing other tribes in their region, but in the end, it didn’t help them either. Eventually, they too were violently suppressed and then stolen.

I’d also like to point out, that you can try to blame this on Africans as much as you want, but here’s a thought, no one ever seems to take into account:

WHITE PEOPLE DIDN’T HAVE TO BUY THEM!!!

And after slavery was abolished, and they trade ended because it became illegal, white Americans started a breeding program where they founded a childs lineage through the mother’s instead of through the fathers,as had traditionally been done, so that slave owners could rape and breed their own slaves, and seek their own children.

Yeah, there’s no way to get out of the wrongness of what white people did to the enslaved, by hollering about who did it first!

RIP Vine †

THE 1ST ONE.

This is almost all my favorite Vines TOGETHER!!😁

gluten-free-pussy

I will never get over the subsection of Black people who used to hop on social media and call Blue Ivy ugly when she was a baby because of her hair texture. People really wanted Blue to either pop out of the womb with a 30 inch lace front or a looser curl pattern or something. It made me sad how so many Black people (especially black women) were calling a little black baby girl ugly for having the exact same features they do.

guccixcucci

And now those same people are going her you anytime she has her her straightened.

Fully grown adults were comparing her to North West

wakandamama

LEAVE👏🏾LITTLE👏🏾BLACK👏🏾GIRLS👏🏾ALONE!!!

wakandamama

Being forced to listen to white men talk about online gun auctions and how beautiful the gun is and how they can by AR 15 and taking fucking crods country trips for guns and talk about expanding their gun storage rooms.

Is fucking terrifying 🤗

theboondockstv-deactivated20180

ftonews

This shit has me rolling!!! 🤣🤣

#ftonerdtalk #Tiktok #videos #funny #spidermancake #spiderman2 #marvel #marveluniverse #dcuniverse #dc rebirth #blackpanther #mcu #mcuedit #blackcontent

oscinoo

😂😂

guccixcucci

If you want struggle love then go ahead that's your life. But we need to stop making it seem like struggle love is true and honest love. Your S/O should love you so much and it should show through their actions and it should be reciprocated.

afronerdism

I personally don’t care if struggle love ends in a ring. I don’t care if people make it out to be sweet for clout on social media. Struggle love necessitates that a black woman give wife treatment to a low treatment man and I will never be here for it.

weirdbuzzfeed

unmute it

buzzfeed

i keep thinking i’ll never be surprised by you, and yet here we are.

nationwidedornermoment

gaysofzaun

tag urself im people who in many instances have absolutely no clue what they are doing

sadisopodhours

headspace-hotel

I think I may have woken up my sister laughing at this post

bluelivesaintshit

Goodnight too... The Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and people who in many instances have no clue what they are doing.

verminsblood

politicalsci

justsomeantifas

Transcript:

“-follow up on that very point, uh. Agricultural work is arduous and dangerous, I think we… agree on that. The workers are exposed to heat and cold in the fields, and they labor in geographic isolation. They’re less likely to be voters, less likely to speak English as a first language, aren’t wealthy - in fact, are among the poorest workers in the nation.

They have a shorter life expectancy, a higher incidence of disease and disability, limited access to healthcare, insurance, and education, less likely to have employer-provided health benefits; [face] higher rates of sexual harassment and assault, higher rates of other exploitation including financial, higher exposure to toxins; more likely to be people of color, at least now; uh, less likely to have sanitary and stable housing, less likely to have collective bargaining rights, less likely to have lobbyists, less likely to make campaign contributions to elected officials.

Would you then still suggest that it’s a coincidence that labor laws have consistently excluded them from the protections afforded other workers?”

blackqueerblog

“I can’t wait to meet you, Steph. I’ve even bought you a gift!“As I minimised the WhatsApp conversation on my phone, I was filled with dread about what the next evening would bring. It was a couple of weeks before Christmas and I was going on my first date since the end of my last relationship, two years ago. To say I was extremely nervous was a severe understatement.

I’d been talking to Robert* for a couple of weeks via Bumble and then WhatsApp, and all seemed to be going well. Since the end of my last relationship, I’d been a bit wary of the opposite sex and had gone into every new dating app chat with a degree of scepticism (especially as I am plus-size – more on this later), however Robert seemed different. He was funny, very intelligent, open-minded and ambitious and more importantly, accepted and preferred the fact that I am plus-size.

It seems a bit silly to have to declare something as trivial as one’s weight on an app, but due to how a large percentage of plus-size women are treated in the dating world, some of us choose to add a note about our weight to our profiles, almost as some kind of ‘disclaimer’. It’s even worse when your weight intersects with something such as race or gender.

Date night with Robert finally came around and I was practically bursting into flames with excitement. We’d agreed to meet in Clapham in southwest London for a couple of drinks. I arrived at the venue early and tweeted a cute picture of myself, telling my followers that I was out on a first date. Robert arrived and the date began. We had a great time during the three or so hours we spent together – we laughed, we exchanged hilarious date-fail stories, we spoke about our families, likes and dislikes…just normal date stuff, you know? He’d even bought me a little ornament for my room as I’d told him I was still doing it up, which was sweet.

At the end of the night, we kissed and he said he wanted to see me again.A week later, and hours of speaking on the phone and texting throughout the night, we decided that he’d come over to my flat and we’d watch a few shows while I cooked (I know, I know, rookie mistake; like I said, I’m a dating newbie). Obviously, one thing led to another and we ended up sleeping together.

That was the last time I heard from him.Cut to this week when I receive an email from a friend of his. Apparently, Robert had shown my blog to his friends for ‘approval’. This friend tells me that in the interests of full transparency, he thought he should let me know that the reason I had not heard from Robert since our second date was because he had been dared to ‘pull a fat chick’ and – upon completing the dare – had won a sum of money his friends had pooled.

I felt sick. A wave of embarrassment and humiliation washed over me, and I went into my bathroom and cried. I had been terrified of meeting and talking to men for fear of them judging my appearance. As much as I know that I am an awesome person, I’m blindingly aware that the way I look is not what mainstream society considers to be ‘beautiful’, and that’s something I always have to think about and carry with me.

What should have been a lovely couple of dates – a bid to improve my confidence and self-esteem while tackling the shark-infested waters of dating – has turned into a teaching moment for me, and has definitely made me feel a lot more wary about dating in general and more importantly, trusting men.

Sadly, my story isn’t an isolated incident. We’ve all heard of sick pranks such as the ‘pull a pig’ game, which involves a group of men daring each other to hook up with the least attractive woman (in their eyes) in order to gain clout. There are tales as long as my arm from fellow plus-size women who have been duped or tricked in this way and frankly, a discussion needs to be had about it.

Dating as a plus-size woman, you see, is an exercise rooted more in patience and frustration than in romance. When you are not being ignored by prospective interests, you are either subjected to humiliation and abuse or you are fetishised for your weight. Either way, the abject failure to consider the feelings of the plus-size women in these situations is just another example of the ways in which we are not afforded the luxury of being treated as human beings. It highlights the lack of respect that some men have for women, particularly if they do not comply with social norms.

As plus-size women, we are not afforded the same humanity, care, love and respect as our thinner counterparts. This can force a monumental drop in confidence and either put us off dating for life or lead us to partake in more casual dating in an effort to prove our worth through sex.

Luckily (or maybe unluckily?) I had already deleted Robert’s number from my phone, after not hearing from him for a couple of weeks, so I have no way to contact and chastise him for what he did. I decided to ignore the friend’s email and used Twitter to tell my story, in the hope of opening up the conversation about the way plus-size women are treated. My aim was to raise awareness, and while I received some amazing, positive feedback, it also came with its share of trolling and horrible comments – almost all from men, who were either laughing at the situation or suggesting I change my appearance in order to be treated better next time.

I like to think that I’m confident enough and maybe numb enough to the whole experience and haven’t let it define me as a woman, but for those of us who are still on our journeys to finding self love and increasing our confidence, going through an experience where you are basically seen as an experiment can be battering.

Ultimately, what I’ve concluded is that men seem to undertake these ‘pranks’ as a way of gaining respect from their male friends at the expense of women’s feelings. Men, it’s time to stop being impressed by this toxic behaviour. It’s time to call it out, to hold each other accountable. Would you be as admiring if someone pulled a prank like this on a plus-size relative – on your sister, perhaps, or your cousin? Most of all, it’s time to start taking the emotions, perspectives and feelings of fat women seriously. Regardless of body shape, we all deserve to be treated with respect and basic common decency.

*Name has been changed

It’s important to give such things more visibility. I think writing about it is a brave act. Stephanie is so beautiful & powerful! 💕💕💕💕💕