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shedskinbelight

@cantelmenuthin

coloredgirlshustle

Eleanor Anukam Footwear is a private label shoe brand born out of necessity and developed with passion by its CEO and designer, Eleanor Anukam. Launched in October 2015, the brand caters to women with shoe sizes 9-13. After years of searching for luxury footwear with no success, Eleanor Anukam, a size 11 herself, embarked on a journey to create a line of luxury women’s shoes to service an underserved population of women.

For everyone looking for cute shoes above a size 9, check out Eleanor Anukam.

tashabilities

Big foot brahds rejoice!

priscillathepiscesqween-deactiv

Ok but nothing about these shoes are affordable. $195 for a simple black pump is ridiculous, especially when I got a very similar pair of high quality size 12 heels from Nine West last summer for a fraction of that price. I was really excited when I first heard about this line but these prices are really off putting. I could find shoes similar to everything on her website at Payless, Nine west or Off Broadway for much less.

dynastylnoire

Now you know small business tumblr black tumblr isn’t trying to hear that their products are too damn expensive

“They’ve got a market in mind and that market isn’t us”

“They don’t have time, resources, or factories full of employees to generate products quickly or cheaply as payless”

“We hurt small black business having these discussions ”

priscillathepiscesqween-deactiv

@dynastylnoire I completely understand how small businesses work and I support small businesses, especially small black businesses. I just feel like people throw that around to defend their outrageous pricing waaayyyyy too often. You can be a small, black owned business that makes a product for a specific market without charging the equivalent of a car note for a pair of shoes.

dynastylnoire

I’m completely in agreement with you. I was listing excuses made when ever I point it out. I’ve had fashion bloggers and plus size retailers mad as shit at me for it.

There’s a post on here 10 miles long about why we shouldn’t confront black small businesses for ridiculous prices.

Like they all seem to feel like black people will spend car notes on Jordans and sew ins or purses so we must all have the disposable income to also support their small business

And the Jordan/weave excuse is almost always said in a way that suggests that those that buy those things are financially irresponsible and unacceptable, which is antiblack in of itself

shedskinbelight

@cantelmenuthin

pure

me and steve beyonslayed already #deezcoursed award ceremonies and representation politics etc but ima jus say one ting. after a peek at twitter i can smell the oncoming wave of non-black people of color feeling slighted by black people’s visibility in film again. the convo always seems to go in the direction of how our hypervisibility isn’t a marker of “privilege” and whatnot. while true, that seems a little one dimensional by itself. in addition to that, black people ought to, and should, have as much “representation” as we do have in film/television. we shouldn’t apologize for it, it isn’t an attack on other non-white people’s identities or whatever, and we’re owed as much as we do have. the very first uniquely american contribution to theater involved blackface minstrelsy. not only that, our ancestors were forced to build the infrastructure that made the u.s. film industry possible in the first place. our participation in film has been that of conflict against the american legacy of the proliferation of antiblack imagery.

if we have “the most representation” in film among non-white people in the u.s., we deserve it, its existence isn’t “unfair” or “disproportionate,” it was built on our backs in this country, and there are a plethora of other historical reasons. we don’t need to exclusively explain it away with the politics of hypervisibility. we don’t need to appease nobody’s jealousy or contempt about it either. i see many black people say, in response to this aggression from other non-white people, that our representation in u.s. film is completely a result of hypervisibility out of our control and thus something we can’t be “blamed for,” but that’s not entirely true. we don’t shoulder blame for what we have. our precursors worked hard, fought abuse ruthlessly, and sacrificed an immeasurable amount for us to have that creative outlet through theater and film. if we have “the most,” don’t allow anyone to make you downplay that. next time someone tries to make you feel guilty for being represented in film “the most” among non-white people in the u.s., tell them, shiiiiiid u damn right. absolutely. black people deserve to have all of what we fought for, and if what we have is “the most,” then we deserve that too plus a million more, and smile. :)

thatadult

what does a lack of representation of non-Black actors of color have to do with Black people just wondering.. like how is it Black people’s fault why is it on Black actors to fix that and not white supremacist standards and the fucking Oscars… where is the connection.. why is it on Black people to fix.. lmao how are we in any way implicated..

do y’all think you’re not being represented because Black people are, like is that the equation you came up with? that’s how you think it works? if not for us, y’all would be represented? that’s what you think lol?

danielle-mertina

The first major film success in the United States was Birth of a Nation. It was literally KKK propaganda. It depicted Black men as violent rapists and Black women as licentious and sex-obsessed.

This movie was shown in the White House (Woodrow Wilson, the sitting president at the time, was a Klanner). And it led to an early 20th century resurgence of active KKK membership. Which of course led to the rise of hate crimes including lynching.

Sooo when you take that history into account you’ll understand why Black ppl have fought so hard to be represented in the film industry. Nothing was handed to us. It was through persistence and creative ingenuity that Black ppl have the small place we’ve carved in tv and film today. And even still, we don’t have what we have rightfully earned and deserve.

So no, I’m not gonna apologize to non Black POC about what we do have.

shedskinbelight

@cantelmenuthin

kierralondon-deactivated2019102

not only is it wild that non-black poc always turn to complaining about the hypervisibility of black people in the entertainment industry as if the entertainment industry wasn’t built off of the cooptation of our culture in the first place? and like it’s so odd that people refer to it as hypervisibility when we create platforms for ourselves when really and truly we aren’t well represented in these industries themselves, just the public critiquing of these systems. and even wilder that everyone has access to the same platforms we do to raise awareness for their own struggles but wait until we start creating hashtags and critiquing to piggyback off of what we’ve created. and WEIRD how no one seems to understand how dangerous hypervisibility really is especially when living in a largely antiblack society. and W I L D how no one thinks that hypervisibility is another consequence of antiblackness and white supremacist thought. it literally is not black people’s job to raise awareness for anything. we aren’t your trump card to play in your own times of distress. we’re just really tired of getting killed and ignored and are very vocal about it

shedskinbelight

@cantelmenuthin

kokonutwata

honestly i need all nonblack people to take an incredibly large seat bc y'all are not entitled to shit from black people

solidarity isn’t you shitting all over us for daring to be visible, not examining or rooting out the antiblackness in your communities, and then demanding labor from us

and if that’s what you think it is, you need to examine your racist ass in the mirror and ask why your soul is so ugly

wretchedoftheearth

the thing about non-black people of color - in this case, asian-americans - arguing that black people should work to uplift them and do hard work for them is that they not only don’t do the same, they often actively work against black people.

many non-black people of color are transparently and violently anti-black. they’re often more angry that black people outperform them in virtually anything because they think so little of black people. it’s obvious that they don’t really care about media representation or activist movements when the only time they speak up about The Blacks hogging the spotlight is when black people are doing things for themselves and they’re just sitting there asking why black people don’t perform free labor on their behalf.

it’s complete bullshit to pretend that asian-americans (and other non-black people of color) do not use black people’s involvement and visibility in social movements to look comparatively better - less angry, “uppity”, etc. - than black people.

shedskinbelight

@cantelmenuthin

monsttarchive

Hello - Adele (#TrapCover)

heres a longer version

tylanderrr

Yo this shit is lit lmao

threesideddream

I NEVER WANT THESE TO END

nyokoko

🔥🔥🔥

shedskinbelight

@cantelmenuthin

tillerboomin

#Trapcover Baby one more time by Britney spears (@LaJethroJenkins)

shedskinbelight

@cantelmenuthin

albaeni

DEAF JAM

hypnotic-flow

😂😂😂😂😂😂 shit like this kills me

trufflebootybuttercream-deactiv

This is the best thing ever

shedskinbelight

@cantelmenuthin

cat-overload

They don’t like one another but all want to sleep on the bed. This is the agreement they came to.

shedskinbelight

@cantelmenuthin

ricardosousalemos

Chance the Rapper Further Slams Spike Lee's <i>Chi-Raq</i>, Sings Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas"

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Yesterday, Chance the Rapper stopped by Chicago hip-hop/R&B station WGCI for a chat. He talked about his criticism of Spike Lee’s film Chi-Raq, getting parental advice from Jay-Z, appearing on “Saturday Night Live”, the killing of Laquan McDonald, and more. Chance also announced the Warmest Winter initiative, which aims to raise $100,000 to purchase 1000 winter coats for homeless Chicagoans.

While on the show, he also partook in a little bit of caroling, singing Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas”.

Listen to his full interview below.

During the chat with WGCI’s Chicago Morning Takeover, Chance responded to Lee’s claims that Chance is biased because his father works for the city’s mayor.

“I mean, Spike Lee is saying that ‘cause he’s promoting a movie. He’s trying to make more money,” Chance said. “He got his little 15 million from Amazon and his other little bread from Lionsgate and made a movie that was not about Chicago but, you know what I’m saying, manipulated and used Chicago actors and Chicago scenery to push this movie.”

He added, “It was an oversimplification of a bigger problem. He wasn’t really focusing on the issues of Chicago, it wasn’t really about Chicago. To me, it was about this age-old conversation of black on black violence, which is to me some Bill Cosby ‘pull up your pants’ stuff. I’m just not for it.”

He also said, “I was trying to explain to people outside of Chicago that it was marketed to that this isn’t a representation of us and we’re not rockin’ with it.”

In the movie, Nick Cannon and Wesley Snipes play two rival gang leaders, whose competition guides a lot of the drama. “The reason why we’re dying isn’t because there’s two head gangbangers that are into it,” Chance said. “We’re dying because we all have PTSD, you know, post-traumatic stress disorder. Kids as young as seven, and younger than that, have seen people murdered in front of them. So that starts a paranoia in your mind that you’re walking around with. When you’re walking around and you feel like people are trying to kill you, you shoot when you get scared. That’s a problem that even I have. That’s a problem that a lot of people suffer. And I feel like he didn’t address that. He made it seem like we’re doing it because of gang life, and because our male ego is being compromised when we don’t fight. But that’s the smallest form of it.”

While talking about the killing of McDonald, who was shot by a Chicago police officer last fall (video of the shooting did not surface until November, causing accusations of a cover-up), Chance said “all of them are guilty,” including Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

sourcedumal

Thank you! Chicago’s violence is NOT Crips/Bloods type shit. That is NOT the culture here and Spike said NOTHING about the schools closing, the projects being gentrified and other ACTUAL REASONS FOR THE VIOLENCE.

That entire film is NOT CHICAGO. This is not my city. This movie is what somebody who only read the news and goes “I know exactly how this works!” to make a movie.