Stones in the Water

"These words they are stones in the water running away" -June Jordan

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[jejwjwjwehehehebehsjsbwhajdnr-d]

Macklemore looks out of the window, tears roll down his pink cheeks. He’s just so tired of being oppressed. Iggy Azalea and Miley Cyrus step behind him, hands on his shoulders. “Do not worry my love" they whisper in unison. “We shall overcome."

[setscarylazerstomaximumcaptain-]

[the-goddamazon-deactivingsoon-d]

[glitterlion]

[sourcedumal]

Susan B Anthony said she’d rather cut off her own arm before she let the Negroes get the vote before white women.

White women actively sided with white supremacist politicians in order to get women’s sufferage.

All while using BLACK WOMEN to spread their message of ‘equality for women’

But I’m supposed to believe that white feminists give a damn about women of color?

[super-duper-skrull-blog]

I think we need to invent a game called ‘shatner’

Someone yells ‘SHATNER’ at you and then you have to overact whatever you were doing

[need-to-hear-a-symphony]

[vanehwasreal]

the whitest moments in recorded history

after watching these i feel dead inside

[stonesinthewater]

Dying right now.

[negrosunshine]

*below i paste a letter i helped craft with a group of Black activist tired of the liberal multicultural community organizing so popular on college campuses. though we took a lot of heat (doubt, misunderstanding, and hostility) for our words, we stood strong in them and i can look back proudly on...

[agnesgalore]

Why I almost defriended everyone who had an HRC logo as their profile photo this week

It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that, though I didn’t think about this at the time, I probably started a blog because I need somewhere to vent my boundless rage that is not random people’s Facebook walls. I mean, one thing among the many thousands of things that are guaranteed to raise my blood pressure is when folks get all “the internet isn’t real, and it’s not a viable platform for communication,” but also like, Facebook fights are dumb, I’m supposed to be an adult now.

So here’s the thing that got me all het up this week: gay marriage.

  Specifically, these goddamn things: 

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[sage-power-deactivated20130526]

The ‘gay agenda’ has been about passing our apartments to each other when we die, not about increasing affordable housing or opposing illegal eviction. It has been about getting our partnerships recognized so our partners can share our private health benefits not about defending Medicaid rights or demanding universal health care. It has been about getting our young sons into Boy Scouts, not about advocating for the countless/uncounted queer and trans youth struggling against a growing industry of youth incarceration. It has been about working to put more punishment power in the hands of an overtly racist criminal system with passage of hate crimes laws, not about opposing the mass incarceration of a generation of men of color or fighting the abuse of queer and trans people in the adult and juvenile justice settings

Dean Spade from “Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy” (via sage-power)

At one time, this actually wasn’t the agenda but it certainly is now.

(via unschooledseminarian)

Yes!

[bankuei]

When you have a massive gathering to celebrate what white folks consider entertainment, and 6 year old Black child puts them all to shame in their own medium, not only is it imperative for white supremacy to remind everyone not to celebrate but to put her back in her place, we also...

[buzzfeed]

In case you missed it, The Onion’s Twitter feed called 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis the c-word. They’ve since pulled the tweet, but the backlash has gotten intense.

[note-a-bear]

Maybe it’s just me, but I fucking hate the application of the term “backlash” here.

This is not some kneejerk twinge.

This is an ACTUAL reaction to YET ANOTHER ACTUAL ATTACK on an ACTUAL CHILD.

This is racialized misogyny of an epically vile bent. This is shit we actually would not ever condone if demonstrated toward a white child. That’s a fucking fact.

Satire, for the record, is not merely replication of vile realities with a change in the tone of your voice (or just your name to give the appearance of humorous intent). It is actually a rhetorical construction, it serves a purpose beyond an easy (and most certainly beyond merely crude or crass) laugh. Satire is an effort to expose the inherent hypocrisy and/or harmfulness of some system of power.

It’s not taking sexist potshots at a CHILD.

And it most certainly is not attempting it in lieu of repeated sexist and racist attacks on said CHILD.

What satire would be, would have been mocking Seth MacFarlane’s blatant misogyny in directing a pedophilic joke towards A 9 YEAR OLD CHILD.

What satire would have been, would be a joke riding on the depths of tastelessness to which Seth MacFarlane will descend in the name of neoliberal shock humor.

This is not enlightenment, nor is it complicated.

This behavior is patently unacceptable when aimed at any woman, much less a YOUNG GIRL. But the fact that it was aimed at a girl who had a chance to make history?

Nah, that’s not poor taste, nor is it ~Politically Incorrect~ humor. It is blatant abuse, bullying, and racist savagery masquerading behind a plastic smile and a multi-million dollar budget.

[stonesinthewater]

This. Fucking spot on.

[uremia]

imo quvenzhane was acting like n asshole. I know kids don’t know better but people develop personalities by 9

[so-treu]

fuck you you antiblack piece of shit. i hope you choke on something sharp and rusted.

[am1na1992]

I can’t believe we live in a world where someone’s right to make a joke supersedes the right of a child to be treated like a human being worthy of respect.

A white man’s right to get praise through laughter is more important than the feelings and humanity of this young black child.

[blackmanonthemoon]

Bayard Rustin & James Baldwin

[stonesinthewater]

Meditation on Representation I: The Quest for Redress & Redemption

The reportage of atrocities is just that, reportage: laden with spectacle and light on sustained meditations on trauma. How can a sense of redress—juridical or political—emerge from a context where sustained meditations on trauma have no purchase? 1

Over…

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[empoweredafrolatina]

Saw this on the Shadow & Act page: 

“Things that make you go hmm… QT with actress Nichole Galicia who plays “Sheba” in “Django Unchained” from W Magazine (image courtesy of Marcia Jones).”

I just.

I cannot.

Black bodies never NOT a commodity. 

[latinegro]

This is for all those people who think I am crazy for thinking Django was commercializing Slavery…how do you feel about this?

[jcoleknowsbest]

I pretty much hate him…

[deliciouskaek]

seriously.

fuck tarantino

[africanaquarian]

Rage.

[black-culture]

And people still think I was reaching with my Django criticism. smh.

[stonesinthewater]

For all the folks acting like Tarantino is a fucking genius. He's just another white asshole making money off of black bodies.

[stonesinthewater]

Theology as Rom-Com: Race, Liturgy, Eschatology and Nostalgia

How I entered into this theology of rom-coms was quite roundabout. Through a series of reflections with a friend on MLK and what he might be able to mean to us today I came to think about time and race. Originally I wrote:

I’ve been thinking a lot, too,…

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[stonesinthewater]

Some More on Privilege:

Some good shit right here:

http://escalatingidentity.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/who-is-oakland-anti-oppression-politics-decolonization-and-the-state/

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