#beingblack

[ptseti]

Why is this so difficult for some people to understand?

[influencegetem]

✊🏿🤴🏾🔱 INSANE 🚧 Reposted from @young_black_female Black Girl Magic captured by @islandboiphotography #blackgirlmagic #blackpride #problack #power #beingblack #beauty #skin #brown #braidedhairstyles #braid #brown #magic #free #explore #blackempowerment #explorepage #repost #respect #womenrights#mood #blackpeople #instagood #picoftheday #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/CSef33XLznq/?utm_medium=tumblr

[femaleview1]

IF THEY HAD JUST...

..not been doing what they were doing? Doing what? Driving, eating ice cream on their couch, turned on their signal light, not stood in front of the store selling solo cigarettes, not been on the playground playing like little boys or not supposedly whistling while in the presence of a white woman and now not do what most athletes or just citizens do and that is exercise and jog?

 All of these things are what we hear society say when these black Americans are shot down or killed in some manner, because the assumption that we as black people bring all violence upon ourselves. While white parents prepare their offspring for being whatever they want to be in the world, we as black parents first start with the lesson for our children, HOW TO SURVIVE.

 It has taken me a few days to even speak on the Ahmad Arbery murder, because the pain in my soul just was not ready, not ready to talk about another black citizen being gunned down and literally and NO ONE has even been arrested?  As a black mother one of the things I would and still do tell my son who is now a grown man, “don’t be running down the street, because when they see us running “we’re doing something wrong” when they run, “they’re being healthy.”

 The list of just a few Emmitt, Eric, Trayvon, Freddy, Tamir, Sandra, Renisha, Botham, Michael, Philando, Alton  and now Ahmad. We all know what they have in common they are all dead!

 But what do these names have in common? Dylan, George, Darren, Timothy, Theodore, Jeronimo, Travis and Gregory, yes that’s right ALL ALIVE and all murderers!

 So let’s turn the IF THEY HAD JUST around, If the alive mentioned names HAD JUST seen these citizens as human beings, IF THEY HAD JUST not been so quick to shoot them or kill them like dogs. IF THEY HAD JUST not immediately assumed because of the color of their skin they were doing something wrong or needed to be taken down perhaps Emmitt, Eric, Trayvon, Freddy, Tamir, Sandra, Renisha, Botham, Michael, Philando, Alton, Ahmad and all other murdered black lives would be ALIVE also.

[ga1n3s]

Its a blessing to be me, and it will be my pleasure to put down anyone who tries to take that away. #beingblack #joy #blessing #perception #racism #exhausting #whitesupremacy #blackpower #blacklove #blacklife #defense #offense https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-pQXTAuFp/?igshid=dkjiwicckoly

[naturalinclination828]

[CLASS OF 2019] Here’s to the end of the most difficult year of my career! Yet, I’m so grateful for the kids and staff that demonstrated RAMS Pride: Resilience, Acceptance, Motivation, and Strength! I’ll miss these amazing students, but I know that many of them are entering into adulthood with a renewed purpose and conviction to challenge our current ways of being and knowing! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾. . #corporatecurly #blackidentity #representationmatters #blackeducators #blackgirlfly #blackvoices #blackandhooded #naturalnerd #blackscholar #becauseofthemwecan #blackschoolpsychologist #womensvoices #dreamcrazy #phinished #blackherstory #beingblack #supportherhustle #morethanmomma #graduates #graduationpics #gradselfie #wellwateredwomen #younggiftedandblack #blackandproud #teammelanin #workprayslay #washngo #femininelyfaded #commencement #graduation2019 (at Giant Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByWll_9HHaS/?igshid=11sttf1vodw2i

[afrobougee]

To be black in American is to be actively unseen and violently misunderstood. - @bomailuma | My upbringing in Nigeria did not prepare me for this harsh reality. This project is a letter to my 14year old self , with the guidance I wished I had on returning to the US without my family | photographer - @l.aure.nalex | actor @lord_kalu Gbenga | @gbeng.a | @bryant_da_actor | #america #afrobougee #whatisblack #nigeria #niegrian #blackinamerica #nouveaunoir #becreative #afrostories #black #beingblack #unseen https://www.instagram.com/p/Br7U65FH367/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t07q6mhjdyhg

[entrepreneureddie]

Every entrepreneur has thoughts of giving up the successful ones don.t.keep the vision keep the focus keep grinding. #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #motivate #beingblack #england #create #inspire #motivate #grinding #business #startup #hustle #webuyblack #ukblackowned #selflove #millionairemindset (at Stonebridge, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnN33ZCAO7A/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=frihpw1wcrka

[beauti4soul]

Regrann from @noks_kamajiya - Yesterday I fell INLOVE with Doria Ragland. . #EmotionallyAbused by her #StepChildren 😡 #Isolated by her #HusbandsFamily for #BeingBlack #Divorced by her husband. Forced to raise her #Daughter on her own...and yesterday she sat with #Poise #Dignity and #Grace beaming with #Joy as she witnessed her own daughter getting married into ROYALTY....ooooh MBOKODO!💪✊ . "Can we just take a moment to honor Meghan Markle’s Mother, Doria Ragland who sat alone, a million miles from home - in a situation so foreign to her own life - with grace, dignity, poise, honor and deep love for the child she raised? THAT, is royalty." ~ Lisa Cole .#SheRoyality #SheIsBeautiful #royalwedding #royalty #DoriarAgland #MeghanMarkle #queen #queenin #princess #prince #IAm_MsJohnson 💞 - #regrann