#black issues

[paracosmic-gt]

Okay so life tip/vent. If you needed reminding:

Afro hair or cornrows are not invitations to touch or fucking pet a stranger on the head. I'm not a fucking piece of art.

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

Don't ASK Black People to Fight for ya'll causes when ya'll couldn't Vote against a damn convicted criminal rapist felon.

Seriously, I'm getting so fucking sick and tired of Black People/ Black Americans having to Fucking fight for everybody else causes. Especially other POC causes when half of them have shown during this damn election how deeply they don't give a Fuck about Black Americans and all while voting against their own communities best self-interests because they so badly want to sit at the table of White Supremacy and do everything they can to be close to Whiteness. While still being super anti-black as hell.

It's seriously going to be a Black vs. Non-Black POC America now more than ever.

Some of ya'll Arabs Americans and Muslims as well as some Latinos and other non-Black POC as well as some White people. If ya'll guys want protest and be on the Frontlines dealing with Trump bullshit then go ahead and do as you may.

Please don't be asking either Black women or other black people to be on the Frontlines with you when some of ya'll have shown that you didn't have our backs during this important election and Fucked us over. As well as fucking over your own racial communities too.

At this point I'm so fucking tried and done.

I did my part during this election by voting for Kamala as well as getting out the word at how bad and horrific another Trump term would be.

But some fools still didn't want to listen to the truth or evidence and would rather learn the hard way...

I didn't Fucked around at all! Yet I still have to deal with the consequences of other people damn stupidity, racism, misogynoir, and ignorance of not taking this election seriously.

From your own protests and organize and do whatever it is you can, but please stop excepting black people to fight for ya'll shit when some of you have shown that ya'll aren't true allies towards Black Americans at all.

[afriblaq]

The trolls are getting more creative. This one, Terrance, called into my @UrbanViewRadio show to try to humble me bc my mom is Black Jamaican, my dad is Black American, ergo - I can’t speak on Black American issues. Errbody done lost dey mind.

[alwaysbewoke]

As fans and co-stars mourn the untimely death of actor Andre Braugher, there is a new emphasis on the pervasiveness of lung cancer among Black men and why they are more likely than other groups to die from the disease. The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star passed away last week, just months after his diagnosis, according to a statement from his publicist. According to the American Lung Association, one in 16 Black men will be diagnosed with lung cancer in their lifetime. But while research has shown that a diagnosis doesn’t necessarily have to be a death sentence, Black men still have the highest death rate of lung cancer in the country — a grim stat partially due to the fact that they’re often diagnosed at later stages than others. Only 12 percent of Black men receive their diagnosis at an early stage, compared to 16 percent of white men and 20 percent of white women.

damn

[ancientrootshealingspace]

If you are giving reparations on Juneteenth, please read this:

I am a Black woman who is actively losing wages due to racism at my job. I have had to go home early more than once due to intense micro-aggressions at my job. Micro-aggressions that were turned into “learning moments” at my expense. And now, I am being attacked because I attempted to put together a Juneteenth newsletter educating my company about the modern day civil rights movement and racism by elevating what few Black voices are in the store. My crime? Asking to hear from Black people on Juneteenth. I was called divisive and combative, and because this vitriol is coming from people in leadership as well, I am being told that this can block my upward movement in this company. Something that has already been made hard enough with the micro-aggressions that I face on a regular basis.

If you’d like to give me reparations, my pay information is below:

Venmo: @nefertarispalace

Cashapp: $astoney2018

[momentswithmani]

From Bullying to “Preference”: The Hypocrisy of Colorism in Adulthood

For many of us, colorism isn’t just a vague social concept — it’s a lived experience. As children, we were bullied, excluded, or devalued simply because our skin tone didn’t align with a certain “ideal.” We endured insults, rejection, and isolation that left deep marks, marks that shaped how we saw ourselves and how we navigated the world.

Fast forward to adulthood, and the narrative seems to have shifted. Now, adults — sometimes the very people who once witnessed or perpetuated the harm — tell us to respect someone’s “preference.” Black men, for example, are often allowed to express their dating preferences without critique. And society frames these preferences as harmless, even natural.

But let’s be clear: the preference often mirrors the same color biases that led to bullying in our youth. Darker-skinned women, who were once ostracized and demeaned, are now quietly excluded in the name of choice. The harm hasn’t disappeared — it has been rebranded.

Here’s the hypocrisy:

• Childhood bullying: You are actively harmed, targeted, and dehumanized because of your skin tone. Adults often witness it but do little to intervene. The trauma is real and formative.

• Adult “preference”: Your experiences are minimized. What was once a source of pain and exclusion is now framed as a personal taste. You’re told to respect it, while the same societal forces that justified your childhood mistreatment are quietly reinforced.

This isn’t a harmless shift in language — it’s a continuation of harm under the guise of choice. It tells women: “Your pain doesn’t matter. Your worth is conditional on someone else’s taste.” And it tells children that their experiences of exclusion, discrimination, and devaluation don’t count.

Colorism is not neutral. Whether it’s enacted through bullying or framed as preference, it perpetuates:

• exclusion

• invisibility

• internalized self-doubt

• generational trauma

Respecting someone’s preference does not erase the history, trauma, or systemic inequality that shaped it. It doesn’t make the harm disappear. And for those of us who experienced it as children, it’s a constant reminder that society often validates the chooser, not the chosen.

It’s time to call out the hypocrisy and recognize that preference is not immunity from critique when it perpetuates the same old wounds. It’s time to acknowledge that the impact of colorism lasts long after childhood and doesn’t magically disappear just because adults want to call it a preference.

[stressed-to-mars]

The Kendrick v. Drake Beef or How it Feels to be a Drake Hater Right Now

I'm a lil late but I wanted to talk about this so bad. So here y'all go. Hope you enjoy more of my ramblings.

Hello everyone. Hope, you’re doing swell. It has taken me over a week to get my thoughts out about the current rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Mostly because the tracks were coming out back to back. Kendrick wrapped this shit up quickly. I had planned on writing about what happened and how I felt about it. But to be honest with y’all, so much has happened outside of the music that I…

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[a-toaster-or-something]

--- Just that during his lifetime, Michael Jackson became a white-black African, with too many nosejobs, who was related to pedophilia and vaguely to transgenderism [but was not fully transgender].

Similarly to some artists today, he must have been an absolute intuitive genius, to figure out what was wrong with the black community or who was sitting on top of them - there even to represent the issues to us all. An odd top play in the African community, bridging the gaps between many different types of people.

WOW if only the world could have understood his sacrifice at the time. What a unique person.