#black thoughts

[amayaonfiya]

Dan and Phil better give a Juneteenth shout out to the Black Phans

[uzumaki-rebellion]

Cowboy Carter is the AOTY for me and I don't care what nobody says. It told this country it ain't shit, the country proved it ain't shit, and ain't shit people are crashing out over that Christmas performance because Blackness rules everything around here since Day 1 of colonizers showing up. The culture wars are ALWAYS about controlling Blackness.

[oldtranswizard]

Afro Hispanic thoughts on main

idk that anyone will see or care for this but idc. the shame is long past for pan-Afro voices. call me "extra" or stereotype me as an angry Black woman. once i can bring up my own Afrolatinidad, my culture & my Black caribbean roots without having others, especially latinos, go full anti-Black on me, be they white latino Pacific-Atlantics or even fellow self-hating Caribbeans, then that's the moment i can well & truly say my Blackness & the experience of the life in it as is brings me all the joy & not also pain, & even then thats a weight to be healed. my degree of biracial-ness included. because why must so many pan-Afro people across the diaspora be made to carry their Black roots like a cross? aren't we free of the chains yet? when images are reproduced for me with whips as the punchline, am i supposed to find them funny? i think the fuck not. why do we latinos get brought up with "Blanco" as a compliment & the approximation to the peak beauty ideal, and "Negro" as an insult or the object of pity? why was i compelled to laugh as a kid whenever it was brought up that my great-grandfather, a stern but sensible hard-working man who faithfully married a dark-skinned woman, hated Black ppl & refused to meet his own Black grandchildren? i still carry the anti-Black slurs i got called as a child as is. "negrata" with Spaniards, the hard-R with the rest of the world... there also seem to be issues in common with those of us biracials who grew up with a white or even just white-passing mum, even if mine has some Afro roots as well, just not as many as my dad. but really, enough with the Black suffering. it can be a crazy upbringing, and with crazy i mean desolating & confusing. i need to integrate myself with some more hopeful stories of Black Excellence & success when everything that's thrown at me is Black trauma, or else that's how we inadvertently fall into self-loathing.

not to mention how the difference between ethnicity, nationality, and race seems to be whooping people's arses sometimes.

[itsmyfriendisaac]

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[emotionallylaboredwords]

If I had the time I would love you immensely from the top of your head to the soles of your feet. However, I don't so for now I choose me.

-Jocelyn B.

[thoughtsbychy]

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Happy New Years! Today is the last day of Kwanzaa. Imani which represents the faith that we have in our people. It also means to believe with all of our hearts in our people, parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteous victory of our struggle. I have faith that are Community is going to flourish and keep doing the amazing things that we are doing as long as we stay United as one with…

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[thingsreadinthedark]

I’m in Nate Marshall’s pocket again with Finna!

Yo, it’s so good and I’m savouring every page and every word. It’s the last day of National Poetry Month but it’s never the last day of National Poetry anything in my life.

Listen this first stanza is facts on facts on facts plus TAX! I have quite a few white friends and they always and better act like they been knowing when it comes to my mamma and my mamma house! Listen, my mom is so sweet, and she never used to be sweet let me tell you! But she’s so sweet, that if you make her feel any type of way, just don’t even play yourself with meeeee.

And, if anybody ask why your white ass is there, you better come correct. You answer with some respect and clarity before you get GOT!

Nate Marshall, you always got the words my brother.