#blacktime

[timeleeblog]

Unearthing Sally Hemings' legacy at Monticello

[notalexus]

"History does not disclose the name of the first black person dragged onto a slave ship, the first black person held in newly constructed prisons, or the first black person forcibly recruited to work on a colonial plantation. But black people have been arriving late ever since, hoping that the slavers have left, the ships traveled beyond the horizon, the whip silenced, the work done, the suffering gone.

Black time—whether you call it colored people time (CPT) or African timing (AT) or the deliciousness of syncopation—black time is about delay, interruption, break: strategic lateness.

Black time is long time, deep time, waiting time, excavated time, time around time. The not-here, the not-yet-there, the it-will-be-coming, the it-has-been-to-come, the it’s-not-wasn’t-yet, the it-was-just-here-yet-to-be-now. The fold, the crease, the wrinkle, the tick that does not tock. The tock that does not talk. The silence that does not break. The breaking that will not be broken. The.

You-just-missed-it.

Black time is hungry time. Ravenous time. Gluttonous time. Cannibal time.

Black time is waiting time, time after the reservation, time after other people’s time, time cut by other people’s time, time as didn’t-see-you, time as can-you-wait, time as you-again, time as I-don’t-have-time-for-this-shit.

Black time is dropped consonants, slipped sounds, skipped beats, don’t-wanna-ain’t-gonna-coz-it-don’t-make-no-difference time. Black time is learned time, doing time, time done, time-to-do, time-never-done, time-undone. Time-served, time-to-serve, time-serving, time-unserved, time-put-off, time-for-time, pipeline-time, skipping-time, cut-time, time-cut, cutting-time.

I haven’t seen you for a minute.

Sorry I’m posting this late. I was running behind."

– Black Time, Keguro Macharia

[mikeshouts]

The Blacktime Celestial 11PM Is A Smartwatch With Two Domed AMOLED Displays

Luxury watch styling smartwatch!

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[lauria-katt]

Mis aliados

[catastrofe-naturale]

“Devi dosare i tuoi sentimenti”

Questo è quello che mi viene detto quando esprimo quello che il mio caro cuore pensa,(trall’altro sto ancora aspettando una risposta !)

Bene, volete che doso i miei sentimenti?

Lo faccio, ma poi non lamentatevi, non venite a dirmi;

Sei acida oggi...

Non ti si puó dire niente...

Sei sempre di cattivo umore....

Dormi di piú...

Sei irritante...

Perchè io sono o tutto o niente. Posso passare dall’amare incondizionatamente a non amare.

Posso passare dal sentire ogni sensazione e sentimento al non sentire niente.

Posso essere la persona piu solare e radiosa, oppure quella cupa e arrabbiata.

Oggi ho deciso di mostravi il mio lato nero, quello che non ama, poi riparliamone.

Vostra, con affetto e odio,

@catastrofe-naturale

[timeleeblog]

think: once, a white girl was kidnapped & that's the Trojan war. later, up the block, Troy got shot & that was Tuesday. are we not worthy of a city of ash?

Danez Smith “not an elegy for Mike Brown”

[timeleeblog]

Isolated, spatially confined, abandoned by industry, marked by crumbling schools and indifferent teachers, cruelly defined by wretched public housing, the ghetto is its own unique arrangement of black American life.

Houston A. Baker, Jr. “Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere”

[timeleeblog]

Black Americans arrived on New World shores precisely as 'property' belonging to the bourgeoisie. They were strategically and rigorously prevented from acquiring literacy. And they were defined by Thomas Jefferson and his compeers among America's Founding Fathers, as devoid of even a germ in their minds that might be mistaken for reason.

Houston A. Baker, Jr. “Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere”