#iwasmad

[im2cozy]

#TBT @belairvibes @artiphacts_ Gods plan 🙏🏽#IrememberThisNightPerfectly😂#IwasMad... #ThatMamiServedMeSpaghetti #InTheSameBowlIAteMyIceCream 😡😡😡😂 #ILoveYouFamily #WeWillAlwaysHaveEachOther 😎👍🏽💗

[jcmounduix]

When you book your room right next to the pool party 🙈 #BiggestMistake #Orlando #florida #iwasmad

[orderme]

#3

Ah the good old summer days. Watching a tv show, listening to music, going through my tumblr feed and being attacked for how boring I am by someone as if they were my fucking girlfriend. All in the comfort of my bed.

[ac3col3]

Zeroh the Blqbrd is the hardest rapper you've never heard of. #iwasmad #Zeroh #UndergroundCali

[fromzerotojeo]

When you're a dummy and cut off the music to your video so you try again 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 #roughdrafts #iwasmad

[fromzerotojeo]

"Bro you are super sayin 60 level right now!!!!" @jdotedwards Thanks bro #roughdrafts #iwasmad

[zarialyssa]

Representation MATTERS

Like I’m honestly so tired of people not understanding that what we see on a daily basis impacts the way we interact with each other. Especially when it comes to race.

It wasn’t until I was “woke” (I really do hate using that word because I feel like it’s lost its meaning and some people are just saying it because they think it’s the right thing to say but I digress) that I began seeing the realities of being black in America. I went from a high school full of minorities and then went to a predominantly white university that had a history of slavery. There are practically no black faculty and most of the time that you see a black person they are cleaning up after you or serving the food in the dining halls.

At first, I was heartbroken at the fact that my people only had worth when something needed to be disinfected or mopped up. Now, I really just makes me mad. It doesn’t make me excited to be at a school that doesn’t have more people like me walking around but insists on creating a more “diverse” community. (And don’t get me started on the word “diverse”. It’s a political move and that’s my opinion soooo) And that’s just what I see at my University. I never realized that my university is just a small example compared to the way that America operates.

Representation in society and especially in media shapes the way that we see ourselves in terms of beauty, potential, intelligence and other aspects of life. 

Black people are often times not seen as worthy and that is not only an American thing taught to society through slavery but an international thing seen through the issue of colorism. Trying to “unteach” all the things that you’ve been taught about your own people by others who only seek to oppress those same people is not an easy task.

[powerless-and-obvious--blog-blog]

I sat in a room full of students in my English class today, Watching motivational speakers preach their poems to a crowd of thousands of people. Bullying was what it was about, and how he had gone through it, and he spoke with such eloquence that it made my eyes misty. You could really feel this guy's words. But all these kids who had done unto me what this man was preaching, Were making fun of it and not paying the slightest bit of attention. It really speaks volumes about them, And how they'll always be what they've always been: bullies.