#pocunity

[cottagecori]

if you don’t support the blm movement, then you can’t celebrate pride. 

there would be no pride without the black and brown lgbt individuals at stonewall. check your privilege and happy pride.

[ikaryn]

SAY THEIR NAMES. #POCUNITY #ALLY #RENAGADE #BLACKVOICESHEARD #speakupnotout https://www.instagram.com/p/CAzQjTJp-hJ/?igshid=1irx1g746ayup

[ifutureboss]

"Stop begging white people to give us opportunities lets make our own"

I remember a time were i used to scoff at this statement, didn’t they know that white people have control of the main stream? And why do we have to wait, we are just as qualified as they are its just that they won’t acknowledge us.“

It took many years for me to understand this, and its the truth: white people wont share their privileges with us. Look , the names of Hollywood have put all the excuses to block minorities from the screen:

” calling for diversity is racist “ (How? You are overrepresented , you literally have it good how can seeing more poc bring you down?)

"You don’t deserve an award because you a minority ” ( That’s not what we are saying , we deserve an award because we are just as talented as you are, but all you ever do is award each others accomplishments and never look at deserving poc )

“Your not owed anything we don’t have to ”

( neither are you, your not the only group of people in the u.s, surprise surprise, right? we are not “owed” we deserve , we should be equal in getting the awards. )

Its so funny how our counterparts “don’t see color ” and “don’t we all bleed red” and how we always “pull the race card on everything ” but act like the Oscars is some stupid coincidence. I guess the judges were so color blind that they so happen to give awards to a lot of white people right?

This is a fine example of why we should make our own shit instead of waiting on white people to “hand out ” a couple of awards, because they only look our way when we annoy them to diversity or if we play a good part of the thug, immigrant/fob, the weird Asian person or the spicy latina , the savage native, the Indian store guy, the ghetto baby mama.

Because unlike having to beg for diversity we can finally make our stories that wont be neglected, we don’t have to always wait our turn , we will be appreciated, little children will finally be able to see their faces, we wont see stereotypical roles, we wont be default for white people and we wont have to see poc actors have to scavenge for work or be told that their not what white people are looking for while casting nothing but other white people.

People like Stacey Dash might not understand why we need this (mostly for reasons above ) but for the people who want change we need this.