Veritas

It's been about 25 years of self observation, and so far I've concluded that I'm a semi-rational being. I also plan on living forever. So far so good.

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Bitch

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Angela Davis nailed the Baltimore riots perfectly … in 1972 

Angela Davis, philosopher-activist and professor, was hunted down by the FBI for a crime she didn’t commit, jailed in 1970, and freed in 1972. While serving her sentence in a California jail, she gave a thoughtful interview (later included in The Black Power Mixtape) about the state of the Black Panthers at that time, and why violence is part of protest, because it is an inherent element in the daily lives of black and brown people. Watch the remarkably relevant video.

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Thank youuuuuuuu

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There’s a startling difference between what men want in a wife and in a daughter

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this is really creepy

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Watch: Cecily Strong absolutely destroyed at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Seriously, the whole thing is incredible. 

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Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows - a crash discourse on black culture.

Made by me and youre-a-virgin-who-cant-drive for our history class :+)

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The point is that Tyga saying that you can’t be “just friends” with a Black woman is a euphemistic statement for what he really means which is that Black women serve no real purpose outside of sex. Whereas, in his mind, white women do.

Of course this mentality was not created by Tyga. The hyper sexualization of Black women has been in full force for centuries.

It’s just unfortunate when Black men participate in perpetuating white supremacist notions of Black womanhood.

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He says ‘I don’t get it, why are you still a virgin at 24?’ He says ‘I don’t believe you, I’ve seen you walk, virgins don’t walk like that’ He says, ‘That ain’t natural, people are supposed to fuck.’ He asks ‘Why though? No offence though.’ I ask ‘When was your first time?’ He says ‘I was 12’ He says ‘I know what you’re thinking, that’s too young.’ I look at his knuckles, he has two good hands. He says ‘She was older than me.’ I ask ‘How old?’ And he says ‘It’s better that the girl is older, that’s how I learnt all things I know’ He licks his lips. I ask again ‘How old?’ He says ‘I could use one finger to make you sob’ I think of my brother in prison and I can’t remember his face. I ask again ‘How old?’ He says ‘Boys become men in the laps of women, you know?’ I think of my mothers faced lined with her bad choices in men. He says ‘If you were mine you wouldn’t get away with this shit, I’d eat you for hours, I’d gut you like fruit.’ I think of my cousins circumcision, how she feels like a mermaid, not human from the waist down. He says ‘I’d look after you, you know?’ I laugh, I ask for the last time ‘How old?’ He says ‘34.’ He says ‘She was beautiful though and I know what you’re thinking but it’s not like that, I’m a man, I’m a man, I’m a man. No one could ever hurt me’.

Warsan Shire, Crude Conversations With Boys Who Fake Laughter Often (via rabbrakha)

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Incredible Teen Poets Sum Up Everything Wrong With America

American textbooks have plenty of blind spots, but Belissa Escobedo, Rhiannon McGavin and Zariya Allen offer a wide-ranging view of our country in their powerful slam poem, “Somewhere Else in America.” And it’s not a pretty picture.

The teen spoken-word poets are members of the Get Lit organization, a nonprofit that uses spoken word to improve literacy rates in Los Angeles, where 40 percent of teens won’t graduate high school. 

Watch their performance and hear their full poem here. 

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Watch this. I emplore you.

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This gives me hope for the future. These three young girls are speaking up and paving the way for future kids. I am so proud of them.

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I get chills and tears in my eyes every time I’ve watched this <3

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OH SHIT

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new years resolution? more like new years REVOLUTION *overthrows government*

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGLF0X3WIiE 

Martin Luther King, Jr. — I’m Black and Beautiful.

In this speech, delivered towards the end of Dr. King’s life, he begins to incorporate ideas of the Black Power movement into his rhetoric, emphasizing black pride.

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The Dr. King “They” don’t want people to know about.

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american but amerishouldn’t