the black gaze

what if we looked at everything using blackness as the standard?

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what if every time someone tweeted #alllivesmatter a cop came to their house & shot a random member of their family?

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what if every time the police shot a black person federal flags had to be flown at half mass & the news interrupted your regularly scheduled programs to report it?

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What if instead of calling for a moratorium on protesting until we're done burying dead cops De Blasio called for a moratorium on killing black people?

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what if the police were considered a terrorist organization?

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what if every time a white man shot up a school, the entire country spent the next few months talking about white-on-white crime and what needs to be done about the "white violence problem"?

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what if Alex Haley's Roots was on the elementary school required reading list?

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what if folks only used the word "ghetto" to refer to trailer parks?

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what if bodegas started posting signs that say they don't service people wearing polo shirts with the collar popped?

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what if the word 'thug' was only used to describe the white folks who riot after sporting events?

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what if our politics of respectability where modeled off of old black women?

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what if for just $0.16 a day, you could change the life of a child in Eastern Europe?

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What if long straight hair was considered unprofessional?

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what if black power was so ubiquitous that they never made afro picks with fists on them?

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what if Thanksgiving was observed in the same way as September 11th is in the U.S.?

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what if U.S. Independence Day was celebrated on Juneteenth?

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What if the Ivy League was Howard, Spellman, Morehouse, Fisk, and Tuskegee and most of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies went to one of them?

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what if nobody ever thought to invent sunblock because melanin already exists?