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@theblacksword
Biden can now lock him up as official Presidential duty for National Security. It’s time to be bold.
Stark reunion be like
Jon: I died and came back alive
Bran: I am the three eyed Raven
Arya: I am a face changing serial killer
Sansa: what the fuck
Why are the white people who against Black Panther so bad at lying?
They proudly exclaim how Wakanda (a technologically advanced African country) is just unrealistic. They vehemently spew some racist rhetoric and cry both in person and on social media…
Then when called out? They say “The entire marvel universe is unrealistic so what I’m saying isn’t false it’s just stating facts”…. except no.
There is a movie about a green woman, half alien, talking raccoon, and a animalistic tree flying through space and you praise it AND exclaim how excited you are to see it. A movie about a child who has spider-like abilities doesn’t make you “uncomfortable” even though it deviates from human norm…. a man transforming into a giant green monster doesn’t make you “uncomfortable”.
But the story of an advanced peaceful civilization that doesn’t involve raping, killing, colonization, AND ESPECIALLY white people makes you uncomfortable to the point where you have to voice your opinion?
Save your breath and just say “I don’t like the idea of Black People being great. I don’t like the idea of Black People not depending on white people. I don’t like Black People, period”
Amen to THIS....
The Dark Tower - Official Trailer
Love it, love it, LOVE IT!!!
Kayla Renee Parker shared her story of how she managed to expose her racist teacher who appeared to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
“She wears a safety pin so everyone knows she’s an ally for minorities. Her cover photo has a Black power fist. She regularly discusses her love for the Obamas, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and her admonishment for this current administration.”
However, it wasn’t enough to hide her racism.
It all started with a simple question from a test. The question stated,
“Historical research on African-American families during slavery shows that: A) Family ties weren’t important in African cultures where the slaves ancestors originated; consequently, family bonds were never strong among slaves. B) Two-parent families were extremely rare during the slave period. C) Black family bonds were destroyed by the abuses of slave owners, who regularly sold off family members to other slave owners. D) Most slave families were headed by two parents.
So, obviously, Kayla chose C. And it was incorrect. According to the teacher, the right answer was D.
The argument started when Kayla wrote her an email and respectfully provided the professor the evidence, even directly from their textbook. “However, my Professor continued to argue that family bonds were not destroyed and that 2/3 of slave families were headed by two parents.” The teacher cited Herbert Gutman, sociologist, who died in 1985 and surely took part in the whitewashing of Black history.
When they met to discuss the subject in person the professor gave Kayla books to read adding such statements as, “This book would be good for you to read. I believe it’s $6 so I could buy it for you if you’d like.” The stated that she spent her whole life fighting for minorities and something like “I’ve got Black friends.”
When the girl was proving her opinion, she heard more comments as, “You’re talking to someone who has spent their entire life fighting for people of diversity and marched with my Black brothers and sisters.”
As the result, the teacher asked Kayla to lecture the class on the topic and that was her fatal mistake.
Kayla took all her courage and made a presentation on the topic she was passionate about. She defended Black people and Black history. Here’s her presentation.
That was the point where the story should end, but NO.
The professor obviously forgot about privacy settings on Facebook and posted offensive comments about Kayla.
The professor’s last words to Kayla were:
This time The University of Tennessee stood up for the student. In July the teacher officially retiring from the university.
This is fucking insane.
The last paragraph of kaya’s story is everything:
To my Professor, I forgive you for robbing me of my focus last semester. I forgive you for calling my Father, a graduate of Yale Medical School, “educationally challenged.” I even forgive you for threatening me. However, I do not forgive you for being willfully ignorant to the subjects you teach students. I also do not forgive you for claiming to be an ally. An ally is so much more than wearing a safety pin. It also requires that you listen to the needs of Black people and respect the issues that we raise. When a Black student raises a concern over the way you are portraying her history, referring to all you’ve done for Black people doesn’t change the fact that you’re portraying slavery as some kind of slavery lite. As an educator and as an ally, you are not expected to know everything but this does not abdicate you from the responsibility of always continuing to learn- even from your students. Additionally, if you wanted to actually help Black men and women, you’d value our words. Unfortunately, your actions simply mirror how America values Black people in today’s society.
This Black girl is a hero who overcame her fear and faced her teacher defending Black people and Black history.
#StayWoke #BlackPride #StopRacists
EASTERN STEAMPUNK
By Christopher Perez from HERE
YES.
There are more flavors of geek than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Black genius, I want every news media outlet to write about him. He is our pride.
I just left a plantation tour in Louisiana. I have a lot to say…
SAY IT!
I honestly thought I knew everything about slavery. Not so.
The owner of this particular plantation had it built by slaves for 3 years. Every brick was handmade. Over 120,000 bricks on 2,000+ acres of land (this place was huge.) The clay used for the bricks came from the Mississippi River. The majority of the slaves are buried under the Levees and water. Some are buried with their Masters. Not allowed to live with them but could be dead with them.
Before you enter the house, there’s a list of slaves who lived here including their age and how much they were purchased for. 124 total. Some slaves were worth as little as $25. As young as 5 years old.
On this particular plantation, the owner was big on punishment…he used noise making neck restraints. Imagine three 4lb balls around your neck with bells inside. Children were restrained by ankle locks that connected between their ankles.
This was a sugar cane plantation, one the worst practices to involve slaves because of its danger. A lot of slaves were decapitated, amputees and killed from the fields and machinery. A lot of kids lost their lives creating sugar. Speaking of children, a child stood in the living room and operated the fan with a string while guests ate dinner. As young as 3 years old.
Here’s what shook me even further: Before the Civil War, a lot of slave owners were going in debt and could not afford their properties and were not producing enough cotton and sugar to maintain their lifestyles. Slaves were used as HUMAN CREDIT CARDS. Slaves were a guaranteed line of credit. You could get HALF of your property’s value depending on how many healthy and able slaves you owned.
My people were human credit cards and lines of credit to BANKS. We were property. We were labeled as equipment and nothing more.
There is no such thing as a good slave owner. They owned my PEOPLE and used them as checks and balances. This cycle continues with prison and brutality. I do not want to hear shit about “Why can only Black people say this or that?” I don’t want to hear shit about “we’re all human.”
And by the way, not one of those slaves are at rest. Those spirits were so alive, you could feel their presence, their pain and someday, their revenge.
Worth reading....
Wypipo wanna be oppressed so bad
is that really true? weren’t they selling their own people.
African slaves were introduced to the American trade by…Africans.
White people love saying this any time a conversation about the trans-Atlantic slave trade comes up.
“b-b-but the blacks sold themselves into slavery”
And it’s funny because it’s literal victim-blaming. The direct implication of that comment is “well they did it to themselves, we have nothing to be guilty for.”
Even if that statement, completely stripped of historical and situational context, is true in it’s own right: Who was buying them?
White people.
You’re telling me black people skipped single-file onto slave ships like they were going on a cruise?
That they spent their days and weeks not crammed in the bottom of slave ships, but doing canon balls off the sides and playing dice with their captors?
That they weren’t dying in the abhorrent conditions on the boats, but were eating three meals a day and getting desserts on the side too?
That they weren’t rioting against their white captors in multitudes on the ships, but were hanging out and drinking beers with them?
That when they eventually arrived the ones that survived weren’t sold among white plantation owners like cattle, but shook hands with them like buddies and went about their lives?
Because that’s what your statement implies. That black people were solely responsible for their own enslavement and white people were uninvolved until it came time to “be the hero” and free black people from slavery.
But even if a select few black people kidnapped others and sold them into slavery, guess what?
It was white people buying them. White people taking them over on boats. White people whipping them, forcing them to work in extreme conditions, raping them, killing them, treating them like less than second class citizens.
And when slavery was eventually abolished who was it still treating black people like second class citizens?
White people.
So get your head out of your ass. Your racism isn’t even subtle.
Racism has been part of every society documented to date, none however lasted as long, or was on as big of a scale of American slavery. This not me claiming one sin is greater than the other but you you to completely remove the oppressors out of the equation is ridiculous. Let’s not forget the lasting effects of slavery that still challenge not only black people, but all minorities in America.
White people literally can’t handle the overwhelming evidence if just how fucked up they are and always have been and use every excuse in the book to try and cover it up excuse or erase it smh
Also the majority of slaves in America were “home grown” so to speak meaning that most of the slaves never came from Africa and were born in America. So the “African sold Africans” only accounts for a small population. Also, chattel slavery was nothing like any slave system in Africa. Most of people sent were prisoners of war and the buying and selling of POW wasn’t uncommon. Many had no idea what kind of conditions and system they were getting into.
I ask my history professor who does work on this topic about this concept of Africans selling Africans and she said that there are a few prominent people who sold their own into slavery and knew what was going on and directly benefitted from it to this day(the family is still m very rich in South America) but the vast majority didn’t know.
So what are y'all going to do about the millions of slaves born and raised in America?? Because slave owners talked about how it was more cost effective to “breed” slaves then to buy them from Africa and importation of slaves was made illegal in 1807. So, with all this information y'all still talk about Africans?
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This though..
A deleted song from Lord of the Rings
This song, Use Well the Days, was written for the ROTK end credits. You won’t find it anywhere in the soundtrack- It was cut after Into the West took its place. (this recording may not be the “final draft” of the song, either.) Just like Into the West, it was composed by Howard Shore and sung by Annie Lennox, with lyrics by Fran Walsh.
Use Well the Days is about Frodo bidding his final farewell to Sam…. thanking him, blessing him, and hoping the rest of his life in Middle Earth will be happy and peaceful.
He was only 27.
Edward Crawford, the man featured in the iconic Ferguson protest photograph throwing a tear gas canister, was found dead overnight, his father said. Police say it appears the death was from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
He has become the symbol of fighting for justice for so many people and now we lost him. RIP.
He was my cover photo as well as my profile picture....Rest in POWER.
from Georgetown Law professor Paul Butler on the Diane Rehm show.
EVERY DAMN WORD OF THIS.
Multi billion dollar business of stealing from cancer patients is potentially in danger. I bet Pharmaceutical companies have already hired a killer for him. Achilefu’s ‘cancer goggles’ are designed to make it easier for surgeons to distinguish malignant cells from healthy cells, helping to ensure that no stray tumor cells are left behind during surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. This black genius will change the world with his invention and help millions of people to survive. This is black excellence we shall never silence, we should know our heroes.