Life in Progress

Justice. Full time black feminist/womanist potato, part time college student. she/her. “give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.” ― Warsan Shire

[baetology]

In 1989, George Bush gave a speech about crack. During the speech he pulled out a bag of crack and said “this bag was seized right across the street from the White House in Lafayette park.” Turns out, his speech writers had the idea to pull out a prop during his speech and in order to make it believable they had the DEA plant crack on this random 18 year old black kid. They lured him there. He didn’t even know where the White House or Lafayette park was. When he got there, they arrested them. The plot was discovered by a journalist.

[tunte]

What journalist

[baetology]

Gary Webb

[showersofhappiness]

And then Gary Webb killed himself after he revealed that the CIA let crack infiltrate black communities through drug cartels making deals with the CIA. His wife left him and his career was ruined for exposing the drug war as a war against people of color.

[raavenreyes]

There’s a really well done movie called Kill the Messenger (x) I suggest everyone should watch. It was done in partnership with his family and details the events from beginning to end.

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

As Susan B. Anthony’s name trends on Twitter — and as people blanket her Rochester, New York, grave in “I Voted” stickers — it’s worth remembering that Anthony’s legacy is a paragon of white feminism. Anthony’s pursuit of women’s rights came with a hefty dose of racism. On its website, the National Women’s History Museum is careful to emphasize that Anthony’s problem wasn’t with black men voting, per se.

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[edwad]

Is it jus me or do leftist tumblr blogs on here don't capitalize at the start of each sentence??? Why

we hate capitalism

[phil-the-stone-deactivated20180]

Anyways the most savage joke Andy Samberg’s ever done was that one time at the spirit awards the year all these racist ding dongs werent bothering to pronounce Quvenzhane Wallis’s name right and he spent the whole night hosting it pronouncing her name perfectly (including but not limited to opening his speech with saying that she’s one of his all-time favorite performers) and seemingly obliviously calling Paul Rudd “Paool Rood”

[luvallstuff]

Sense8 even. Sun is a Korean martial artist suffering at the hands of patriarchy. Very stereotypical

[magicalgirlenergy]

Should I even mention Dong’s role in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?

even media that is SUPPOSEDLY “” “” “”””” “” “””” “ “’ proggressive””” “”””” “””” has no fucking clue how to write asian people

steven universe? fucking tiger mom stereotype whose shy daughter wants to BREAK FREE!!!! from ((also i get a real weebish vibe from this show which is partially why i couldn’t get into it…. like connie isn’t even japanese and yet she says “itadakimasu” before a meal??? not cute.))

how to get away with murder? yah oliver’s a little cinnamon roll but why is he the hacker genius.

brooklyn 99? again, hacker genius asian episode (and there was one that had a “filipino bieber” joke like ?? ????? ok??)

orange is the new black? this is the show that had an episode titled “ching chong chang” i don’t think i have to explain any further (there’s also numerous articles about its anti asian racism but you get the idea)

i’ve explained the issues with mulan and bh6 more times than i can count like i honestly should be compensated for this.

i mean it’s really fucking annoying how deep rooted in anti asian racism a lot of media is even the ones tumblr loves to hail as progressive, the pinnacle of DIVERSITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! !!!!!!! and people just ignore it. even asian-americans for whom it’s IMPOSSIBLE to even be visible. like we literally cannot find asian characters that don’t have some glaring stereotype attached to them and i’m done with it.

[thisisnotpilipinx]

Oh my god

[softpunkbucky]

hey non-asians maybe reblog this please

[melabellalemondrop]

Types of Racists Cont.

Sexual Racists:

“What’s up chocolate momma? Ebony goddess?” “Oh you’re asian? How kinky! How exotic” “Mmmm Mandingooo”

Colorist Racists:

“I’m not racist, I just think light skin is prettier.” “I wan’t cute mixed babies :3″ “Just my opinion, don’t get mad”

Preference racists:

“Not to be racist but, I wouldn’t date a black girl” “I only like pretty white/mixed girls, black girls don’t look good next to me”

Comedian Racists:

“Calm down it’s just a joke!” “It’s not racist if it’s funny!” “Where’s your dad Daquan?”

Exclusionary Racists:

“Your shampoo doesn’t work on normal hair” “What kind of name is that?”

Victimized Racists:

“AA isn’t fair” “Nobody likes white people anymore” “WHAT KIND OF WHITE HATE BLOG ARE YOU RUNNING WITH THAT URL??” 

Know it all Racists:

“My best friends are black so..” “You don’t look mixed, you’re black” “You don’t know what white people think” “Not ALL white people” “You’re wrong, reverse racism…” *tries to define racism*

[ethugs]

God damn it this is spot on

[zackisontumblr]

this is the money minaj, repost in the next 24 hours and money will come your way!! 

[haramheaux]

I just found $2 in my pussy omg!!!!

[zackisontumblr]

see it really works!!

[fanonical]

fantastic beasts and how to stop them

(seriously, jk, five movies?)

[darkkepnerr]

[morefunthanb4]

I Got A Job At Vice To See How Long I Could Get Away With Doing Nothing Before They Fired Me, Then I Wrote An Article About It To See If They'd Re-hire Me To Publish It And They Did So Here It Is

[starlightandtears]

I’ll never forgive Lin Manuel for the obsession with the Founding Fathers that came as a consequence of Hamilton. It was bad enough when old white dudes obsessed over them and their “values”. Now I’ve gotta deal with huge numbers of my peers stanning for them too? Good God.

[dreamstuff]

Hamilton the show, and the actual founding fathers are two entirely different things. And in this case the imitation far surpasses the original.

[starlightandtears]

All I know is I keep seeing “Thomas Jefferson was soooo cool~” and cutesy edits of slave owners as a direct consequence of the show and I’m weirded out by it. Hamiltonkin is a thing now and that’s Too Much™

[thoughtsofjustice]

I love Lin-Manuel (problematic fave) and I think his original intention in creating Hamilton seemed to be legitimate from an artistic perspective, and the music is wonderful, but the response to it has been horrifying, like the number of Yts I know who are just out here calling Thomas Jefferson a cinnamon roll and further glorifying these horrible white men like ??????????

[johnniegoods]

L.A. Riots (1992)

[last-bi-in-town-deactivated2023]

What were these riots about? I never actually learned that

[17mul]

Google Rodney king and then you will learn

[wronglynamedbonnie]

:/ when they only tell their kids half the story

[thoughtsofjustice]

a bro: actually I'm a devil's advocate

satan: *appears from hell* you're not even a lawyer, chad

[magnezone-deactivated20170108]

Have you ever witnessed the process of masculinization operate on a young boy in real time? They go from unapologetic enthusiasm and candor to a state of hypervigilance, stoicism and aggression. They stop letting themselves like the things they used to like, or they continue to do so in solitude and shame. They start manually lowering the pitch in their voice. Sweet, caring boys turn dull, cruel and sad. 

[wondervillain]

If you’re ever asked by a straight person who is your celebrity crush but you’re not out and your brain decides to take a vacation on lesbian island and you can’t come up with the name of a single man that was ever famous just say Chris. The other person will immediately say the Chris of their choice amongst the 50 that are famous and you just agree with them.

[justrilayatrash]

this is so specific but.. so relevant?

[spacexualkids]

no offense but yall gotta stop acting like its the end of the world if a bi girl ends up with a guy

[profeminist]