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An important part of American history!! #freaknik

It’s ok to cry

Black men are hurting inside. As black men trying to stay alive in America, we demand that we are valued as human beings. The poisonous quality that we know as hyper masculinity has influenced black men and me for ages.. Since slavery, we have been disavowed of our freedoms and rights, taken of our morals and have been demonized as sub-humans who are inept of having emotions.

Males are known as the less emotional sex; they are supposed to be fortresses of stability; the rock in the middle of a storm; unflappably calm no matter what the circumstance. Of course, it’s not wrong for males to get emotional. It’s harmful to keep one’s feelings bottled up and shoved deep down inside. But when is it okay for a man to display his emotions through crying?

I remember the one and only time I seen my father cry I remember it like it was yesterday. It was at my grandfather’s funeral it was a very rainy day I believe it was during a tropical storm. I watched him out the corner of my eye shed a couple of tears. I was 7. I haven’t seen him shed a tear since and I believe it had an effect on me.

I remember at my aunts funeral at the age of 11. Me and my cousin who was one year younger than me sat on the third row mean mugging instead of letting out or feelings.

I loathed crying. I hated feelings. I didn’t like them both so much that I'd adopted my own particular emotions and denounce myself for crying or for the forthright certainty that I had sentiments. I held the biased conviction that having feelings delineated me as a pussy.

In this society, we as black men are judged for displaying our feelings, let alone acknowledging that our feelings exist. By our own black community, we have been mocked, provoked and dismissed for exhibiting our humanness to the point where we don’t cry. This has to end. In order to undo this ongoing stigma, we must show our emotions. We must show our vigor. We must show our happiness. We must show our anger. We must show our loneliness. We must show our guilt. We must show our love. We must show our tears.

Crying is a natural reaction to our pains and our joys. Our cries ought to be full ones, cries of cathartic release, cries of our brethren who are weaponized wherever we go, cries of our brethren ruthlessly being slaughtered near their homes, in the streets, with no logical, justifiable premises as to why. We must show emotions because emotions are an integral facet of demonstrating humanness.

We are human beings, and we demand that we are valued as human beings. With that said, I ask you, black men...please cry.

#IsaiahThomas #crying #mencry

Birth and death have some similarities.

I started drawing away from my friends months ago. Sure, I still go out drinking with them. But somehow it isn’t the same anymore. I fell numb inside. I laugh and smile and pretended to “LOVE LIFE!” when in fact I’m dying a little inside each day from thinking about my mom and her cancer.

#fuckcancer

I think I might be in love with fear or fear is in love with me She always seems to find me rearrange to be with me and send me straight over the top

every situation brings her and when you let her in, she won’t leave fear is in love with me

I want to get everything done and she is my hurdle over here and over there, sending my pressure higher causing me more anguish

She is Fear

I think she is in love with me all day at work, mischievous and pleading asking and begging let me in, let me in

my stomach is in knots my fingernails are low my heart can’t take it anymore I think I’m in love with fear

can’t eat, can’t sleep trying to get over you, but I can’t, I won’t and the medicine won’t help me

She is Fear I think I’m in love with her, or she is in love with me

#Iwrite fear her livinginlove

campuslately

😂😂😂 who did this? #hurtbae

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z4howard

Yup I’ve been saying it for years. Break the perception

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Hillary's Superdelegate Coup Just Confirms to Millennials: The System Is Rigged

TIME TO THINK!

Please read it!

by Russ Belville:

I try to imagine what life must look like to a Millennial voter. If you were are between the ages of 18-29, in your reality:

Marijuana has always been medical;

Gay people have always been positively portrayed on TV;

We’ve always been at war in the Middle East;

The economy collapsed somewhere between fifth grade and college; and

No one you know can afford college or you’re in mountains of debt from having attended.

So it’s no surprise that Bernie Sanders is crushing Hillary Clinton among the Millennial voters. She still thinks medical marijuana needs more research; only supported gay marriage three years ago; supported all the Mid-East wars and would engage more; takes $675,000 from the criminal banksters because “that’s what they offered”; and thinks a reasonable college affordability plan is one where students work 10 hours a week and parents pay “what they can”.

But I wonder what kind of surprise awaits the Millennial voter the more he or she sees the results of their hard work canvassing for voters to Feel the Bern.

First, in Iowa, they battle for a statistical tie, with just a quarter-percent of the vote between Hillary and Bernie. So, naturally, the delegates from Iowa are divided fairly. Bernie gets 21 delegates and Hillary gets… 29?

Next, in New Hampshire, Bernie demolishes Hillary in a 22-point landslide victory. So, naturally, the delegates from New Hampshire are divided fairly. Bernie gets 15 delegates and Hillary gets… 15?

What is this strange world where a Bernie tie is an 8-delegate loss and a Bernie landslide is a tie? That’s when our intrepid Millennials start Googling and learn all about Marvel’s Democratic Superdelegates! (Just kidding; Marvel’s heroes are better-looking.)

What they learn is that there are 4,763 delegates who pick the Democratic nominee for president. But roughly 15 percent of them are Superdelegates (712 to be exact) who are the Democratic elected officials and party bigwigs. Regular delegates are split according to popular vote, but Superdelegates can vote for anybody they wish (that’s their super power).

Hillary, being the Queen Democratic Bigwig, has amassed quite a collection of these other bigwigs pledging to vote for her (355 to be exact). With some quick Excel work, Millennials figure out that Hillary already had 14.9 percent of the votes she needed to get the nomination before the first caucus was ever tallied in Iowa.

Then they plug in a few more formulas and learn that in New Hampshire, it took convincing 60,631 voters to choose Bernie to match the choice of Gov. Maggie Hassan, Rep. Ann Kuster, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, and three Democratic National Committee cronies for Hillary.

In other words, one vote from these one-percenters for the Wall Street candidate is worth 10,105 votes from the 99-percenters for the Democratic Socialist candidate. Unfortunately, one-man-one-vote only applies to actual federal elections, not party primary processes.

The more the Millennials (and my people, Gen-X) learn about this, the more convinced they will be that the system is rigged and the current crop of establishment Democrats want to keep it that way. That leads to more popular votes and mortal delegates for Bernie and forces Superdelegates to re-evaluate whether they want to go against the people or go against the Clinton Dynasty.

So while Hillary Clinton leads right now 394-42 over Bernie Sanders in total delegates, Bernie leads Hillary 36-32 in those delegates chosen by the people. Even in that total, Hillary got 2 more delegates in the Iowa tie somehow.

The more the Millennials learn, the more they’ll Feel the Bern.

thatblakefella

cosmic-noir

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH

brown-nena

I warned y'all

lvchd-deactivated20170404

Killed Confirmed at 6:20PM

let-them-eat-cake21-deactivated

HE DEAD! You know he dead.

ugly-bread

Brutal

cheetahhworld

Savage

chocolate--goddess

Hate niggas like this, he deserved that read

504bigdog

His heart stopped

wellroundedmen

But she smashed this lame!

micdotcom

While leaders across the country refuse to accept Syrian refugees, insisting they pose an unacceptable security risk, homegrown domestic extremists have been doing a pretty good job of terrorizing their fellow Americans with guns, explosives and threats of large-scale attacks. In addition to these, we can leave off the shooting in Minneapolis.

sobeitjayt

RAN OFF ON MY STUDENT LOANS TWICE

COLLEGE CALLIN I AINT CALLIN BIKE

fuckyeahmarxismleninism

According to a new survey.

In a recent survey, 56 percent of Americans said they have less than $1,000 in their checking and savings accounts combined, Forbes reports. Nearly a quarter (24.8 percent) have less than $100 to their name. Meanwhile, 38 percent said they would pay less than their full credit card balance this month, and 11 percent said they would make the minimum payment—meaning they would likely be mired in debt for years and pay more in interest than they originally borrowed. It paints a daunting picture of the average American coming out of the spend-heavy holiday season: steeped in credit card debt, living paycheck-to-paycheck, at serious risk of financial ruin if the slightest thing goes wrong.

cuttlefishlovr

nearly a quarter of the US has less than $100 to their name so stop complaining about donation posts and start complaining about your shitty government

fandomsandfeminism

The system is broken. We need a new one.

king-emare

im one of them

adreamdeferred

same

the-real-eye-to-see

At the 60th Academy Awards in 1988, Eddie Murphy addressed the industry’s Oscar biases.

It is clear, the Academy didn’t hear Eddie in 1988.

Eddie is the Goat

He gone. He’s done.

FYI, I’M REBLOGGING THIS SHIT 3 MAYBE 4 TIMES A DAY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.

#RIGHTEOUSFIRE

alwaysbewoke

when he said “who told you you could be a part of this? who gave you some “how to be black” starter kit?!“ i almost choked on my food. that’s when i knew this was going to be total destruction.

say-prettyy-pleasee

armaniblanco

Put his bodybag in a bodybag!

therincrowd

HE LET THE LORD USE HIM. THE REAL GOD FLOWED THROUGH HIM. ANOINTED. TATTOO THIS WHOLE THING ON MY BACK.

marqweabyss

^^^^ woooooow He was so embarrassed he lost all bowel control. Talk about a roast 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 we need to play this for all those who think they can just drop in the game. Honestly i wish Nicki could have brought it to Iggy like this. Riff raff, and all the rest of them fake ass wanna be white rappers that appropriate.

Reblog everyday!