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Model IG/tumblr/twitter: @blissfullqueen ✨ Photographer : @princeforpeace 📸

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Poet Taylor Steele captures the problem with appropriating Black slang.

In her poem “AAVE” (which stands for African-American Vernacular English) Taylor Steele explains why appropriation of Black slang is the worst.  African-American culture is being popularized on a daily basis and while Black people are judged and mistreated for using something they came up with ages ago, White people come off as cool and original when they use it.

Full video

#BlackLivesMatter

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Carl Sagan

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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Assata Shakur

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Ig: @dayannanutter ig: @ryenniman_nutter @kingdayanna

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Black Women owning television

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✨West Africa✨ (Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria)

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Some things aren’t visible until you’re truly ready to see them.

The RZA (via jiaohaiyang)

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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong in the recording studio, 1956

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I have these very deep feelings that white people who want to join black organizations are really just taking the escapist way to salve their consciences. By visibly hovering near us, they are “proving” that they are “with us.” But the hard truth is this isn’t helping to solve America’s racist problem. The Negroes aren’t the racists. Where the really sincere white people have got to do their “proving” of themselves is not among the black victims, but on the battle lines of where America’s racism really is - and that’s in their own home communities; America’s racism is among their own fellow whites. That’s where the sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. Let sincere whites go and teach non-violence to white people!

Malcolm X on “allyship” (via ckdonwan)

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My uncle on the left just turned 73 and his father is 96.

Black will not crack, do you hear me?

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glory

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nose ring and cut off sleeve button up…

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Glorious.

[fook-me]

it sounds horrible because it’s actually true

[whitegirlsaintshit]

John Mayer is close friends with many black women & men. Just so you know. Tiffany Palmer his long time back up singer and Alicia Keys in example. He is also very close to Jay Z and wife Beyoncé. Learn your facts.

John Mayer hates black women.

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"A hundred years ago they used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they’re still doing the same thing.”

— Malcolm X 

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History Parallels

1st image: 1967 Newark Riots

2nd image: 2014 Ferguson Protests

3rd image: 1964 Harlem Riots

4th image: 2014 Ferguson Protests