4eva reblog
This should have a million notes… we can sit and reblog a bunch of weed post (that gets almost up to 60,000 notes) but we cant reblog something REAL like this.
OWN YOUR HISTORY WHITE FOLKS
THIS IS NOT WHITE HISTORY. THIS IS LITERALLY EVERYONE’S HISTORY. THIS HAPPENED IN THE PAST OF THE WORLD THAT LITERALLY EVERYONE LIVES IN.
This happened because of WHITE PEOPLE WHO ARE CLEARLY STANDING IN THE BACKGROUND SMILING AND POSING!! Try again honey!
Yeah, the white people who were alive two hundred some odd years ago. By your logic, the white people today are nigh identical to the ones in the photo. I’m not saying racism doesn’t exist, but blaming someone who’s alive today for the actions of what one of their possible ancestors may have done, which they have no control over is just fucking stupid.
This photograph was taken in 1899 that’s roughly what 115 years. That’s not that long ago. Nice try tho.
my great grandfather was born in 1899 and was a sharecropper. black folks were still being kidnapped and enslaved into the 1930s.
Black folks were still being hunted down and killed in 2012.
Black people being whipped, hung and brutally murdered wasn’t something that ended hundreds of years ago. According to Wiki The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites were lynched between 1882 and 1968. And they are only the documented ones. Lynching was a death penalty for non blacks aswell, however…. the lack of equality and racism meant more and more blacks were hung and not only hung, just Google Jesse Washington (it’s horrific). The justice system had no justice for black men and it was like something from Henry VIII’s times, an enjoyable event to see, the killing of a black male ‘brought to justice’, just look at the photos. Humanity, or lack there of at it’s lowest, only a barbaric, heartless, soul less crowd could do such things. America needs to look at itself before it goes traipsing around the world calling others out for their ways of living really.
The story of Emmet Till is one that showcases the lack of justice and humanity that was stowed upon blacks, and this is as recent as 1955. This isn’t a boy who committed a crime either. He was an innocent kid that 'annoyed’ two insecure adult white brutes because one of their wives said he was giving her the eye or trying to hold her hand. Had he lived he would have only been 71/72 today, that’s young. But he was gruesomely murdered and his killers got away with it. Google it, and read the killers confessions that later were published. Look at the faces of the courts, the treatment his mother got, the smug faces of the killers and their wives, as if this whole thing was a big waste of time, as if Emmett Til wasn’t just a young boy who perhaps gave one of their wives a cheeky smile and went about his day. He ended up looking like some elephant man in his casket due the brutality of his murder. But it was nothing. His Mother was made to be a burden on society, crying over nothing. And that’s not even 60 years ago.
This barbaric treatment that black people received is not old news, it’s still something we as a human race are recovering from. Whites who need to change their ways, the legal systems. Black people are still being killed, profiled, persecuted and perhaps even made to turn against each other, … it’s something that all stems from the not so ancient history that we see above.
Slavery happened, treating black people like they were lesser than dirt happened, using black people as maids, mammies or whatever else happened, then throwing them out sending them to broken down areas happened. And we still live in the ripples of it.
Even if you don’t agree with things like the Trayvon Martin case, let’s look at something like the Entertainment world. The fact that we still have segregated channels and award shows for black people is some kind of evidence that things aren’t as they should be in this world, right? You hear people say 'OMG IF THERE WAS A WHITE AWARDS SHOW THERE WOULD BE AN UPROAR!’ Well… black magazines, award shows, music channels, radio stations, black record charts, only exist because whites segregated blacks in the first place. MTV only played Michael Jackson due to popular demand, they wouldn’t usually play a black man on their channel, and that was the freaking 80s.
If all races got an equal shot, if magazines didn’t just cater to one specific race, if award shows gave equal opportunity to everyone, black, white, Indian, whatever… there’d be no need to have anything other than togetherness. However, it’s not quite like that… yet.
We are still living in the ripples of this, and no one can deny it.
