STOP SCROLLING FOR A MOMENT. TONIGHT, I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO LOSE MY WIFE. Tonight, I watched my wife's condition get worse, and my heart nearly stopped. I have never felt so helpless, because I knew she desperately needed treatment and I had no way to provide it. The doctor examined her and prescribed urgent injections and medication that she must start taking as soon as possible. The cost is around €800, and every day of delay makes our fear bigger. I am begging you as a husband who has nothing left except hope in kind strangers. Please help me get my wife the treatment she needs. Your donation today could make the difference between more suffering and a chance for her to recover. Please donate now GoFundMe.
Oh my God, what happened to him? He was going to buy some sweets. He was so excited because he hadn't tasted them in months. I saw him going, his face beaming with joy. He couldn't believe it. On his way, the killers of children and women bombed a house near him. His joy and smile were stolen. He suffered several head injuries, resulting in a concussion. He is now in intensive care and will undergo surgery; it's a matter of life or death.
What did this innocent child do to deserve this? What did his smile do to deserve being stolen by child killers? This is genocide. They don't care about children, women, or the elderly. They have no conscience, no humanity. Youssef suffered multiple fractures in his limbs and now needs your support. He is an orphan; his father was killed at the beginning of the war, and he has no one but his mother. I implore you to provide quick and urgent support for Youssef's recovery. Please, Youssef needs $900. Please donate anything, even $5, $10, or $20. It could save the life of an orphaned child. Please don't hesitate to help him. It's a matter of life or death. Please donate. 💔😭😭
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The whites were mad as hell on here when ppl were like, naw we’re good on ethel cains ass. I remember them going hard for her simply because she’s trans, saying that ppl were not trying to tolerate her because she’s trans when she’s like, openly been racist, specifically antiblack, defended incest, said that she loved little boys, and more 😕…… but that seems to be a pattern for that lot anyway since they excuse pretty much everything so long as a someone is white but I never see them defending black and brown ppl, especially other lgbt ppl on here the same way for like, shit LIKE bigotry, unless it’s someone who runs in their circles with the same like mindedness unfortunately.
please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.
you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.
first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.
now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:
in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.
and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.
and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.
it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:
• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.
• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.
• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.
• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.
• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.
• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.
and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.
what i'm asking:
if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.
if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.
india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.
Thought I should share this one before I maybe, possibly, completely and utterly, mess it up when I try my hand at adding the purple and pink from the original poster.
[This is obviously directed at those who write in English when talking about the two Congos and the Bakongo.]
Congo:
The term Congo can refer to the Congo river and also Congo rain forest
The term also refers to two different countries:
1) The Republic of the Congo (aka ROC, Congo-Brazzaville) previously known as French Congo and The People’s Republic of the Congo
2) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (aka Congo-Kinshasa DR Congo, DRC, RDC, Zaïre - yes some people still call it Zaïre even Congolese people) previously known as Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), Republic of Zaire
[These two countries are not the same, we were never one. Just because we share a pre colonial history, a few ethnic groups and cultures doesn’t mean we’re the same. We also share those things with Angola, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia etc as well, so saying we’re the same just because of those things doesn’t make sense. My ethnic groups has more in common with people from Tanzania and Zambia than ROC, because we share a lot of cultural similarities and history with ethnic groups from those two countries]
Congolese
People who are Congolese are those either from the Democratic Republic of Congo or Republic of Congo.
[As I said, some people from the Democratic Republic of Congo still refer to the country as Zaïre and themselves as Zarian or Zaïroise/Zaïrois. I still get called Zaïroise by other Congolese people and other Africans because I was born before the country changed its name to DRC]
Kongo:
The term refers to the pre colonial kingdom (Kongo Kingdom) in what is now northern Angola, Cabinda (which is a province of Angola but located between DRC and ROC), southern Republic of the Congo, western Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kongo also refers to the Kongo aka Bakongo and Kongolese. This is not a tribe (learn the difference between tribe and ethnic group) Bakongo are an ethnic group and there are tribes who are part of the Bakongo for example the Vili, Yombe or Lumbo etc
Kongo can also refer to the language of the Bakongo aka Kikongo and also Kituba
It can also refer to the two modern day countries, depends in which language you write in
Few facts:
Kongo/Bakongo means fighters (or warriors)
The Kongo Kingdom was the first pre colonial Christian (specifically Catholic) Kingdom in Central Africa. Not the whole of African, because the was other pre colonial Christian African Kingdoms
A new movement of Catholicism was created within the kingdom by prophetess Beatriz Kimpa Vita called Antonianism. Even after she was martyred and the new sect was suppressed, Antonianism is still practiced by people today particularly the Bakongo
Traditional Kongo (Bakongo) religion still existed in the Kingdom and its still practiced today.Kongo religion along with Kongo Catholicism has influenced Haitian Voudou, Quimbanda (an Afro-Brazilian religion) and other religions of the African diaspora
Many Bakongo were taken to Cuba, Haiti, the US, Brazil and others
resource: 1,2,3,4
(I might have missed a few points tell me if I did)
The camera zooming into Rolin laughing at this part specifically during the DM line read 👀 Which, apparently, is exactly Rolin's type of humor:
Throughout S1-3, to quote Snequanimity:
"Armand, we are constantly told, was a catamite. He's a twink bottom. He was a limp, passive ragdoll for sale. His daddy groomed him into a little bitch. He's emasculated, a beige pillow, his sexual performance is so-so, he's desperate and needy, he's a pussy and a betaboi. In short, he's too gay, not Lestat's ideal of a masculine bisexual man. like this is some kind of corruption of character, being the receptive partner in anal sex"
Recently, ONE journalist has FINALLY commented on this
and that's because the journalist himself is a gay Indian man:
This is a fantastic video--I'm transcribing it with a bunch of links and images for added context that is important:
Humiliating Racebent Characters: It's Becoming a Pattern (Fantastic Frankey, TikTok)
There is an uptick on writers brutalizing and humiliating glamorous characters after they've been racebent to Black, and it's concerning me. Spoilers if you haven't seen House of the Dragon, Interview with the Vampire [Lestat], or The Odyssey.
Now I am one of the people who very much enjoys racebending. When it's done well, especially for adaptation of projects that are old and not with the times and homogeneous in the white direction, I'm all for it!
For a very long time, Interview with the Vampire in particular was my go-to when I gave examples of a good racebent character. But after watching the [3x7] finale of The Vampire Lestat--and reading a Substack article from one of the Black writers [A. Zell Williams] who was unceremoniously fired from the show; and then finding out that the writer of that finale was a white woman [Hannah Moscovitch]--I had to investigate.
Because within the span of three weeks, I noticed three very glamorous, beautiful characters be humiliated while racebent.
Before, it had no issues; it added context of brutality and humiliation. [But now it has been done] in a way that really made me uncomfortable. And I think really reflects the state of our country and where art is going. Because things have been skewing conservative in a way that I don't like. From that last season of Euphoria, to this film coming out about there being a sex purge where single people can only have sex one day a night, I'm so interested to see how they're enforcing that. It is clear that there is a statement being made and I don't like it, not one bit. Now that it's bleeding into fantasy, it's upsetting me and my homegirl.
Let's start off with The Odyssey, and Helen of Troy. There are spoilers for this, because it's not a part of the poem. There's been huge controversy around the casting of Helen of Troy and having Lupita do it. I don't know if genuinely Nolan believed that Lupita Nyong'o is the most beautiful woman and can launch 1000 ships. I personally think she can, but I don't know what this white man thinks, or if he wanted to drum up controversy like Helen of Troy; having this meta-war start over her online. What I do know is after he cast this Black woman to play Helen of Troy--which was historically played by a white woman, and you know, the general public now sees as a white woman, even if that's not a real character--he decided to add in the mutilation of Helen of Troy and disfigure her face. And so us seeing a Black woman as the most beautiful woman in the world is now a legend. We don't get to see her in that moment. Thank God [Nolan] made Helen's twin sister [Clytemnestra] identical, so there were moments we got to see Lupita without all these scars. But it was something I noted and didn't like--but I let slide.
And the week before I was watching House of the Dragon--which is on a generational run; the show was doing so well. Same thing happened to a character named Rhaena in the book Fire and Blood, which House of the Dragon is based on. The character that we see on the show is actually a combination of two characters. One is a commoner named Nettles, and then Rhaena Targaryen, which is a member of the royal family. In the books, Rhaena Targaryen is a girly-girl who wears pink and gets a pink dragon. And while Nettles is a commoner and a little bit scruffy, being rough, I would also like to note that Nettles is one of the only canonical Black characters in the book. And we had to watch her conflation with this princess; which I was on a fence on whether or not I liked, because yes the story is bloated and there are a lot of characters, so I was fine with the conflation of the two. But I don't know why my girl is out here down bad looking like a crackhead!? There is no reason in the story that she needs to be down like this. The character of Nettles never loses control of her dragon the way that we see the character Rhaena do on the show. She was living in a castle with her father figure Damon Targaryen. We never hear that she rough and unclean. Aside from that, Rhaena Targaryen is a very glamorous character, that we're not seeing in that way. And I feel like even if she was on the run, I would have made sure she at least was kept. So I know they're trying to show that she's desperate, but I'm not feeling it. Because she didn't have to go out like this. Why not just dye her hair black so she wouldn't get caught?! We already saw that the hairdressers in Westeros have that good sh*t, so? So there was no reason for her to look like this crackhead.
Those two strikes weren't bothering me until I watched the finale of The Vampire Lestat.
And it's funny--I've been fighting online for weeks about how the writing felt inconsiderate. Especially with them changing the race of the characters. There were moments in the first two seasons [of Interview with the Vampire] where I felt like: Okay, they're not considering how this looks; or they're not ballsy enough to say outright what's going on. But it was very clear for this season, The Vampire Lestat, which finally has a white lead. Because that's how it felt with the way that they were promoting it and talking about how you didn't need to watch the first two seasons.
There were too many characters that were race-bent for the Interview with the Vampire. One is Louis, one of the main characters; and Claudia, his sister/daughter, the child that he makes his white lover create, to hopefully give their tumultuous relationship new life. During the first two seasons of Interview with the Vampire, where they had so many Black writers, the character of Claudia wasn't that problematic, and the race-bending actually improved the character. Then we got to the biggest part of her character, which is her death [in 2x7]. Now, they did follow the book in terms of her being on trial and her dealings with the theatre company. What they did add was Santiago, one of the main antagonists of the season, desecrating her body and jerking off with her remains; acts that would occur to Black people in America, where Santiago was revealed to be from [⚠️ this is incorrect, he's British ⚠️]. That's after the writers added in them mutilating their bodies, by cutting her Achilles, and making her look crazy. We get another taste of in the third season by the white writers, when she comes back as a ghost and cannot walk around because of it [being hamstrung like a runaway slave].
Now let's get to Louis. All of a sudden, Louis is not just a villain--which, we always knew he had problems and he wasn't the best of characters--but he was being punished every two seconds, and also being framed as a villain in a way that I didn't think was true to his character and true to how the characters around him should be feeling. And you know what? I got over a white writer [Ryan Kattner & Kevin Hanna] writing his daughter/sister calling him a "nappy-headed slave"--which sounds crazy, I know! But I gave them the benefit of the doubt, because I didn't do my due diligence, and I thought maybe that's how these Black people saw each other; insulting each other because I've done worse. I remember in college I called a girl Frederick Douglass because she got me upset, and that's not right. It was very racist. I apologized after. But you get what I'm saying? I was okay with the insult, thinking that was coming from a place of knowledge.
But it was after I saw this episode [3x7, the finale] where two of the main characters were beheaded--one white, one Black--and they were treated totally different; because the white character Lestat (who had the biggest grievances [with Armand] of all the characters involved of the dual beheading) got the decency of us never actually seeing his severed head [conveniently hidden in a bowling bag] besides when the act happens. Everything is shown from his point of view, so instead he gets a Bojack Horseman dream/death state, until his head is returned to his body. However, our Black character [Louis]--who once again is glamorous, handsome and enamoring--we are forced to watch this man's head on a spike while his body reaches for him.
And this is after the character Louis talks to Daniel one of the writers [⚠️ Louis told this to Lestat in 1x3 ⚠️] and explains how Black men's heads were put on a spike as a way to humiliate them, and to remind Black people that they are less than people.
And what's worse about us having to watch this Black man be humiliated when his white counterpart didn't get the same onscreen is the fact that the man who orchestrated this beheading was a Brown man; and he and his Brown doctor ended up livestreaming it! I want to say it again: They had two Brown characters have someone livestreaming on the dark-web. If you guys are too young to understand why that is problematic: Back in the day, when al-Qaeda was the Big Bad of the US, videos of [captives] being beheaded was livestreamed all throughout the US, and used as a way to fearmonger us towards, you know, al-Qaeda and Muslim people overall. I'm not here to talk about politics I'm just talking about the correlations.
All in all what I'm saying here is that this is all intentional, and I'm not messing with it. I do like racebending, but not at the cost of these characters losing their dignity. We're taking these characters and we're being put in worse positions.
And that's only when white writers do it, because when you think of someone like Ryan Coogler who racebent Namor--(I know his name was [pronounced as] Nay-mor but when he was racebent to be indigenous Mexican his name became [pronounced more color-consciously as] Nuh-mor)--and guess what? He got to be a king with infinite strength and power who never was down bad! Hair was slicked, skin was always moisturized, and he was always shown respect--even when he lost.
And you guys can say I'm on a high horse, but at this point somebody needs to advocate for this, because it's very clear that something's being done and it's f*cked up. Let me know in my comments below.
Can anyone help a black transfem with tech and stability for my teaching job? I only owe 250 in rent and need help with procuring a good computer. If I had to set a goal myself it would 750 for other bills and tech by August, when my class starts.
Please please consider helping me out financially to get my best foot forward as a small time educator. Thank you.
Current Goal: 0/750
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i know i sound like a broken record at this point but spending the entire season waiting for lestat’s facade and petty insufferable persona to get dismantled piece by piece to reveal the core of his guilt which should have been the abuse he inflicted on his black family (which could EASILY have coexisted with the conscientization of his own abuse at gabrielle/magnus’ hands) and being left with absolutely nothing is just insane insane INSANE. it’s like whenever things were feeling like they were building up to something real and sincere this show cynically reminds us that we were always stupid for even hoping. To willingly forgo any notion of a compelling narrative arc and any sense of character progression because you’re just that set on bastardising and humbling your former black MC is unfathomable levels of evil.
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