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Insightful tweet reactions to the Charleston Shooting
An unidentified white gunman shot and killed nine black people during a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina, Wednesday night. As Twitter reactions rolled in, many were outraged at the lack of media coverage, pointing to the shooter being white and the victims being black, while others didn’t hesitate to define the act as “terrorism.” One especially poignant tweet compared it to a hypothetical of a non-white shooter.
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A White Man’s Nightmare #2
Maya Shae, 2015
Why does this only have 500+ notes?
Cause niggas ain’t seen it yet damn
this gives me so many mixed emotions
THE FUNNY THING ABOUT FAT, WHITE FEMINISM
re: Tess Holliday in The Guardian
In recent years, quite a few queenpins have risen to the top of the body pos/plus size crop. Unignorably so, Tess Holliday (formerly known as Tess Munster) has reached heights not previously achievable in this genre by becoming the first signed model of her size. In the moment it seemed like a fantastic feat and a gargantuan leap forward for fat people of all shades and creeds. But as truth always comes to light, Holliday is proving to be just a problematic as standard sized white feminists.
In a recent interview with The Guardian, Holliday spoke words that surely made records scratch in the minds of many fat women of color:
At one point, an African American guy, middle-aged, said something appreciative as he walked by. “What do guys think they’ll achieve by yelling something?” she asked, shifting her weight and adjusting the cape primly. “They’re like: ‘She’ll love this, I’ll definitely get her number.’” A pause, and then she added, with some satisfaction, “I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighbourhood and I remember.” And no one quite knew what to say.
Briefly, I wasn’t quite sure what to say either. Like I feared she would, Tess Holliday is moving into the disgustingly self-serving realm of visibility that too many non-Black women have coveted in order to acquire validation, but at the expense of Black bodies. Sitting in the middle of gentrified Brooklyn boasting about how Black men swoon over her lily white existence is intensely harmful to the women who make up those neighborhoods that jog Holliday’s memory. It is the same kind of cavity causing bitterness you can find on any given episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians or searching the #nappyhair hashtag on Instagram. Her satisfaction with allowing such anti-Black speech float from her lips falls right in line with the sort of “anything Black women can do white women can do better” attitude that has oppressed Black women globally for centuries. This is the same kind of behavior that prevents women like Gabourey Sidibe, for example, from being the face of fat acceptance.
Elsewhere in the article she makes mention of meeting her impending husband, a white man who moved from Australia to America assumably to be with her, via Tumblr and feeling like he was someone she could never have because of his level of attractiveness. She attributes being unpleasant to him in the beginning stages of their no longer long distance relationship to the “daddy issues” she diagnoses us all with. The author of The Guardian piece recalls Tess’s fiancé smacking her on the ass and saying “you can give it a good old smack” while Tess completely ignores the gesture. Looking beyond the inappropriate nature of a person she cares for touching her in that manner while she is conducting business, the allowance of this gesture further highlights her thoughts on Black men. Holliday was more than willing to run off at the mouth about the verbal contact of a Black man (which the author noted as ‘appreciative’) but doesn’t bat an eyelash at her “hot”, white fiancé’s fetish riddled, physical antics.
The funny thing about white feminism is that it will support the weight of any attitude as long as it is clad in porcelain skin and western beauty ideals, even in a reported size 22 package. I have seen some of the most beautiful brown feminists, fat and otherwise, march the streets of New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Detroit (my own hometown), and multiple other cities with recognizable “Black neighborhoods”, weeping and demanding that the lives of the men who could never have Tess Holliday’s companionship be spared and deemed valuable. But instead of the praise that Holliday and other women like her receive, Black women are ridiculed and reminded of their role as the steel beams lining the walls of mainstream feminism, used but never seen and rarely maintenanced, crumbling under every pound of the machine their great grandmothers died raging against.
The funny thing about white feminism is that it only looks into the abyss of Blackness for a back to stand on, a man to cry wolf over, and new beauty standards to absorb and then erase.
#EffYourBeautyStandards indeed.
One of the most appalling and hurtful things about this Rachel Dolezal situation is how much pain and mockery we as Black women are once again enduring from our own people and the rest of the world. With Black men and even some Black women rushing to her defense, saying she’s “cool” because she’s “down”, and claiming she’s “done more for the Black community” than others, they are saying that she, a white woman, is a better Black woman than Black women are.
Does that make any fucking sense? You are all quick to collectively jump down Iggy Azalea (and rightfully so), decry folks in blackface for comedy, and claim to understand the basic gist of cultural appropriation, but this white woman, who donned blackface for nearly a decade, created false narratives or outright stole them, alleged hate crimes occurred against her, hired a man to portray her father, used her adopted brother as a prop (claimed he was her son)… gets a pass because… why? Because she is, at the end of the day, white.
She took up space a REAL Black woman could have utilized to do the SAME work and deliver the same message, but with authenticity from real, lived experiences. Black women have been the backbone of every movement focused on Black lives and people are throwing us under the bus for a white woman who PRETENDED to be Black. All of her alleged work and contributions have to be reassessed and taken with a grain of salt because it may all be a lie, and she does not deserve clemency. Are we so desperate for white approval, whilst claiming we want to be removed from the white gaze, that we will allow this charlatan to falsely infiltrate our organizations and then STAY upon revelation of her identity like some Scooby Doo villain? Her nearly decade long performance of what basically amounts to a minstrel show is based on stereotypes of Blackness - she is not showing appreciation, understanding, or adoration for us, she is fetishizing, mocking, and dehumanizing us by thinking she can spray tan and crochet braid her way into Black culture and Blackness itself.
This also needs to open discussion on colorism and leadership and how she was able to fool so many people, including, allegedly, Angela Davis. As Angela is a fellow light skinned, somewhat racially ambiguous woman, that plays so deeply into a larger historical narrative around one’s ability to “pass” as well as one’s privilege with having lighter skin. To me, it was obvious that Rachel was a white woman, however, I feel like she looked at Kathleen Cleaver and felt she had her “in”. Two of the three founders of the NAACP were white; many whites have done work with the NAACP and other organizations to fight anti-racism. She had absolutely no legitimate reason to do this, and the fact people are falling over themselves to praise her, asking for her in “racial drafts”, and lifting her up over actual living, breathing Black women… it hurts. It really does.
This touches on mostly my feels. I haven’t said much about this but yea.
Before You Leap To Her Defense.
// Rachel Dolezal lied about her race in order to get a scholarship and used it to attend a historically black university. // Rachel Dolezal lied about her race and she got paid over $100k/year, got the opportunity to fly, travel and speak for free. // Rachel Dolezal took a chance at college, a degree in Africana studies and a highly paid position of leadership, education and advocacy from a real black person. // Rachel Dolezal took a black person’s seat as a Professor at Eastern Washington University and has taught African and African American Art History, African History, African American Culture, The Black Woman’s Struggle, and Intro to Africana Studies at EWU. “Her scholarly research focuses on the intersection of race, gender and class in the contemporary Diaspora with a specific emphasis on Black women in visual culture.” // Rachel Dolezal took a black woman’s place as an artist. “She has fourteen years of experience as an exhibiting artist and has taught K-12 & college art lessons in public, private, and non-traditional school settings. Her works have been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, shown in 13 states and displayed at the United Nations’ Headquarters in New York.” // Rachel Dolezal took a black woman’s place “Her other experiences include work in a community law office as a legal secretary, African dance, culinary arts, ethnic hair styling, modeling, managing a political campaign, and mothering two sons. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, gardening & cooking.” //Rachel Dolezal took a black person’s place in fighting police brutality. “Most recently, Rachel Dolezal has been appointed by the Mayor of Spokane to serve as a police commissioner for the Office of the Police Ombudsman, to oversee fairness and equity in law enforcement.”
DO NOT DEFEND HER.
this is all that needs to be said. if you still supporting her knowing damn well the opportunities she denied to able bodied black women then unfollow me and don’t forget that you’re a piece of shit
*throws hot grits on her leather skin* - Jess
Solid words
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Black woman supremacy over these crusty old meaningless White males tbh
meanwhile he still struggling to get his wash n go right.
^^^^^ please god the last comment my chest
#BlackGirlsSupportingBlackGirls2k15AndBeyond
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George Takei describes the moment when he and his family were sent to an internment camp.
"Another scene I remember now as an adult is every morning at school we started the day with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag…there was the American flag flying over the camp but I could also see the barbed wire fence and the sentry towers pointing at us from my schoolhouse window as I recited the words ‘With liberty and justice for all’." - George Takei, The Daily Show (July 24, 2014). Full Episode (apologies, The Daily Show website does not have the best video player). To Be Takei documentary official website. - Mod Dawes Sr.
Let’s not forget either that while there are people alive who remember being in those camps, there are probably also people alive who supported those camps and possibly still do.
#BlackLivesMatter #Detroit #Ferguson Don’t forget our women because they support us the most.
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do most american world maps seriously have america in the centre?
WE DO HAHAHAHA
Are you fucking kidding me.
In Chinese maps, Asia is in the center. Which nation is centralized depends on the map’s origins.
In Canada, our maps are cut through the Pacific, so we don’t offend anyone.
sometimes i feel like canadian stereotypes go too far and then this happens
Australian maps are upside down so Australia is above everyone else
you think this is a joke
are you fucking serious
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There’s Something About Quvenzhané Wallis
Roller skates, pizza, math class and an Oscar nomination: the life of an 11-year-old movie star.
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Uhhh amazing
BREAKING: Here's all three angles of the #AntonioMartin shooting that St. Louis County PD has released. None of the three angles conclusively show a gun in the hands of Antonio Martin.
ALL THREE VIDEOS:
1st video - http://youtu.be/15vqUf6H-po
2nd video - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0G3q3yPrKoU …
3rd video - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EkqPix9t0-k&feature=youtu.be … #AntonioMartin
So, people interviewed the main witness right? His friend saw everything.
