“The whole trend of white girls appropriating black culture was so corny—it was more corny than it was offensive. Trust me, I’m not offended: All the things I’m trying to run away from in my black American experience are all the things that they’re celebrating. So if they fuckin’ want them, have them; if they want to be considered oversexualized and ignorant every time they open their fucking mouth, then fucking take it. But more than that, the art is not good. These songs are not good. It’s like, “Oh my God, you’re doing this black woman impression, is that what the fuck you think of me, bitch? I need to meet the black woman that you’re imitating because I’ve never met any black woman who acts that bizarre.” It’s crazy that this becomes mainstream culture. All of America is celebrating shit like that. It’s so weird.”-Azealia Banks interview for Pitchfork
THIS QUOTE.
oppression
When you saw “The Hunger Games,” who did you root for? Katniss and her beleaguered community? Or people in the Capitol wearing pink eyelashes and obliviously eating until they vomited while the people in other districts starved?
Ok, next question: When you saw the protests in Baltimore, who did you feel for? Because if what you did was look down on the protestors for disturbing the peace, break out the rainbow wigs and sparkle mascara because you might be from the Capitol.
Why You Might Throw a Brick Through a Store Window
(via attndotcom)
White folks can empathize with fictional white people but the minute they are faced with actual dystopian shit happening to people of color, they do not care.
This country has never stopped seeing Black people as property to exploit. We are not human. We are not people. We are the permanent racial underclass. And as such it angers those who want to keep the status quo intact.
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[stands on the roof of my house] MORE HISPANIC/LATINO REPRESENTATION [pulls out megaphone] MORE HISPANIC/LATINO REPRESENTATION THAT ISNT GANGSTERS, DRUG LORDS, AND THEIR WHORES [screams to the heavens] MORE HISPANIC/LATINO REPRESENTATION THAT SHOWS THAT NOT EVERY HISPANIC IS A CRIMINAL OR A CRIMINALS GIRLFRIEND AND ARE IN FACT ACTUAL MEMBERS OF SOCIETY [drops megaphone] thank you.
Victorian era surgeons didn’t wash their hands and found the suggestion that they should wash their hands offensive.
This was said by Charles Meigs AFTER multiple papers had been published showing how important it was that surgeons wash their hands and sterilize their instruments.
The reason? Class. The gentlemen doctors weren’t like those dirty poor people.
Which sounds a bit like anti-vaxxers.
Because TODAY, when we were going to see the eradication of measles within in our lifetime, the upper crust decided that their children didn’t need to have “chemicals” put in their bodies. And why would they need vaccines anyway? Their upper class precious children could never contract measles… not like those dirty poor people.
If you don’t think this outbreak stems from blatant classism and racism, just remember that the lowest vaccination rates in California are also in its whitest, wealthiest cities.
Read that last line
Read it over and over and get through your heads: this anti-vaxxer thing is not about your caricatures of poor, ignorant white folks. This is white, WEALTHY people with access to information and resources thinking they’re too good for all of this.“I talked to a public health official and asked him what’s the best way to anticipate where there might be higher than normal rates of vaccine noncompliance, and he said take a map and put a pin wherever there’s a Whole Foods. I sort of laughed, and he said, “No, really, I’m not joking.” It’s those communities with the Prius driving, composting, organic food-eating people.“ — Journalist Seth Mnookin’s new book, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, explores the public health scare over vaccines and autism.
The Subtly Offensive Phrases We Need To Stop Saying
In a video created by SheKnows, a group of teen girls explained how micro-aggressions can be hurtful to their self-esteem.
Yass
When I explain a queer term to a queer person:
Oh.
Oh. oh.
So I’m—I’m not—it’s a thing. I’m not broken.
When I explain a queer term to a non-queer person:
Aren’t you just making the problem worse by making up all these words?
Why do you even need labels!
THANK YOU!
Your skin color doesn’t offend me, your arrogance does. Your pale skin doesn’t cause me disgust, your entitlement does. Your complexion doesn’t bother me, your need to tell me what I need and then feel oppressed when I don’t need your help does.
Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.“
Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.
Assata Shakur’s autobiography (via whitegirlsaintshit)
Hit that play button 🐸☕️
This little girl is going BIG places.
the way she went off like that on live tv god fucking bless
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Welcome to Night Vale’s Tamika Flynn IRL
(Source: http://mariahraemonroe.tumblr.com/)
You need to watch this full video.
“a black man can raise his voice and you don’t have to be intimidated.”