The fact that so many people are losing followers because of the blackout is just hilarious to me. If you find it annoying or alienating to be inundated with images that you don’t identify with (you’re white but everything around you right now is black), take a moment to consider why you feel that way…maybe a lack of representation and the fact that you’re unable to fully emotionally benefit from the event makes you feel a little less important than normal? Why is being inundated with images of beautiful white people every day acceptable, but the blackout causes you to unfollow? The blackout posts I’ve seen have been 100% positive, why reject that?
This is a role reversal experiment, and I love it. What if the blackout was all-encompassing and never ended…white people would have to carve out their own niches online and in the media to find images and information that was relevant and representative of themselves. Because that’s literally what poc do every day. At least in America and mainstream media. If nothing else, the blackout should open your eyes to that. If you can’t handle it?? I have no advice for you.
oppression
I’m interested in having people of color at the center of their own lives. We don’t need to be saved by anyone. We do not need to have anyone sweeping in on a white horse or someone saving the day or assisting us in our own narrative.
Ava DuVerney (on not being interested in making a “white savior” film)
White saviors, read this.
We don’t need you.
We aren’t props for your image.
We see right through you.
(via thisiseverydayracism)
White girls calling black women’s features ugly,
But they doing this,
They call black female rappers trashy,
But they call white rappers fearless, strong women, original,
They insult black culture but use it for their benefit and to make a statement,
Never going to stop re logging
Don’t apologize for being white, don’t apologize for being cis. Just realize that tumblr is one of the few places where minority voices aren’t silenced by cis white people in power who have historically edited and silenced the voices of marginalized minorities for their comfort.
male cashier: you’re too pretty to be wearing all that eye makeup.
me: you’re too irrelevant to be commenting on my appearance.
#Oh my god its a fucking compliment shut up
the fact that some of you people can’t distinguish between a compliment and a criticism blunted with a weak compliment blows my fucking mind
misogyny has them thinking whenever a man says pretty, you should be thankful.
People who use a lack of education to justify subjecting poor people to poverty are fucking revolting. They’ve invented a system wherein poor people cannot obtain a quality education because they are poor and then they use that lack of education to justify their continued poverty. It’s self-sustaining, vile, oppressive, and a fundamental tenet of modern American conservativism.
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, Assata: An Autobiography (via britishmuslimahreflections)