Micheal Jackson has a skin disorder, he never did anything to actually change it. Holy shit I hope she gets charges pressed on her for that one especially because imagine his kids seeing this shit.
Holy shit.
Did she just use Uncle Tom against actual black people???!!! This bitch
Why do people make such a big deal about diversity? Why is it so important that a protagonist in a movie or novel be black? What does it matter if there are no Native-American themed dramas on television? I would argue that there is a strong correlation between diverse content, identity, and self-worth. What I mean is that it is important…no, it is imperative for children of color to see and read about strong characters that they can identity with. Characters that give them a sense of identity, expand their dreams, and increase their self-worth.
“I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” – Gordon Parks
the only reason why white people get offended when you refer to them as “white people” is because they’re used to being solely referred to as “people.”
they don’t liked being “othered” but have no problem othering us.
Okay. Black person who wrote this. Are you offended yet?
This is why white people can not survive in this world any longer because y’all intentionally try to provoke people because you’re too offended to look past your privilege and learn how much of an ass you are.
Just because you mad at getting your racist behavior called out doesn’t mean you can do it back to us like some petty child tit for tat shit, or even act like we’re going to take you seriously when you do it.
Reparations suggests a conceptually coherent loss. The loss of land, the loss of labor power, etc. In other words, there has to be some form of articulation between the party that has lost and the party that has gained for reparations to make sense. No such articulation exists between Blacks and the world. This is, ironically, precisely why I support the Reparations Movement; but my emphasis, my energies, my points of attention are on the word “Movement” and not on the word “Reparation.” I support the movement because I know it is a movement toward the end of the world; a movement toward a catastrophe in epistemological coherence and institutional integrity—I support the movement aspect of it because I know that repair is impossible; and any struggle that can act as a stick up artist to the world, demanding all that it cannot give (which is everything), is a movement toward something so blindingly new that it cannot be imagined. This is the only thing that will save us.
White ppl will never understand how much we have to compress, compartmentalize, and compromise ourselves in order to interact with them on a day to day basis. And when I say white ppl yes that includes you, white friends and allies.
because when you’re black, affirmations can be truths, but truths are also just affirmations. “black excellence”, “black lives matter”, “rhodes has fallen”. i see very little evidence that supports any of those statements.
for me, to be black is to live in hope, to live in a seemingly never-ending affirmation. maybe never fully acknowledging the truth is a coping mechanism. because the reality is my truth has been stolen, and the affirmations are the remnants of a half remembered dream.
am i really fully human? am i really deserving of love? i mean, i say the very catalyst for all life on earth looks down on me with favour, but very little else seems to – and even less so for black women.
i’m just exhausted. i’m tired of living in hope. and i’m angry at the fact the only way out of that hope seems to be through silence & assimilating into the very thing i hate.
sorry, i didn’t mean for this to be so depressing. it’s just that today self-worth feels like an affirmation instead of a truth.
