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abstracthumanoid:

This is too much.

Kevin Allen, a 36 year old black man, has been shot and killed inside a library. A library of all places. What would it take for everyone to see that the cops are actually coming for black people?

He was described as a quiet man who frequented the library and liked to watch videos and listen to music at the computer stations. He was shot around 1:35 PM and taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

How are the racists gonna justify this? Black people getting killed shouldn’t ever be some commonplace occurrence we should just have to accept. This is an epidemic. This can’t be the world we live in.

Cops would kill black people for buying (allegedly stealing) cigarettes, wearing a hood, jaywalking, being in a library, playing with a toy, sleeping, the list goes on and on.

It’s as if white people just want black people to stop existing.

I knew there was evil in the world, but I would’ve never imagined anything like this explosion of racism since August 9th could ever be possible again. And the sheer fact that white people are not only ignoring and disregarding this genocide, but they’d even go to great lengths to justify it. 

How does it feel, looking for reasons to justify murder? Aiyana Jones was only seven. Tamir Rice, only twelve. 

All of these victims are people. They have roots. They are siblings, children, parents, etc. Black people have real lives and memories and people who love them and they have to wake up every day and genuinely worry if they or anyone they love is gonna be able to lay down in bed at the end of that day.

I can’t imagine how terrifying it’d be to be targeted like that. Having the very real possibility that you or a loved one could be killed at any given moment. It’s no way to live.

Racism is far from over. Kevin Allen, along with the thousands of innocent black people killed in less than one year, never deserved to be forgotten.

This is unjustifiable.

Welp. Time to go to bed.

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crissle:

chescaleigh:

(via Micropolis: Funny or Racist?)

In which a white man tries to explain blackface to crissle and she goes all the way off. See her read in all it’s glory at 1:19:00

a real friend picks screenshots that you look good in.

I need to write this WHOLE response down on an index card, carry it around with me to read it at any quiet moment, and memorize every single word so I can regurgitate it’s perfection ad nauseum during every fucked up conversation I have about racism.

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immabadnatural:

quietlyexhale:

kashmirgirl1976:

quietlyexhale:

picturehersmiling:

on showing pictures of a black professor and a white serial killer Timothy McVeigh to the kids

“They’re too young to understand!”

This is the fault of their parents and any other sick fucks around them.  The sad thing is that the “nice man” would kill them in a heartbeat. 

This is about more than parenting and “sick fucks.” This is about an environment that constantly reinforces anti-blackness. Every time you turn on the news, a black person is committing a crime. Black guys are the bad guys in movies and on tv. It’s nearly impossible to find positive representation of black people in children’s books and shows unless you’re actively looking for them, which white parents obviously don’t. Our entire society has been conditioning these children to believe that black is bad and white is good. You can even see the black kid internalizing this message, in real time. Racism is an insidious disease that plagues us all.

Nailed it.

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highonmelanin:

naamahdarling:

12yearsaking:

merkkultra:

do men have resting bitch faces as well or do they not have negative characteristics ascribed to them for putting on a neutral rather than a deliriously happy facial expression

Yes, Black men in majority white spaces do. If I don’t smile every single second of the day my coworkers become in intimidated and start asking me what’s wrong, telling me to smile, make jokes about how I’m trying to be a thug/act hard, why am I angry, etc. And it’s not just white men at my job God FORBID I my large Black ass makes a white girl feel threaten because I’m sitting down with a neutral expression.

I’m not trying to take this post away from women and make it about Black men but I want to point out that wether it’s patriarchy or white supremacy; those who feel as if they have power over you HATE to see you not smile. They are so used to people like you smiling to gain their approval that when you don’t there’s a cognitive dissonance that makes them extremely uncomfortable.

That’s why “angry Black women” is a thing. They have to put on a smile for everyone (yes even feminist white women) or we all get uncomfortable.

This is some excellent commentary.

reblogging again because the second response is so perf.

They are so used to people like you smiling to gain their approval that when you don’t there’s a cognitive dissonance that makes them extremely uncomfortable.

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ianstagram:

lookingfor-inspiration:

whitegenocide:

it’s so wild how black youth aren’t allowed to have rebellious phases because it’s assumed once we display any sort of criminal behavior that’s all we’re ever going to amount to

meanwhile white kids damn near be doing 5 stars in grand theft auto shit and it’s chalked up to teen angst instead of genetics

it’s not fair and I hate it

That’s not even true in the slightest

It is true, and there is absolutely a double standard that disadvantages black teens by painting their behavior as inherent character flaws instead of teen antics. Anecdotes of some white teens being treated like criminals or breaking this norm doesn’t account for larger sociological trends of widespread systemic prejudice against black youth. 

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distinguishedcompany:

“Standing Tall Amid the Glares” by Paul Schutzer.

Lewis Cousins, age 15, the only African American student in the newly desegregated Maury High School, standing alone. 1959, Norfolk, VA. 

“You only support them/ like them because they’re black”…

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artbaesel:

pussy-and-pizzza:

blackourstory:

educatedblackexcellence:

Well yea…

I mean most white people dislike me because I’m black.

This system is against me because I’m black.

They deny me a fair chance at a simplified human existence because I’m black.

So….yea….simply being black is enough for me to show love. Just like being black is enough for me to receive hate.

Word!

Niggas don’t grasp this concept

Yaaaaaaaaaaasssss