Pro-Tip: If you do not talk about race when discussing feminist issues, YOU ARE DOING FEMINISM WRONG.

Racism and sexism are very tightly intertwined in our society. Due to that, Woc and white women face two very distinct and different realities. Refusing to acknowledge that fact means you are erasing the experiences of WoC everywhere. Don’t be mad when WoC want nothing to do with you when you insist on spewing your colorblind nonsense everywhere.

5 days ago · 223 notes

mohandasgandhi: newsweek: thedailywhat: Shepard Fairey Piece of the Day: Ebony magazine commissioned street artist Shepard Fairey (of Obeyand HOPE fame) to create artwork of the late Trayvon Martin to accompany a piece in this month’s issue. Fairey writes: I have followed Trayvon’s case closely and I think any compassionate human being can relate to Trayvon as a brother or son and would want to see a thorough investigation into the killing of an unarmed person. In my portrait I wanted to emphasize Trayvon’s humanity as well as the public outcry for a just investigation into his death. [twbe] The public outcry portion can be seen from the protesters images in his hoodie. We like that touch. There are far too many words than can be said.

mohandasgandhi:

newsweek:

thedailywhat:

Shepard Fairey Piece of the Day: Ebony magazine commissioned street artist Shepard Fairey (of Obeyand HOPE fame) to create artwork of the late Trayvon Martin to accompany a piece in this month’s issue. Fairey writes:

I have followed Trayvon’s case closely and I think any compassionate human being can relate to Trayvon as a brother or son and would want to see a thorough investigation into the killing of an unarmed person. In my portrait I wanted to emphasize Trayvon’s humanity as well as the public outcry for a just investigation into his death.

[twbe]

The public outcry portion can be seen from the protesters images in his hoodie. We like that touch.

There are far too many words than can be said.

1 week ago · 1,087 notes · Source · Reblogged from icantbelieveitsalawblog

thelittlekneesofbees, dionthesocialist and inlovewithrobertsheehan present: “So, You Decided to be Black.”

thelittlekneesofbees:

So, you decided to be Black. All you had to do was click a button with your pale ass fingers and vavoom! Youz a negro! Now you can derail every argument!

Welcome to the land of being a niggeaux!

Here are some steps to start living your real nigga life.

Step One. 

You can never go back to being white. (We lost a lot of you niggeauxs with that one, huh?) Realize that if you aren’t in Africa(and sometime, even there), whenever you hear an adjective, people aren’t automatically talking about you.

Oh, but don’t worry, white people, like your former self will GLADLY point that shit out for you on a daily. Are you gay? No, you’re a black gay/gay black person.(And people will always forget you can be both) Are you selfish? No, you are a selfish black person.(And people will never forget you can be both) Oh, be sure to notice how people say, ‘black’ with disgust when this happens.

Step Two.

Since you started off White, you are going to be a dark skinned Black person to truly lose any color privilege. So, don’t bother watching TV because you’ll hardly ever find yourself there. Your hair, consider it nonexistent. You’re an alien to White people now, they don’t know how to really deal with ‘your type.’ You’ll be rejected from salons and told to get rid of the way your hair grew out of your head permanently. 

Step Three.

Stop talking to family and friends. Chances are, if you only pretend to be a niggeaux online. Mufuckas must hate us around your parts.

Step Four:

Now that you have no family or friend, at least you have your identity right? Woah! You were planning on being an individual? Stop right there. From now on, whatever you wear, read, watch, and eat is no longer your own business, but is subject to the scrutiny of every person you know. Listen to rap? You’re a stereotype. Don’t listen to rap? You’re a race traitor. Wear Jordans? You’re too black. Wear Vans? You’re not black enough. Eat chicken? You suck. Don’t eat chicken? You suck. And don’t bother looking for any kind of perfect medium for this, cause it don’t exist.

This is a starting list for all anons who want to hide behind a face of an identity that isn’t yours. Collect yourselves. 

2 weeks ago · 204 notes · Source · Reblogged from thelittlekneesofbees

MYTH: White students have a harder time finding scholarships than minority students

whatthefuckilooklike:

For so long, I’ve heard this complaint about White college students finding it hard to get scholarships and how racial and ethnic minority college students are so lucky because there are “so many” scholarships out their for us. I was always inherently distrustful of this belief, but I never really had evidence to prove the claim wrong. Until, now! Dr. Mark Kantrowitz, who is President of MK Consulting Inc., a consulting firm focused on computer science, artificial intellignece, and statistical and policy analysis, is also the publisher for Fastweb.com and FinAid.org. Last year, Kantrowitz conducted a comprehensive study of the distribution of scholarship and grant aid across the United States. His study had some findings that would probably shock and dismay non-PoC:
  • While there are very few private scholarships that are explicitly targeted at Caucasian students as a category, Caucasian students receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarships and merit-based grants.
  • Caucasian students receive more than three-quarters (76%) of all institutional merit-based scholarship and grant funding, even though they represent less than two-thirds (62%) of the student population.
  • Caucasian students are 40% more likely to win private scholarships than minority students.  
  • These statistics demonstrate that, as a whole, private sector scholarship programs tend to perpetuate historical inequities in the distribution of scholarships according to race. This does not appear to be due to deliberate discrimination, but rather as a natural result of the personal interests of the scholarship sponsors. [In other words, there is probably an unconscious preference to help their own kind among the predominately White scholarship committees around the U.S.]

So next time, you here someone complain about not getting a scholarship because they were White, let the motherfucker know that it wasn’t because they were White, it’s because they weren’t good enough. Plain and simple.

Check out the full report here:http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/20110902racescholarships.pdf

2 weeks ago · 287 notes · Source · Reblogged from whatthefuckilooklike

whatthefuckilooklike:

whatwhiteswillneverknow:

We ran across this a few years ago and we figured to post it up here. It’s about the time when Asher Roth said that he hanged with “nappy headed hoes” once. This inspired him to make a video cautioning people about being “extra comfortable”…

When people comes together, the bounties change, but you never stop having bounties in any healthy relationship.

Check out this gem of a video.

TRUTH!!

2 weeks ago · 35 notes · Source · Reblogged from whatthefuckilooklike

Links & Resources.

reclusiveessence:

thatfeministdyke:

Feminism

Racism, Race, & Culture

Sizeism & Body Positivity

GSM (Gender & Sexuality Minorities)

Ableism

Privilege

Reproductive Health

Classism

Misc/Other

Reblog Must!

3 weeks ago · 5,445 notes · Source · Reblogged from reclusiveessence

America sure loves some antiblackness

bankuei:

Ok let me understand this correctly:

1. Slavery isn’t white people’s faults, because black people captured and sold each other.

2. Continued slavery wasn’t white people’s fault, because black people were ignorant and needed white people to “lift them up”

3. The white violence during the Reconstruction wasn’t white people’s fault, because black people were “corrupt”

4. The white violence during the Civil Rights Movement wasn’t white people’s fault, because black people were too radical.

5. The failure of our education system isn’t due to poor management and underfunding, it’s because black people have “a culture of failure”

6. The failure of our health care system isn’t due to letting profit corporations completely rewrite our system for their benefit, it’s because black people are overweight.

7. The failure of our government’s ability to manage debt isn’t due to overblown military spending and corporate subsidies, it’s due to welfare queens.

8. The misogyny in American society isn’t due to American patriarchy, it’s because of rap music.

9. Violence against black people only results from black on black violence.

10. The homophobia in American society isn’t because America’s deep hate issues and massive conservative groups, it’s because of black churches.

Clearly under this logic, all bad things that happen to black people as a group are the result of self inflicted harm AND all bad things in America are the result of black people destroying everything including themselves, and if only they hadn’t selfishly brought themselves over here, through the Middle Passage, and greedily placed themselves into slavery, none of this would have happened.

2012 or 1812 y’all.

3 weeks ago · 391 notes · Source · Reblogged from reclusiveessence

I am so far beyond sick of these articles that discuss “the black vote” and “gay rights.” For some reason, white bigots are just allowed to be bigoted without complaint. But somehow black folks are the reason that this country is keeping gay people as second-class citizens? Miss me with that shit.
—  political-gravitas  (via chrilliams)

3 weeks ago · 79 notes · Source · Reblogged from chrilliams

Lumbee History

azulsunshine:

It talks about Native American sterilization and how back in the 1950’s many “Indians” were either classified as white or black, not indigenous. Very interesting read. 

1 month ago · 43 notes · Source · Reblogged from karnythia

velocicrafter:

queerandpresentdanger:

keefersutherlandin24:

velocicrafter:

jcoleknowsbest:

karnythia:

Remember the white 13 year old who was supposedly set on fire by two black boys? It turns out he was indeed set on fire. By another white kid. Please note that after all the claims of reverse racism & allegations of hate crimes no one has bothered to make a big news story out of the fact that no one of color was involved in this crime. Gee, I’m so shocked.

#thoughtthisfromjumpstreet

nobody wants to talk about how racist it is that everyone was so ready to believe that a black kid did this.

I don’t think that was a result of racism, I think people just believe what the media tells them. I highly doubt anybody would have been up in arms trying to defend a white kid who set another white kid on fire any more than they did a black kid setting a white kid on fire, nor do I think people should have been skeptical of the allegations that it was two black kids who set the kid on fire without any evidence to the contrary. However, I do think whoever reported that it was two black kids who set a white kid on fire should have corrected their mistake, and I believe they probably would have had the races of the accused/actual perpetrators been reversed.

“I think people just believe what the media tells them” = nope, people bent over backwards trying to find ways George Zimmerman could have been innocent and Trayvon Martin could have been guilty. Even when that white kid recently shot up the school people made up excuses about how it wasn’t his fault, he seems so innocent, he was CUTE even, and they wanted to send him letters of support. His tag on Tumblr is full of people fawning over how cute they think he is even though he’s a fucking murderer.

The point is that not that one would have defended a white kid who set another kid on fire, but that they were so willing to believe such a baseless, shaky and suspicious story in the first place. There is a long history of people blaming crimes on random Black people and having their stories be believed to be fact.

There is nothing but racism at the root of the fact that people are so willing to defend white and white supremacist people for their crimes and demonize phantom Black folks for crimes they didn’t even commit.

Also in the future it would be really cute if people would use Google for themselves so I wouldn’t have to waste my time seeking this readily available information.

That cannon fire, Capitol Citizens? That’s the sound of another racism apologist biting the dust after my brother dropped a Truth Grenade (tm) on their ignorant ass. Esp. the bolded part.

MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR, BOY ON FIRE!!! I’M NOT ALLOWED TO BET BUT IF I COULD I WOULD BET ON YOU!!!

1 month ago · 675 notes · Source · Reblogged from velocicrafter