1st of, ILY&your tumblr its awesome and defo one of my faves, but could you please check this tumblr out, its horrendous, I just saw a post of it on the africa tag and I have been actively using tumblr for a while and I have to say its amongst the STUPIDEST things I have seen here.

http://thetruthaboutracialprivilege.tumblr.com/post/24368409367/minority-privilege-unpacking-the-new-invisible

the fucking nerve of it

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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. There’s just so much wrong! This has to be poorly done satire. There’s no way in HELL it can be serious. What the entire fuck?!

1 hour ago · 7 notes

I think it’s funny how white people how white people will swear up and down that they “just don’t find black women attractive,” but they’ll spend so much money trying to look like us.

They’ll get lip injections to have fuller lips like us.

They’ll get butt implants to have bigger butts like us.

They’ll get breast implants to have fuller breasts like us.

They’ll tan for hours in the sun and in tanning beds to have darker skin like us.

They’ll spend hundreds of dollars at a salon to get the same type of curl that grows out of our heads naturally.

They’ll do all of this, and yet they’ll look at a picture of a black woman with full lips, round butt, full breasts, tan skin, and naturally curly hair and say she’s unattractive.

Let a white woman have those exact same features and she’ll be considered on of the most attractive women in the world. Everyone will fawn over how beautiful she is.

They’ll say all day that they’re “not racist” but they “just don’t find black women attractive.”

Black features are not appreciated on black bodies.　

1 day ago · 443 notes

overratedunderwhelmed:

Shadeism part 1 (by unique5589)

Powerful mini-documentary about skin color and how it continues to affect POC and our view of ourselves.

Part two is also excellent. About 20 minutes total for both. Definitely worth watching and sharing.

2 days ago · 62 notes · Source · Reblogged from overratedunderwhelmed

White privilege

karnythia:

thestoutorialist:

ethiopianbutamerican:

Forty-six million white  adults today can trace the origins of their family wealth to the Homestead Act of 1862. This bill gave away valuable acres of land for free to white families, but expressly precluded participation by Blacks.

The deed to the house my father grew up in explicitly said the home could not be sold to “negroes.”  Given that neither grand parents were light enough to pass, I wonder how they managed that.  I can’t get an answer from my family and I’m not sure if that’s because no one knows, or because they don’t want me to know (because it was awful)

It was probably willed to someone. The land our family farm is on wasn’t actually sold to my great grandfather or his siblings. It was part of their owner/father’s will left to them along with their freedom.

2 days ago · 596 notes · Source · Reblogged from karnythia

CeCe stands her ground against bigotry

socialismartnature:

Keegan O’Brien reports on the case of CeCe McDonald, an African American transgender woman who fought against her attacker—and was charged with murder.

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IMAGINE BEING outnumbered and brutally attacked. Now imagine facing most of the rest of your adult life in prison for the crime of protecting your life.

This is the living nightmare endured by CeCe McDonald, an African American transgender women who was charged with second-degree felony murder for defending herself against a hate crime.

After international pressure, an ongoing campaign of public protests and more than 15,000 petition signatures, on May 2, McDonald and her attorney were able to negotiate a plea agreement and get the charges against her reduced to second-degree manslaughter. McDonald is set to be sentenced to 42 months in prison on June 4, and her sentence will be reduced to one-third of that for good behavior.

McDonald’s case demonstrates the power and necessity of struggle in achieving justice for oppressed people, and the obscene racism and transphobia at the core of America’s criminal injustice system.

3 days ago · 61 notes · Source · Reblogged from socialismartnature

I have to laugh at white people who will proclaim that natural black hair is unkept and shit, but will pay $150 a pop to get the “bed head” look at some designer salon

sourcedumal:

coppertonepretty:

sourcedumal:

And that shit is supposed to be an “attractive” look, one that is deemed appropriate for the workplace.

But let me wear my natural hair in twists/braids/knots/etc?

Apparently, my shit is “too political” for the workplace. It’s inappropriate. It’s laziness and bad.

Whiteness is a hell of a drug.

omg so we can’t even wear the natural state of our hair at the work place. It’s a fucking “No-no” Theres a difference between some one who has it unkept, you can always tell but just straight up telling us we can’t do it is wrong. It’s how it is naturally so get the fuck over it and deal with it.

And deliciouskaek said it best:

deliciouskaek said: and wanna put afros on white models on the “haute couture” runways and mags, but it’s wrong that it grows out of my head that way? really? *side-eye*

They put our natural features on white women and it’s high class, but on the black people it originated from? It’s trashy and unclean and should never be done.

We see your racist asses.

4 days ago · 94 notes · Source · Reblogged from thelittlekneesofbees

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

siddharthasmama: safe-legal-abortion-is-prolife: omegashogun: vonsuellosvenue: Sad but true Abortion has killed 14 million black babies since 1970. Somehow this was considered to be a racist billboard and taken down even though what they’re saying is true. It’s racist because it frames the Black community, and black women* in particular, as violent and dangerous. Are the people who made the billboard concerned about the black community or are they just playing on stereotypes of POC in order to achieve their ends? They are attempting to elicit sympathy and concern for black children while simultaneously vilifying black women (and other people who are able to get pregnant). That’s why it’s racist. Another problem with this billboard is that it makes it seem as if black women* are being somehow targeted for abortion services. This is ridiculous. It’s true that in the US black women* are disproportionately represented when it comes to abortion. But what anti-abortion advocates either haven’t seemed to figure out (or hope that the general public isn’t able to figure out) is that there is an important intervening variable they’re ignoring: economic status. People with lower socioeconomic status and less stable financial situations are more likely to choose abortion due to the fact that they are unable to afford a(nother) pregnancy or child. Is there racism involved here? Certainly. And though it may be reflected in the racial and ethnic breakdown abortion rates, it would be an incorrect conclusion to label the existence of safe, legal abortion as the problem. The problem lies in the institutional and systemic racism that keeps black people (and black women especially) in poverty. Of course it’s sad when a person has to terminate an otherwise wanted pregnancy because they can’t afford it or afford to take care of the resulting child. But the way to fix this is not by diverting attention from the real problem by creating a false enemy out of abortion— it’s by attacking the systems and institutions that cause a person to be lacking financial resources in the first place. This includes attacking institutional and systemic racism, misogyny, ciscentrism, and transphobia. side note: I can’t find the article at the moment, but there’s an interview with the mom of the girl in the picture where she says she was upset that her daughter’s image was being used in this way. are there really people who don’t find this propaganda racist as hell? It’s too hot today — reblogging for commentary.

siddharthasmama:

safe-legal-abortion-is-prolife:

omegashogun:

vonsuellosvenue:

Sad but true Abortion has killed 14 million black babies since 1970.

Somehow this was considered to be a racist billboard and taken down even though what they’re saying is true.

It’s racist because it frames the Black community, and black women* in particular, as violent and dangerous. Are the people who made the billboard concerned about the black community or are they just playing on stereotypes of POC in order to achieve their ends? They are attempting to elicit sympathy and concern for black children while simultaneously vilifying black women (and other people who are able to get pregnant). That’s why it’s racist.

Another problem with this billboard is that it makes it seem as if black women* are being somehow targeted for abortion services. This is ridiculous. It’s true that in the US black women* are disproportionately represented when it comes to abortion. But what anti-abortion advocates either haven’t seemed to figure out (or hope that the general public isn’t able to figure out) is that there is an important intervening variable they’re ignoring: economic status. People with lower socioeconomic status and less stable financial situations are more likely to choose abortion due to the fact that they are unable to afford a(nother) pregnancy or child.

Is there racism involved here? Certainly. And though it may be reflected in the racial and ethnic breakdown abortion rates, it would be an incorrect conclusion to label the existence of safe, legal abortion as the problem. The problem lies in the institutional and systemic racism that keeps black people (and black women especially) in poverty. Of course it’s sad when a person has to terminate an otherwise wanted pregnancy because they can’t afford it or afford to take care of the resulting child. But the way to fix this is not by diverting attention from the real problem by creating a false enemy out of abortion— it’s by attacking the systems and institutions that cause a person to be lacking financial resources in the first place. This includes attacking institutional and systemic racism, misogyny, ciscentrism, and transphobia.

side note: I can’t find the article at the moment, but there’s an interview with the mom of the girl in the picture where she says she was upset that her daughter’s image was being used in this way.

are there really people who don’t find this propaganda racist as hell? It’s too hot today — reblogging for commentary.

6 days ago · 911 notes · Source · Reblogged from siddharthasmama

turianpirate submitted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIuu_pDJCS4&feature=g-all-c

Am I wrong to think this is racist as balls? I wanted to bring this to peoples attention because it really bothers me personally and rubs me the wrong way completely, especially the shit she says. Am I wrong here or is there something actually fucked up about this video?

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“Some of you might say that this is racist and it’s not because he said it not me.”

…and then you proceed to make a video mocking the way “big black women” sing.

You know what I find truly hilarious. I’m willing to put money on the fact that many of the white singers she loves get their inspiration from, if not outright copy, “big black women” singers. She can go fuck herself.

6 days ago · 7 notes

Race shit that makes not a lick of sense.

crankycritic:

sapphrikah:

If ever a black person and a white person get heated in a conversation on race, the surrounding white folks will be convinced and express that the black person has a chip on their shoulder or an exaggerated bias. But that is NEVER said about the white person. Why? Because white is right to them, of course. Whiteness is of reason, white is rational. Black is savage, uncouth, incapable of being rational.

Nobody every says “hey, maybe you’re being biased because you’re white.” but we can barely SPEAK on this shit without some cracker saying this shit.

MEANWHILE your ass wouldn’t even be suggesting they had a “chip on their shoulder” or a bias if you didn’t think that there is a reason black people should feel that bias. If you didn’t know that we’ve been extremely wronged, constantly, for centuries, then that whole ‘bias’ theory wouldn’t have even come to your mind.

EMPHASIS MINE BECAUSE YES

1 week ago · 182 notes · Source · Reblogged from rararamyeon