You think it makes sense to tell a group of people to be peaceful about a non-peaceful event. You think it makes sense to have a police officer shoot a teenager dead in the street and tell everybody to be peaceful. Where was the peace when the gun was going off?
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(Source: homosexual-ing)
It disturbed me how some critics would talk about the loss of property — which is really saying white-owned property — but not the loss of life. Do the Right Thing was a litmus test. If in a review, a critic discussed how Sal’s Famous was burned down but didn’t mention anything about Radio Raheem getting killed, it seemed obvious that he or she valued white-owned property more than the life of this young black hoodlum. To me, loss of life outweighs loss of property. You can rebuild a building. I mean, they’re rebuilding New Orleans now but the people that died there are never coming back.
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(Source: kmmbig)
(Source: flyandfamousblackgirls)
one of the best pics I could find that wasn’t already circling around of the South Bay Correction inmates who put their hands up and shouted things through the bars of their cells in support of Michael Brown and the unrest that is currently taking place
wow
the idea that violence only comes in the form of physical harm is so wrong. violence is in language, it’s in silencing & in erasure. white supremacy is violence. not affording black children their innocence is violence. dehumanization is violence. reducing the anger & sadness that the black…
I know girls who spill I’m sorry’s from their mouths like they pump blood
to their veins.
Sometimes, I am one.
I know girls who apologize for asking
to go to the bathroom in class,
who apologize for everything
because they feel like they are taking
up more than their fair share of space
on this planet.
Everything starts with an I’m sorry
and ends with one too,
constant bookends that we don’t
even notice anymore.
We delete her apology the way we
delete likes and ums from speech.
I know girls with ten times more apologies
than misdemeanors
and I wonder how often they hear
It’s okay.
You’re more than okay.
— “I’m Sorry” by Claire Luisa (via tanghuijuan)
(Source: claireluisa)
Shaun King revealing more cover ups by the St. Louis Police Department.
— (Read his article here) —
(10/10)
some dude just asked to take a picture of my face as I was coming in the building after working 14 hours
Dascha Polanco attends the Rolando Santana Fashion Show at NYFW
Her hair!!!
hope lives in the crevices
of women who laugh too loud
skin sticky
nights warm between legs
forcing halos to form
from cigarette smoke held between red tipped fingers
breaking cheap heels across
dizzy floors stained rum and malta
lips kissed swollen
steadying themselves against the arms of men
who want to carry them up harlem fire escapes
and make them claw at horizons
When an innocent black person is murdered, the media goes out of their way to dehumanize them and paint them as a criminal.
When a white celebrity dies, the media erases every racist and/or problematic thing they ever said or did and paints them as a hero.
