January 2012
154 posts
DON'T DRIVE DRUNK.
theafrosistuh:
chronikfuzz:
From 6pm-6am on New Year’s Eve/Day AAA will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE, member or not: 800-222-4357
please
Be safe tonight all.
December 2011
70 posts
COLOUR-BLIND RACISM: The Four Frames →
darkjez:
ABAGOND—
“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva asked samples of White Americans, most of them born between 1940 and 1980, questions about race issues. He noticed that at least half of them used each of the following four frames:
abstract liberalism – the key word here is “abstract”. Unlike Jim Crow racists, most whites now agree that all Americans, regardless of race, should have equal rights and...
“The role of the artist is the same as the role of lover. If I love you, I have...”
– James Baldwin (via black-culture)
“Even those who loathe Karl Rove’s every word may be hard-pressed to dispute his...”
– Frank Rich, The Molotov Party: For the New GOP, Conservative Isn’t Nearly Radical Enough. (via wisconsinforward)
“If [Spivak’s] critique…has not been widely taken up by U.S. historians and...”
– Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.
Yes, I see the irony in me, of all people, posting this quote.
(via wordsandsteel)
(via thatneedstogo)
Don't Tax the Rich, Tax Inequality →
“@evajackie I hope u can read english, because your magazine is a poor...”
– -Rihanna’s response to Eva Kroes, editor of Jackie mag, about their “Niggabitch” article.
I think I love her.
(via femmenoire)
offish team RiRi. OFFISH.
(via so-treu)
Well, I’m a fan.
(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)
not a fan, heart her response. necessary ether.
(via queennubian)
Dang...
Black, Female, and Single →
Easily the best piece on black women, marriage, and interracial dating that I have read so far. And from a black woman no less…
pussiesandpoets:
mysideeye:
Brava to Angela Stanley. The first time I’ve read an article about single Black women that actually makes sense…
Some black women choose to be single rather than settle, but rarely is this discussed as a real explanation for why...
hey, fellow black folk! →
pussiesandpoets:
ethiopienne:
you know you don’t get White People Points(TM) for saying that things aren’t racist, right? you know that even if you did get White People Points(TM), they’re not actually redeemable for anything that involves your self-preservation, right? you know that bashing other black people and separating yourself from “those kinds” doesn’t do anything but devalue the race...
“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their...”
– Huey P Newton (via black-culture)
I beg you, stop using the bankrupt and meaningless... →
ethiopienne:
darkjez:
No Such Place as ‘Post-Racial’ America—
Dear America,
Please, I beg you, stop using the bankrupt and meaningless term “post-racial!” There’s no such thing as “post-racial.” There’s no place that fits the description “post-racial America.” There’s no “post-racial era.” It’s a term for a concept that does not exist. There’s no there there.
We are not a nation devoid...
WatchJesus was a Liberal Democrat
a life of fragments: Let's say, hypothetically,... →
lebanesepoppyseed:
Let’s also operate on the idea that racism is oppressive based on historical and cultural contexts that show large-scale, hierarchical, bad/aggravated/deadly interactions between racial groups, since this gives said racism its power.
Given that, how is this alleged racism…
I don’t completely agree, especially about POC not ever being racist. However, it is worth the...
“If you teach that nigger how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would...”
– Frederick Douglass’s former master on why he shouldn’t be taught to read (as told in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)
Moral of the story: read a book.
(via daniellemertina)
READ ALL THE BOOKS!
(via theafrosistuh)
Reason to read #487
“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)
Dear Republicans in office,
thoughtsfromaneducatedwoman:
I promise I am not hiding any jobs in my uterus, I swear. So please keep out and look somewhere else.
Thanks,
Katie
For those who think blacks in America are... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
feedmerevolution:
Fact: Black youths arrested for drug possession are 48 times more likely to wind up in prison than white youths arrested for the same crime under the same circumstances.
Source: “Young White Offenders get lighter treatment,” 2000. The Tennessean. April 26: 8A.
Fact: Black and Latino men are three times more likely than white men to be stopped by the...
Another Teen Bullied To Death; Another Reason for... →
“The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than...”
– Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (via darkjez)
