March 2012
Anonymous asked: great post on the black men as rapists and black women facing rape from white men it should put feminism in a new light for u right?????lol
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White Woman Replies to 'Negro Rapist' Slander
‘(NAACP) Following William Pickens, field secretary of the NAACP, who lately nailed in the columns of the NY Tribune, the old lie that white women cannot walk with safety in the South for fear of attack, a white woman has written to the same newspaper.
This woman, Dr. Carrie K. Bartlett, not only reports that for years she taught and moved freely among Negroes in Arkansas and North...
February 2012
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East Africa Swahili Men 1913
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Watchlovewashername:
esprit-follet:
This documentary reveals some of the hidden history of Blacks in Canada. In the 1930s in rural Ontario, a farmer buried the tombstones of a Black cemetery to make way for a potato patch. In the 1980s, descendants of the original settlers, Black and White, came together to restore the cemetery, but there were hidden truths no one wanted to discuss. Deep racial...
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True Facts
duhdoydorothy:
If your White friends complain that you talk about race too much, especially if you are just talking about your day to day experiences, they aren’t your White friends, they are the White people you talk to for reasons that have really yet to be examined.
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“The axe forgets, the tree remembers.”
– African Proverb (via theevermysteriousowl)
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freestyle from Slam →
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i don’t know about the CSI mess he’s doing presently, but Omar Epps, from Higher Learning..could GET. IT.
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“i am tired of work; i am tired of building up somebody else’s...”
– Fenton Johnson
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“so we can say the white man thinks in a written language and the negro thinks in...”
– Zora Neale Hurston
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The oppositional gaze by bell hooks →
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W.E.B. Dubois, Why I Won't Vote
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In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party. On the Presidential ballot in a few states (seventeen in 1952), a “Socialist” Party will appear. Few will...
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Anonymous asked: Why do you consider Morgan Freeman an uncle tom?
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from 'How It Feels to be Colored Me
“a white person is set down in our midst, but the contrast is just as sharp for me.
for instance, when i sit in the drafty basement that is The New World Carbaret with a white person, my color comes. we enter chatting about any little nothing that we have in common and are seated by the jazz waiters. in the abrupt way that jazz orchestras have, this one plunges into a number. it loses no...
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Q-Tip | Let’s Ride
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D’Angelo | Everybody Loves The...
Anonymous asked: I've taken university classes on religion, sex and race. I'm not denying the issue, but I am denying that it is the most important. Racism is your calling. Dawkins is education and science. And he's doing a better job improving his calling then you are on your shitty blog. You're mad at how he reacted? The journalist accused him of having a slave owning gene. Of course he...