This post is dedicated to all of the kids that were involved in the Civil Rights Movement. The kids who suffered through police brutality and race mobs to give us the freedom that we take for granted today. Many didn’t know what they were fighting for; many didn’t know how big the movement was; and many didn’t know if they’d survive to see another birthday or milestone of life, yet they still chose to stand against their oppressors. Salute!
Never forget
still not free
“i do not hate white people.
they hate me.
they have hated me since they first laid eyes on me.
they hate me still.
is it every white person, no.
but
does every white person on this earth now and since enslavement benefit
from
this hate.
yes.
so you should not be asking me why i hate white people
i don’t think
i can even fathom
the
kind of hatred they had
harbor
savor for me.
they came to my continent
kidnapped me
made me lay in my own feces, blood, and vomit, naked on a ship chained down
enslaved me
whipped me
raped me
sold me on auction blocks
burned me
hung me from trees
sold my children and family away from me
created the klu klux klan
created an economic system that keeps me at the bottom
created a police system that still kills my babies everyday
flooded my delapidated but still holding strong communities
with crack.
killed martin luther king.
killed malcom x.
killed medgar evers.
it is they who threaten the first black president of the u.s. and his family on a daily basis with assasination (by the way just because he’s black doesn’t mean i absolutely agree with everything he does at all, because i don’t, but they want to kill him first and foremost because he is a man with dark skin)
and this is but a tiny part of the history of their hate.
what they have done to people of color across the world
is… i don’t even know if you can call it hate, it’s so destructive.
why are you asking me why i hate white people.
why aren’t you asking them
how
you could do something so sadistic
to a people
who did nothing to you,
but made the mistake of allowing you onto their land, africa
that first day you washed up on shore, looking for people to enslave for free labor
after you had exhausted the native american population.
they
give you example
upon
example
of their hate for me
yet
you are here
asking me about
a species of hate
i could not
exact upon a people, let alone one person, in my wildest dreams.”
hate, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)
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Good work, Irish activists!
This is glorious.
i love the irish so much tbh
Palestinian children never fail to amaze me, resistance and hope runs through their veins.
تحيا فلسطين ويحيا الشعب الفلسطيني
yarab e7meehom
I AM SORRY BUT THIS IS WHY I AM EMBARRASSED TO BE AN AMERICAN. IF A HIJAB THAT DORNS THE AMERICAN FLAG PATTERN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BUT SKIMPY ASS BIKINIS OR WEARING THE FUCKING ACTUAL FLAG IS ACCEPTABLE, JUST BECAUSE THE PERSON IS WHITE, I WANT TO FUCKING THROW UP.
(I don’t have a thing against Audrey Kitching, she was just merely and example).
But this fucking disgusts me right here. It makes me want to say, fuck this country and its racism and double standards.
I LITERALLY FUCKING CAN NOT
Give her a bullet to the head for walking down the street, minding her own business?? And they think SHE’S the terrorist.
White people are fucking monsters
shit i was just shopping for an american flag hijab. guess that’s not happening anymore.
what the actual FUCK
THIS IS SO VILE. I WANT TO THROW UP.
‘Murica. Fuck all of us.
Shocking! :(
Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It’s freedom from fear. It’s the billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you’re doing is okay. You are okay. -- Donald Draper, Mad MenI’ve put together this collection of recent sexist advertisements from different companies. To be honest, it was difficult to pick the ones I wanted because there were so many of them. It was truly abhorrent.
Donald Draper explains to us what advertising is. Its a stroking of the ego. Sexism and patriarchy are rampant within society (advertising also touches on things like race, body size, and social class but for the purposes of this post I am focusing on those two), and thus advertising capitalizes on that, makes money on it, and perpetuates it. We’re surrounded by this kind of advertising. We can’t escape it, we’re trapped.
So when shopping or flipping through a magazine, or even driving down the high way and reading billboards, let’s all remember to put our critical thinking hats on and to identify and call out the sexism. Advertising is a significant contributor to the continued social injustices. But remember: those problems come to an end with us. If we stop responding to these advertisements the way the companies want us to, then some real reform can begin.
The model’s face in that American Apparel ad makes me really sad. Like, it looks like she’s really uncomfortable and that picture is just…beyond words.
I just feel the need to point out that you can’t just separate out sexism from things like race and class… intersectionality is a thing for a reason, bc you literally can’t portion out a person’s identity, it doesn’t work that way. Race, sex, class, sexuality, etc are all intertwined and can’t be undone so analyzing anything based on just one issue is pretty much always going to be problematic. Just sayin…
Gaza Under Fire — Palestinians Search Desperately For Safe Place
“My children are terrified,” says his mother Umm Jihad, 37.
“My son Mohammed refuses to eat. He follows me everywhere because he’s so scared and asks me every 10 minutes when we’re going to die.
“He says he won’t go back to school because he’s scared he’ll be martyred or that he’ll come back from school and find that I or his brothers have been killed,” she says.
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