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siddharthasmama: rebelion-silenciosa: aboutmaleprivilege: bra...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:30:15 -0400

rebelion-silenciosa:

aboutmaleprivilege:

brashblacknonbeliever:

punjabi-rani:

wellhellolovely:

Had you any idea that Emmett Till’s final words were some of boldest in American history?

Milam: “You still as good as I am?”

Till: “Yeah.”

Milam: “You still ‘had’ white women?”

Till: “Yeah.”

Keep in mind that that’s after two grown men had tortured him for hours. Milam would later say that, following that exchange, he had no choice but to kill the 14-year-old boy:

“Well, what else could we do? He was hopeless. I’m no bully; I never hurt a n*gger in my life. I like n*ggers—in their place—I know how to work ‘em. But I just decided it was time a few people got put on notice. As long as I live and can do anything about it, n*ggers are gonna stay in their place. N*ggers ain’t gonna vote where I live. If they did, they’d control the government. They ain’t gonna go to school with my kids. And when a n*gger gets close to mentioning sex with a white woman, he’s tired o’ livin’. I’m likely to kill him. Me and my folks fought for this country, and we got some rights. I stood there in that shed and listened to that n*gger throw that poison at me, and I just made up my mind. ‘Chicago boy,’ I said, ‘I’m tired of ‘em sending your kind down here to stir up trouble. Goddam you, I’m going to make an example of you—just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand.’”

still less than 60 years ago white folks.

Just 57 years ago. Think long and hard about that. 57 years. That’s not that long.

That’s how privilege sounds.

“I like them, but in their place. I like them, but they’re not as good as me. I like them, but I’ll kill/assault/make life hell for them because I feel it is my right to do so.”

He calls it “poison” - being denied his ubiquitous privilege for even a moment - was venomous to his psyche.

No way in hell that fucked up mentality just evaporated from his generation - we all know, it was instilled far further back - yet that’s the beginning of every “we’re not like that” excuse: that somehow THIS time period was one of great justice and change.

If that mans words don’t make your stomach turn, you just might be a white supremacist/sympathizer. I got chills. I’ve read it before, but god damn, it is so hateful and HIS words are poisonous. Racism is a poison, a disease in society, and it has not been eradicated. I mean, my grandmother was 12 when this happened, and she’s not yet an ‘old woman’.

Things you do not have to feel guilty about

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:27:14 -0400

dedicationtocurves:

becky-fitness:

Saying no sometimes

Wanting to be alone sometimes

Saying no to sex

Saying yes to sex

Not being sure about your life career

Deciding to study instead of going out

Getting rid of the toxic people in your life

Ending a relationship that is hurting you

Not liking the things everyone else likes

musingsofanawkwardblackgirl: not-here-for-it: kalos-estin: Isl...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:32:58 -0400

musingsofanawkwardblackgirl:

not-here-for-it:

kalos-estin:

Island hopping …. I’m heading to St Lucia and Trinidad first

http://kalos-estin.tumblr.com/

Oh Papi, I’m trying to visit Haiti doe…

"My energy, emotion, time and space are reserved only for those who can reciprocate properly in love."

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:06:58 -0400

“My energy, emotion, time and space are reserved only for those who can reciprocate properly in love.”

- (via notesonascandal)

hamburgerjack: knowledgeequalsblackpower: nedahoyin: I don’t...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:38:55 -0400

hamburgerjack:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

nedahoyin:

I don’t know what most white people in this country feel but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institutions. James Baldwin on The Dick Cavett Show [X]

—giving the system a fiercely bloody read..

Which I have never seen!!!

And this is why we will never trust you.

The burden of proof is on White America.

"Once you know some things, you can’t unknow them. It’s a burden that can never be given away."

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:36:30 -0400

“Once you know some things, you can’t unknow them. It’s a burden that can never be given away.”

- Alice Hoffman (via creatingaquietmind)

"When I am deep in a book, my life no longer exists."

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:35:28 -0400

“When I am deep in a book, my life no longer exists.”

- Read and reread Cynthia Cruz’s beautiful, mesmerizing essay, On Reading, today. (via therumpus)

peace-love-dreds: come home boo.

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:41:33 -0400

peace-love-dreds:

come home boo.

"The girl looked around the bookshop and took a deep breath. “That smell, I just love it, don’t you?"

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:36:21 -0400

“The girl looked around the bookshop and took a deep breath. “That smell, I just love it, don’t you?”

- Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys (via prettybooks)

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Sun, 19 May 2013 15:34:00 -0400

embrace-your-earth: So much love~

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:32:04 -0400

embrace-your-earth:

So much love~

merlinobsessedchild: and i don’t care if this doesn’t fit on...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:29:08 -0400

merlinobsessedchild:

and i don’t care if this doesn’t fit on my blog. this is beautiful.

She has a beautiful heart…

Oh god. Why are there tears in my eyes?

"I could start fires with what I feel for you."

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:15:00 -0400

“I could start fires with what I feel for you.”

- Fires, David Ramirez (via blua)

"The Internet will kill everything you love. But by the time it dies, you won’t even care."

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:32 -0400

“The Internet will kill everything you love. But by the time it dies, you won’t even care.”

- Squashed: If Yahoo buys Tumblr… (via nevver)

"I don’t care what you say to me. I care what you share with me."

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:03:57 -0400

“I don’t care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”

- Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday (via quotes-shape-us)

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Sun, 19 May 2013 14:57:23 -0400

Jews and Plantation Slavery in the Caribbean

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:47:01 -0400

Jews and Plantation Slavery in the Caribbean:

The role of Jews in plantation slavery is not documented at all. This silence is troubling especially since so many students visit the museum each year. They end up getting a rather distorted account of Jamaican, not just Jewish, history.

In his prophetic song, “Columbus”, reggae philosopher Burning Spear warns that

“A whole heap a mix up, mix up

A whole heap a bend up, bend up

Go ha fi straighten out”.

….

How Jewish people came to be engaged in plantation slavery in the Caribbean is a rather long and complicated story. The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, more popularly known as the Spanish Inquisition, launched a holy war against non-Catholics in 1480. Jews and Muslims were the targets of attack. The tribunal was not abolished until 1834, the very same year that slavery was outlawed in the British Caribbean.

Muslims from North African, who were called Moors, had invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 711 and occupied it for almost 600 years.

The Spanish Inquisition was a belated attempt to purify the land of ‘foreign’ religions. Many Jews supposedly converted to Christianity but practiced Judaism in secret. The Alhambra decree, issued in January 1492, put an end to the pretence. It demanded the expulsion of Jews.

…

Columbus’ ‘discovery’ opened doors of opportunity for Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many Sephardic Jews went to Brazil where they made fortunes in plantation slavery. According to Ralph Bennett in an essay, “History of Jews in Brazil”, “It is believed that the first sugar cane was brought by a Jewish farmer from Madeira to Brazil in 1532. Sugar cane became the foundation of the Caribbean economy for several centuries”.

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thedrunkenenigma: Oh

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:45:56 -0400

thedrunkenenigma:

Oh

trustwurthy: im reading this right now and this is literally...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:40:35 -0400

trustwurthy:

im reading this right now and this is literally the only fucking understandable line in the entire play

^^^ same

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Sat, 18 May 2013 20:33:18 -0400