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bay area california born&raised | de la diáspora africana | fancy | dedicated to liberation | newly minted college lecturer | trying to do something righteous with my life.
~ Sunday, March 25 ~
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The United States of America on college education

  • Student: I'm not going to go to college because I don't want to go into debt.
  • USA: YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT. YOU'RE GOING TO AMOUNT TO NOTHING YOU FUCKING SCUMBAG. YOU'RE THE REASON WHY MY TAXES ARE SO HIGH.
  • Student: I'm just going to attend a small community college instead.
  • USA: HAHAHA YOU WERE TOO STUPID TO GET INTO A GOOD UNIVERSITY. ENJOY YOUR MCDONALD'S DIPLOMA.
  • Student: I attended a four year university and received a diploma in a field I am interested in. Now I am $50,000+ in debt.
  • USA: YOU DUMBASS. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO TO COLLEGE WHEN YOU KNOW YOU COULDN'T AFFORD IT? YOU DIDN'T EVEN CHOOSE A USEFUL MAJOR EITHER. GOD PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK.

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ethiopienne:

kemetically-ankhtified:

Who’s this?

Her Royal Highness, Queen Toni Morrison.

(Source: samljackson)


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~ Friday, March 9 ~
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where is the outrage from white america? maybe they should have called him a slut after they murdered him.

eatcakey:

What about George Zimmerman? Shouldn’t we be making HIM famous?  

(Source: youtube.com)


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fashionistazapatista:

dreamhampton1:

Fearless Political Poster Art by Favianna Rodriguez


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“

May it be beautiful before me,
May it be beautiful behind me
May it be beautiful below me,
May it be beautiful above me
May i walk in beauty.

Navajo Prayer
— Radmilla Cody, 27th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference, UC Berkeley

~ Saturday, February 4 ~
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amazing.

fyeahblackhistory:

Tracing your Ancestral roots.

This video is a combination of different Celebrities tracing some of their roots, From:

  • Maya Angelou
  • Morgan Freeman
  • Chris Rock
  • Tina Turner
  • Don Cheadle
  • Henry Louis Gates

If you are part of the Wider recent African Diaspora (During the last 500 years I.E African American, Afro-latino or Afro Caribbean etc… ) Your history is in your blood. You share a link to every ancestor that came before you All of which make you who you are.

So the belief that you lost your roots & culture is not entirely true as this is something you can reclaim YOURSELF. It took alot for that to be removed from you it may not take so much effort for you to reclaim that back.

“we are Made by the past” .


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“ I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
—

Audre Lorde (via mooreinstore)

THIS will be my next tattoo.


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~ Wednesday, February 1 ~
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“ Being Black is not a matter of pigmentation, being Black is a reflection of a mental attitude. Merely by describing yourself as Black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your Blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. From the above observations therefore, we can see that the term Black is not necessarily all-inclusive; i.e. the fact we are all not white does not necessarily mean that we are all Black. Non-whites do exist and will continue to exist and will continue to exist for quite a long time. If one`s aspiration is whiteness but his pigmentation makes attainment of this impossible, then that person is a non-white … Black people - real Black people - are those who can manage to hold their heads high in defiance rather than willingly surrender their souls to the white man.
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- Steven Biko, leader of the South African Black Consciousness


~ Tuesday, January 31 ~
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unaguerrasinfondo: Iris, Denise, Lulu, Nydia May 1970 Young Lords from: Palante

unaguerrasinfondo:

Iris, Denise, Lulu, Nydia

May 1970

Young Lords

from: Palante

(Source: biencafre)


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~ Monday, January 30 ~
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The (*G.)oddamazon: You can't say shit to me until you have:

thegoddamazon:

  • Lived in a country where the color of skin excludes you from moving up to the upper echelons of your career choice.
  • When someone can call you a racial slur and when you react back, you get expelled and they get a minor warning.
  • When your teacher purposely skips an entire…

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