NATURAL DISASTER

downeastandout: New Tailor

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:28:57 -0400

downeastandout:

New Tailor

skyline1288: Black American Family, Circa 1900

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:55:11 -0400

skyline1288:

Black American Family, Circa 1900

"If it’s meant for you, you won’t have to beg for it. You will never have to sacrifice your dignity..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:08:16 -0400

“If it’s meant for you, you won’t have to beg for it. You will never have to sacrifice your dignity for your destiny.”

- Chelsis Porter (via stellablu)

"And here is the good news nested inside the bad: Many of you, most of you, are about to make that..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:43:55 -0400

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And here is the good news nested inside the bad: Many of you, most of you, are about to make that journey. You will go from being the best-informed, most engaged students at one of the finest universities around to being the person who brings coffee to people, or a Steak n Shake waiter, as I once was. Whether you’re a basketball player or a pharmacist or a software designer, you’re about to be a rookie. Your parents’ long-asked questions—what exactly does one DO with a degree in anthropology—will become a matter of sudden and profound relevance. Your student loans will come due and you will need a very good answer for why exactly you went to college, which answer you will have a hard time coming by as you sit at your job, provided you are lucky enough to find a job, and suffer the indignity of people calling you by the wrong name or, if you are forced to wear a name tag, people calling you by the right name too often.

That is the true hero’s errand—strength to weakness. And because you went to college, you will be more alive to the experience, better able to contextualize it and maybe even find the joy and wonder hidden amid the dehumanizing drudgery.

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- John Green’s tumblr: The Commencement Address

This is so great. I wish my speaker (can’t remember who he was, but he was bad) had told me these things.

(via hermionejg)

moisab: Sam Haskins

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:53:07 -0400

moisab:

Sam Haskins

"Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:52:48 -0400

“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

- Marc Hack (via sunnyflutters)

i’m letting this happen… I really am.

(via sangredeflorr)

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Tue, 07 May 2013 23:15:33 -0400

kindreadace: Let’s Get Free! Hands off Assata!

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:01:37 -0400

kindreadace:

Let’s Get Free! Hands off Assata!

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Sat, 04 May 2013 18:54:20 -0400

shespoison1307: viara: mrsmelchiorgabor: this is what...

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:22:00 -0400

shespoison1307:

viara:

mrsmelchiorgabor:

this is what heterophobia would look like if it was real. if you believe that heterophobia is a real thing that exists, please watch this because you will see that it simply doesn’t exist, that it never has and never will.

tbh I think everyone should watch this anyway because it’s very clever and very powerful

crying right now

just stop hating.

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Fri, 03 May 2013 19:20:56 -0400

afrohijabi: my feet tell the story Of an immigrant and refugee who left Home in search of home.

Fri, 03 May 2013 19:01:34 -0400

afrohijabi:

my feet tell the story

Of an immigrant and refugee who left

Home in search of home.

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Fri, 03 May 2013 16:11:13 -0400

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Fri, 03 May 2013 15:51:46 -0400

"Nothing enrages the American injustice system more than an escaped slave. When Harriet Tubman was..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:26:33 -0400

“Nothing enrages the American injustice system more than an escaped slave. When Harriet Tubman was liberating Black people from institutionalized genocide, rape and servitude, the state offered a reward of $40,000 to any bounty hunter who could bring her to “justice.” And if you think $40,000 goes a long way now, imagine what it did in 1875. Tubman was so vigorously desired by the state, not only because she broke the laws of chattel slavery (she was legally a thief, who ran away with thousands of dollars worth of what they considered to be stolen property), but also because she represented a revolutionary ideology. In many ways, her impact on the minds, hearts and souls of African American people was more damaging to the system of enslavement than the hundreds of African people that she emancipated physically. Same bed, new sheets.

Former political prisoner and member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, Assata Shakur is still being aggressively perused by her former captors, over three decades after her escape from prison. Utilizing the same tactics as their slave holding predecessors, the New Jersey Police and U.S. Justice Department offered a $1,000,000 reward for her capture in 2005 - the largest reward placed on an individual in the history of New Jersey. Like Tubman, Shakur is being hunted not only for her alleged crimes against the state of New Jersey, but also because of her unwavering revolutionary opposition to imperialism and injustice.”

- President Obama Asked To Extradite Assata Shakur

This article is from 2009 but these words are extremely relevant today.

(via theraceproblem)

fuckyeablackart: Mother Nature II Artist: Anthony Burks

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:24:29 -0400

fuckyeablackart:

Mother Nature II

Artist:

Anthony Burks

"I am 60 years old, and I have never in my life seen such widespread violence and cruelty. The U.S...."

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:21:53 -0400

“I am 60 years old, and I have never in my life seen such widespread violence and cruelty. The U.S. government has more people in prison than any other country in the world, and it is now actively involved in creating prisons all over the world. Abu Gharib is only the tip of the iceberg. People all over the world are being imprisoned in secret prisons, with no formal charges being made against them. They are imprisoned under the most inhumane conditions, and detained for indeterminate periods of time, with no rights, no trials, and no justice whatsoever. In short, the leaders of this country are war criminals. All the U.S. government has to do is call them terrorists or extremists, enemy combatants or whatever and they can do anything they want to these people. I live in Cuba, and the Cuban people watch horrified, as the U.S. Army illegally occupies their land in Guantanamo and commits unspeakable acts of torture on their soil, in the name of “freedom.” The U.S. government not only destroys the lives of people around the world, many mothers have cried because many of our young people have had their lives destroyed as well. I believe that this earth was meant for tenderness and not terror. The imperialist countries not only implement terrorist policies in the Third World, their actions also provoke terrorist activities and internal disputes between people. I believe that when Western governments learn to respect the sovereignty of Third world governments, and to offer solidarity and support rather that imperialist policies and exploitation, most of the world’s problems will be close to being solved.”

- Assata Shakur (via trellbrennan)

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Thu, 02 May 2013 21:10:05 -0400

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Thu, 02 May 2013 20:55:29 -0400

someothashipconnect: Georgia Anne Muldrow (Painting) by...

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:16:54 -0400

someothashipconnect:

Georgia Anne Muldrow (Painting) by Sandrine Astier