December 2011
29 posts
Black
ethiopianbutamerican:
Why do people think Ethiopians are not black? These fools don’t even know the sociological term for being black. For those who do not know, it means someone that is from an African descent; black is not a fucking color indicator it is a socially based racial classification. This includes Ethiopians, everybody else in East Africa, West Africans, Brazilians, African-Americans,...
“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
Eh this is completely wrong. He was actually quite fond of the Reagans. It was at a White House dinner however. Here is what...
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بلا اتجاه أو هوية: Companies pull ads from Muslim... →
sexgenderbody:
wtfwhiteprivilege:
hummussexual:
“The Florida Family Association, a Tampa Bay group, has led a campaign urging companies to pull ads on “All-American Muslim.” The FFA contends that 65 of 67 companies it has targeted have pulled their ads, including Bank of America,
the Campbell Soup Co.,
Dell,
Estee Lauder,
General Motors,
Goodyear,
Green Mountain Coffee, ...
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fuck yeah, women of the rainbow.: Rosa Alicia... →
blackacrylic:
Rosa Alicia Clemente is a Bronx born, Puerto Rican journalist and activist . In her articleWho is Black? she addresses blackness in an Afro-Latin context. I have always considered Afro-Latinos to be a part of the African Diaspora family and have never really understood…
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“If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter. We...”
– Langston Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926)
“[The limitations and curtailing of civil rights and liberties caused by the war...”
– Aaron McGruder, creator of comic strip and animation The Boondocks, in an interview with Salon.com in 2001. (via depressingfacts)