21 year old boricua grrrl looking for the Marceline to my Princess Bubblegum. My name is Melanie.

“You wanna say [the n-word] but you don’t want to be followed around a store. You want to say [the n-word] but you don’t want to be discriminated on by police. You want to say [the n-word] but you don’t want to not be able to get a fucking cab in the rain. You wanna act like you gonna be a n——- then be a fucking n——- and live a n——- life, if not, then keep that shit out of your mouth.”
–

@JasFly

This whole video is perfection.

(via lavender-labia)

(Source: autumn-and-eve, via lavenderlabia)

#race  #racism  #racial prejudice  #people of colour  #PoC  #whiteness  #oppression  #privilege  #n-word  #slur  

→ Justice Department to Investigate Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Black Student in California

wakeupblackpower:

“Yourblackworld previously reported the shooting death of an unarmed black teen by Pasadena California police on March 24th. Policesay they mistook the 19 year old college student, Kendrec McDade, for a robber and believed he was reaching for a gun in his waistband when they opened fire.

Now police in Pasadena have asked the FBI to review the shooting death of McDade by two white officers who were responding to a 911 report of an armed robbery.

Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez said in a statement  Thursday on the department’s website he had asked the FBI to consider reviewing the shooting.

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation offers another independent level of review,” he said in the statement.”

Did he have a gun? Seriously-he looked like the robber? Do the details even matter, lynching at it’s best.

(via knowledgeequalsblackpower)

#Race  #Racism  #Black America  #Black Culture  #Life  #News  #Issues  

[general tw: discussion on cissexism and racism] I would really fucking love it if we stopped idolizing cis-feminists who think being trans-inclusive is bad for cis women.

fromonesurvivortoanother:

youarenotyou:

inflateablefilth:

I really fucking would. The latest in this line of cis-feminists I’ve noticed is Raven, aka unknowable woman. By asking for trans-inclusive language we’re being mean to women.

This is her response to people being upset with a poster that had a uterus on it and a slogan about women:

God fucking forbid women have one thing of their own in this world. We can’t write about ourselves, we can’t speak about ourselves, we can’t advocate for ourselves even within our own so-called “social justice” spheres without someone telling us to shut up about our own experiences.

That’s right folks, us mean ol’ trans folk are silencing women. How bout that! Even though trans folks like me are active and vocal in the pro-choice movement, which benefits cis women, we really should just shut up.

But, no, we have to love her because she got into a battle on twitter with Ryking. And I mentioned this to someone once, that I distrust cis-women in social justice, feminist, and pro-choice environments more than cis-men sometimes, because when cis women pull the ‘we’re being marginalized by you!’ card a lot more people listen. And I got called a misogynist. Which, incidentally, is apparently what we automatically are because we don’t want people telling us that a uterus makes you a woman.

This stuff, this is why Die Cis Scum is a phrase that exists. Because if we dare to talk, we’re silencing women. And when they say ‘women’, you bet your ass they only mean cis women.

Fuck cis people man, I am fucking done with your shit.

I love (and by love, I mean hate) how these cis feminists are always implying that anyone who isn’t a woman is oppressing them, because non-woman always equals male, apparently. 

And the justification of this cissexist erasing shit is that cis-woman-specific language is “needed” to point out that these anti-choicers are motivated by their hatred of cis women. Or in other words, “They aren’t thinking about anyone else, so why should we?” Like because cis women are the targets, we shouldn’t acknowledge who else is affected. Their needs are more important.

The funny thing is, the vast majority of anti choice legislation is actually specifically targeting and affecting women of color. But these white cis feminists completely ignore that fact. The face of the pro choice movement is white, white, white. So their whole “it’s about hating and killing WOMEN, not just PEOPLE” logic falls fucking flat. They cling to that language not because it most accurately describes the target demographic, but because it makes the debate all about them and their white cis needs. 

(And it really sickens me that people finally did something about Ryking when he went after a really well known white cis feminist blogger, despite all of his past harassment of women, especially women of color. But they deny, deny, deny this cuz whiteness has nothing to do with it, oh no.)

like i said yesterday, there’s a reason why “feminists” these days know Jessica Valenti more than Audre Lorde. it’s shit like this that caters to middle class white women. Andrea Smith calls this out in Conquest (which seriously has like, a laser eye on so many feminist issues). WoC didn’t get abortion rights after Roe v Wade, they were still too poor to afford it; the medicalization of abortion only exacerbated that problem. WoC care about contraception, being not-poor enough to feed their kids, and basic health care that is affordable. White woman feminism is about a capitalistic career track, not having to have kids, and getting into the white man’s world. Meanwhile, Women of Color are just trying to survive.

(via fivelettered)

#cis people  #die cis scum  #anti choice  #abortion  #feminism  #why i'm not a feminist  #white feminists  #unknowablewoman  #transphobia  #cissexism  #race  #racism  #white privilege  #2nd wave bullshit  

→ Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men - Media - GOOD

youarenotyou:

youarenotyou:

After watching this happen again and again, something occurred to me: Why don’t the white men who are asked to engage in this nonsense simply stop doing it? The boycott is a protest with a long history of success. If white, male elites started saying, “I will not participate in your panel, event, or article if it is all about white men,” chances are these panels and articles would quickly dry up—or become more diverse.

“I think it’s ridiculous that this kind of thing goes on in 2011,” says Wired magazine’s Spencer Ackerman, a white guy who’s often written about and asked to be on panels thanks to his vaunted national security reporting. “It’s especially bad when it happens in progressive media, which makes an effort—or at least pays lip service—to promote the idea that media diversity isn’t just an optional thing but a necessity.”

Asked what he thinks about a white-dude panel boycott, Ackerman said it makes sense. “It’s within our power and it’s up to us to say, ‘Why don’t you include my colleague who works on something similar, who has possibly more to say because they’re not listened to as frequently,’” he says. “And if we don’t do it, there’s no incentive for people organizing these things to think more critically about why it is they’re not including these diverse voices.”

Omg, the comments O_O

why tim wise sucks

(Source: creatrixtiara, via youarenotyou-deactivated2012022)

#quote  #race  #racism  #white privilege  #male privilege  

“The sad truth of the matter is that while White kids are being sheltered and taught to believe that they are special, kids of colour are actively being torn down and encouraged by the world to see themselves as “other”. White people may look at them as babies, and think that they are cute, but shortly after getting out of diapers, they begin to see Black boys as future rapists, thieves and gang bangers. They are systematically written off as a matter of course. The childhood that White children have, is denied to children of colour, in order to teach them their role in the pecking order. Discrimination does not wait until adulthood.”
– All Is White in So-Called Multicultural Canada (via satifice)

(via fuckyeahfeminists)

#race  #children  #racism  

“I am proud to be white.”

eccentricafrochild:

Anyone who says this is trying to antagonize black pride .. or they’re truly racist.

Black pride comes from resistance. Black pride comes from survival. We as a people have endured and are currently enduring rape, torture, racism, inferiority complexes, colonialism, segregation, a biased judicial system and being at the fucking bottom of bottoms. THAT IS what the fuck we are proud of. Black people have been told we are ugly, we are not worthy, we are less than, we are nothing. The entire economical structure of the world was built off the back of slaves and still is being upholded by the exploitation of African land/people. We are proud, because through everything, we made it. And we are making it. And we will continue to make it. 

What the fuck is white pride? What does white history in the Americas consist of?

Oh gee, let’s see here: The extermination of an entire indigenous race and the occupation of their land. The transportation of an entire people in torturous conditions from one side of the world to another for a lifetime of servitude, degradation, ownership and denial of education/freedom. The bombing of an entire nation which is still dealing with the radioactivity today and throwing the people from said country who resided in the US into internment camps. The raping, beating, torture, vilification and cheap labor of undocumented immigrants. Declaration of war on innocent civilians all around the Middle East, which has resulted in countless deaths, accounts of violence and the displacement of entire nations. And the current judicial, economical and educational systems that feed off white supremacy and leave us PoC with essentially nothing. 

If you are white, you have absolutely nothing in your history or heritage or culture that is worth being proud of. Don’t like that? Too fucking bad, that’s what your ancestors left you with, take it up with them.

But trolling PoC for checking your bullshit is only instigating the truth of what jackasses you are.

Come on white people, get yourselves together .. there is nothing difficult about this.

(Source: dank-potion, via lavenderlabia)

#yup  #racism  #truth  #race  #white people  #white pride  #neo-nazi  #national front  #bnp  

#feminism  #Work force  #pay equity  #pay gap  #race  #gender  

“We need to acknowledge that we cannot know what it’s like to be an oppressed racial minority. Cannot. The end. Period. We don’t know because we’re queer, because we’re disabled, because we’re Jewish, because we were the nerdy kid in school. These things may have hurt us severely, but we need to stop playing Oppression Olympics and acknowledge that when we’re talking about race we Do. Not. Know. No more metaphors.

We need to accept that when a person of color tells us we’ve fucked up, the answer is not to get defensive. When we get that instinct to say “geez, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it that way at all,” it’s time to stop right now. It doesn’t matter how you meant it. It really doesn’t. Someone doesn’t have to have racism in their heart to do something racist. And doing something racist doesn’t make you an evil person who can never do good again, should never be an activist, should run off and hide in a hole somewhere. It means you did something hurtful, you made a big mistake, and you need to own that mistake. You need to say “I’m sorry.” Full stop. I’m sorry. And if the person who called you out is generous enough to take time to explain what you did wrong, you need to have a seat and listen.”
– White Feminists: It’s Time to Put Up or Shut Up on Race (via fromonesurvivortoanother)

#race  #racism  #white privilege  #feminism  #feminist  #privilege  #intersectionality  #resources  

“Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master’s concerns. Now we hear that it is the task of women of Color to educate white women—in the face of tremendous resistance—as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought.”
–

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, by Audre Lorde (1979)

(Source: manifestfreedom, via fuckyeahfeminists)

#race  #sex  #gender  

fearandwar: “Saying we should all be color-blind…”

stfuracists:

fearandwar:

Saying we should all be color-blind is an argument only a white idiot could make.

But I’m color-blind, I don’t see his race, I only see a HUMAN idiot.

(wah-wah…)

#racism  #white privilege  #race  #Color-Blindness  

→ Honestly...(a few words about Slutwalk)

notyourkinddear:

lebanesepoppyseed:

I am an Afro-Latina who, along with another local feminist (who is white), set up and and established a Slutwalk for our town. I was aware of the criticisms. I of course personally know of “mainstream white straight cis feminism” and how inaccessible…

#Slutwalk  #feminism  #women of color  #racism  #intersectionality  #social justice  #sj politics  #rant  #writing  #personal  #riot grrrl  #identity  #culture  #race  #Afro-Latina  

“But America is also this: a long history of using policy—not just name-calling and thuggish law enforcement—but actual policy to disadvantage African-Americans. It isn’t just that it “turns out” that African-Americans are disproportionately uninsured. It’s the result of a virtually unbroken run of policy decisions stretching back to the Virginia black codes of the 1650s, through the Illinois black laws of the 1850s, through the redlining of the 1950s. When the Blair bill died in the 1890s, for fear of generating an educated, and thus empowered, class of blacks, it was policy. When anti-lynching legislation was repeatedly killed throughout the first half of the 20th century, it was policy. When FDR lured Southern senators into supporting New Deal legislation by excluding blacks, it was policy. It’s true that it would be unwise for Obama to offer up a black agenda. It’s also true that America, to the detriment of blacks, has long had one.”
– How America Works - Atlantic Mobile (via robot-heart-politics)

(via guerrillamamamedicine)

#racism  #Ta-Nehisi Coates  #race  #politics  

#racism  #Angela Y. Davis  #prison  #Black Codes  #prison-industrial complex  #incarceration  #United States  #race  #racism  

“I don’t think white people, generally, understand the full meaning of racist discriminatory behaviors directed toward Americans of African descent. They seem to see each act of discrimination or any act of violence as an “isolated” event. As a result, most white Americans cannot understand the strong reaction manifested by blacks when such events occur. They feel that blacks tend to “over-react.” They forget that in most cases, we live lives of quiet desperation generated by a litany of daily large and small events that whether or not by design, remind us of our “place” in American society.”
– The Continuing Significance of Race by Joe R. Feagin (via newwavefeminism)

(via cherryvision-deactivated2012011)

#race  #racism  #joe feagin  

“My biggest problem is that there is simply no creativity in movies with black casts at all. White people are 12 year old wizards, teens with crushes on vampires and werewolves, fighting blue people, talking fish and toys, and yet the best we get is a movie about the genteel south? Someone please make a movie about two black folks falling in love at a rock concert or a feature film about Storm from X-Men discovering her power, or something, ANYTHING, that goes beyond Black Pain (TM) / White Saviour (TM) movies. Sheesh.”
–

A commenter on “Why I’m Just Saying No to ‘The Help’” (via atrapforfools)

FUCKING THIS.

(via so-treu)

Pretty much. 

(via kyssthis16)

SO. MUCH. THIS. TIMES. INFINITY.

(via squeetothegee)

(via cherryvision-deactivated2012011)

#movies  #race