Cigar-box fiddler, Scott Dunbar. Wilkinson County, MS, July 1975.
the photographer is Robert L. Freeman, in case you didn’t know. so you can add it to the caption.
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*but it will always piss you off
and if it threatens everything you’ve ever learned and you’re already in a position of comfort, then you’ll continue about your merry way even if aspects of that privilege shits on everyone else..
(Source: hfoss)
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Georgia Anne Muldrow
—Keep It Real?
Georgia Anne Muldrow | Keep it Real?
If I took away your language and your trust
and taught you to be ashamed of where you come from
tell me now
how would you feel? how would you feel?If I locked you up for a 100 years or more
sold your children off like candy in a store
Come on now
lets keep it real lets keep it realIf I made fun of your accent when you talk
but in the video your dialect I caught
Come on now
lets keep it real lets keep it realIf I pat you on your head like you’re a pet (“you’re the most beautful black woman I’ve ever seen”)
Then i get suprised when you get all upset
come on now
how would you feel? how would you feel?If I told you now that my best friend is black (“Tyrone is my homeboy”)
see would you trust me more than you did 2 seconds back?
Come on now
Lets keep it real. Please keep it real.I forgive all of your ignorance of this.
but my forgiveness does not let you off the hook
“Reparations” is the next song on my list.
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Dahlak
—A Huey Freeman Introduction
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran
- Khalil Gibran
so there’s a lot of beautiful Rosie the Riveters out there, and I’ve compiled a set of them, so we can appreciate them all together :)
ps I don’t know the artists or women depicted for most of these, so if you have info, let me know and I’ll add it!
- original print (J. Howard Miller)
- Sabina England (artist and portrayal)
- unknown
- Kelly Rowland (portrayal); Derek Blanks (photographer)
- Guatelmalan Woman of Quetzalteca Especial (artist: Mario Lanz)
- unknown
- Roshan the Riveter (artist: Omid Hast)
- Latina Rosie the Riveter (artist: my-little-native)
- Robert Valadez (artist)
- unknown
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Dick Gregory Speech
When I want to know what misogyny is, I don’t ask a man. When I want to know what racism is, I don’t ask a white person. When I want to know what homophobia is, I don’t ask a heterosexual. When I want to know what transphobia is, I don’t ask a cisgender person. When I want to know what ableism is, I don’t ask an able-bodied person. The contours and definitions of oppression are best articulated by the oppressed.
James Baldwin interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1961
black ppl
Come on yall that is creative ass hell
oh i 4got shit is only creative on white bodies
You know what? For real, for real, if some famous white girl did this for a music video we’d think it was hot shit.
damn. #retrospected.
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
but u were a black artist B. stop playing.
my bebe said this?
Well if he did, he knew he was lying/joking.
He was the blackist of artists. His work was the blackest of arts.
Searching for Knowledge: Student Debt: Not Just For Losers
“I didn’t become a clerk right away because I had to work. I just had too much debt!…To this day it is one of the biggest regrets of my career.”
I walked into the Supreme Court building today for a Phi Beta Kappa event, expecting to hear Supreme Court Justice Sonia…
