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Me!

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#BlackLivesMatter (Here’s the Data That Shows Cops Kill Black People at a Higher Rate Than White People)

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Godfrey on black latinos

im sorry but this shit dumb funny 

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This man here😍😍😍😍😍😍😍❤

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What happens once you kill yourself? Because I'm ready to go.

You wanna know what happens once you kill yourself? Your mother comes home from work and finds her baby dead and she screams and runs over to you and tries to get you to wake up but you won’t and she keeps screaming and shaking you and her tears are dripping onto your face and your dad hears all the screaming and runs into the room and he can’t even speak because the child that he loved and the child that he watched grow up is gone forever and finally your little sister runs into the room to see what all the fuss is about and she sees you dead. The person she looked up to and loved. The person she bragged about to  her friends, the person she wanted to be just like when she grew up, the person that made her feel safe. But she’s never really going to get to grow up and smile and laugh and love because she’ll always be consumed with this feeling of missing you. And now there’s something missing from your family and they can barely look at each other anymore because everything reminds them of you but you’re gone and hurts more than anything. and you think that your mom never cared because she was always busy and yelling at you to finish your homework and clean your room and forgot to say I love you sometimes but really, she loved you more than anything and she doesn’t leave the house anymore, she can’t even get out of bed and she’s getting thinner and thinner because it’s too hard to eat. Your father had to quit his job and he doesn’t sleep anymore, every time he closes his eyes he sees his baby dead, and the image never goes away no matter how much alcohol he drinks. And at school your best friend sees that your seat is empty and she gets this sick feeling in her stomach and that’s when she hears the announcement. You killed yourself. And suddenly she’s screaming and crying in the middle of class and no one even bothers comforting because they’re all  busy sitting there staring at your empty seat with tears dripping down their cheeks and all she wants is for you to hug her and tell her it’s gonna be okay like you always did, but this time, you’re not there to do it, everything is dark now that you’re gone and her grades are slipping, she barely goes to school anymore and she ended up in hospital after taking too many pills because she wanted to see you again. the girls who used to make fun of the way you dressed feel their throats get tight, they don’t talk to each other anymore, they don’t talk to anyone, they’re all in therapy trying so hard not to blame themselves but nothing works. and your teacher who always gave you a hard time stares blankly at the wall, she quits her job a few days later. And then your boyfriend hears the news and he can’t breathe, he still calls you a lot just to hear your voice and he talks to you on facebook but you never message him back, he can’t fall in love again because every girl he meets reminds him of you, he’s never going to get over you, he loved you and he cries himself to sleep every night, hating himself and slicing his skin because he couldn’t save you and he’s never going to hold you in his arms or hear you laugh again. Now everyone who knew you, whether they were a big part of your life or someone you passed in the hallway a few times a week, they carry this aching feeling around inside them because you’re gone, and they miss you, and they don’t know why you left but it must’ve been their fault and they should’ve stopped you and they should’ve told you they loved you more and that feeling is never going to go away. And so you killed yourself

but you killed everyone else around you too. 

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Black Girl Magic✨

Willow Smith and Jhene Aiko for BILLBOARD

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Alfred Enoch introduces Aja Naomi King at the Essence 2017 Black Women In Hollywood Awards.

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It was a high-pressure situation and the officer made a judgment call.

No. There’s no judgment in that call it was just a reaction. You see skin colour, we all do, but the reaction that you give to a white kid versus a brown kid in that split-second that’s measurable fixable difference. Bias is human. You have guns. You are using guns, so yours is lethal.

We aren’t racist. We just never know who has a gun.

I didn’t say anything about racism. That’s bias and lucky for us bias is fixable. You have protocols in place. Those can be adjusted. You can fix it or you can keep pretending that it doesn’t exist at all. Kids are dying. This kid is dead. For what? So many people that are just like him are dying.  For what?

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Selena Quintanilla in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. (1994)

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ON REPEAT🔥

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On Gawd

Might pass him to my sis too.. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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4/20 is coming and I just want to make it clear that the disrespect and commodification of an Afro-Jamaican religion and way of life (Rastafari) along with its cultural dress and cultural presentation of hair (read: locs) that is a direct antithesis to white supremacy in all forms and is a marker of our struggle and strength as a diaspora is very apparent and saddening.

The reduction of Robert Nesta Marley, one of Jamaica’s, if not the world’s, most prolific Rastafarian artists and advocates for the liberation of Black people in his nation and throughout the diaspora, to a happy go lucky man stripped of identity and meaning who burns ganja all day will NOT be tolerated.

Commodification and disrespect of the Jamaican culture of which he descended will also not be tolerated, and you all sound ugly mocking Jamaican Patois no matter where you’re from.

-management

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Who’s ready for the annual Kailua Town Party!?🎉 Don’t forget to stop in to buy this years button🤙🏽✨ proceeds help raise funds for projects such as landscaping and maintenance in the public areas of Kailua!🌴🌺☀️ #gvkailua #ktp #kailuatownparty #supportlocal #supportkailua (at Global Village)

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I just fell in love

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SCREAM THIS ON A MOUNTAIN TOP

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