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[gilbrooks]

Don’t post publicly if you don’t want critique. You are saying what happened to you is worse than someone being abused. You are the purest definition of ignorant, self-involved, and idiotic.

Betrayal isn’t worse. Being lied to isn’t worse. Being treated badly isn’t worse. The worst is finding someone that you know by soul yet it just doesn’t work. And you’re not bad and they’re not bad. And they treated you better than anyone else ever and you tried to do the same. No one hurt each other it just doesn’t work. I don’t know anything worse than that.

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Are you saying that there’s no such thing as an overweight person that needs to lose weight for their health? Because that would be ignoring the majority of morbidly obese people. Now, one can argue/debate about what a healthy weight should be, but there are averages. That’s not “ableist”, or whatever. There are literally tons of people who NEED to lose weight in order to survive.

Sure there are some people who just can’t, do to medical reasons, and that’s unfortunate. That said, it’s also an overwhelmingly minority of people.

So yes, there is a general standard of health that the majority of people should try to adhere to. This doesn’t mean all overweight people are unhealthy, nor does it mean all thin people are skinny. It means that if you are generally an unhealthy person, inside and out, maybe addressing just one of those can lead to a better quality of life.

There is nothing wrong with being unhealthy and wanting to become healthy. What’s wrong is being unhealthy and not wanting to get healthy because you ascribe to the self-loathing culture that says it’s ok to be and remain unhealthy.

(this obviously doesn’t apply to people with ailments that can’t be cured/treated, but again, when we’re talking about this sort of thing, they’re usually understood to be the exception)

When we talk about being fat-positive and we say, “weight is not an indication of health,” I will reblog it. But I want us to also say, “health is not an indication of value.”

I could be at any weight and I will never be healthy, because I am chronically ill. Someone might be chronically ill and fat, or they might be chronically ill and not fat, and it really doesn’t matter.

When you make it about health, you’re saying health is the pinnacle of human achievement, and you’re shitting on those of us for whom health will always be a pipe dream.

[gilbrooks]

That’s literally not worse than any of that. It’s called “being picky”, which I know is a new term for a lot of folks out there, but my research on it seems to line up with your condition. It’s either that, or a lesser version of it, called “there was no chemistry.” Also a new term, I know, but one that could also apply.

(just ask someone who’s been “treated badly” if they’re rather had it just not worked out, rather than be emotionally and/or physically abused. Check your dating privilege)

Betrayal isn’t worse. Being lied to isn’t worse. Being treated badly isn’t worse. The worst is finding someone that you know by soul yet it just doesn’t work. And you’re not bad and they’re not bad. And they treated you better than anyone else ever and you tried to do the same. No one hurt each other it just doesn’t work. I don’t know anything worse than that.

[gilbrooks]

You are the reason people make fun of Tumblr.

When we talk about being fat-positive and we say, “weight is not an indication of health,” I will reblog it. But I want us to also say, “health is not an indication of value.”

I could be at any weight and I will never be healthy, because I am chronically ill. Someone might be chronically ill and fat, or they might be chronically ill and not fat, and it really doesn’t matter.

When you make it about health, you’re saying health is the pinnacle of human achievement, and you’re shitting on those of us for whom health will always be a pipe dream.

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[gilbrooks]

Goin down an a girl bigger than you but you don’t care cause she taste so good.

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Sorry, 1st ranking council member here, so I have reinstated it, and flushed yours down the toilet, and demoted you to runner up council member. Preference is preference, and love is love. Don’t judge lest ye be a fuck boi.

 https://youtu.be/p8_A9x3NCu4

[gilbrooks]

Maybe he prefers white women? So what. I’m black and prefer latina. Should I surrender my hood card?

 https://youtu.be/p8_A9x3NCu4

[gilbrooks]

Tumblr showing its true colors by over-reacting to every fucking thing.

This is awful. I hope Leto gets blackballed he is doing the fucking most.

[gilbrooks]

They have been literally showing these pics all the time. I mean, I get what your overall point is, but let’s not get ridiculous with non-facts to lead your point. That’s for the crazy right to do.

You will never see these pic’s on CNN.. This guy wasn’t religious and wasn’t a “foreigner” he was born in NYC and was a piece of shit who beat his mother and was a known homophobe, but CNN will have you believe he’s an Iman from Afghanistan….

[gilbrooks]

Well, being that it was an act of terrorism, by someone who pledged to ISIS, what do you expect? That’s not snark; that’s a legitimate questions- what do you expect?

Like someone shot up a really popular black/latinx gay club and CNN is talking about the shooter’s connections to ISIS like I’m honestly trying to not vomit rn these people literally have zero respect and are using our deaths as a way to attack Islam 

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[gilbrooks]

It I had a Vietnamese restaurant, it would be called Get Pho, and the catch phrase would be “Don’t Pho Get to Get Pho.”

Thank you.

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One of the most petty, ill-informed POVs on our culture that I’ve ever read.

Non-Black Natives in Rap: The Scoop

Written by Angel; @notangelic99 

Since there is chatter around non-Black Natives being in rap, I want to vocalize the truth.

Riposting to Native Rappers About Mainstream Rap

It has surfaced that there is relentless appropriation of Black culture, specifically in the domain of Rap. For starters, it is an issue when someone (who is not even Black) is declaring that “Native American Rap Is the Most Authentic Rap We Have Today”. That is a demeaning thing. The article is referring to mainstream rap but people do not understand that the state of mainstream rap is due to what people call “integration”. Integration is defined by sociologists as: “Integration is defined as a process of developing a society in which all the social groups share the socioeconomic and cultural life. The integration of the communities is facilitated by the factors that help assimilation” (Sociology Guide). Furthermore, a Black woman named Seren did this video about how integration decimated the structure of Black communities, thus leaving Black people empty-handed. 

The video that I linked does not actually discuss about rap; it discusses about Black businesses. However, it nods at the reason why mainstream rap is “not excellent” anymore. The reason is probably in this video, which is by Amandla Stenberg. She explores the tract of rap, and primarily Black culture as well. In the mid to late 1990s, we watched famous Black artists and rappers embrace African-American culture. In the mid 2000s, there was this pivot – to what is now considered mainstream rap. 

The reason is white people had begun to infiltrate the space. We begun seeing a multitude of white artists get accolades and applause, with most notably Eminem in charge. This saturated rap. The Black artists such as Andre 3000 and Busta Rhymes were now imperceptible to folks in the mid to late 2000s. Then, these slew of white rappers came along and endangered the careers of Black rappers. In order to obtain some ground, Black rappers were jostled in the music industry. I recall one day in late 2000s, asking myself, “Where is all the rappers I admired?” 

I am not into rap but I had a knack for examining their lyrics. I was humbled by some, such as Missy who were brilliant with words. Later on in early 2013, I was part of a rap group called “LAN”, which was a branch of one of my ex-friend’s collective, 2K Nation. I had busted out a freestyle, terrified out of my mind. I had gotten inducted into the rap group that consisted of my ex-friend and his friend (who is white; this is extremely important for the post), thus “LAN” (our first name initials) was conceived. 

This white friend of his (the leader who is my old friend that I abandoned for reasons) was so immersed that he was a huge cultural appropriator. Just analyzing the rap group I was in has provided me with this information of how mainstream rap is the state it is in now. Black rappers sense the approaching threat of the saturation of rap subconsciously. I was detecting that this white boy was getting adulation of spitting out mediocre lyrics, while I was in the shadows, conferring with my subconsciousness – the one that handed me red flags every time I rapped. 

My first “written rap” was one that was transmitted to me in my mind. I edited and wrote the lyrics in my brain. The third rap I did was also by my brain too. Since I am a Black Native person who is perceived as a “girl”, in early April of 2013, the leader of the rap group told me in the middle of our rap battle, “You had to write that. There is no way you did not write that.” I replied, “I did not write that. It came to me yesterday, at night and I somehow got majority of the lyrics back during this battle.” I actually did. I was being truthful, but of course, the rap battle was a “draw”. Most of the spectators were white, and coupled with that, I stared at. 

Now pondering about that battle and the other situations, that battle outcome was the product of integration. Integration was the force that made my old friend rap about themes that became the generic thing in mainstream rap. It was a “draw” because they could not stand seeing me win, albeit my old friend was disliked by many people. I metaphorically rapped about my experiences with almost drowning one day and I paralleled that with my conflict with suicide. The reason for me writing this first section was to retort to the anti-Black Natives and Native rappers that white people were the cause, not Black rappers who are rapping about the typical themes in today’s mainstream rap because of assimilation and the effects of integration to get money due to capitalism.

Natives in Rap: The Narrative of Anti-Blackness, Co-Opting, and Cultural Appropriation 

I know I dove into this earlier but I want to explicate the qualms I have with Native Rap. In the same article  I linked earlier, there is a Native rapper adorning dreadlocks. That is cultural appropriation, and it looks raggedy anyways. Cultural appropriation is defined as: “Two ways in which cultural appropriation can be harmful are easily identified. The first sort of harm is violation of a property right … The second sort of harm is an attack on the viability or identity of the cultures or their members. Appropriation that undermines a culture in these ways would certainly caused evastating and clearly wrongful harm to members of the culture … Other acts of appropriation potentially leave members of a culture exposed to discrimination, poverty and lack of opportunity” (qtd. in this). With cultural appropriation, non-Black Natives are not giving gratitude to Black people for rap. This article exquisitely articulates my thoughts about cultural appropriation in Hip-Hop and Rap. 

Onto co-opting, which has become a staple within the Native community. There has been numerous of instances where a non-Black Native has co-opted Black Lives Matter, such as here. As a mutual of mine pointed out, it is the same, cliché tactic as “All Lives Matter”. It is not only co-opting but it is also erasing and victim blaming Black people’s (in general) struggles we face. It is like you telling someone, “Hey, I am going to embark on writing this story for my final essay and it will be titled ‘A Reflection of My Life: A Memoir About Middle School’.” Then, that person, who you told your title to says (who was going to do something about the corruption at SeaWorld), “Well, I am now going to do something about my life and the title will be ‘A Rumination of My Life: A Memoir About Middle School’.” The thing is this: they are being fraudulent. The only thing replaced with the titles in this analogy is the supplementary noun, which is “reflection” and “rumination” respectively. The same thing occurs with Black Lives Matter and “Native Lives Matter”. 

All of these elements contribute to anti-blackness. The anti-blackness is prevalent in the Native community via Rap. While also talking about anti-blackness and saying, “I stand with Black Lives Matter,” you all continue to co-opt when that, as evident by this article, goes against the founders’ wishes of that hashtag. You all (non-Black Natives), especially within the rap realm love to talk about standing with Black Natives and other Black people when you persist this anti-blackness. 

I want to give a specific thank you to one of my mentors, @bitterbitchclubpresident for granting me permission to use one of her posts. (It is in the ninth paragraph, second sentence – embedded in “here”.)

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[gilbrooks]

When ya too big, but gonna try and get up in her anyway.

Or so I’ve heard. :/

[gilbrooks]

Agreed. Too many girls out there that can’t make me cum, and don’t look me in the eyes when I do cum (possibly to avoid sperm in they eyes).

You shouldn't have to settle for orgasmless sex & douchebags who won't look into your eyes and smile when they fuck you