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Here’s the thing the mayor [of Ferguson] doesn’t understand, it is a general rule no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.

John Oliver’s Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight (via lp075)

This line is so true, because there are so many times when people want to say that people who are standing up and fighting for the resistance are making problems, when the problems have been here all along.

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If there's too many white people I get nervous.

Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington “Get Out”

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See, I only date hood. My last man? He never even met his father. Four women, six kids. Three of whom are named after luxury cars.

Ross Gay “Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue“

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We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need em Things we buy to cover up what's inside

Kanye West “All Falls Down”

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This whole story is depressingly familiar.

John Oliver “Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)”

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For, although Twitter activism is said to be fleeting by nature, it is also inherently aggregative.

Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa “#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States.”

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Hashtags I’ve Used

oppression

abuse of power

black lives matter (3x)

Ferguson

freedom (2x)

resist (2x)

unity (2x)

persistence

hope

justice (3x)

equality (2x)

Martin Luther King Jr. (2x)

helping

movement

strength (4x)

strong will

Bob Marley

inequality (3x)

racism (6x)

prejudice

Malcolm X

injustice (2x)

coercion

powerless

education

feminism (3x)

women

power (4x)

empower

misconceptions

wrong

confidence

authority

black pride

community

future

Audre Lorde (2x)

systematic racism

inner strength

politics

resentment

sexist

sexism

ostracized

against

life

value

micro aggressions

no words

dominance

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By objectifying African-American women and recasting our experiences to serve the interests of elite white men, much of the Eurocentric masculinist worldview fosters Black women's subordination

Patricia Hill Collins "Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix Domination"

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This section of the text is so important because this is how you feel when you want to speak up after a micro-aggression, but can’t bring yourself to. That inner struggle is always present and makes it had to speak up for yourself as a person of color.

Rankin, from Citizen

Certain moments send adrenaline to the heart, dry out the tongue, and clog the lungs. like thunder they drown you in sound, no, like lightning they strike you a cross the larynx.Cough. After it happened I was at a loss of words.  

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Whites should hold Black life precious because they value all life, not from their own perspective of what is life-affirming for Blacks

Richael Faithful “#BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk”

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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

Rankine "from Citizen"

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When you design an event / campaign / et cetera based on the work of queer Black women, don’t invite them to participate in shaping it, but ask them to provide materials and ideas for next steps for said event, that is racism in practice.

Alicia Garza “A HERSTORY OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT”

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It was this process of othering that fueled and gave the label to white resentment politics.

Cathy Cohen “Whose Black Lives Matter?”

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I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils

Beyoncé “Formation”