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I’m a little sick of seeing  brown people sacrifice themselves for anglo folks on TV. I always want to cry out, ‘don’t do it. live, motherfucker!’

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#AfterSeptember11 trended on Twitter today. So real. White supremacy manifests in so many sinister ways. These tweets paint a vivid picture.

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girl, i must be sleepy as hell. i thought that was a tamagotchi. i was so ready to go in on some 90′s ass memories. but i’m dead wrong.

That one time I got an insulin pump😁

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THat answer. I just left this life and went to heaven.

Clapback

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Go big or go home 

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everyday when i wake up for work, i wish i could take a vial of felix felicis...or cyanide. but preferably felix. 

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When she forgot to tell you she is a squirter.

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I started crying when I saw this. It’s means so much to me. 

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White people wrote your history books. Their history channels as well are told from the history books of White people have written. Their history books say Malcom X was simply assassinated by someone in the Nation of Islam, and that’s the end of that story for you. Their history books portrayed Columbus as a kind man who merely discovered America, to the point we celebrate days where we give thanks, and that’s the end of that for you. Their history books teach you Martin Luther King was assassinated by a racist white man, and that’s the end of that for you. Their history books portray to you the alleged existence of Jesus as a White man, and that’s the end of that for you. Their history books taught you that your people weren’t kings, and all the noses disappeared off of the heads of statues as they fell head first, and that’s the end of that for you. Their history books teach you that 9/11 was carried out by Osama Bin Laden, and not them as a false flag, where they’ve since killed Hundreds of Thousands into the Millions have died since the invasion for “Peace”, and that’s the end of that for you. Their History books taught you that your African people sold you into slavery, in the masses, and that it was a smooth transaction, and that’s the end of that for you. One of the things that have been mentioned here, may have been the end of a story for you, left there without question. From White people, who constantly lied to you, who continue to lie to you, and who will continue lying to you, how can one manage to take their history books as a legit source without question. What else, are they lying to you about. And what else have they hidden so well, that you’d even fight someone who brings you a different possibility, to protect what White people, the Killers of other races histories, have written as history. 

— follow africanmelanin (via africanmelanin)

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Black Advancement.

Show me one instance of Protesting that has gotten our current generation’s Black people something straight from the hands of white supremacy, and I’ll show you millions of ways we as Black people could’ve gotten it ourselves with the means we have of creating economies for ourselves. White protesting is effective in that they’re not begging or asking. They’re telling the system that was built for them, to pull itself together and do what they were already supposed to do be doing for them, to appease them. Black people are begging a system that was built against them, to stop killing them. To start hiring them. To start loving them for who they are. To start representing them. A system that was never broken, but built this way. The reason we Black people only come together when one of their own is shot or killed, and disperse into integration when the protests are over, is simple. Black people have no other choice but to return to the lives they were living in the first place, because white supremacy has succeeded in making it so that this new generation of Black people were never really together in the first place. You come together in a fit of rage, rightfully so, but when it’s finished, you have no choice to go back and away from each other, because the only thing able to bring you together, has calmed down or died down in noise. You go back to being separated from one another, because this generation was never together in the first place after integration. When they return from protests, they return to themselves. Integration made it so you go back to them. Not your own people. “And if you say you want to get together with black people outside of just protests and create your communities just like we do, you’re a racist.” You’ll get a little of what you want through protesting. But the system built by them, and for them. A system, which in the future, will only need to change its clothes to kill you. Even if not physically, mentally, and through your culture. And if Protesting physical deaths are the only thing that bring you together, they’ve already won. Because as you stay quiet and comfortable enough to not do anything when they move into your communities, build their self-owned facilities where you are, Educate your children and teach them what they want them to learn where you are, you’re not just standing there, you’re going backwards, and very quickly as they have you on a protesting leash. The Greatest thing White supremacy has accomplished for our generation, is raising us to instead of getting all the power they already have for themselves, for ourselves, is by getting us to just ask for bits and pieces to what we want. But the things we can ask for, that they can give us, are limited. And the things we can complain about after they’ve given us everything we can possibly ask for, are endless. We will without a doubt, make it to the day where less, and less, and less of us are killed… …But ask yourself, if us getting killed is the only thing bringing us together for a moment in protests, and if in that moment is the only time we as Black people bring up these topics of needing Black communities, unity, businesses, and structure to preserve ourselves, how many more death protests where these “Black economy” side conversations are held, until we don’t we don’t hear those teachings anymore, and we’re completely integrated without owning anything? If Malcom X, speeches are only revisited and payed attention to by a mass number of black people only during times of our death, how much more begging and protesting until we don’t listen to what leaders like him used to say anymore? Like MLK, I believe rioting and protesting are the languages of the unheard. But I do not believe we need them to hear us. Nor do I want them to. Protesting and rioting are for people who have no means whatsoever, and have to use it as a last resort. Protesting, in the hands of the self-capable, is like a drug that keeps you coming back for more, as you’re being robbed behind your back for everything you could’ve gotten without said drug. We have the means. I believe building our own economies accomplishes every single goal we wanted to get through protesting, and every single drop of power, wants and needs beyond it, that we deserve. If protesting actually got you anything important for us Black people, they would’ve given us all our needs and made us comfortable enough before we messed around and actually asked for something important. Black people building an economy is the only thing feared. Power only respects Power. But words like these are discussed, then forgotten, only to be revisited again the next Series of Black deaths. In the meanwhile, you’ll come home, have fun, go out, have a great time. Until we die again. We’ll come back together for protests spit out black advancement quotes, and disperse when it’s over. Repeat. Live will go on again, until we as a people, failing to build and protect our assets, have nothing left except what our integration has given us.  Is the Utopia we’re begging them for worth losing everything? Keep the urgency for building black owned communities, economies and businesses high at all times. Be a revolutionary, at all times, even when everything seems like it’s going well, because I assure you, through this illusion that we need to break through that makes us things are heading for the better, nothing ever is, no matter how comfortable you are. Keep the urgency for building our own self-owned black economies and the need of our unity high at all times. — africanmelanin (via africanmelanin)

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The African continent endured unspeakable brutality under European colonial rule.

Millions of people were enslaved, tortured or killed under violent systems of European law enforcement.

Throughout this era, Western media put forth a specific vision of the colonial relationship: Whites were heroes, saviors or adventurers in a wild and savage land.

Blacks were primitive, sub-human, incompetent or — in some cases — completely invisible to the white gaze, and therefore unimportant to white interests.

The image of Africa as a frontier playground is on full display in Taylor Swift’s new video. Not a single black African person is present.

We see a land rich with wildlife but devoid of humans — a trope that reinforces notions of Africa as feral and exotic.

All of this serves to obscure the lives of actual African people, past and present — whether intentionally or by omission.

When a pop culture product reaches as many people as a Taylor Swift video does — this matters.

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Just discussing on Twitter how Gurihiru managed to nail THREE hairstyles for Misty Knight in our upcoming story.

Check out the afro, the updo, and the bantu knots - all of which you’ll get to see more of on 8/19 when you pick up “Secret Wars: Secret Love”.  Support this comic and let Marvel know what you want to see more of!

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Some words to use when writing things:

winking

clenching

pulsing

fluttering

contracting

twitching

sucking

quivering

pulsating

throbbing

beating

thumping

thudding

pounding

humming

palpitate

vibrate

grinding

crushing

hammering

lashing

knocking

driving

thrusting

pushing

force

injecting

filling

dilate

stretching

lingering

expanding

bouncing

reaming

elongate

enlarge

unfolding

yielding

sternly

firmly

tightly 

harshly

thoroughly

consistently

precision

accuracy

carefully

demanding

strictly

restriction

meticulously

scrupulously

rigorously

rim

edge

lip

circle

band

encircling

enclosing

surrounding

piercing

curl

lock

twist

coil

spiral

whorl

dip

wet

soak

madly

wildly

noisily

rowdily

rambunctiously

decadent

degenerate

immoral

indulgent

accept

take

invite

nook

indentation

niche

depression

indent

depress

delay

tossing

writhing

flailing

squirming

rolling

wriggling

wiggling

thrashing

struggling

grappling

striving

straining

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AND THIS IS WHY BLACK GIRLS GET IRRITATED ABOUT WHITE GIRLS WEARING BLACK HAIRSTYLES!!!!

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I Married a Cop & I'm Afraid

No, before you get the wrong idea. I am not afraid of my husband. I am afraid of you.

You, who threaten all cops because of a few bad cops.

You, who threaten all cops families so “those useless pigs can know your pain.”

When my husband leaves in the morning I know there is a chance he won’t come home because he would give his life to protect the innocent. But now I have to worry he won’t come home because you let your hatred blind your judgement.To bring justice to Michael Brown. Eric Garner, and all of the other victims of police brutality, you are threatening innocent men and women who took an oath to protect your life with their own.

I know you are hurting, and I know there has been great injustice for the two men and their families. I know there are corrupt cops, but the reality is, most police officers are not the problem. It is a select few who are ruining the image of all.

Please, I am one woman asking you to stop threatening my family and my husband because of the actions of others. I want my son to grow up without the fear I have. I want him to be able to tell his friends his father is a police officer without having to be afraid of backlash.

I married a cop & I do not want to be afraid.

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We come in every shade known to man.

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Okay, I always see a lot of love for Samira, Ruby, Laura, Diane, and Kimiko on here. 

And I get it, believe me I do :)

But WHERE the FUCK are the posts dedicated to Danielle?!? She’s a stunning, kind, hilarious person.

I love her and Taystee to death<3333