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I'm not mad I'm just disappointed because if you spent two seconds to think about how fur and leather alone has deep ties to human culture and our understanding and appreciation of the natural world it's honestly really beautiful and just feels so strange to me that people who say they love nature want to divorce themselves from it.
Like yes, capitalism bad. I don't agree with the way that animals are treated as products to the point where blatant animal cruelty is excused by mega corporations. I want places like that to be held accountable and made to follow higher welfare standards for the animals they raise and the underpaid employees out there working in sometimes awful and very unsafe conditions.
But if you're simultaneously ignoring the culture of African leathermaking or the beautiful leather and wool textiles crafted by Indigenous artisans or the ways that ancient humans appreciated the animals they killed for meat and clothing by telling stories and making art depicted on the skins of the animals they took, that's what bothers me.
So many people are willing to just attack vulnerable communities instead of learning about thier culture and how animal products were used traditionally and today. There are better ways to raise animals for products sustainably and humanely and many of these communities have spoken very loudly about it but are yelled over by people who just want to be right or don't want to listen or just don't care.
So yes, I will continue to speak my mind and educate myself because if nothing else I wanna be the start of the change I wanna see in the world. I love animals and I love learning the history of humans and our relationships to animals. I want to be able to appreciate them in the ways we always have. With respect to the natural world and understanding that we're also a part of it.
#jackal's journal#ok I'm done#I can't sleep so I'm rambling but#stop assuming your way is the only way#or that people who defend the use of animal products are just automatically siding with the devil#ya'll don't even know how hard it is to research my own cultural background because of this#like given I had the time and resources I would LOVE to study African-American leathermaking and use of animal products#but so many businesses were wiped from existence or bought up or shut down#lemme stop before I get too passionate in my own damn tags#I just got feelings
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POKEMON AND DISLYTE CHARACTER DESIGNERS, SNEAK INTO HOYO HQ AND MAKE DARK SKINNED CHARACTERS AND MY LIFE IS YOURS‼️‼️‼️
#pokemon and dislyte devs KNOW how to make good as brown and dark skinned rep#hoyo pls take notes#im BEGGING#how are Kaeya and Xinyan the darkest characters in game😭#and not ykn the people from the deset and based of AFRICAN SOUTH ASIAN INDIGENOUS AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE#im not surprised but im allowed to be upset Idgaf#genshin impact#hoyoverse#hoyo#genshin#Natlan#yall lets just collab and make our own game#pokemon#dislyte
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guyss quick question: what do you headcanon mary's ethnic origins to be?? i'm currently writing a marylily-centric fic but since there's no information about mary i want to know what i should make her origins to be. currently my idea for her is to have a single dad and a mom who died by suicide when she was still a baby. she's obivously going to be african-descent but i need specifics. i literally know nothing about african culture & traditions (since i'm indian) but i want to properly incorporate it in the story. i've seen popular headcanons of her being jamaican so should i go with that and research it properly?
#please help#mary macdonald#writing#marauders#wlw#lily evans#sapphic#marauders era#marylily#marylily fic#my fic#fanfiction#fiction#marauders fic#writing tips#writing advice#how to write#writing guide#mary x lily#lily x mary#african culture#african american#marauders fandom#the marauders fandom#the marauders#mithi's marauders#mithi's own
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James K. Polk was rare among Presidents in that he didn't just inherit slaves. Polk, like [Andrew] Jackson, actively -- but secretly -- bought slaves while President. Unlike Jackson, however, Polk didn't buy them in Washington, D.C., but secretly back down south. Why the secrecy? Because during his career, Polk straddled the lines between slaveholders and abolitionists, never completely joining either side. Polk was already a major slave owner when he became President but was very cautious about letting people know about his ownership of other people. Perhaps he was afraid of the American people -- especially abolitionists -- finding out that he was buying children. "Of the nineteen slaves Polk bought during his Presidency, one was ten years old, two were eleven, two were twelve, two were thirteen, two were fifteen, two were sixteen, and two were seventeen," said William Dusinberre, author of the great Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk (BOOK | KINDLE). "Each of these children was bought apart from his or her parents and from every sibling. One or two of these children may possibly have been orphans, but it would strain credulity to suggest many of them were." So Polk, who needed more labor for his plantation, did what most rich politicians would do in his situation: he found a way to increase his personal wealth without his constituents finding out about it. He set up agents to buy the slaves in their names and then transferred them to his possession at home... ...He even made sure he had plausible deniability. Dusinberre noted that Polk -- living in a pre-Civil War America -- made sure that while he bought slaves in the White House, he never used his Presidential salary. "He used his savings from his salary to pay campaign debts, to buy and refurbish a mansion in Nashville, and to buy U.S. Treasury certificates, but never to buy slaves," Dusinberre said. "Evidently he distinguished (between) his private income -- from the plantation --(and) the public salary he received from government revenues. Thus, if the public had ever learned of his buying young slaves, he could always have truthfully denied that he had spent his Presidential salary for that purpose. Polk may have been careful about how he bought his slaves because he knew slavery was an evil institution. But Polk kept his slaves throughout his life and didn't even free them upon death, leaving that for his wife.
-- A closer look at the extent of President James K. Polk's record as a slave owner while he was in the White House, including a troubling tendency towards buying children and separating them from their families.
This excerpt is from Jesse J. Holland's excellent and very revealing book, The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO).
#History#Presidents#Presidential History#Presidents and Slavery#Presidential Slave Owners#Slave Owning Presidents#Slavery#Civil War#Abolitionists#Presidency#White House#Slaves in the White House#White House Slavery#James K. Polk#President Polk#Polk Administration#James Knox Polk#The Invisibles#The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House#African American Slavery#Slavery in the United States#Slavery and Emancipation#Civil Rights#Slavemaster President#Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk#Jesse J. Holland#William Dusinberre#Slaves#Antebellum Era
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#blackhistory#nathaniel alexander#folding chairs#black man#black inventors#inventor#creativeminds#african american#do your own research#chairs#furniture#fold#have a seat
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#black love#black girl aesthetic#black girl magic#black is beautiful#black tumblr#black women#blacklivesmatter#black beauty#black#ebony#black lives matter#black people#black twitter#african american#black men#black girl luxury#black queen#black is gold#black is divine#black owned#black business#black power#black positivity#black art#black and beautiful#black girls of tumblr#black girl moodboard#black girl beauty#african#black man
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Many of us have been asking VP Kamala Harris to sit down with Black owned media and have a interview focused around Black issues. We asked for the interview, Roland Martin got it, so let's support it!
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#nation of gods and earths#supreme mathematics#five percent nation#allah school in mecca#hip hop#5% nation of gods and earths#black women#father allah#black men#social capital#latinos#african american#african#spirituality#religión#activism#black owned businesses
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#white leftist voice: no you see African American culture contributions are their own thing that's Seperate from American culture but Equal!#People do this about Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans probably#but I'm not Asian or Hispanic so i can't speak on that.
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the zionist idea of absolutely needing to have a "home country" to "return" to has always baffled me as a black person.
#cliffnotes/.txt#cause idk where my ancestors r from#likely never will#but im not stealing someone elses home to make it mine when i was never there in the first place#this is also why i never call myself african american#that term just doesnt fit me#bc i dont have any connection to africa. im just black#african american to me has always meant that you have closer ties to africa- immigrating yourself or being like 2nd-3rd even 4th gen#you know where you're from basically#a lot of us dont have that but we're not gonna kill somebody else over it#we've just kinda accepted we're stuck here and have to tough it out w/ each other yknow#also how can they be proud of israel#the world is only helping you so that they can remove jewish ppl from their own populations#you're proud of being outcast?
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Black History
Annie Turnbo Malone was one of America’s first Black millionaires. She started Poro Co., which made hair and beauty products for the Black community. She hired the young Sarah Breedlove as one of her door-to-door sales agents. You probably know Breedlove better as Madam C.J. Walker, who invented a line of African American hair products after suffering from a scalp ailment that resulted in her own hair loss.
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still find it annoying that westerners on here saw me talk about being dark-skinned, sth i am deemed in my country & have been literally physically abused for in the past, and they were like hmmm this woman is saying she’s a dark-skinned black woman… no… i’m saying i’m dark-skinned, and mixed race. two separate things. black bahrainis & part black bahrainis don’t have a culture of “dark skin black” etc.. ur either dark skinned or ur not, regardless of racial heritage. and there’s no comparison among black bahrainis either bc we view skin colour & heritage as entirely separate things. like even the visibly black bahraini women ive known (who in my experience are all dark-skinned by our standards. not necessarily western or african ones but by bahraini standards) would consider me dark-skinned and we would bond over that experience & understand what that word means. but westerners love to think they know everything about everywhere and place their standards on everyone ever and refuse to actually understand that we also have our own standards ig so to them me talking about being dark-skinned led them to believe that i’m claiming to have the same experience as idk lupita nyong’o. despite me repeatedly vocally differentiating my experiences from dark-skinned black women in places like the US…
i can never even discuss my experiences on here and state what i mean bc they will intentionally misconstrue it to fit their standards instead of just. understanding lol
#also annoying how ppl saw me talk about being partially of east african decent#and were like ‘hmmm but u don’t look west african 🤔 curious’ like…#even tho i’d always refer to myself as part black & make it clear that while some of my relatives are visibly part black i’m simply read as#south asian. and they’d compare me to ppl with mixed west african descent and argue then must be using terms like dark skinned the way#african americans do and use american class categorisations to categorise me etc.#it’s just annoying being from the middle east in english-speaking areas#and ppl on here being so egotistical they refuse to understand we have our own standards which i use to define my experiences#why would i use other places’ standards to define my experiences like ???#anyways. rant over i just continue to find this annoying. the US & euro centrism is so real
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It's really funny writing a fantasy series because everyone else has maps that I will go absolutely batshit insane over because they're so gorgeous and detailed-
And this is my baby. Courtesy of Paint. Feast your eyes on my VERY DETAILED WIP map for my Seven Sanctuaries series:
#listen listen i'm doing so much research into legends/monsters in Mexican Haitian African-American American-local & Indigenous mythologies#as well as some more world-building than normal#but this map is hot garbage and I love it so much#hopefully there's one book for each of the 7 Sanctuaries although some are literally a single page of bullet points at this point#my writing#writing process#fantasy#urban fantasy#also please if anyone sees something that was not translated right please tell me#debating eliminating Thunderbird Corridor as I do more research for that one! but it won't be relevant until at least the third book#the order should be: Hotel Cudoviste La Cuna Hueco Mauna Moehaune Nich Bondye Santa Muerte The Wandering Isle World's End#in order the premises are:#magic hotel with a murder mystery going on#underground tunnel city + cowboys who ride unicorns + a dragon whose hoard is literally video games#overthrow/prison break of a prison in a volcano#atlantis-type city + pirates + Haitian Revolution#gothic girl in a tower whose hemophilia + healing makes her a literal magical power cell + grim reaper (cantante de hueso) who saves her#island that literally moves around on its own + run by rednecks#and world's end is literally a lighthouse BUT the needle is a pillar of magic that literally repels magical creatures#map#writing fantasy
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i fucking hate US government form standards so much. why on earth is every race that is not "Hispanic or Latino" listed with "(Not Hispanic or Latino)" next to it?? literally what the fuck does this mean??? what am i, a HISPANIC AFRICAN AMERICAN, supposed to put down exactly???
#i'm always so confused by this shit like what the fuck#i'm literally both#i'm a first gen african american and my origin country uses Spanish#WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO#just thoughts#this shit is so stupid someone pls make it make sense#it doesn't even make sense for their own demographic counting purposes does it???#since it's the standard way to ask it i come across this shit on job apps all day#makes no fuckin sense
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Whenever I see asian, brown, and/or black Americans reinforcing, supporting, and upholding racism, colonization, imperialism, colorism, and any other belief system that not only harms them directly but other non-white communities as well and they still want to claim that they themselves are POC and face discrimination I feel bitter disgust towards them.
#yeah I know the oppression Olympics aren't real#everyone has their own problems#but the way so many Asian Americans contribute to colonization of the USA#refuse to admit they are guilty of anti-black racism and won't even acknowledge the Native American genocide really upsets me#then of course there's the colorism that every single Community is guilty of#don't even need to explain that one#the fact that my fellow brown people are also guilty of anti-black racism is upsetting as I feel we should be allies#and let's be honest there are black Republicans out there#whether it be through self-hatred or combination of multiple factors a lot of black people don't want to see other black people succeed#plus I've seen my share of black people on the Internet Posting pictures of themselves in red face for Halloween or#talking about how if Pocahontas was real she would be a black woman#fucken really?#plus many middle class and higher Asian Americans and African Americans don't want to acknowledge who's stolen land theyre living on#i 100% agree African-American should receive reparations from the US government#but I see people talking about how they deserve to have a plot of land and that makes me uneasy#of course there was that whole Asian American vs African American violence during the covid shutdowns#white supremacist love to see anyone who is not white tear each other down because it makes their job easier#I know we have our history between all of us that has left scars that never healed#I just find it so sad that we as a whole are still tearing each other down instead of trying to do better#I don't know how to properly explain this without going into a long ass historic rant#plus I don't want to#no energy#just wanted to get some thoughts out of my head
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you really can't critique anything america does if youre going to leave out ant-Black racism lol
#angel posts#like. this is not in defense of the US#this is @ nonamericans who think that simply living outside america#gives them a better understanding of how shit this country is#by virtue of their not being american#but then like most of the info they have on it is whatever the white hegemony decides to put out#and their own digging into us colonialism and imperialism for some reason never includes the violence against Black people#both African and Af-Am#anti-Blackness is at the root of like. everything. but people refuse to see that#if you think every single American is living the same well fed wealthy reality#or even the same reality in general#youve swallowed the same propaganda youre convinced youre immune to#yall dont know how bad it is for Black people here and it shows that many of you dont care to learn
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