#black disenfranchisement
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Visit Tumblr Blog
Explore Tumblr blogs with no restrictions, modern design and the best experience.
Last Seen Tumblr Blogs
Fun Fact
The “We are the 99%” Tumblr blog became the slogan for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Text
#black voting rights#racial injustice#black civic engagement#voting obstacles#black history in america#civil rights struggles#suppression tactics#disenfranchisement history#african american resistance#anti black policies#voter registration barriers#black political power#jim crow era#Here are tags you might consider: black voter suppression#louisiana history#black literacy tests#voting rights act#jim crow laws#racial discrimination#black disenfranchisement#civil rights history#black empowerment#historical racism#grandfather clause#poll taxes#literacy tests
155 notes
·
View notes
Text
Oh, btw, if you feel like you absolutely must blame entire demographics for the election results, I'd advise at least checking the exit poll breakdowns before jumping to a hot take.
PS. Fellow white progressives, feel free to shut up about Black Trump voters forever.
[Image ID: a screenshot of CNN's exit poll breakdown, showing Trump winning white men 60-37 and white women 45-53, while losing Black men 21-77 and Black women 7-91. /end ID]
#fwiw these numbers are extremely similar to the 2020 exit polls with very slightly greater gender differences#and the respective shares of the overall sample are also very similar to 2020#i know some of you desperately want to link this to black voters somehow even if it's framed as a democratic party failure#but disaffected black voters turning to trump is not happening and many state governments actively disenfranchise black voters#and even so vanishingly few groups are more strongly democratic—only lgbt and jewish people are at all close#find a different bogeyman. have you considered white people who think the president sets the price of gas maybe?#anghraine babbles#anghraine rants#us american blogging#election night hell 2024#cw politics#cw racism
60 notes
·
View notes
Note
People are wild lol rap does actually take a certain level of skill to both perform and understand, it takes five seconds of research to see that theres decent lyricism going on there. Lots of rappers are actually great at english, they dont all know the official terms for the things they practice but rapping is like a form of poetry really.
ofc there are subgenres that i personally do not like such as mumble rap (a conversation for another time i digress) but if you take for example kendrick's latest diss tracks to drake, its something that has to literally be studied and broken down by a bunch of people lol and once you break it down and understand the refrences you see that its not just a bunch of words and a beat. of course white people will think something they dont understand is ghetto trash what else is new lol they're the kings of ostricizing and devaluing what they dont understand. They did it to jazz they did it to metal and alternative music and they do it to rap.
At the end of the day, culture is a thing that will be understood by those who are meant to understand it. You dont have to like rap to acknowledge that its an art, but calling it trash and refusing to see it from any point of view but your own speaks for itself.
And for the record, im not a rap fan lol its a genre i hardly listen to in fact, but what i am is an artist, and i can acknowledge art when i see it.
i'll be honest, i don't think lack of understanding is solely what comes into it, if at all. the genres that get the most aggressive pushback are also ones that threaten a cultural hegdemony in their respective societies (white, male, christian etc) and that's not a coincidence. rap gets the worst of this and ultimately i don't think it has ever boiled down to not knowing what GOAT means and a lot more to do with overt and tacit hostility towards black people making outspoken art on their own terms in a deeply racist society.
but otherwise i completely agree with you! the lyrical complexity, rhyming schemes and dexterity at play in a good rap song is second to none and you could absolutely teach a literature class on it. it is as much a poetic medium as anything else while also encompassing its own deeply layered, complex and distinct sensibilities--just like, literally, every other art form on earth! to pretend otherwise is just ludicrous at this point.
#ask#Anonymous#literally the most common complaint i've heard since i was like 14 is 'its always bragging about money and cars and bitches' and its like.#ignoring the pertinent question of what bragging about power and material wealth implies in an#art form borne from deeply disenfranchised marginalised and unjustly criminalised communities...rap didn't invent bragging lol#and it certainly didn't invent bragging in verse bc humans have been doing that for THOUSANDS of years#literally that's what half the epic poem tradition is ABOUT and people just go up in arms when black people dare to do it.#but yes anon acknowledge art when you see it is IT i feel that way about dubstep i dont like it but im also not about to launch a moral#tirade about why my preference is CORRECT and an entire intricate music scene is WRONG
77 notes
·
View notes
Text
#politics#black crimes#mississippi#jim crow#felony disenfranchisement#civil rights#mass incarceration#voter disenfranchisement#white supremacy#racism#anti blackness#voting rights
58 notes
·
View notes
Text
Summarizing Twitter and Tiktoks current climate: "Since you didn't stand in solidarity with me, I'm turning on you and going to the places that are actively assisting in your pain." + "While showing my true colors and expressing my fake activism, I'm also ignoring how I'm assisting in perpetuating a system that keeps me and others like me down as, for example, the places I go to that are assisting in your pain also assist in the pain of myself and others like me, but as long as I get to turn on you it's all good."
#like seeing so many people (especially black people) parading around going back to starbucks & mcds is so gross#bc they also ignore how both these places also disenfranchises them as well but that doesn't matter as long as they get to blame palestinian#and wave around their fake activism#you can be upset by this political climate that's fine but acting like you're better while hoping people get carpet bombed....#hoping that others get their rights taken away and celebrating if they do#YOU AREN'T AS GREAT AS YOU THINK YOU ARE#save palestine#free palestine#us elections#us politics#twitter#tiktok
20 notes
·
View notes
Text
just so you know cutting nettles actually means hotd is valyrian propaganda in this essay i will
#guava.txt#hotd#nettles#thematically nettles is probably the most important character besides aegon iii. shes lowborn black and disenfranchised by the world.#yet despite that she claims a dragon not through birthright or delusions of grandeur on her blood but like the first dragonriders#who were shepherds. no more deserving than anyone else.#not to mention cutting nettles is literally confirming all the criticisms on changes meant to glorify rhaenyra at any cost#nerfs out for nettles
48 notes
·
View notes
Text
The cognitive dissonance required to say a black & desi woman didn't do enough to convince them to actively participate in the election.... Only to turn around and say that anyone who is rightfully irritated at that inaction is somehow racist for being pissed about it. Mmkay.
#“she didnt do enough”#“they never would have voted for a black woman anyway”#“blaming this election on disenfranchised voters is anti arab”#how many excuses do yall need to convince yourself you did the right thing by doing nothing#bc#us elections#election 2024#usa politics#usamerican politics#american politics
11 notes
·
View notes
Text
"Mississippi Discriminates Black Residents, Appoints Judges Over Elected Judges"
youtube
the US department of Justice is going to have to step in and do something about this because quite frankly Tate Reeves has lost his damn mind
#Mississippi#Tate Reeves#white supremacy in government#homegrown hate#Black lives matter#Jackson Mississippi#voter disenfranchisement#minority voters#Youtube
42 notes
·
View notes
Text
#i knew it was a simulation bc of a different unrealistic detail#after successfully assassinating him in this scenario there is one where he is riding public transportation#also the episode is called Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!#which sounds like something the democrats would try to put on to reach disenfranchised black voters#dcmk#dcmk posting
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
seeing all these antivoting posts are making me lose my mind
#its literally fine to hate biden but if you really wanted to give impact to voting youd encourage people to start#organizing to register disenfranchised people to vote en masse who would actually push ballots left both in local elections and national#its just so privileged to tell people voting does nothing when time and time again black americans have been lynched for even#just getting registered to vote#anyways part of organizing is making voting actually impactful and obviously voting isnt a revolution#but if youre ignoring decades of voter suppression and lynchmobs and throw your hands up then you dont care about representing those people#like no duh organizing and voting arent 1=1 but organizing should encompass voting in some ways#color.txt#anyways. ugh. ugh. i just hate the black and white view thats everywhere#your organizing shoulddnt be guys lets just stop voting but lets get felons and suppressed areas to vote
8 notes
·
View notes
Text
and they're at it AGAIN!!!
#maga#donald trump#Here are some tags based on your topic: voter suppression#florida voter purge#black voter suppression#voting rights#election fraud#voter roll purge#disenfranchisement#florida 2000 election#racial discrimination in voting#red states#election interference#historical voter suppression#racial injustice#targeted disenfranchisement#democratic process#voting rights history#black disenfranchisement#gop voter suppression#election integrity#civil rights
197 notes
·
View notes
Text
Black History Month -- The First Black Voter
I first did this post four years ago … The year 2020 marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment and the culmination of the women’s suffrage movement. The year 2020 also marks the sesquicentennial of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) and the right of black men to the ballot after the Civil War. The theme speaks, therefore, to the ongoing struggle on the part of both black men and black women…
View On WordPress
#Black Americans and the Vote#Civil Rights era#Thomas Mundy Peterson#voter disenfranchisement#Voting Rights Act of 1965
1 note
·
View note
Text
ive gotta read more Black thought books bc. my brain won't stop thinking about the cultural condition (detachment, alienation) of the african american.
#lauren.txt#i saw a tiktok a while ago with that fame audio (“fuck being underrated i wanna have everything they did”) where a black person#talked about how african americans don't have culture like other people do and my mind travels to that a lot. bc it's true.#even some white people can have claim to a specific language homeland traditions etc. where we don't have that luxury bc#of the effects of chattle slavery. we are so far removed from african culture that we can't lay claim to it#let alone a specific culture or country in africa. we don't have a right to. it's not Ours. and if that isn't ours then what is?#the largely white american culture devoid and unaccepting of black people to the point of government and institutional violence?#the western culture that steals from us time and time again without giving back? the african american culture that is still#detached from our african roots and sometimes even hateful fearful or even xenophobic towards said roots?#im not saying african americans don't have culture bc we definitely do but i am questioning our similarities to other cultures#since we are a disenfranchised and systemically traumatized colonized and enslaved people.#that don't have a lot of the things people of other cultures or nationalities (not even poc exclusively) possess.
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
Rotating siskarak in my mind again
#Cipher talk#The thing is. The thing is. With the reading of Garak as presented in ASIT and the Nexus and the calling. He's got narrative parallels to#Sisko. Obviously there's the sociopolitical stuff with Hebitians and their history of being enslaved and implied current economic#Disenfranchisement and ongoing cultural suppression and that has some obvious connections to be drawn to Black history (Indigenous history#Is black history and vice versa these are not discrete categories without overlap)#But also like. The relationship to unreality/a reality considered less 'factual' even though it is RIGHT THERE and happening and the divine#Being called to the divine even as you try to run from it. Even as it makes you uncomfortable or even angry#Because it makes your /superiors/ uncomfortable. Because the culture you live with doesn't /do/ that sort of thing#And obviously this is different for each: with Garak his relationship is specifically targeted and oppressed and has been for a long time#Whereas starfleet is discrimatory to Bajoran faith less because it's Bajoran and more because it's idea of equality and being 'modern'#Enough to be in the Federation is flawed and discrimatory towards things like faith in general#And their connections to being Of those faiths is different#Sisko is Moses but he's specifically the version of Moses who says he's heavy of tongue because he doesn't speak Hebrew and doesn't know#How to be Jewish because he was raised in different culture (which is NOT a popular reading)#(Even though heavy of tongue is elsewhere used to mean 'I dont speak Hebrew' pretty specifically)#But let's not get into my grief over how Judaism regards Egypt as Bad and how this has loud & nasty echoes today#Whereas Garak has known what he is since he's a teenager and was raised with carefully hidden philosophy from it#Waoughhhhh
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
my tags on that went on for so long i had to go back and edit them to fit tag limit and i still had to delete a bunch of them. Its the autism it literally is
#funerary practices and the afterlife and body disposal methods and just. grief and mourning in general r like. My bigggg autism thing i dont#talk abt it a lot bc 1 i just Dont shut up once i get going 2 a lot of ppl dont want to hear abt stuff like that which is fine. kicked pupp#expression. i just find it very very interesting to see how different ppl grieve and whats considered like. Right and wrong when it comes t#care of the body yk. bc like. most/every culture has their practices and anything outside of that feels wrong to them bc its like. yk its s#pivotal idr the exact anecdote/story but caitlin doughty mentioned it in one of her books where like. there were 2 groups and one cremated#their dead and the other practiced mortuary cannibalism and both viewed the other as barbaric and it rly shaped how i view it like. yk. its#rly something so personal where even when the way someone grieves makes you uncomfortable its like. you cant force someone to grieve in a#way thats palatable to you. yk. for a rly long time washing the body and being with the body after death was a rly important part of grief#in like. usamerican culture its only more recently that it became wayyy less common w the rise of funeral homes and stuff. and obv for many#ppl that wouldnt be comforting but i think it could be for a lot of ppl..#my personal belief on it is everyone should be allowed to grieve and dispose of the dead As they want and that should be like. yk. theres#the nebulous term of Desecration which is legally rly difficult to define there r a lot of states where the law is 'if it would outrage#normal family values' which is just so fucking stupid obviously like. whos family. bc every single person has a different view on whats#appropriate yk... IDK. i think as long as its relatively safe for the living and as long as its not like. Against the wishes of the decease#like. if someone says they want a burial and then theyre cremated (not out of necessity like 4 financial stuff) im like. yk. obv theyre dea#but i think its important to honor their last wishes... yk. and that should go for like. If someone wants an open pyre cremation that shoul#be available... if someone wants aquamation etc. IDK. etc. like. another thing is with embalming while i wish it werent De Facto ppl r#railroaded into it i entirely disagree w ppl who say it should be wiped out entirely like. there r environmental ramifications 4 sure and i#love for that to be more like. talked abt... but embalming is rly important to a lot of ppl and idt its right to shit all over that. idt it#necessary for every death i personally dont see the point of embalming for like. a peaceful death with a quick funeral and theyre getting#cremated after. but ik like. for a lot of black families embalming is very important for like. a reclamation esp in violent or traumatic#deaths its very important to have like. a funeral with a viewing. and i think thats something that shouldnt be taken away from anyone ever.#even like. ik this is controversial but extreme embalming w/ posing and stuff as long as thats what the decease wanted like. i think its#awesome !! i Dont agree w taking the corpses of the poor or disenfranchised to prop up for art pieces Personally but like. there r ppl who#want to be displayed like that like. riding their motorcycle one last time or ummm. that posthumous concert that happened. i get how it can#seem morbid or wtvr but like. the families r happy with that its what those ppl wanted and it like. its a celebration of their life and#their interests and i think thats super important. BASICALLY.#ok tag limits coming so im cutting myself off for sure this time. but wtvr. i hope this makes sense to anybody else sorry i rambled. im ver#passionate abt it KJBADKJBDKJ
0 notes