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The thing that sucks about being poor is how expensive it is.

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“Black female slaves had shown that they were capable of performing so-called “manly” labor, that they were able to endure hardship, pain, and privation but could also perform those so-called “womanly” tasks of housekeeping, cooking, and child rearing. Their ability to cope effectively in a sexist-defined “male” role threatened patriarchal myths about the nature of woman’s inherent physiological difference and inferiority. By forcing black female slaves to perform the same work tasks as black male slaves, white male patriarchs were contradicting their own sexist order that claimed woman to be inferior because she lacked physical prowess. An explanation had to be provided to explain why black women were able to perform tasks that were cited by patriarchs as jobs women were incapable of performing. To explain the black female’s ability to survive without the direct aid of a male and her ability to perform tasks that were culturally defined as “male” work, white males argued that black slave women were not “real” women but were masculinized sub-human creatures.”

— bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (via nervous-lesbian)

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“We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.Then I wished that Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner had killed all whitefolks in their beds.”

Maya Angelou

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Y'all I just want you guys to know that at the protest tonight in Rochester, cops keep gassing the Frederick Douglass statue on the sidewalk because they think he's a protester who isn't leaving

You cannot MAKE THIS SHIT UP

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And for some reason, people still think the police are the good guys.

People insist that protesters who destroy property should be put to death on the spot, but those same people believe that these police officers who destroy property deserve a free pass or even praise.

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‘I Can’t Breathe’: Video shows white policeman laying on top of crying black girl

“A video posted yesterday evening on Instagram shows a white police officer laying on top of a crying Black girl as she vomits and says, "I can't breathe," through labored breaths. Someone contacted the Kaufman County, Texas sheriff's department to report that 18-year-old Nekia Trigg was jumping in front of cars in traffic. Trigg is a resident of Forney, Texas. When the seven-minute video begins, an officer, identified as Kaufman County Deputy Conner Martin, is laying on top of Trigg as women around them scream.”

I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet on here and I'm not sure what else to do. The Instagram post was taken down but the video has spread to Twitter. Officers arrested her mother for asking to loosen her daughter's handcuffs, and Martin was reportedly not wearing his bodycam properly as well.

Please PLEASE fucking share. This monster has used his badge to abuse this girl and borderline sexually assault her and was only placed on leave.

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Aaaand sign off. Mainstream Western media, Ladies and Gentlemen. Believe it or not, this reporter was actually somewhat professional by the typical standards we see from channels like CNN. I’ve seen much worse.

Watch the full interview here: https://www.instagram.com/p/COuuzG1l_yj/ 

Kurd’s comment on the interview: “I knew this interview was going to have a biased, inaccurate framing, and it did from the start. But I made sure I course corrected. I’m happy that you cannot edit a live interview, because there’s no way I could have spoken so bluntly about the myth of “both sides” and Israeli “self-defense” had this been prerecorded. Thanks CNN for taking my testimony about settler-colonialism.“

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Here are some backups. Because some social media - like Instagram, occasionally delete some posts about what’s happening in Palestine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJP2Kr78vfg

https://www.facebook.com/harryfear/videos/173620601322608/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2T6K4FXg5A

https://www.instagram.com/mohammedelkurd/?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4Bb-5sMhc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZJJONhvj0U

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✍🏿What’s Your📖Story? (WYS?)

What’s Your Story?: Dwayne A. Jones: Dwayne the Contractor

“WYS?” is a guest post feature on BCBA’s Our Stories Matter blog. It’s for indie/self-published authors.

Read an👇🏿excerpt:

🔨The book series Dwayne the Contractor is based on my career as a developer, general contractor, and international missionary. As a general contractor, I’ve built many homes and commercial projects and traveled to Ghana and Togo, West Africa, India, and Haiti. My mission trip focused on ministering and spending time with children at orphanages… During my time at the orphanages, I was often asked by the children what I do for work in the United States. I often had to explain my work as a contractor on a level a 3-8-year-old child could understand, and that’s how my journey of writing children’s books started. I’ve completed and published two books of the twelve-book series. My goal is to expose children at an early age to construction or contracting as a career opportunity and allow them to see an African American male as a business owner with projects being completed at primarily minority homeowners.🔨continue reading Dwayne A. Jones’ story.

Dwayne the Contractor Series:

📖Dwayne the Contractor Uses a Hammer (Bk. 1)  

📖Dwayne the Contractor Paints a House (Bk. 2)  

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Here is the link they gave.

Follow Resist Line 3 on Twitter.

[Image description: a Twitter thread by account Resist Line 3 @ResistLine3 saying:

#Line3 would be a disaster for life on our planet, all the way from the pipeline's source to its destination. Here's why.

At the source of Line 3 is the tar sands extraction industry in Alberta, Canada. Here, Canadian oil workers clear-cut ancient forests to get at the oil tar beneath. These forests are one of the best carbon sinks on the planet - but when they're gone, they're gone.

Once the trees are gone, all of the life-sustaining topsoil is then scraped off of the ground. Without it, nothing will grow here again. Beneath that soil is bitumen, what @Enbridge wants - the most impure form of oil on this Earth.

Bitumen is so impure that it needs to be mixed with many toxic chemicals to even get the tar out of it, thus creating massive pools of toxic liquids called tailing ponds. The ponds are so toxic that strobe lights and sound cannons need to be used to keep birds away.

Leaving the destroyed earth of northern Alberta behind, the diluted bitumen is sent through the Line 3 oil pipeline that goes south into North Dakota, crosses Minnesota, and eventually arrives in Superior, Wisconsin. But the journey is far from painless.

Since 2002, @Enbridge has reported 307 hazardous liquid incidents in its operations. On average, that's one toxic spill every 20 days, totaling 66,059 barrels of hazardous liquids. How many more spills can the land take before it's irreparably poisoned?

As a matter of fact, the old Line 3 was responsible for the largest inland oil spill in US history, back in 1991 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The existing #Line3 has already caused dozens of oil spills on treaty land. A bigger pipeline will just spill more.

And when construction is finished on the new Line 3, @Enbridge wants to abandon the old Line 3 to corrode away in the ground. Contaminants from the pipe will likely make their way into the soil, the water, and eventually all life in the surrounding area.

This tar, marked by ecocide at every point of its journey, eventually arrives in Superior, Wisconsin. From here, some of it will be shipped south towards Chicago, and some will go east towards Michigan. The Michigan-bound oil will eventually travel through the Great Lakes.

And if the pipeline in the Great Lakes ruptures (which pipelines always do eventually - especially old and corroded pipelines such as that one), it will contaminate the source of 84% of the fresh water on this continent. That’s water we depend on to drink. /end ID]

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Email/call your congressman ,representatives they work for us

Bring attention to your fave creators, celebs or any big account, so they can speak up about it

ALL ACCOUNTS SHOULD REBLOG, MAKE POSTS ABOUT IT NO MATTER HOW MANY FOLLOWERS YOU HAVE

WE CAN ALL MAKE THIS TRENDING

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING RIGHT NOW , THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS THIS ILLEGAL PIPELINE WILL HAVE ARE IRREVERSIBLE

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Black Panthers dir. Agnès Varda (1968)

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Quilters. Photographs by Henry Groskinsky (1971)