January 2012
5 posts
Me: Am I free to assemble a protest of peaceful peers?
Government: Only with a permit.
Me: Am I free to travel?
Government: Only with a passport.
Me: Am I free to pursue my own ideas of happiness?
Government: Only within these constraints.
Me: Am I free to start a business?
Government: Only with a license.
Me: Am I free to marry who I wish?
Government: Only with my consent.
Me: Am I free?
Government: I'm legally obligated to say that you are.
Government: Stop asking so many questions.
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
8 posts
I'm home alone.
Time to start my concert.
Lol Word.
"It isn’t a matter of black is beautiful as much...
zorascreation:
(via theblacksophisticate)
“I’m really scared for my generation, you know. The thing that scares me most is...”
– Drake on why he “hates social media” (via thesource.com)
“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via usgroovykids)
“Several people have been upset because we’ve said that integration was...”
– Stokely Carmichael (1966)
October 2011
12 posts
“Left colorblindness is the belief that race is a “divisive” issue among the 99%,...”
– Occupy the Hood - Whiteness and the 99% (via genderfuked)
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“Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native...”
– James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (via cultureofresistance)
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Sankofa: just b/c columbus day is considered a... →
soydulcedeleche:
lebanesepoppyseed:
latinosexuality:
if folks want to claim a person whose legacy is one that left millions of people of color, indigenous people injured, dead, raped, beaten, enslaved that says a lot about THEM. it also says a lot about how we see survivors and…
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realradd:
John - Norrin Radd Freestyle
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you!”
– Rumi (via loveyourchaos)
September 2011
32 posts
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“My biggest problem is that there is simply no creativity in movies with black...”
– A commenter on “Why I’m Just Saying No to ‘The Help’” (via atrapforfools)
I’d go see a movie about when Storm was a streetrat in Cairo stealing for the Shadow King then escaping into the Serenghetti and being worshipped as a Goddess by a tribe then being eventually discovered by Professor X! That...
People who blame the president for the economy...
afro-ninja:
Even bush was just a puppet… Presidents doesn’t really make laws or policies, that falls under the legislative branch of the government…. You know, the people who’s names you probably never heard of. The people who could be replace every two years….The people who come from your state, pretending to represent YOU!
Teach!
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WatchOne day I will have the means to use my power to eradicate the horror that these politicians have subjected Texans to all my life. I can’t “fix” the justice system. But I can support groups like The Innocence Project who have spent their own funds to re-investigate cases that Texas DA’s have glossed over & convicted INNOCENT people (mostly of color). Rick Perry does NOT...
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“Running off to mimeograph a fuck-whitey leaflet, leaving your mate to brood, is...”
– Toni Cade Bambara
The truth
(via restoried)
—- Somebody cue the Shout music for this one. (via ckamaria)
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“she had nothing to fall back on;
not maleness;
not whiteness,
not ladyhood,...”
– Toni Morrison
NYT Magazine ”What the Black Woman Thinks About Women’s Lib”
(22 August 1971)
also in Sula (52)
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“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world...”
– Karl Marx
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson
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Man Dies From Toothache, Couldn't Afford Meds →
liquornspice:
karnythia:
cognitivedissonance:
A 24-year-old Cincinnati father died from a tooth infection this week because he couldn’t afford his medication, offering a sobering reminder of the importance of oral health and the number of people without access to dental or health care.
According to NBC affiliate WLWT, Kyle Willis’ wisdom tooth started hurting two weeks ago. When dentists...
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the myth of overpopulation: we are not the ones... →
flymetothemooon:
guerrillamamamedicine:
what i want to write about:
the connections between reproductive health/justice and the destruction of the environment/landbase. how our reproductive health is negatively and positively connected to the land that we live on. and how our act of reproduction, of creating the next generation, is an act of intervention on the destruction of the land. ...
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