July 2011
36 posts
New Model Minority @ Tumblr: "The Hyper... →
newmodelminorityarchive:
Publishers Weekly cover from Dec 2009
The other day I was reading an interview with Ishmael Reed and he said some things about Black fiction that got me to thinking.? The interview was with Jill Nelson for his new book, “Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: Return of the…
“”If we are serious about ending poverty, we have to be serious about ending the...”
– http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/other_comments/268520/new_emperors_old_clothes.html (via seaoftinyflames)
such a good quote! so on point.
(via brownpeople)
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That awkward moment when you realize how truly...
newmodelminority:
For all my homies disserating. @moyazb @kismetnunez.
youlikemealready:
As soon as you get it finished.
As Soon As You Get It Finished.
AS SOON AS YOU GET IT FINISHED.
*goes & lies down on the couch*
How I felt before this post:
How I feel now:
#UNFFFAllOverThisDiss #MKthx
tranquality:
John Morton’s prosecutorial discretion is not doing shit for undocumented North Carolinians. When you allow for sheriffs to perform the duties of ICE agents which enables them to racially profile on a more significant scale, they’re not going to listen to you when you send out a memo asking them to stop targeting specific identities in the undocumented community.
Damn it.
“De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.”
– Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God. (via so-treu)
I have so much respect for my late American English teacher, Mr. Mott, one of the few black teachers, who made us read this my junior year of high school at Stuyvesant. Of course the infested and widely racially insensitive thousands...
Tomorrow in Atlanta: The Revolution Starts at...
blackfeminismlives:
Wednesday, July 13, 7:30-9pm
Charis Books and More
1189 Euclid Ave. NE Atlanta, GA 30307 (404)524-03
Join us in welcoming back a longtime member of our Charis family, Alexis Gumbs as she reads from her essay in The Revolution Starts at Home and shares some of her strategies and wisdom about creating transformative justice in all of our communities. Based on the popular...
writeaction: And It Came To Pass | C.D. Wright →
writeaction:
This june 3 would be different Time to draw lines I've grown into the family pores and the bronchitis Even up east I get by saying goddamnit Who was that masked man I left for dead in the shadow of mt. shadow Who crumbles there Not touching anything but satin and dandelions Not laid his...
“The problem with cultural appropriation is that it replaces the original with a...”
– Flavia Dzodan
i want to print this out on cards and hand it to anyone obviously appropriating anything
(via seppin)
Hey, where is that person that was trying to defend wearing Native items on Halloween? They should read this.
(via the-madame-hatter)
Afro-Latin@ Forum:
larepublicadedetroit:
The Afro-Latin@ Forum & You!
Everybody has a story and we want to hear yours. How did you come to affirm your Afro-Latin@ identity? What does the term mean to you? Is it constant or situational? Is it political or ethnic or both or neither? What has been the most difficult aspect of this process? How do you relate to others of the African diaspora? Click here to...
“The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you’re not good...”
–
Keith Olbermann (via obliteratedheart)
Wow.
(via basseyworld)
Keith. I miss you.
“Speaking of those men who are respectful and get the silent treatment…while it...”
– From @SisterToldja’s great piece, “Birth of a Creep” #streetharassment: http://bit.ly/iSAX1A
