May 2013
65 posts
“Black lesbian relationships pose little threat to ‘self-defined’ Black men and...”
– Patricia Hill Collins (via staying-true)
“Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it....”
– Melissa Harris-Perry and Karen Finney (paraphrased), commenting on a recent New York Times editorial wherein black farmers were all but vilified as ‘lazy takers’ who gamed the system —for winning an historic discrimination lawsuit against the USDA: Pigford v. Glickman (via odinsblog)
“It features a peculiarly African-American twist on Marx’s and Engels’s...”
– Greg Tate, Everything But the Burden (via wretchedoftheearth)
Greg Tate taught my Afro-Futurism class. it was something
(via likestepsonthemoon)
HOLY FUCKING HELL
i’ve been ranting about this for weeks, this is exactly the thing I needed to see for my thesis
i’m so happy right now
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The hilarious double standard "Mexicans are lazy,...
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Erykah Badu Interviews Kendrick Lamar
BADU: How do you choose chicks from backstage?
LAMAR: How do I choose chicks from backstage?
BADU: Yeah, what is the protocol?
LAMAR: I try not to. [laughs] I’m too scared. Anybody who knows me knows that I’m probably the most scared person when it comes to that because I’m so caught up in the act of sex, of something going crazy, going out of my control. I’m too paranoid.
BADU: [laughs] So you just pass?
LAMAR: I’ve got to because I’ve seen a situation where it got totally out of hand, where something seemed so innocent, and now this person has got allegations on them. It spooked me. This was before my career really started, though—before any “Kendrick Lamar.” And that right there? It changed my whole perception about certain things. I’ll always keep that in the back of my head.
BADU: So who is your asshole-checker?
LAMAR: Who is my what?
BADU: Your asshole-checker—the person in your crew or your family who let’s you know if you’re being a asshole.
LAMAR: I have two, actually. [both laugh] But the main one is a friend of mine—a lady friend who has known me since high school. She has always been someone, since day one, who has said something whenever I’m an asshole, or also if I’m doin’ something positive—but more so when I’m out of my element.
BADU: What’s your favorite cereal?
LAMAR: Fruity Pebbles. When people ask for my rider, they think I’m crazy: Fruity Pebbles, baked chicken, bottle of Hennessy, and some Polo socks.
BADU: What do you, as a man, envy about what it means to be a woman?
LAMAR: There’s just a certain knowledge instilled in a woman. There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante…
BADU: That’s a good perspective. Something I envy that men have is that ability to grow a goatee. I think that’d be really hot on me.
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a god to the constellations.: "The Great Gatsby"... →
circahollywood:
Synopsis: An aspiring Bond Broker, Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) befriends his wealthy yet mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio)…only to learn his hidden intentions for Nick’s cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan) may bring about their ultimate demise.
Theme: Reaching towards the…
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Just Me: So I write a post on being a Black woman... →
radicalrebellion:
and folks feel the need to jump on and add “black person” or tell me that “women in general” face shit.
NO. I meant BLACK women, specifically. Because I live in a world where
Psychology Today, a fairly well respected mental health publication, publishes a study finding Black women to be the most…
