Random Scheiße

"Black lesbian relationships pose little threat to ‘self-defined’ Black men and women secure in their..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:49 -0400

““Black lesbian relationships pose little threat to ‘self-defined’ Black men and women secure in their sexualities. But loving relationships among Black women do pose a tremendous threat to systems of intersecting oppressions. How dare these women love one another in a context that deems Black women as a collectivity so unlovable and devalued?””

- Patricia Hill Collins (via staying-true)

specialkchocolateydelight: caliphorniaqueen: “During the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:58:14 -0400

specialkchocolateydelight:

caliphorniaqueen:

“During the civili rights struggle, Birmingham canceled high school prom for many black teenagers. This weekend, the dance went on for the Class of 1963”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/19/living/civil-rights-prom/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

The people who were teenagers during the Civil Rights Movement are still alive, y’all. Their lives were affected by blatant, government-sanctioned racism. It astounds me that people act like it was thousands of years ago.

"Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it. Then it becomes..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:55:26 -0400

“Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it. Then it becomes racialized, demonized and stigmatized.”

- 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)

pleasestopbeingsad: Street harassment is not a compliment.

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:55:00 -0400

pleasestopbeingsad:

Street harassment is not a compliment.

trinitrent: d0wj0nes: white girl problems Privilege.

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:50:22 -0400

trinitrent:

d0wj0nes:

white girl problems

Privilege.

Where’s...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:49:03 -0400

Where’s @b_rockz_

http://indianlatinoasianblack.tumblr.com/archive

annette-thequiet: we will be having non of your shit yahoo you...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:48:02 -0400

annette-thequiet:

we will be having non of your shit yahoo

you stay away from our porn >:I

"It features a peculiarly African-American twist on Marx’s and Engels’s observations about..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 02:53:49 -0400

“It features a peculiarly African-American twist on Marx’s and Engels’s observations about capitalism’s commodity-fetish effect—the transformation of a marketable object into a magical thing of desire. It is my belief that capitalism’s original commodity fetish was the Africans auctioned here as slaves, whose reduction from subjects to abstracted objects has made them seem larger than life and less than human at the same time.

It is for this reason that the Black body, and subsequently Black culture, has become a hungered-after taboo item and a nightmarish bugbear in the badlands of the American racial imagination. Something to be possessed and something to be erased—an operation that explains not only the ceaseless parade of troublesome Black stereotypes still proferred and preferred by Hollywood (toms, coons, mammies, mulattoes, and bucks, in Donald Bogle’s coinage), but the American music industry’s never-ending quest for a white artist who can competently perform a Black musical impersonation: Paul Whiteman, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, Sting, Britney Spears, ’N Sync, Pink, Eminem—all of those contrived and promoted to do away with bodily reminders of the Black origins of American pop pleasure.

It is with this history in mind that African-American performance artist Roger Guenveur Smith once posed the question: Why does everyone love Black music but nobody loves Black people?”

- 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

(via satanic2chainz)

The hilarious double standard "Mexicans are lazy, and too stupid/can't be bothered to learn English" and "Mexicans are taking all our jobs". So, you're saying that you lost your job to a lazy person who doesn't speak English, how bad at your job were you?

Tue, 21 May 2013 02:51:54 -0400

!!!

receptiveapprehension: klovers: African American Female...

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:17:30 -0400

receptiveapprehension:

klovers:

African American Female Biopics:

Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in “Lady Sings The Blues”

Lynn Whitfield as Josephine Baker in “The Story of Josephine Baker”

Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in “What’s Love Got To Do With It”

Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge in “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge”

LOVE.

Channeling Madonna

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:35:31 -0400

Channeling Madonna

graham-bailey: i’m the king I want to ride his face

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:22:43 -0400

graham-bailey:

i’m the king

I want to ride his face

So then this happened and…

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:59:36 -0400

So then this happened and…

memoirsofanimperfectsagittarius: pattilahell: leedukes: accide...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:58:42 -0400

memoirsofanimperfectsagittarius:

pattilahell:

leedukes:

accidentalslut:

dillonhilton:

-lsd:

blaaargh:

Can someone make Kim’s pregnant foot their tumblr icon so I can giggle at it every day?

Holy shit is that professor klump

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I CANNOT.

No. Just no.

I don’t understand…

This is a horrible site…

milky way

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:45:25 -0400

milky way

Don’t let people steal from your house.

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:56:30 -0400

Don’t let people steal from your house.

Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:34:39 -0400

Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)

grabyajimmie: afrafemme: skindeap: 8-inch chocolate penis...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:07:38 -0400

grabyajimmie:

afrafemme:

skindeap:

8-inch chocolate penis that oozes fondant cream… Fresh mint fondant, Valencia orange fondant, Williams Pear liqueur fondant, Mozart chocolate liqueur fondant, Cointreau liqueur fondant and Irish coffee liqueur fondant.

United Indecent Pleasures

……..

Now this is a penis cake

blackladyblue: luvvdivine: chescaleigh: As we all know,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:30:18 -0400

blackladyblue:

luvvdivine:

chescaleigh:

As we all know, tomorrow is Scandal’s season 2 finale. To commemorate (and partly because we’re sick with worry) Luvvie and I created #ScandalBINGO cards to help get us through the night without having a breakdown. Feel free to play along with us tomorrow night!

We are SO ready for Scandal Bingo tomorrow!!!

Printed out and ready to play!

Erykah Badu Interviews Kendrick Lamar

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:49:55 -0400

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.