#Blackness

oluwatise

maintishe

non American black people can be some of the biggest coons on earth omg. I’m really starting to realize it’s due to privilege. Africans and Caribbeans have the privilege of

Amanie Mathurin

amanie_mathurin

1. Maya Angelou inspires me as a writer & poet because her writings about her experiences as a black woman are unapologetic, profound & beautiful. Her famous poem served as

Natasha Varner

nsvarner

As Irish Americans, we can’t celebrate our heritage without first coming to terms with the fact that our identity is constructed on a foundation of anti-Blackness. A thread about that

mars ༊*·˚*⭒‧₊˚ᵕ̈˳

GROOVYCHl

why do black people always gotta be the bigger person? why do y’all see racism and anti-blackness as “mistakes” that we should forgive people for? why do y’all think we

Bethany C. Morrow

BCMorrow

I wrote a whole book about the abuse and vitriol leveled at Black women for speaking, and while folk celebrate the book, it's truly something to be simultaneously experiencing that

ace

chososoul

time to discuss how white women are just as bad as other white people, and are just as big of a threat to poc. they never like it being discussed

Lina

ltate2257

It’s not a coincidence that Charlottesville has “very fine people” and Minneapolis has “thugs” but how do Black people even begin to process the president openly calling for our death?

DeAnna D Cummings

MizzBossLadyDee

Please understand that Anti-Black racism is at the core of the frenzy and pile on about the MN Freedom Fund $30 million. We didn’t ask the ALS ice bucket challenge

OyinTravels

OyinTravels

Do y’all have any idea why darker Black folks started asserting that paler dark folks were “less black” in an antagonistic way? Did they always say this? Or is this

stitch⁷ 🌱

stichomancery

I'm spending the next hour doing research on sociolinguistic identity construction like the linguistics major I could've been. If I come to. Any neat conclusions or come across anything interesting

D.A. Bullock

BullyCreative

I think this provides a really good analogue for our current public safety conversation in Minneapolis. White people are not policed based on their most menacing, potentially dangerous, most anti-social

Ana Rosado

CarminRosado

the president of northwestern had more smoke for students protesting for Black lives then he did for actual racists in his emails “committing to social justice” over the summer. he

Placenta Perm 💁🏿‍♂️

itsjacksonbbz

Okay so the first bomb drop in this report is that of course labour has a very real antisemitism problem. But that some of the staff responsible for handling antisemitism

Jade(CyberPossumE-Grrrl) Ⓐ🏴☭

Catgirl_Gaymer

Cottagecore is created by/ for white people that have this “living off the grid” mindset. They’re still colonizers, even if they put on an innocent face. You can desire escape from

Van Ngu

van576314799752

AsAms are only allowed to complain about one strain of racism: when a White man in a MAGA hat says “go back to China”. This is the ONLY time liberals

Joelle Monique ✍🏾

JoelleMonique

I cried with my dad for 20 minutes. Its surreal to lose someone who played the hero of our life-time. There will never be a hero better than Black Panther