February 1, 2012
ancestryinprogress: Reasons why I’m so glad/happy to be a black woman majoring in Latin American Studies. THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ for anyone who identifies as black, latin@ or afro-latin@. I will do my best to post sections so that you all can keep up, but let me just tell you know, the history in the first two chapters is enough to blow your mind if you didn’t already know it. Californians, I’m definitely speaking to you.

ancestryinprogress:

Reasons why I’m so glad/happy to be a black woman majoring in Latin American Studies.

THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ for anyone who identifies as black, latin@ or afro-latin@. I will do my best to post sections so that you all can keep up, but let me just tell you know, the history in the first two chapters is enough to blow your mind if you didn’t already know it.

Californians, I’m definitely speaking to you.

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February 1, 2012
comingonstrong: nevver: NewsToday wait, are people trying to equate these two pictures? because shit is not the same.

comingonstrong:

nevver:

NewsToday

wait, are people trying to equate these two pictures? because shit is not the same.

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February 1, 2012

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February 1, 2012
Contradict Me: MICHELLE

arewepayingattention:

Michelle Obama has taken a lot more abuse and disrespect than she or any woman deserves. It started during the presidential campaign and intensified when as First Lady, she announced her campaign against childhood obesity. Right-wingers like Rush Limbaugh mocked…

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February 1, 2012
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February 1, 2012

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February 1, 2012

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February 1, 2012
Esoterica: If you really think gentrification isn’t about racism I’m going to...

karnythia:

If you really think gentrification isn’t about racism I’m going to need you to shut the entire fuck up. A while back there was this post by a white woman circulating that defended gentrification by claiming that the white people moving into POC neighborhoods just wanted to improve them with coffee…

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January 31, 2012

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January 31, 2012
wine-loving-vagabond: theholyprepuce: White Jesus modeled on Cesare Borgia? The theory is that people were generally not too enthusiastic about the Catholic Church’s regular massacres of Jews and Crusades against Muslims, because the people they were killing looked like Jesus.  Pope Alexander VI then ordered the destruction of all art depicting a Semitic Jesus and commissioned a number of paintings depicting a Caucasian Jesus.  His son, Cardinal Cesare Borgia, was the model for these paintings.  Thus, the nastiest of all the Borgias, became the iconic Caucasian Jesus so loved by Christians today.  In 1995, GZA’s Liquid Swords album featured the solo track by Wu-Tang Clan affiliate, Killah Priest, ”B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)”. The lyrics include the lines; “I even learnt Caucasians were really the Tribe of Edam, The white image, of Christ, is really Cesare Borgia” hmmmm

wine-loving-vagabond:

theholyprepuce:

White Jesus modeled on Cesare Borgia?

The theory is that people were generally not too enthusiastic about the Catholic Church’s regular massacres of Jews and Crusades against Muslims, because the people they were killing looked like Jesus.  Pope Alexander VI then ordered the destruction of all art depicting a Semitic Jesus and commissioned a number of paintings depicting a Caucasian Jesus.  His son, Cardinal Cesare Borgia, was the model for these paintings.  Thus, the nastiest of all the Borgias, became the iconic Caucasian Jesus so loved by Christians today. 

In 1995, GZA’s Liquid Swords album featured the solo track by Wu-Tang Clan affiliate, Killah Priest, ”B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)”. The lyrics include the lines; “I even learnt Caucasians were really the Tribe of Edam, The white image, of Christ, is really Cesare Borgia”

hmmmm

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January 31, 2012

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January 31, 2012
unapproachableblackchicks: The Huffington Post reported that Ava Duvernay became the first black woman to win ‘best director’ at Sundance Film Festival Sunday. Her film, Middle of Nowhere is the second full-length feature for the director.  HisHerstoric

unapproachableblackchicks:

The Huffington Post reported that Ava Duvernay became the first black woman to win ‘best director’ at Sundance Film Festival Sunday. Her film, Middle of Nowhere is the second full-length feature for the director. 

HisHerstoric

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January 31, 2012

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January 31, 2012

curate:

The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) fuckyeahmarxismleninism

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January 31, 2012

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