One of the things that’s really pissing me of about this SARS nonsense is, Nigerians are just asking the government to stop killing us... we haven’t even discussed the fact that in 2020 we still don’t have constant electricity, or that child labour is a huge problem... Nigeria has so many issues that are detrimental to the youths and citizens of our country, issues that politicians continue to allow to line their pockets.

The missing girls, the government was silent.

Boko haram, the government did the bare minimum.

NEPA, the government was silent..

Giving jobs to the Chinese instead of Nigerians and treating us like we’re incompetent, the government was silent..

Nigerians are going hungry, silence.

Useless politicians filling their pockets with money for the people, sending their children abroad to got to school, the president flying to America and the uk for doctor appointments because Nigeria doesn’t have proper facilities... and Nigerians have managed with that for years cause “that’s Naija”... it’s foolishness.

Nigerians are trying to succeed in and be proud of the country they’re from all for their lives to be at risked because they have cell phones, laptops and look like they have money to spend... is that not madness???

Nigerians has so much to fight for and I’m so proud that they’re making they’re voices heard cause... it’s time. We can’t continue to allow people who care more about their pockets than the people run our country.

Regardless of your tribe or religion, the eradication of SARS and the reformation of Nigerian is mandatory and is only the beginning of the fight for a better Nigeria!

We will make a change... by fire by force✊🏾

This is the place I wanted to visit in Africa more than anyplace else

It’s a beautiful country with beautiful people and culture, we just have a lot of problems and issues even before SARS... there’s a lot of work to be done...

you know what? it's funny how thin white celebrities mention women nd y'all will freak out nd make them trend bc 'lgbt icons!!!!!!' but black women like meg thee stallion talk abt liking girls nd y'all silent nd when niecy nash has a whole GAY WEDDING the website silent? hmmmmm it's almost like..... certain groups of ppl are excluded from gay communities

the news about chadwick boseman is so... genuinely unexpected, i thought he had his whole career in front of him, he was so young and doing so well. the announcement made me feel cold all over. i wish his family all the love and support in the world, this is horrible

don’t know how reliable these news sources are but here’s The NY Times article and the Insider article

You can even tell this sticky note had been previously attacked

vegans make peace with honey

no shut up do it

vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects

Forgot i drew this

Inspired by @bakarinasquad's post here!

“My nephew had the best interruption while trying to do his homework“ 

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Is this a big cat or what

I think this one was funnier in my head

drew this earlier today cause i was tired of not drawing something awful 

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this tweet is such a perfect encapsulation of what the brain trust on twitter considers activism at this point, i swear to god

If you want to use this information to actually learn about minstrelsy I would recommend the chapter “Past Imperfect: Performance, Power, and Politics on the Minstrel Stage” from Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts by Brenda Dixon Gottschild. Gottschild covers the Africanist dance influence in minstrelsy, the re-appropriation of and resistance in minstrelsy by Black performers, the legacy of minstrelsy, and much more.

In a similar vein I would also recommend the Marlon Riggs documentaries Ethnic Notions, which covers anti-Black stereotypes in popular culture from the antebellum period through the Civil Rights movement, and Color Adjustment, which covers the representation of African Americans on television from its advent through the 1990s.

You’re not going to raise your consciousness by watching The Wizard of Oz and feeling bad that Judy Garland did blackface (in not just Everybody Sing, but also Babes in Arms and Babes on Broadway, for the record) because she was a minor under the thumb of her abusive stage mother and legally obligated to perform in these films because of her contract with MGM. Engage with the work of Black activists on the subject instead and think about or criticize how the stereotypes from minstrel performances still manifest in popular culture today in different forms.

this isn’t showing up in my replies because of the links so i’m boosting it, tumblr user thehours2002 is smart and thoughtful as always

part of activism is that the process of learning can be uncomfortable, because changing the world requires questioning things you take for granted and grappling with your role in an unjust system.

performative activism doesn’t understand that discomfort is a side effect, not the end goal, so it’s all about guilt. if you don’t reblog this you’re a bad person, this thing that’s popular as ~problematic~ and you should feel bad for liking it, etc.

doing that is way easier than doing activism, and telling people they’re Bad makes you feel morally superior and establishes you as Good, and so you get to have the performance of activism and wokeness without actually doing anything but making people unhappy.

this tweet (“think about this the next time you watch the wizard of oz”) pretty much states straight up that this performative activism is only about making you feel bad. like op says, it’s pointless. but that’s the point.

I hope all of you are black commenting on blackface

Living like an ant in a microwave

idk if this needs to be said but if any followers/mutuals of mine still support jeffree star or shane dawson get off of my page

this also includes trisha paytas, tana mongeau, any of the paul brothers, pewdiepie, etc. get the fuck out of here

it's no wonder kyoshi took over aang first chance she got to set the record straight. roku didn't do anything against sozin until it was already too late bet you whenever he consulted her she always told him to take initiative and kill his imperialist bosom friend but his aristocratic ass didn't want to hear it

Remembering the fire nation soldiers he’s killed but then wants to be all peaceful when it comes to a tyrant/dictator and some other things I can’t think of at the moment really reminds me of that thing where A hero will kill 50 henchmen to get to the villain but then when they get to the villain they go on a dumb tirade of, " i csnt kill you thatd make me just like you blah blah blah. "