bellygangstaboo
Reblog if you agree.
I agree
Trifecta
Do you remember the grocery store, Mr. Frodo? It’ll be spring soon, and the Red Sox will be at Fenway; and the cafes will be putting tables on the sidewalk; and they’ll be cleaning out the boathouses on the Charles; and eating takeout from the Armenian grocery store. Do you remember the taste of takeout?
vampireapologist
no sam….I can’t recall the taste of food trucks,
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What
working-class-worm
Yeah in America that’s just an average Tuesday
In case y’all thought this wasn’t a real thing:
and those are just the top 3 results when you google “missouri hospital terrorist”
Just to emphasize how bad the coverage for this is, I live in Missouri and didn’t even know this was a thing that happened
yo I heard NOTHING about this wtf??????
I want all nonblack people to watch this video, especially white people.
This is the best video IMO that displays the depth of what it feels like to be Black in the midst of white supremacy.
This is the rage that burns in so many Black people and eats at us when it is not sufficiently soothed by our self restraint and years of learning to cope with and sit with us. This is the pain that shortens Black people’s very lives, that we smother each day. This is the justified yet unjustly ignored anger we have learned to hold and to aim and to deal with without breaking (too much).
This is the fire that those of you who are just showing up on the scene are learning to sit beside.
When you ask us ‘how we’re doing’, understand that this is the real core of it, every single day, and we have had to learn to laugh, to sing, to dance, to work, to grieve, to heal around heavy, heavy pain. I don’t get the feeling that y’all are expecting nor could you handle if we answered you like this. But I do feel like you should already know how we’re doing: we’re Black.
So y’all, sit with this video for a hot minute.
Kimberly Jones, you are a warrior. I feel every moment of this, every diaphragm flex, every tenuously tempered shout. And I hope that you are taking a break, and experiencing a moment of peace, because you deserve it.
for those who need a transcript, A Martel in the youtube comments wrote it all out. I can’t link to it directly so I’ll copy it here:
“So, I’ve been seeing a lot of things talking, people making commentary, interestingly enough, the ones I’ve noticed have been making the commentary are wealthy black people, making the commentary about we should not be rioting, we should not be rioting, we should not be tearing up our own communities, and then theres been an argument of the other side of we should be hitting them in the pocket, we should be focusing on the blackout days where we don’t spend money. But you know, I feel like we should do both, and I feel like I support both, and I’ll tell you why I support both. I support both because:
When you have a civil unrest like this, there are 3 types of people in the streets, there are the protesters, there are the rioters, and there are the looters.
The protesters are there, because they actually care about what is happening in the community, they want to raise their voices, and they are there strictly to protest.
You have the rioters: that are angry, who are anarchists, who really just want to fuck shit up, and thats what they’re going to do regardless.
And then you have the looters: And the looters almost exclusively are just there to do that, to loot.
Now, people are like, “Well what did you gain?” “Well, what did you get from looting?”
I think that as long as we’re focusing on the “What”, we’re not focusing not the “Why”, and thats my issue with that. As long as we’re focusing on “What” they’re doing, we’re not focusing on “Why” they’re doing. And some people are like “Well those aren’t people who are legitimately angry about what’s happening, those are people who just want to get stuff.”
Ok well then, lets go with that.
Lets say that’s what it is.
Lets ask ourselves why, in this country, in 2020, the financial gap between poor Blacks and the rest of the world, is at such a distance, that people feel like their only hope and only opportunity to get some of the things that we flaunt and flash in front of them all the time is to walk to walk through a broken glass window and get it, that they are so hopeless, that getting that necklace, getting that TV, getting that change, getting that bed, getting that phone, whatever it is they’re going to get, is that in that moment when the riot happen and they present an opportunity of looting, thats their only opportunity to get it, we need to be questioning that “Why”.
WHY are people that poor, why are people that broke, why are people that food insecure, that clothing insecure, that they feel like their only shot, that they’re shooting their shot, by walking through that broken glass window to get what they need?
And then people want to talk about “Well, there are plenty of people who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, and got it on their own, why can’t they do that?“
Let me explain something to you about economics in America. And I’m so glad that as a child I got an opportunity to spend time at PUSH where they taught me this: Is that we must never forget, that economics was the reason, that Black people were brought to this country. We came to do the agricultural work in the South, and the textile work in the North.
Do you understand that?
Thats what we came to do. We came to do the agricultural work in the South, and the textile work in the North.
Now if I right now, if I right now decided that I wanted to play Monopoly with you, and for 400 rounds of playing Monopoly, I didn’t allow you to have any money, I didn’t allow you to have anything on the board, I didn’t allow for you to have anything. And then, we played another 50 rounds of Monopoly, and everything that you gained and you earned while you were playing that round of Monopoly was taken from you.
That was Tulsa, that was Rosewood, there are, those are places where we built black economic wealth, we were self sufficient, where we owned our stores, where we owned our property.
And they burned them to the ground.
So thats 450 years, so for 400 rounds of Monopoly, you don’t get to play at all. Not only do you not get to play, you have to play on behalf of the person you are playing against. You have to play and make money and earn wealth for them and you have to turn it over to them.
So then for 50 years, you finally get a little bit and you’re allowed to play, and every time they don’t like, the way that you’re playing or that you’re catching up, or that you’re doing something to be self sufficient:
They burn your game.
They burn your cards.
They burn your monopoly money.
And then, finally at the release and the onset of that, they allow you to play and they say, “Ok. Now you catch up.”
Now at this point, the only way you’re gonna catch up in the game is if the other person shares the wealth, correct? But what if every time you shared the wealth, then there’s physiological warfare against you to say “Oh, you’re an equal opportunity hire.”
So if I play 400 rounds of Monopoly with you, and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for 50 years, every time that I played, I, if you didn’t like what I did you got to burn it, like they did in Tulsa, and like they did in Rosewood:
How can you win? How can you win???
You CAN’T win.
The game is fixed.
So, when they say: “Why do you burn down the community, why do you burn down your own neighborhood?”
ITS NOT OURS. WE DON’T OWN ANYTHING.
WE DON’T OWN ANYTHING.
There is….Trevor Noah said it so beautifully last night, “There is a social contract that we all have, that if you steal, or if I steal, then, the person who is the authority comes in, and they fix the situation.
BUT THE PERSON WHO FIXES THE SITUATION IS KILLING US.
So the social contract is BROKEN. And if the social contract is broken, why the FUCK do I give a shit, about burning the fucking football hall of fame, about burning a fucking Target?
You BROKE THE CONTRACT, when you killed us in the streets and DIDN’T GIVE A FUCK.
You BROKE THE CONTRACT, when for 400 years, we PLAYED your game and BUILT your wealth.
You BROKE THE CONTRACT when we built our wealth again, on our own, by our bootstraps in Tulsa, and you dropped BOMBS ON US.
When we built it in Rosewood, and you came in, and you slaughtered us.
YOU broke the contract, so FUCK your Target, FUCK your Hall of Fame.
…Far as I’m concerned, they can burn this bitch to the ground, and it still, wouldn’t be enough.
And they are LUCKY, that what Black people are looking for is equality, and not revenge.”
end transcript
Victor Frankenstein: I’ve created life but I refuse to put any effort into helping that life develop. I won’t teach him, love him, or defend him even though I forced him into existence with a fully operational adult brain lol. Peace, bitch.
The Monster: Am Eloquent Baby
Boomers: He’S NOt thE ViCtIM, HE’s tHe MOnsTEr
An ironic parallel considering the idea of “tough love” parenting that plenty of boomers like to use. If they buy into the idea that their kids just have to toughen up and face the real world without guidance or emotional support, I’m sure it does scare them to read a story where someone who wasn’t given any support began to resent their creator and turn on them.
it’s like that post that’s like ‘knowledge is knowing that frankenstein is the doctor; wisdom is knowing that frankenstein is the monster’. like the whole point of the post is that frankenstein’s monster is a victim of viktor frankenstein’s own monstrosity.
mary shelley did not lose her virginity on her mother’s grave just for people to misunderstand her best known work over a century later.
stilljittery
keep up
“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”
a hero emerges
inkgut
And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.
And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.
Teenage girls are amazing.
Sometimes they’re not even teenagers
anxious-barnacle
Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored
disgusting-enby
Who they are:
Emma Gonzalez
Malala Yousafzai
Ruby Bridges
Greta Thunberg
Mari Copeny
Autumn Peltier
Afreen Khan
Sophie Cruz
Charlottesville Black Students Union
Naomi Wadler
DAPL protestors (names not found)
Ahed Tamimi
This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.
If you have a child and they are creeped out by a nephew or older brother touching them or looking at them a certain way, you need to have a serious talk with that person and keep them the hell away from your child. Don’t minimize it or tell your kid to hug them anyway, that kid is picking up danger signals they don’t even understand yet. But so many families will tell that kid they are being a brat.
thankyou
A quick note- this applies to female relatives as well. One of my aunts ignores my little brother’s requests not to hug or kiss him (he has aspergers and doesn’t like physical contact with people he is not very close with). I have repeatedly placed myself between the two of them and had to tell her to back off and stop trying to “desensitize” him. Whether or not there are “danger signals,” it is not okay for adults to invalidate a child or teen’s request for boundaries. We need to teach children now, when they are young, that they can say no to these things and that other people can too.
awfulpigeon
And this applies even if the relative isn’t giving bad vibes. Just in general teach your kids that they don’t have to have any physical contact for someone else’s sake if they don’t want to.
Never not reblog
32degrees-deactivated20210303
I love how people supported warren and buttigeg purely because they’d be the first woman or first gay president but as soon as u mention bernie would be the first jewish president there’s radio silence
littlecerulean
I go through this exact monologue at least every 48 hours.
Help.
My life has been meaningless until now🤘
oh, shes VIBING™ vibing
The police aren’t helping you through this crisis
Nurses, health care workers, sanitation workers, retail workers, and food service workers are
Rich celebrities should be responding to the COVID-19 pandemic like this or they shouldn't be saying anything at all.
There are celebrites far richer than them sobbing and acting like they're in the same boat as the rest of us with an abundance of money and supplies while doing nothing to actually help. This isn't the first time Rob and kaitlin have used their money for good and it certainly wont be the last.
Anemone runs from starfish
Anemone song is NOT shitty, delete this 😡😡😡
“I’ll just do the assigned reading in bed.”
Luigi is Mood
marchpain-deactivated20191129
sometimes i forget this comic exists and then i find it again and want to happy-cry
Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus
They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her
kansascity-elffriend
I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.
Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.
Odysseus: Regret it why?
Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.
Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in.
*A couple of months later*
Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit.
Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure.
Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family.
But didn’t he only call himself Nobody to the Cyclops on the journey home? You’d have a causality paradox.
If Odysseus was smart enough to call himself ‘Nobody’ to fool Polyphemus, he’s smart enough to come up with it in the face of a seer lamenting the fact that she’s cursed to have ‘nobody’ believe her.
ODYSSEUS WAS VERY SMART AND THIS IS THE HILL I WILL DIE ON.
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.— James 5:1-6
At first I thought this was an angry Tumblr post but then it turned out to be the Literal Bible and it got 1000x better
i thought op was a witch and was cursing rich people and i got so into it