Arson but its Free Real Estate

For example Frederick Douglas’ wife did so much for his ungrateful ass. She helped him get on his feet, gave him her last name, and supported him financially and took care of house and home. And in return was does this nigga do? He lets white abolitionists tear her down and treat her like a slave in HER HOUSE. Moved two bitches into HER HOUSE over a span of 20 years. Belittles her for being illiterate while using HER MONEY. Not even in death does she get the respect she deserves. His last wife is more recognized as being apart of his life than she was. Just trash. And y'all still normalize that shit as if it’s a black woman’s job to struggle. Fuck that.

Fuck Frederick Douglas.

That negro was a massive hypocrite. How the fuck you wanna abolish slavery and support women’s rights, then treat your own wife like shit?????????????????

^^^^ history left her out of his story too. Claiming his parents have him money to start up when it was her.

Don’t forget MLK and Malcolm X

My heart broke a little but I’m not surprised. What did Malcolm do ?

I don’t know about Malcolm X, but I know that Martin Luther King was in love with a white caferteria lady name Betty that he was seeing while he was attending college. The only reason why he married Coretta and not the cafeteria worker is because his dad frowned upon it. Not only that but his best friend Ralph Abernathy and Jackie Onassis exposed him for being a sex craved phony that loved cheating on Coretta. I guarantee that if black women from the civil rights era could talk now, our heads would explode. 

I mean if we’re gonna spill tea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UG7YCgkXTo

Our community has always treated us like shit no matter what. Not to mention Miss Claudette Colvin who was the actually pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. She was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus 9 months before Rosa but she was a dark skinned single mother so she wasn’t good enough. 

Let’s not forget Black Panther’s leader Eldridge Cleaver and his famous book “Soul On Ice” where he recounts how he practiced raping black women because he knew no one would care and when he “mastered his craft” he starting raping white women. Also let’s never forget that he said that there is no more love left between black women and men and that everytime he embraces a black woman, he embraces slavery. Y’all gon’ get this history lesson today!

Wow… and somehow I’m not even surprised.

I knew all of that. Martin was constantly cheating with white prostitutes even a German exchange student while protesting civil right. Cleaver was the worst. Preying on and raping young black girls in the hood as practice for raping white women. Claudette is still referenced as “the other rosa parks” when the light bright brigade “NAACP” weren’t gonna let her share her story to begin with.

Let this post never die. Black women were NEVER respected back in the day, and we’re STILL getting disrespected every minute.

Wow….

[reasons why I think most Black dudes r performative when it comes to being *proBlack* n only know how to mirror yt ally theater/chase yt validation. n nonBlack ppl better back the fuck off this post and start combatting the antiBlackness before they even think of comment.]

Just a reminder that Claudette Colvin didn’t get pregnant until 3 months after refusing her seat on the bus. She was a poor dark skinned girl. In her words “they wanted someone PEOPLE would sympathize with and I didn’t look like that.” Colorism AND Classism waaaay before Instagram 🙂

Bruh I learned all of this and more in my civil rights history class last semester. My professor actually got her doctorate in black women in the black power movement. Even though two black men from California started the radical group as we know it, black women did most of the work and kept the group afloat. By the 80s it was largely female led. Also, elderidge cleaver wrote an essay after getting out of prison where he recanted everything he said in soul on ice and this was largely due to the fact that women were running the bpp and told him he couldn’t join if he was to co tibie to perpetuate this rape nonsense.

Also also claudette Colvin wasn’t the only one who was forgotten during the Montgomery bus boycott. Do y'all know who Jo Ann Robinson is? Home girl was the backbone to the whole movement tbh. Yeah rosa (a trained activist btw) was the igniting flame and yes in her documents and Jo Ann’s Claudette was credited as the inspiration, but jo Ann really kept the movement running. She organized car pools for all the black folks in Montgomery. Y'all the Montgomery bus boycott lasted for a year! People still had to get to work and shit. Jo Ann was on it! Plus she had a whole committee that was pushing for regulation changes and the end of segregation in busing. And hell, Montgomery buses were damn near reliant on black commuters so they eventually had to give.

Plus my all time fave is the homie Ella baker. Home girl ensured the founding of sncc when fuckboy Mlk tried to make them the youth chapter of the sclc. SNCC is the group that made sit ins a popular form of protest during the early civil rights movement. They founding students had their first sit in in 1960. Ella baker was like these students need their own separate movement and the sclc ain’t it. Plus she was a true proponent of self determination which was clear in everything that sncc did.

Basically what I’m trying to say is black women been the backbone of society and they still are.

Let’s also talk about how Huey P Newton, the founder of the BPP ordered the severe beating of Regina Davis. Regina Davis was an administrator at a BP school and was literally jumped for reprimanding a male BP member. She was beaten so bad that she was in the hospital for a broken jaw and had to flee to LA for her own safety. Her attack was a deliberate message to all female BP because the men were getting  upset with the increasing power black women had in the party and wanted to put them in their place.

In 1974 Huey P Newton also shot and killed a 17 year old sex worker in Oakland named Kathleen Smith in the face for calling him “baby” and because she didn’t give him the “respect” he wanted (x) 

and who could forget good ol’ Harry Belafonte and how he treated Ertha Kitt way back when 

Ellen Holly was a super light skin soap opera actress who claimed to have a similar experience with Harry Belafonte before he married a white woman and called him out in her autobiography about his behavior towards black women

THIS IS WHY WHEN PATRICIA ARQUETTE SAID WOMEN HAVE HAD TO TAKE A BACKSEAT TO OTHER GROUP´S PROGRESS SHE WAS RIGHT! 

BUT Y’ALL WERE SO UPSET WITH HER

That white woman ain’t got nothing to do with this. We’re talking about black women’s treatment here.

How dare you bring Patricia Arquettes white feminist ass on a post about the treatment of Black Women

That was a much needed thread. Reminds me of the first time I discovered Tumblr and learned so much about feminism and women’s history. To add my 2 cents to this, I put the pictures of most of the ladies mentioned above (I couldn’t find a picture of Regina Davis, if you have one that’d be great), so that anyone discovering these wonderful women can put a face to their name. 

unfortunately there are no known or publicly available pictures of Regina Davis or Kathleen Smith

Keep this thread going and share the stories of how Black women have been degraded by black mens sexism 

Just to add some more, let’s not forget the importance of Shirley Chisholm. She was an unapologetic black feminist who fought for the rights of women and the poor in her community.  She was a founding member of both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Women’s Caucus. 

She was the first black women ever elected to the US congress and was the first woman and black american to ever run for the president of the US. Her campaign to be the democratic nominee was treated like a joke, and although she had the support of her loyal husband she received NO SUPPORT  from black male leaders. Her campaign went underfunded and the men of the black caucus rallied around white male candidates instead because they were pissed off that she was getting attention and wanted a black male candidate instead.

“They think I am trying to take power from them. The black man must step forward, but that doesn’t mean the black woman must step back.“(x)

what type of sorcery is this thread….not claiming none of this is a perspective worth understanding but Black women…when you openly shame your men like this, it will be used to not only justify harming our men and boys as we constantly see, but YOU are also a target because you’re claiming to your enemy that you don’t make efficient men in your womb which means YOU’RE ALSO WORTHLESS!!! 

LMFAOOOOOO!!!!

God the hotepery in that second to last comment!! 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ I knew about half of these. I’ve never heard anything about Malcolm (post NoI) but I did know about King and Belafonte. And then I learned something new! Whew. And my parents get mad when I say “the movement has to be intersectional” in response to “women are the reason black people can’t move forward”…..as if we don’t make up half the movement -_-

they love the “black women stop us from moving forward” nonsense.  they believe were the reason for not being able to move forward because they’re definition of progress is being white men with all the benefits and privilege.

black women have always done the work to sustain movements while black men end up being the face of the movement, reaping benefits and scrape up whatever amount of power they can just to abuse it. then when you bring up the bullshit that they’ve been able to do because they’re men, they’ll try manipulating you by telling you your being divisive and that its not about gender but about black people… as if we don’t live in a patriarchal society that would rather suffer than listen to the voices of women… its the same shit they did a few months ago during the BLM protests, silencing black women when we brought up the fact that were not only being killed by police but by them too, reassuring us that fighting for the black men that died is a fight for all of us then called us divisive for making it about gender…

if black women would take even an ounce of the blood, sweat and tears they put into protecting black men and put it into themselves for once, just imagine the shift… we have the voice, the reach, the intelligence to fight for ourselves and the people who fight and stand for us… so why don’t we normalise that??

all this post shows me is a history of manipulation and pain against black women while normalising the expectation that black women are only useful when birthing children and putting in work to protect everyone before themselves because “black men have it rough”. i’m tired of us being expected to protect and standby the same black men who would, if given the chance, completely disregarded me as a human being just for the opportunity to lick a white mans balls… its disgraceful…

this reminds of that posts going around telling non-blacks to center black men in BLM converations. Black men have always been the center of those conversations, I don’t know why that post even had to be made. 

This thread has it all: whiterailing, manrailing. Just all of it. 

White women and Black men come together like buttcheeks when its time to shit all over a conversation about Black women.

And let’s not forget the creator of Kwanzaa who had a history of torturing, maiming, raping, and inflicting unspeakable violence upon Black women. 

So gross. We need to hold Black men accountable for silencing us in the movement and all the shit they inflict on us. We spend so much time sacrificing for them and defending them, and yet they will NEVER move on and reach racial equality without us. There is NO racial equality without gender equality. If you want Black men to be free, then you have to want Black women to be free. No questions asked. 

@witches-ofcolor Whoever said that is a major bullshit talker. If anyone needs to be centered in BLM discussions, it’s fucking Black women, not Black men. Black men are ALWAYS treated as the default when talking about anti-Blackness, especially as a hypothetical. It’s as if they either don’t think Black women exist or that they think we don’t face racism at all and that our gender somehow shields us from it. Which couldn’t have been further from the truth. 

White women and Black men both would rather have us be invisible than acknowledge our struggle and help us so that we all can achieve racial and gender equality. It’s time we start looking out for ourselves as well. And Black men(and white women) it’s about time you start supporting and defending us instead of trying to fucking silence us all the time. And if you dare misread all of this as “hating Black men” as if anyone even said that shit, then congratulations on your victim mentality, and maybe work on why you think anyone calling out male audacity is automatically doing it from a place of hatred. 

Please, if we want our community to be better, then we have to DO better. Black women are so often left out of the movement, and darkskin Black women the most. They are who need to be set free in order for all of us to be free. Get that through y’all heads already! 

It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.

#i don’t think this is what pterry meant by ‘a man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’

I absolutely think it is

I read Jingo for the first time when I was 13.

I’m 33 now, and I still discover a new joke every time I reread it.

Terry was a comedic genius

#shoutout to the one in Soul Music about the leopard that got thrown out of the circus because it couldn't hear the ringmaster#it was several months after my second or third time reading the book that I clocked it was a Deaf Leopard (via @morkaischosen)

god DAMMIT

wait ok mutuals what do you guys call your parents???????

Hey! What the fuck is going on in here

actually a really good look at the kind of strength and balance being a fat motherfucker grants you: chunky bro at the start lifted the vacuum like it was nothing because he easily outmasses it and he stays perfectly centered while he waves it around. his center of gravity was low and stable.

gym bro was strong enough to lift the machine easily, but he had to use his hips and shoulders in counterbalance to stay planted, and even then it was a clear effort for him not to be pulled off base. he’s strong enough to lift the machine and throw it around, but his center of gravity is too high to actually wield it effectively.

here it is. the ultimate gforms quiz. is the person in the picture a minecraft youtuber or a formula racecar driver?

rb w ur scores !!! dont fill the tags w fandom discourse just talk abt the quiz thanks !!!

BREAKING: Undertale stageplay in development, in collaboration with songwriter Lin Manuel Miranda

Part 4!

I know absolutely no sign language. Don't think of this comic as a tutorial :l

Donnie only has three fingers on his hand, so he must have changed it. And then taught it to Casey.

And now Casey can sign, too, but he does it by folding his fingers so that he has “turtle 🖖 hands”

Part 1

[369] “369 girls wanna drink wine tell the man not to waste your time tell them move on-”

Ah, lads. I sunburned my tits.

This is what I get for wearing a dress that doesn't look like I just escaped from a crypt.

"I need to make a Felps backpack"

He is done with the enigma now its time for his very healthy search for his missing best friend

Normal guy

I'd do the same for Felps im not judging Cellbit at all

God I wish I was Link <- able to disappear into the wilderness of the world with full knowledge of survival skills and my own capabilities. just being able to leave and I return a month or two later and don't acknowledge it whatsoever

i will never complain about a book seeming like a fanfic with the serial numbers filed off because that means the author had the invaluable ability to tell when their au had diverged enough that these were just straight-up different characters now

even as we speak there is probably someone out there writing a delightful 100k+ word gay romance novel about a genderqueer bisexual single parent who lives in a beach town and fixes classic cars and falls in love with the sexy tentacle monster mermaid that saved their life, and that writer could probably make pretty good money self-publishing it, but they won't because that would mean admitting that they aren't really writing destiel anymore

love that despite not being in the fandom i hit the middle of the venn diagram of 'characters that the average person would never in a million years recognize as dean winchester' and 'characters that a certain subset of fans would immediately think are dean winchester' so perfectly that i've since been told i described multiple popular fics

my only disagreement is that nothing over 100,000 words can be "delightful"

file the serial numbers off and get an editor

(or at the VERY least, have the self-respect to hack it into three books and call it a 'triology' if you /want/ to tap into the market of people who want doorstoppers.)

just checking stats in calibre using its wordcounter, it tells me:

have you considered that if you think the average paperback romance novel is a doorstopper, you might prefer novellas

I was reading that comment and thinking to myself, three books out of 100k? Maybe three novellas, but not three novels.

Three YA novels, maybe.

For adult fiction, it's about 60-100k per average for a novel, depending on the genre. Anything under about 50k is a novella, iirc.

Which is fine if that's what you like reading. But 100k is not unwieldy. And many of us churning out those word counts do have very exacting editors :)

(Hunger Pangs was 120k-ish, and people still complain to me that it was too short.)

oh good, i specifically didn't mention hunger pangs being 123k in calibre because i was like "if calibre is miscounting really badly i'm gonna look like a huge jackass when joy points that out" :V

Haha, tbh I wouldn't know. It varies between editions and I can never remember which is which.

I was going to say re: your tags, "I'm pretty sure Kindle lists the word count as mandatory," but no, it lists the file size and page print length which is not as helpful for the purpose of this post.

I think word count should be as ubiquitous and as mandatory as page count. It's far more helpful.

Agreed, actually. I think I'm going to start including it in my metadata.

kind of obsessed with richarlyson being like. “yeah philza and badboyhalo are cheating on their spouses to date my dad (forever). this is undeniable fact because my dad is awesome.”

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

*coughing blood and covered in wounds, on one knee, gripping my sword planted on the ground… And yet, smiling* Heh… And yet, despite everything… *I start glowing with mysterious power* I stay silly!

sometimes you look at someone’s art and you know EXACTLY what’s going on and you’re like

(I would like to emphasize the “non-judgemental” portion of the caption)

new ask game: tell me what your ‘non-judgemental but still very aware’ thing is about my art

So what I have learned from tumblr today, if you get shipped with Jimmy, You’ll most likely go into a “I’m cold and mysterious, I am one with the snow and ice” phase.

not them comparing to who richas look more like KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

ps: apparently he looks more like forever lmao