I decided to share this around Tumblr, as well
so, i learned some things about the term "woke" that I'd like to pass on.
it's believed that "woke" evolved from the words of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican political activist who wrote a series of books and was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association ans African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, also known as UNIA), quoted in 1923 saying:
"Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations."
later in 1938, the famous American Blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, called Lead Belly, recorded the song "Scottsboro Boys" which was a ballad that told the story of 4 innocent black youths who were accused of raping a white woman in Scottsboro, Alabama and were tried by an all white jury and sentenced to death. in the song, Huddie says:
“I advise everybody to be a little careful when they go down there. Stay woke. Keep your eyes open.”
in 1940 during a strike lead by a group of black union workers in West Virginia, the union leader (unfortunately I could not locate his name or history) is quoted as saying:
“We were asleep. But we will stay woke from now on.”
in 1962 William Melvin Kelley, a Harlem based writer, published an essay in the New York Times called "If You're Woke You Dig It", in which he goes on to highlight the issue of black slang being appropriated by white people who corrupted the original terms meanings until the idioms were abandoned by their original black creators:
in 1972, american playwright and novelist Barry Beckham wrote the play "Garvey Lives!", a play written about Marcus Garvey which was produced by George Houston Bass of the Rites and Reason theatre, a black theater group at Brown University. a line from the play reads as the following:
“I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon’ stay woke. And I’m gon’ help him wake up other black folk.”
this word has exploded across the world and lost much of its origin and intent, and it seems to be widely believed that it was only coined in recent years.
"woke" was a term created by black people, for black people. and now it's used as a slang term for white people to either disrespect, use to fear monger, or appropriate to brag about political awareness without even knowing where the term was born.
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it gets easier everyday
kramergate
remember when things were simple
pigpocket
this is the saddest fucking image on this website
general consensus by tmnt fans towards the mutant mayhem turtle tots
gonna call in a shitter like it's a medevac helicopter and I'm a wounded GI in the jungles of Vietnam
imagine getting in one of these and sitting down and a few seconds later you feel it lift off the ground
too busy imagining one of these malfunctioning and raining shit from the sky onto the populace
I have to do everything my fucking self huh
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i almost forgot this blessed video exists
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Wait there’s another one of these
If memory serves, what happened was that someone took a video of a Ukrainian military band playing some other song and dubbed a realistic-sounding version of A Cruel Angel’s Thesis over it. This proceeded to be everywhere on the internet, enough so that the band that put on the original performance caught wind of it, and decided to capitalize on its popularity by actually performing the song. This video is the latter version.
This captures everything I love about being online
This reminds me of the time that I asked if anyone had resources on the history of Shinto and while nobody had book recs, turns out an actual Temple Maiden followed me on Tumblr and was down to chat.
An B….
clearly he originally had “an A” and then decided that was asking too much
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True
since the old version of this post was flagged for ‘adult content’…
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Republicans are regressive, reactionary, and petty. They fear society as it moves forward.
One of the things I love most about the Stormlight Archive’s main trio is that their vibes and attitudes are in almost total contrast.
Like, to look at them, one is a sweet-looking blonde guy with a huge smile, and his cute redheaded wife who’s always making jokes. And then, a few metres off to the side, is this six-foot-four gloomy-looking dude with a severe case of angry eyes.
But then you read the books, you find out that Adolin and Shallan would both 100% murder someone in a shady back alley, meanwhile Kaladin is probably helping save a child stuck in a tree whilst on the way to his nightly stew dinner and therapy session with his 30 best friends.
Do not attempt to out-malicious-compliance the staff at the malicious compliance conference.
Some dipshit decided to pay the conference fee ($250) in quarters. He handed us a wrapped plastic bag full of loose change. "It's all there," he said with a shit-eating grin, "you can count it."
Oh buddy. We're going to count it. What were you expecting?
At about the time I got to $60, he offered to give us $300 collateral so he could get his badge and go to the conference.
No, bud. You get to watch the most dyscalculic staffer count to a thousand while all your friends go in to the breakfast and find seats for the first talk.
"Ruining someone's day" is the favorite hobby of everyone here. Why would you hand us the perfect opportunity to wreck your shit and think that was an own? Half the con is calling him "Untraceable," the other half is calling him "Quarter Boy" and nobody cares what he says his handle is.
I spent an hour counting that and made him go fetch me baggies to hold it every fifty dollars.