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White people are always tryna complicate family relationships. Twice removed third cousin blah blah blah. If we’re related and you aren’t my sibling then you’re my auntie, uncle or cousin it’s that simple

Going to the family functions any kid that was the same age as you was your cousin like that's just how it is. I remember talking about one of my aunts and the white person was like oh ur mom or ur dad's sister. And I said neither family friend and she got mad???? She was like "well then you can't call her aunt what if there's an emergency and people think you're blood related??" NIGGA AND????? All this stress for what 😭

And it's also white people that'll say your cousin having a kid is still your cousin and not your niece or nephew I hate that shit

Or they don’t include people that married into the family as family. Like my uncle’s wife is my aunt. Their children are my cousins even if they aren’t my uncle’s biological kids. Family is family it’s so simple

White people want us all to adopt the nuclear family as law because they have no real community outside of racism.

And they HATE recognize adoption ESPECIALLY with how Black people do it. My Granny says she has 17 kids because she gave birth to 12 and the other 5 was either her sister's/ bestfriend's/ community kids. There was no ' foster care/law adoption', she raised them because shit happen and they needed a parent and now all their kids are my cousins.

White girls at my school were so confused or frustrated when I said I couldn't date any Black guys at school because literally they are all my cousins.

When one of them asked me "Is it by blood tho?" I knew I had to leave this fucking Backyard Boonies ass town.

Please, i beg you, help us.

If you've been following me along this journey you know things haven't been easy for us. Its been hard for me to hold down the fort. I need to, i have to take care of my grandmother and it's been more difficult every day.

She's on heavy medication for her enphysema, she can't have her immune system down because if so, a fever could literally kill her. She has to eat. Even if i dont, she has to. Besides that, the pills she's been takin will start making her stomach burn if she doesn't eat within 30 minutes of taking them. So she has to eat something very often, if it is a banana, anything.

I'm not asking anymore, this time I'm begging. I'm begging you to help her. I need to buy food. I had some donations last week but the food is starting to run low again, and I don't know what to do except to beg for your help.

Please, please. Even if you have 10 cents to send me, do. It helps. Every single bit helps.

My PayPal is caroline.rdf@outlook.com , please send her anything you can. Anything.

If you can't donate, please push this post forward so more people see it.

And thank you, thank you for every single time you guys helped me, every donation, reblog or kind words. It all helps.

10/10 Jesus would not approve of a bunch of y’all. He said welcome your neighbors from other countries but y’all are xenophobic and racist. He taught about giving to the poor and yet a bunch of y’all hate homeless and poor people. Won’t even lift a finger to help them. He taught against hoarding your wealth if you’re rich and y’all still do that. He said to care for the sick and y’all don’t. He said treat others as an extension of yourself and you don’t. He said love everybody and y’all don’t. I get that there are don’t’s in the Bible but I’ve noticed that y’all pay a lot more attention to those than you do the actual do’s. There are a lot of do’s too. I’m pretty sure there are more do’s than there are don’t’s. Imma say it too: white people have messed y’all up. Terribly. Their warped version of God where he’s basically seen as cruel does not exist. They used God, who despite what anyone says ain’t told them to do nothing, to literally kill millions. When exactly are y’all gonna learn this and start asking questions? Cuz the way a bunch of y’all so called christians think and act is how white people act a lot of the time to anyone they deem lower than them. Fix it.

Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris

(via Mubi)

This girl’s mother was in a really bad car accident and now her mother has been in the hospital for a week now still in a coma in critical care. If y’all can help in any way please do.

honestly that "it costs 0 dollars to be kind" bullshit is bullshit. it does cost things to be kind. it costs time. it costs energy. and it isn't always easy and it isn't always natural. it costs so much to be kind, sometimes. but that's the whole point. if being kind were easy, or simple, every single person would be an angel. but they're not, and the world isn't easy and simple. so no, it does cost something to be kind. but it's worth it anyway.

The "it's worth it anyway" saves this, but the whole point is it doesn't cost MONEY.

The saying as written is a jab upwards at its best, and a pointed remark about the lack of universally applicable, concrete harm at worst, which is still hardly bad.

I love taking away people's access to me. Like the trial is over and your card is declined

another thing I don't think ill ever be able to understand is why white girls must be included in big production things black girl celebrities do. Like they've always gotta be backup dancers in something black af, or just ultimately visible in choreography for black things in ways that still put them at a forefront. Like it makes sense for production & projects by black males cus that's a misogynoir-given, but ion get why they have any sort of visibility at all in black girl things. Why "must" you pretend to belong?

Why are you anywhere near these things when they're made to represent black people — & esp black women? Best example i can think of (*among literally millions of other) is how there are white girls — even if only a few — in Normani's "Motivation" music video. Like why? Why are yall there? Why are yall in that at all? Its so obviously a power song. Its a representation song & video pertaining specifically to how ostracising it can be not ever seeing yourself as a black woman in anything pop culture if its not hypersexualized. And yall are in that for what? Lioe we literally cannot get away from yall over just make our own things w/o yall invading these spaces anyhow.

Yall didn't put black girls in Avril Lavigne music videos. Yall don't look for black girls to put in videos for Neue Deutsche Härte music. Aint never seen a black girl openly represented in or dancing to Polka music. Yall music has always been exclusively white as a mf. Why must we make room for these bitches in black industries & categories. Yall have your own shit.

Title 42 is a racist policy created during the Trump administration, and Biden is suing to keep using it.

A reminder that:

During his campaign, Biden once said that all ICE needed was to be trained a little better.

Sorry, but there is no “reforming” an agency that uses whips to beat fleeing Black people. There is no “retraining” an agency that has forcibly sterilized asylum seekers, either without their consent or against their will. ICE and the Border Patrol need to be abolished.

This policy is deeply racist, no matter how many nice white liberals or smiling Black Democratic politicians try to convince you otherwise. So if you were angered by mass deportations under Trump, then you should still be mad. Biden is literally using the exact same racist policy and reasoning that Trump used. It doesn’t magically stop being racist just because a Democrat™ is doing it now.

ICE and the Border Patrol are institutionally racist, misogynistic and corrupt. They are beyond “fixing.”

I’m seeing far too many liberals using precisely the same anti-immigration arguments that Republicans used when Trump was in office. It’s a bit more subtle, but they’re the same racist arguments, polished up and retreaded for liberals. Please don’t be a, “I’m only mad about racism when Republicans do it,” faux progressive. Okay?? Don’t be a “back to brunch” liberal, because “orange man gone.” Bad shit is still happening to people who have a right to seek asylum. This isn’t about political parties. It’s supposed to be about helping our fellow human beings who desperately need our compassion and our help.

A rural First Nations community in Alaska has lost its’ only potable water source as of January in freezing weather. The laundromat was the ONE community location to get clean water. They rely on river water and donations right now.

There is an Amazon wishlist with cleaning products, formula, small electric-free washers for elderly + disabled people, washing buckets and water-carrying buckets, and hand tools to cut through the ice in the river to access water, amongst other things.

The Tuluksak Native Community is a Yup'ik Tribal Government in Tuluksak, Alaska. They have a 30%+ positive COVID rate. 

Please ignore the GoFundMe link right now. There is no way to access the funding as far as I know. Message CeeJay on Twitter ahead of time or direct funds to the Amazon Wish List, which can be sorted from lowest price to highest.

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Speaking aave when you’re not black is a problem that must be addressed

Some of my favorite responses to this post, hastily screenshotted:

Credits to @bandaniofficial, @lauroboros, and @fractalzoom (who I can’t properly link for some reason).

One of the things that’s already begun to happen is the mass exodus of white people from affluent cities and neighborhoods into the hood due to covid unemployment. And thus the mass gentrification process has begun.

And it is gentrification by the way. Y’all have to kill this idea that white people who’ve fallen on harder times aren’t gentrifiers. They absolutely are.

Look at the asks I’m getting. You can litterally see where the gentrification starts.

The framing of everything is “why are you being mean to these poor, sad, destitute, white people!? They have no choice but to move into these poor neighborhoods!” The expectation is for me to feel sorry for white people who are coming to live....in a place I already live.

Once again, the neighborhoods y’all move into when you struggle are the neighborhoods we grow up in. My neighborhood is so black, dominoes won’t deliver after the sun goes down. But you know what? We’re happy and feel lucky to be here. You know why? Because we know what you don’t know and that’s that 2 streets down is the hood. And 4 streets down from that is the projects. So we’re happy to be in our little black neighborhood.

But you? You move in full of despair. You hate being here. You feel at a disadvantage to be here. You hate our culture. You hate our cookouts, our loud music, the bass at 4 am rolling through, the weed smell, the fact that we leave our dogs chained up outside, the fact that we have pitbulls, the fact that we don’t really cut the grass like that, you bemoan everything about us.

And as more of your cracker friends move in you cling together. You don’t know our names but you look at us like we’re the intruders in our own neighborhoods, you start talking shit, you start wanting to “make improvements”, and worst of all you start calling the fucking police.

So we start getting arrested, assaulted, more of you move in, our rent goes up, we move out, you’re building a “home owners association,” you’ve got us all too scared to listen to our music or cook out anymore, the rent goes up some more, we leave, more of you move in, and suddenly our little black neighborhood that wasn’t the nicest but not the worst is full of white faces. White faces that peer at the few black people left. You make them so miserable they’ll leave anyway.

And all of this? Big money hasn’t even touched it yet. You bring gentrification with you as a poor white because you bring racism with you. You bring your privilege and upwards mobility with you. You bring your “improvement” mindset with you.

So no. I don’t feel sorry for poor white people at all.

Fuck y’all. Stay out of my neighborhood and go live with the white trash.

Took me a minute to find this but I’m reblogging it to extend what I wrote earlier.

The way so many of you have tried to deracialize and dilute this topic to make poor white people comfortable is unconscionable

I know Ive said this already, but you truly have to let the Divine surprise you. Some things you think you want, but they are not good for you, or won’t be in the future. In this human existence you don’t necessarily have a broad vision of things (meaning beyond space and time), therefore your desires, wants, and what you perceive as needs, are not always in alignment with your true destiny.

If you don’t have faith, if you don’t trust that God is actually working for your best interest, then you’ll keep trying to control everything. Which will inevitably lead to insanity, because you cannot in fact control everything.

Focus on your self internally, open doors within, start doing alchemy with your emotions, use your dreams to uncover the secrets of your subconscious. By doing that you will begin to understand the very fabric of your being/existence, you will broaden your perception of the world, and of your life. Which will put you in alignment with your true destiny, then you will witness everything flowing into your life effortlessly. Your thoughts and desires will literally come to life instantly because you are aligned.

This is the secret.

not to be too humorless but i really feel like we could all do better when it comes to thinking critically about the images we pass around as memes. like, is it a picture of a kid? is it a picture of a likely unstaged act of violence? is it a picture of someone who doesnt know theyre being photographed? is it a picture that was fine in a particular context but could cause real problems for the subject if widely circulated? we have to owe each other more than this

is it a black person in distress? is it a black speech being regurgitated for the hell of it? are they making fun of prominent black features? to expand, are there ethnic features/customs/languages being poked fun at? is it a caricature of a black trans woman, in pain or just existing in her daily life? also very good questions in this discussion bc i believe meme culture is just the new minstrel, the new “freak show.” op is right, we need to pay more attention and remember how much we owe black people, black trans people and just people of color in general. extend your compassion to them and maybe we can all be a little safer