Every Month Should be Black History Month

soulbrotherv2: Axis of ice. latelybeengivinnofucks: Ice Cube...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:41:31 -0400

soulbrotherv2:

Axis of ice.

latelybeengivinnofucks:

Ice Cube and Ice T

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:25:55 -0400

specialnights: After being hit from behind and knocked down by...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:10:46 -0400

specialnights:

After being hit from behind and knocked down by a water hose, a woman is picked up and rescued by a fellow demonstrator. Alabama, 1963.

triguenaista: problackass: glovesinthesummertime: thechanelmus...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:04:31 -0400

triguenaista:

problackass:

glovesinthesummertime:

thechanelmuse:

Photos that speak: Fuck your fountain. Fuck your tree. Fuck voter suppression. Fuck your labels. Fuck your stereotypes. Fuck your hatred. Fuck your restaurants. Fuck that dude. Fuck police brutality. Fuck white supremacy.

I have nothing left to say.

The pictures they don’t show in our US History books.

And two of these pictures aren’t very old either. One was taken in 2012 I think? (Not sure).

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:59:31 -0400

crudamoral: absolutely exquisite photographs of james baldwin...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:36:08 -0400

crudamoral:

absolutely exquisite photographs of james baldwin in turkey taken from yes magazine’s spread. inspiring, indeed. what spirited and brilliant soul wants to be my travel buddy and muse? let’s live.

blackmanonthemoon: In 1858, during a speech someone accused Sojourner Truth of being a man, she...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:35:22 -0400

blackmanonthemoon:

In 1858, during a speech someone accused Sojourner Truth of being a man, she opened up her blouse and flashed the audience

fuckyeahfeminists: sourcedumal: native-detroiter: weian-fu: c...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:28:56 -0400

fuckyeahfeminists:

sourcedumal:

native-detroiter:

weian-fu:

cheapobsession:

weian-fu:

cheapobsession:

weian-fu:

cheapobsession:

native-detroiter:

callingoutbigotry:

grrrl-riot:

callingoutbigotry:

ljmaystrader:

callingoutbigotry:

trakehner:

my floor ✌

your floor is racist ✌

No, it isn’t, it is a flag. A flag is not racist. A person is rasict. A statement can be considered racist. Now if the flag were branded with racial slurs or other means of hatred, I could understand, however, it does not.

hoooooooooooboy i’m going to need you to unfollow me right now

the confederate flag is racist because it was the flag used by the confederate armies who were doing what? oh yeah fighting for their right to enslave, torture, and murder people based on their race!

i bet you’d agree that a flag with a swastika on it was racist. this is the same situation.

Okay, so this flag was the flag that represented the Confederate States of America- I believe they first started using it in 1863 or 1864- either way it was introduced during the Civil War. So it doesn’t quite represent Southern “states”- it represented the states that succeeded from the United States. So technically it’s not a symbol of the Southern states, it’s a symbol of succession and the nation they claimed to have formed. A lot of people used it as an alternate to the the American flag.

BUT- and here’s why in my opinion this flag has become a symbol of hate- it didn’t gain popularity or much recognition until the mid 20th century particularly during WWII and in the time following it. During the Civil Right’s movement, Southern’s who were opposed to desegregation began displaying it to represent their opposition to federal laws (ie their resistance to the North). And then of course the KKK and other hate groups have embraced the flag as well (for the very reason listed above).

factual burn!

if it was all about southern pride, black southerners would have this flag. and funny how no one ever flies the first flag. hmm.

There were southern blacks that willing fought for this flag, and there’s pictures to prove it.

Being forced to fight doesn’t count.

What sense does it make to give a man a gun that doesn’t want to fight? He could just shot you and leave. A lot that fought, fought willingly.

Still waiting on that proof, sis. And even If i did believe that there were Black folk fighting by choice to stay slaves, I highly doubt that white folks were delusional or comfortable enough to arm them. Also even if you could back this bullshit up, comparing the amount of Black people fighting against these confederate assholes to the amount who (allegedly) chose to fight for the confederacy would blow your argument away.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=black+confederate+soldiers

Real cute, but in trying so hard to be a smart-ass you negated your own point.

From Mariners’ Museum:

Now, before you get excited, keep in mind that Stauffer points out that many of these black soldiers were not accepted by the Confederate government and were not issued firearms: still more of these soldiers were coerced into joining the military, and others joined to escape miserable poverty. Professor Carol Sheriff of the College of William and Mary reinforces the notion that any blacks who fought did so somewhat involuntarily, by clarifying that some black body-servants may have taken up arms in the heat of battle to defend their masters and themselves, and even then they were sometimes forced to do so. (Article HERE.) She also makes the point that arming blacks or allowing them to fight in the military was illegal in the Confederacy. This makes it extremely difficult to claim that the Confederates used black troops, because refusing to allow them to fight and forcing them to join in the first place quashes the notion that they were soldiers. In any case, they were present in such minuscule numbers that it’s difficult to validate their presence – these “soldiers” only represented about one half of one percent of the Confederate military strength.

And it gets better!

The greatest single example of black Confederate soldiers – the Louisiana Native Guards, composed of black and mixed-race men from the New Orleans area – was not accepted by the Confederate military despite their wish to fight for the south when the war broke out (Article HERE.) As a result, when the Union took New Orleans in spring of 1862, the Louisiana Native Guards joined the Union when General Butler called for reinforcements. On a side note, over 4,000 black and mixed-race men joined the Union army in New Orleans that spring, which outnumbers those that may have joined the Confederacy over the course of the entire war.

A sample of “ranks” held by Black soldiers from blackconfederatesoldiers.com

And finally, an article from Harvard professor John Stauffer giving details on why you, & all other neo-confederates are completely full of shit.

It is well known that in Louisiana and Tennessee, Stauffer added, Confederate units were organized by elite, light-skinned freedmen who identified with the slave-owning white plantation culture. (The Tennessee troops were never issued arms, though, and the black unit known as the Louisiana Native Guards never saw action — and quickly switched sides as soon as Union forces appeared.)

But unless readers think that black Confederates were truly enamored of the South’s cause, Stauffer related the case of John Parker, a slave forced to build Confederate barricades and later to join the crew of a cannon firing grapeshot at Union troops at the First Battle of Bull Run. All the while, recalled Parker, he worried about dying, prayed for a Union victory, and dreamed of escaping to the other side.

“His case can be seen as representative,” said Stauffer. “Masters put guns to (the heads of slaves) to make them shoot Yankees.”

I hope you learned a lesson in all this. That lesson is to shut the fuck up when grown folks is talking & maybe try to learn something yourself. The confederate flag is indisputably racist, & denying its history isn’t going to make that fact go away.

that was a motherfucking read

WELP!

And let’s not forget the Confederate Constitution, which specifically states that Black people are to be slaves and that the government wouldn’t be able to pass any law that prohibited slavery upon Black people.

So please tell me again how the Confederate Flag isn’t a symbol of racism and anti-Blackness?

A beautiful history lesson. Waving that flag is such a passive aggressive way to show how racist you are. Then they like to pretend that it’s “harmless,” which is offensive in and of itself because if millions of people feel threatened by it…it’s not fucking harmless.

thingsivemade: Rochelle Ballantyne, 17, of Brooklyn is taking...

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:58:05 -0400

thingsivemade:

Rochelle Ballantyne, 17, of Brooklyn is taking the chess world by storm. She is on the verge of becoming the first African-American female chess master…

Clutch Magazine, via Jezebel

socialismartnature: Harlem: 26 cops arrest & beat one...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:14:32 -0400

socialismartnature:

Harlem: 26 cops arrest & beat one unarmed Black youth, slam him to ground, then stop legal filming by witnesses.

This was May 13 at 3:30pm in the 135th St station of the B/C. Note the one arresting officer repeatedly telling the other to “relax.” The young man being arrested puts his leg up just so they don’t slam his face into the wall. When I turned my camera to catch the officers streaming into the station, two of them came behind me and one officer (Mancebo?) pushed me out of the station and would not let me turn around. Afterwards, I counted twelve police cars around the station.

lunionsuite: May is Haitian Heritage Month A celebration of...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:12:12 -0400

lunionsuite:

May is Haitian Heritage Month

A celebration of Haitian History, Culture, and Pride.

How are you showing your pride. Lunionsuite.com

fuck yeah, hard femme!: fuckyeahcracker: Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:08:31 -0400

fuck yeah, hard femme!: fuckyeahcracker: Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like...:

fuckyeahcracker:

Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:

Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet

I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this

Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:

Saudi student is literally surrounded by FBI for cooking rice under terrorist suspicions

White people literally can not associate positive words with Black faces because of racism

More white people use drugs but Black people are sent to jail for drugs at 10 times the rate that white people are

Black people who “sound Black” earn less money than those who don’t because of associations with stereotypes. Black people who “sound Black” are less likely to get called back for jobs

Black children grow up literally associating being Black with being bad and ugly

White people when tested shot more unarmed Black subjects than armed and unarmed white subjects

Hate crimes increase after Boston tragedy

Moroccan High School Student is linked to Boston tragedy for being Brown

Bangladeshi man is beaten by people out of racism

NYPD Commissioner wants Black and Latino men to fear him after the police targeted literally 90 percent Black and Latino men in New York and humiliating them by frisking them in public under the assumption that they had weapons. Studies found that white men were the ones who overwhelmingly had weapons while Black and Latino men didn’t

White people blaming and convicting Black men for crimes they never committed and everyone believing them because of racism

Stop and Frisk, ruled unconstitutional was practiced by New York police disproportionately and unfairly affecting 90% Black and Latino men because of racism

Universities throwing racist ‘Fiesta Party’ homogenizing culture with extreme racism

Here are some of the numbers on hate crimes against People of Color and btw, Neo Naziism is increasing!

Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Murdered in the U.S.

Black people 3 times more likely to be arrested for Marijuana

Black people receive much harsher sentencing than white people for the same crimes do I need to go on?

But yeah, white people’s feelings :*(

disciplesofmalcolm: norulenorule: Assata Shakur from Honey...

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:08:51 -0400

disciplesofmalcolm:

norulenorule:

Assata Shakur from Honey Magazine debut issue, 1998. Full article forthcoming.

“In some ways it was easier for my generation. Racism was blatant and obvious. The “Whites Only” signs let us know clearly, what we were up against. Not much has changed, but the system of lies and tricknology is much more sophisticated. Today young people have to be highly informed and acutely analytical, or they will be swept up into a whirlpool of lies and deception.”

-Assata Shakur

poc-creators: libraryjournal: bcaheritage: ORAL HISTORY...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:04:31 -0400

poc-creators:

libraryjournal:

bcaheritage:

ORAL HISTORY VOLUNTEERS WANTED!!

Are you interested in Black history or photography?

We are looking for dedicated volunteers who can assist in collecting stories and memories for Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950-1990s an exciting photography project delivered in partnership with the V&A.

Staying Power has collected over 100 photographs that span fifty years that will be added to the national photography collection at the V&A.

The next phase of the project is to collect oral history interviews with the photographers and subjects of the photographers as well as people who remember the events and places that the photographs depict.

The oral history interviews will become part of the permanent collection at Black Cultural Archives and will be featured in a major exhibition at the new Black Heritage Centre in Brixton in 2014.

Black Cultural Archives (BCA) was founded in 1981 to record and preserve the history of people of African descent in Britain.

BOOST

todaysdocument: “I respectfully remind you sir, that we have...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:27:59 -0400

todaysdocument:

“I respectfully remind you sir, that we have been the most patient of all people.”

-Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Eisenhower of May 13, 1958

After he retired from Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson went on to champion the cause of civil rights from his position as a prominent executive of the Chock Full o’Nuts Corporation.

Robinson had grown increasingly impatient with what he regarded as President Eisenhower’s failure to act decisively in combating racism. In this letter dated May 13, 1958, he expresses his frustration and calls upon the President to finally guarantee Federal support of black civil rights.

Read more at Featured Documents…

soulbrotherv2: Though many claim to have been part of the Civil...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:24:14 -0400

soulbrotherv2:

Though many claim to have been part of the Civil Rights Movement, most of those who participate were young people, college students. College students have much more power than they believe themselves to have, but do they have the courage and the will?

specialnights:

South Carolina State College students on hunger strike to protest raciscm, 1956.

soulbrotherv2: Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:23:17 -0400

soulbrotherv2:

Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow by Leon F. Litwack

In April 1899, black laborer Sam Hose killed his white boss in self-defense. Wrongly accused of raping the man’s wife, Hose was mutilated, stabbed, and burned alive in front of 2,000 cheering whites. His body was sold piecemeal to souvenir seekers; an Atlanta grocery displayed his knuckles in its front window for a week.

With the same narrative skill he brought to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Been in the Storm So Long, Leon Litwack constructs a searing history of life under Jim Crow. Drawing on new documentation and first-person accounts by blacks and whites, he describes the injustices—both institutional and personal—inflicted against a people. Here, too, are the black men and women whose activism, literature, and music preserved the genius of their human spirit. Painstakingly researched, important, and timely, Trouble in Mind recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States—and the painful record of discrimination that haunts us to this day.

vintageblackglamour: Stevie Wonder (who turns 63 today!) shares...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:22:24 -0400

vintageblackglamour:

Stevie Wonder (who turns 63 today!) shares a laugh with his friend, Minnie Riperton, at a party in 1975. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty.

A Word From Our Sponsors...

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:15:45 -0400

Well folks! The time has come around yet again! HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!! To every mother out there who sacrificed in some way for her kids! To every mother who taught their child the life lessons that would stick with them. And most importantly, to all the mothers who gave their child every ounce of love they had within their body. To every grandmother who showed their daughters the right way to raise their kids. To every auntie who took on the task of raising a child when their mother couldnt. To every Godmother who spoiled their Godchild and made sure they never wanted or needed anything. To every woman who became a mother or a mother figure, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

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Fighting ignorance through knowledge,
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cartermagazine: Today In History ‘Joe Gans became the first...

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:50:07 -0400

cartermagazine:

Today In History

‘Joe Gans became the first Black lightweight champion on this date May 12, 1902.’

(photo: Joe Gans)

- CARTER Magazine