February 2012
707 posts
dolgemátki: I don't like concepts of... →
neetainari:
Good points here, and a lot to think about. I go to intersectionality because so far it’s the only useful concept I have to explain the oppressive framework to those why are crying reverse racism or just want to know how I think stuff works.
But whenever we create categories of people—bounded objects—, we risk turning our backs to a great deal of experiences and lives that are just...
I've taken to forcibly re-educating my racist...
it’s this new passive aggressive game I play in which I plug in my deluxe headphones and then blast Talib Kweli as loud as everything can go for hours on end
you can hear it like a room away so when she goes to sleep at night I know she’s laying there forcibly exposed to the genius that is Kweli
she lays there glaring at me but is incredibly non-confrontational so does nothing
I...
“I am reminded of, yet once again,
if I ever forgot,
occupied with, all over...”
– Huma Dar (dedication: “–for my students, past and present, and comrades-in-arms, all beloved”)
Anonymous asked: I am a white woman and I am...
neetainari:
velocicrafter:
yoisthisracist: Yo, I can’t even deal with how many layers of wackness this question gets into, without even getting near any of the racism parts.
seriously, it’s like “I wanna do this thing & a bunch of people tell me it’s racist but I think it’s not really racist because I don’t think it is, so I’m gonna ask you now so hopefully you can tell me what I wanna...
like really these books are genius
We Hold This Rock contextualizes the reclamation of Alcatraz and its history within the Vietnam War (the massacre of Vietnamese civilians by US troops at My Lai), other key moments in civil rights struggles and activists’ work (particularly Mario Savio & the free speech movement, the shootings at Kent State, and the Black Panthers’ work in Oakland), and the shifts in white popular...
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1969 Alcatraz Proclamation
“To the Great White Father and All His People,
We, the native Americans, re-claim the land known as Alcatraz Island in the name of all American Indians by right of discovery.
We wish to be fair and honorable in our dealings with the Caucasian inhabitants of this land, and hereby offer the following treaty:
We will purchase said Alcatraz Island for twenty-four dollars ($24) in glass beads...
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I don't like concepts of intersectionality.
they’re predicated on a notion that there are discrete objects that may overlap at times, but nevertheless are discrete bounded objects, and thus theoretically separable
we are not lines on a graph that occasionally intersect.
in the words of Leonard Peltier: “Let us love not only our sameness, but our unsameness. In our difference is our strength. Let us be not for ourselves...
okay so I’m learning so much from this book and there’s so many great quotes like how many posts do I get before I’m officially annoying
like I’m about to do some serious spamming of the tags so somebody gimme a limit
really tho have any of you read the actual letter of occupation sent to the federal government when they took over Alcatraz? it’s fucking genius
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“And the hippies are jingling, jangling, blowing smoke all over Haight Ashbury,...”
– Adam Fortunate Eagle (Red Lake Chippewa), on white privilege and the hippie movement in the Bay
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“The ‘Stoic, Silent Redman’ of the past who turned the other cheek to...”
– Lehman Brightman (Mvskoke-Sioux, founder of Warpath, 1968)
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Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972
Interviewer: a year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela davis: the black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: no but tell me.
Angela davis: first of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: but the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela davis: oh, is that the question you were asking? yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… when I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, form the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
Watchdaniellemertina:
Chris Rock Presents Best Animated Film at The Oscars (2012)
You know all those white people were confused about whether or not to laugh. ha!
“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be…if you’re a white man you can play an Arabian prince, and if you’re a black man you can play a donkey or a zebra.”
True Facts
duhdoydorothy:
If your White friends complain that you talk about race too much, especially if you are just talking about your day to day experiences, they aren’t your White friends, they are the White people you talk to for reasons that have really yet to be examined.
Haiti becomes member of African Union! →
relatively old news (admitted Feb 2), but I’m behind the times and this hasn’t really been around tumblr that much and
I am so excited about this.
“Going native in its modern manifestations originates in the relations between...”
– Shari M. Huhndorf, Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (via adailyriot)
“We need to look @ the history of the Oscars more closely. My mother was the...”
– Chicana Feliz (via lenxo) (via nezua) (via postmodsexgeek) (via baddominicana) (via lati-negros)
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also Sean Paul’s Like Glue is the same riddim as Ivy Queen’s Papi Te Quiero
so many epiphanies tonight
they all so crazy obvious
how did I not know these things
how was 2003 such a bomb year for Caribbean music
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why did it never occur to me that Lumidee's Never...
now I feel like I need to go back and listen to the entire Diwali Riddim album because I feel so dumb and like I am possibly missing out on things
also Buju Banton, Cecile, Brick & Lace, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, Elephant Man, Wayne Marshall, TOK, and Tanya Stephens all used this riddim.
ALSO this is the sample used in Rihanna’s classic Pon de Replay.
jkfdafiopenvwef why I am so...
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There is one thing I can think of common to all...
digatisdi:
We’re all witty and we’re all hilarious.
v0yag3r asked: dude... humorandshit started stuff with me too -_-
“Often romanticized, native people were hired to... →
beatsthatarefunky:
so I attempted to make bread pudding
don’t have a measuring cup, had to eyeball, got proportions wrong. now the top looks normal but the inside is like, molasses consistency? dunno how you do that with bread.
made rum cream sauce, per my usual got a little heavy handed with the rum. sauce came out too watery because of extra rum, and also I have no corn starch. added flour but didn’t work, so now I have creamy sweet...
the bad dominicana: DICTIONARY : TAINO INDIGENOUS ... →
unaguerrasinfondo:
Abá.-Arbusto de la isia de Pinos. (Pichardo.) Abacoa.-Nombre boriqueño del río Grande, de Arecibo. Conservado el vocablo en el Informe dado al Rey en 1582, por el Bachiller Santa Clara y el Pbro. Juan Ponce de León, nieto del Conquistador. Abey.-Arbol silvestre de…
“Even though we are in the twenty-first century, minorities still continue to...”
– Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out (via realitycheckindianimages)
“Some are whispering that we are dangerous. We don’t care if we are. If to speak...”
– Dr. Robert Love (via gravalicious)
FOUR DAYS UNTIL I LEAVE FOR TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
ugh THANK GOD I’m missing the West Indies like crazy and I’m all out of Swiss ketchup
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British royalty travels thousands of miles to tell... →
Prince Edward, to the Barbadian people (Feb 24, 2012):
all parts of the world struggle to overcome the past few years of international economic turmoil…To respond to these challenges, you will need courage, creativity and common sense.