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melonfucker4:

thisiseverydayracism:

casswaterhouse:

Another life lost due to police brutality. Her name was Jessie Hernandez. She was 16. Brown. Queer. Loved. She was fatally shot by police in Denver this morning.

“A neighbor captured a video of the female suspect being searched by police after she was shot. In the video, the teen is handcuffed and rolled on her stomach and back on the ground, appearing to be searched. The girl is limp, silent and motionless as officers move her about.”

I don’t care what she was a suspect of, this is disgusting. Officers couldn’t take a petite teen girl into custody? Right. She was just a child. My thoughts are with her family.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27394478/denver-police-shoot-2-suspects-critically-injuring-one

THE FUCK WAS THEIR EXCUSE THIS TIME? DID SHE LOOK LIKE A DEMON TOO? DID THE FUCKING OFFICER FEEL LIKE HE WAS CONFRONTING HULK HOGAN AGAIN? FUCKING HELL

January 26th, 2015

Source: cssndralicia

goddesscru:

writingwithcolor:

Common Micro-aggressions: African Americans and/or
Black People

Anonymous said: What are some common micro-aggressions that a black american will regularly have to deal with?

Behold this masterpost of common micro-aggressions towards African Americans and/or people in the African Diaspora, several of which may be applicable to other PoC. Micro-aggressions can be perpetuated by White people as well as fellow Black people and People of Color.

This is just to give a thorough understanding of some of the things a Black person (often in America) deals with. Don’t run forward and jam-pack your Black character with every one of these experiences, though I can say I’ve personally experienced every one of these or know someone who has.

General Micro-aggressions

  • People excusing blackface.
  • Having our grammar and annunciation corrected.
  • “I don’t see you as a Black person/ I don’t see colour.”
  • Calling Black people ghetto, thugs, rachet, sassy, urban…
  • People debating why they should be allowed to say the n-word.
  • Then saying the n-word anyway.
  • Whispering, spitting, or stumbling over the word “Black” as if it’s a curse.
  • Refusing to pronounce your name right, or just calling you by a different name that’s easier.
  • Alternatively, “jokingly” calling you a "ghetto” name.
  • Constantly mixing up unrelated and not even resembling Black people, because you know.. ‘Black people all look the same’.
  • Dismissing our experiences as “just overreacting,” defending the wronging party, or using our plight to talk about one’s own experience (e.g. “well as a gay man i’ve got it rough…”).
  • Telling racist jokes and calling you sensitive when you don’t find it funny.
  • ”______  is the new civil rights movement!” Black folks are still fighting for their rights so…

Media

  • Fox news (xD)
  • Caricatured depictions of Black people on TV.
  • Casting calls for Black people only tailored for “race roles.”
  • Media treating white criminals and killers better than Black victims (see these headlines).

Stereotypes

  • Assuming you only listen to rap/hip-hop/r&b.
  • Assuming you love chicken, Kool-aid, and/or smoke weed.
  • Assuming you’re good at sports.
  • Assuming there’s no father in the picture in Black families.
  • Assuming all Black people (see: young girls) have children.
  • Calling Black people who don’t conform to one’s image of Blackness, “less black,” acting white or “oreo.”

AAVE

  • Non-Black People mimicking/imitating AAVE.
  • People falling into AAVE when talking to Black People.
  • “Why don’t Black people speak real English instead of ‘ebonics’?”

Insults/doubting intelligence:

  • You’re so articulate!”
  • “You take advanced classes?!”
  • “How did she get into that [prestigious school and/or program]?”
  • "They only got x because they’re Black/Affirmative action.”
  • Assuming a Black person (usually male) attends college because of a sports scholarship.
  • Counselors discouraging Black students to take prestigious coursework, assuming it’s too difficult for them.

 Respectability politics:

  • "You’re a credit to your race.”
  • “I’m glad you’re not like those other Black people. You’re not ghetto or listen to that rap stuff..”
  • Tone policing: dismissing someone’s reaction/argument/etc. because they are too “emotional.” Thinking that we need to be calm in order to be taken seriously. 
  • Pitting African immigrants against African Americans, especially those coming to America for education, aka “Good Blacks.”

Beauty Standards and Dating

Fetishization/Othering

  • People asking you what you are or where you’re really from.
  • Referring to Black people or our features as “exotic.”
  • Referring to Black people’s skin as chocolate or other foods.

Black Women/Misogynoir

  • Saying Black women are “strong, independent and don’t need no man.”
  • Calling Black women “sassy” or angry if she shows passion/emotion.
  • Referring to white and non-black women as “girls” and “women” while calling Black women “Females.”
  • [White] males who apply courtesy to white women (holding doors, giving up seat) but don’t apply the same to Black women.
  • Referring to Black women on government assistance as “welfare queens” (While ignoring that white people get more government assistance than Black people in the USA).
  • “Black women All woman are beautiful.” (Stop. That. Please.)

Hair.

  • People touching/petting your hair without consent.
  • “So is that your real hair? Are those extensions?”
  • Calling natural black hair unprofessional.
  • White people appropriating Black hair styles (dreads, twists, etc) and being praised as edgy, while it’s “ghetto, unprofessional, and unclean” on our own heads.

Poverty Assumptions:

  • “Do you live in the ghetto?”
  • “Can you afford that?”
  • “Here are the value prices of this product…”

Racial Profiling + Criminalization:

  • Crossing the street to avoid passing Black men/people.
  • Following in stores, assuming Black people are stealing.
  • Moving aside when we pass, clutching purse, locking doors.
  • Asking Black people for I.D. when paying with card (while white people are not asked).
  • Being pulled over + arrested at astonishingly higher rates than white people.

For a fuller understanding of micro aggressions and the effects it has on individuals overtime, please see this: “These incidents may appear small…”

~Mods: Colette and Alice

This is important.

Source: writingwithcolor

silversarcasm:

sighhhh really not here for ‘representation isnt a radical enough goal’ talk like sorry we don;t want kids growing up wanting to kill themselves because they’re so alienated i forgot literally the only thing we should care about is revolution and not all the ways we can make things safer before that

thisisableism:

[Image Description: @red3blog tweeted: Let’s be blunt. The FDA’s new “guidelines” are about denying care to fat people b/c they think our lives aren’t worth anything. Fat people’s only value to the health care industry is as a revenue generation for unproven or proven ineffective meds. That’s all we are. “Treat the weight first” when there is no safe and reliable means of doing so is just a way of saying “Don’t treat fatties at all.” They are spelling out the systematic denial of care that fat people already knew existed Because we aren’t worth even the pretense. “Treat the weight first” as if that’ not already the status quo. AS if this is not just another way to say “Yell louder at the fatties.” “We should start telling fat people to lose weight!” – Actual doctors who think this is a brilliant observation no one has through of before.”]

red3blog:

I tweeted about the new medical guidelines (maybe not officially FDA guidelines) about treating fat patients and what a monstrosity they are. They are literally codifying the denial of care for fat patients and patting themselves on the back for it. Its disgusting. Moreover, its nothing new. Just the latest in the long campaign of “yell louder:

Plus if there is an underlying condition, which there usually is, you need to act fast, and “treating the weight first” will result in tons of fat people dying from manageable conditions because they won’t be able to lose the weight before the condition kills them or leaves them in permanent pain and/or with other complications. Medical negligence is a nightmare. I pray that one day these shits lose their medical licenses. 

Source: red3blog

bogleech:

stagbeetleloveit:

bepsifucker9000:

zuky:

“Those who identify as ‘otaku’ [i.e. anime and manga fandom] sicken me deeply. Anime was a mistake, it’s nothing but trash.”
— Hayao Miyazaki

The great Miyazaki is somewhat famous for his sweeping dismissals, but I believe there’s political substance behind his curt condemnations of mainstream culture.

Miyazaki abhors a certain strain of Japanese nationalism which has seen something of a resurgence in recent years and crept into the chaotic free-for-all of anime and manga storytelling. He’s been a vocal critic of prime minister Shinzō Abe’s politics, including the denial of Japanese war crimes and sex slavery, the ceremonial honouring of Japanese war criminals, and the proposal to amend the Constitution to re-introduce the possibility of war.

As it stands, the Constitution of Japan includes the remarkable Article 9 which outlaws war — a measure which was forcefully imposed by the US after dropping two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Needless to say, there’s something twisted about achieving a ban on war by means of an atomic holocaust; but Miyazaki, a child of World War II and its horrors, supports the ban.

Miyazaki is equally critical of the US. When “Spirited Away” won an Oscar in 2003, he refused to travel to Hollywood to accept the award, later explaining “I didn’t want to visit a country that was bombing Iraq”. 

So I don’t think Miyazaki is simply being an eccentric moody artist when he says things like “Anime was a mistake, it’s nothing but trash”. I think he has specific opinions and critiques of craft and storytelling, message and values, politics and culture, as conveyed by art.

that’s actually why i despise it when western anime fans reblog the quote “anime was a mistake”. not only is it just irritating, but they have no idea what it actually entails in their western frame of view.

anime is largely bad. yeah. a lot of it provides for largely a older male audience and includes a lot of fetishism and blatant imperialist content.

how many times have any of you seen scenes in anime where the background changes to something similar to sun rays to show motivation? how many of you know that it’s a direct reference to the rising sun flag. the flag in which the “asian holocaust” was created under. how many times have you actually seen the flag outright in anime?

how many of you still praise ouran highschool host club when they literally portrayed feminists as nazis, which is bad enough but considering japan’s past?

how many of you watch attack on titan, which is pure imperialist propaganda?

how many of you, yeah our followers as well, watch hetalia? the whole premise of the show being nazi and imperialist apologism and when the creator literally said before that he thinks that the rest of asia wants to/should be under imperial japanese rule again.

how many of you watch anime that has a shallow chinese or korean character(s) or a sexy korean/chinese girl in a bastardized, revealing rendition of their traditional dress?

yeah. most of anime is shit. it’s total trash for what a huge portion of the industry has stood for, producing widespread scenes of rape, pedophilia, fetishism. it continues to promote either borderline to outright nationalistic attitudes, and still dehumanizes chinese and korean characters.

“ but does it matter?” you ask. it matters when there are still marches in japan happening this decade that celebrate hitler’s birthday. that there are still marches this decade that promote the drowning of chinese and koreans in the bays and killing us.

what happened to japan as a nation during the meiji reformation and after the war with the occupation was inhumane. there’s not excuse for it. but imperialism is still alive and well in japan.

and huge portions of the anime industry is built off it.

this is why i hate white western fans reblog this quote out of context. this is why i hate all of you saying “i hate anime teehee” as you marathon snk and no game no life on kissanime.

because you don’t. you’re joking. there are real reasons to hate the industry. and you’re turning it into a joke. you call yourselves “weebs” to “reclaim” the term, purposefuly ignoring how so many **young** asian people have been harmed by the term. japanese people being sexually assaulted by white self proclaimed weebs with yellow fever in their own country. little fucking kids stalked online and in real life by self proclaimed weebs with loli/shotacon fetishes. then you log onto tumblr and say that it’s “not really pedophilia” over fanart like it’s not part of one big system. somewhere out there, a young asian girl may be crying after being forced to webcam at the age of 9.

and if you did mean it, then what? if you did mean you hated it, then what? you hate it for every reason but a right one.

you’re not addressing a problem by reblogging that quote as a joke. you’re part of it.

All above reasons why anime as a whole makes me really uncomfortable and why I avoid it/don’t go out of my way to watch it.

This is also why it was in SUCH godawful taste when Zen-Pencils did that whole story arc in which Miyazaki pilots a giant anime mecha to destroy a “hate monster” made out of people who criticize art.

Miyazaki is worshiped like a god by geeks and yet he believes exactly what they don’t want to hear: that the shit they love and the industry producing it are overflowing with toxic behavior and dehumanizing attitudes.

Source: old-japanese-men

lackadaisicallexicon:

I understand that Hate Breeds Hate but you need to understand that our hate was not born in a vacuum; you need to understand that our hate was born out of being told we had to be twice as good as our white peers just to make it; you need to understand why I don’t mind hearing black mouths use the n-word (because we all have the scars and know what it means) but it will ruin my day to hear a white one use it. 

I understand that Hate Breeds Hate but you need to understand that white hatred is black blood running into storm drains; you need to understand that the United States government treated our activists like terrorists while the Klan burned crosses in our yards; you need to understand that I am too sensitive because I have been rubbed raw every day of my life by the knowledge that I am not human in my own country.

I understand that Hate Breeds Hate, but you need to understand that our jokes about white people talking about their fractional ethnicities hide the fact that we desperately wish we knew ours; you need to understand that we are subhuman here and foreigners in the continent we were seeded from; you need to understand that Black power has always been about pride in the face of adversity and White power has always been about genocide in the face of diversity.

I understand that Hate Breeds Hate, but when you say “my ancestors never owned slaves” or “I did nothing to you” when your white skin exempts you from having to understand why my mother took me aside to ask me not to wear hoodies outside, you have hated me as surely as if you spat on my face.

rapeculturerealities:

perpetualshota:

guess what?

  • you’re not obligated to forgive your abuser/s
  • if it’s been two weeks, a month, a year, or even a decade since your abuse happened, you still have a right to be angry about what happened
  • you don’t have to “get over it”
  • you don’t have to forgive your abuser/s and you DEFINITELY don’t have to trust them
  • it’s okay to hurt

and it’s ok to be mad