March 9
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I feel so sick
bookkeeperamanda You’ll be better able to spread this to where it needs to be seen.
Ooohhh. I get it now. They’re playing a game called “How Many Black Lives Can We Take Before the System Does Anything”
#Every28Hours (2/23/15): Meet Janisha. Janisha was involved in a domestic dispute with her girlfriend, which resulted in her girlfriend calling the police to take her in for a mental health evaluation. Janisha’s girlfriend warned the officer’s upon entry into their apartment that she had a knife, but the she didn’t believe that she would hurt them, stressing again that Janisha was unstable and needed evaluation. When Janisha did not drop the knife, an officer proceeded to shoot her twice. According to Janisha’s neighbors she was a quiet and small young woman, barely standing above five feet. According to her girlfriend, Janisha was more than 6 feet away from the cops who shot her. Janisha’s story is not an easy one, but she deserved a chance at life, not a bullet when she needed help. Uplift her name. Janisha Fonville, we fight for you now too. #staywoke #farfromover
Women of Color Working in STEM Fields Are Frequently Mistaken for Janitors
Almost half of Black and Latina women working as scientists have been mistaken for a janitor or administrator their offices, reveals a new report on the experiences of women of color working in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
“As one Latina statistician told researchers, “I always amuse my friends with my janitor stories, but it has happened not only at weird hours.” She calmly informed someone that she had the key to the office, not the janitor’s closet.
That detail is part of “Double Jeopardy: Gender Bias Against Women of Color in Science,” the new report by the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California that surveyed 500 female scientists and conducted in-depth interviews with 60 more. It provides a damning look at how gender and racial bias impacts women’s mental health and careers.
The conventional wisdom is that women don’t work in the sciences at the same rate as men because of a lack of early encouragement for girls to pursue STEM careers and because they’re more likely to leave careers to have kids. But the interviews show that those explanations leave out the hostile and discouraging environment that many women face in male-dominated classrooms, offices, and labs. Of the 60 scientists interviewed in the report, 100 percent reported that they had experienced gender discrimination during their careers. More than 75 percent of the African-American women scientists surveyed reported having to prove their intelligence over and over again. They feel they can’t afford to make a single mistake.”
Read the full piece here
Photo caption: Teenage scientist Alexa Dantzler works in a chemisty lab at Emory University. Photo by Isabelle Saldana.
My moms a Nurse and she told me that one time she was walking by the cafeteria and this white lady asks her if she wass the cleaning lady and if she could pick up her trash. My mom just laughed and said “soy enfermera pendeja” and walked away as the lady just stood there staring. People are fucking dumb as hell.
“soy enfermera pendeja” your mom sounds awesome.
TO THIS DAY I refuse to let white people have the boston tea party shit because they used red clay and paint, dressed up in sacred Native American clothing, and wore headresses so that the tribes in close proximity would get the full brute force of punishment. yall were, are, and always have been cowards when it comes to doing shit and I refuse to let you think your history is amazing
Why does no one recognize the KKK as an actual terrorist group??? As an actual WHITE and CHRISTIAN and AMERICAN terrorist group?? Is it because they’re white? Is it because they’re Christian? Is it because they’re American? Or is it all three? Hm……….Guess we’ll never know………………
Keep reblogging this please I’m getting so much hate from racists it’s hilarious
The Prison Industry: A new form of slavery in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a 90 cents – $4 a day. [X]
According to California Prison Focus, “no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens.” The figures show that the United States has locked up more people than any other country: a half million more than China, which has a population five times greater than the U.S.
Prison labor has its roots in slavery. After the 1861-1865 Civil War, a system of “hiring out prisoners” was introduced in order to continue the slavery tradition. Freed slaves were charged with not carrying out their sharecropping commitments (cultivating someone else’s land in exchange for part of the harvest) or petty thievery – which were almost never proven – and were then “hired out” for cotton picking, working in mines and building railroads. From 1870 until 1910 in the state of Georgia, 88% of hired-out convicts were Black. In Alabama, 93% of “hired-out” miners were Black. In Mississippi, a huge prison farm similar to the old slave plantations replaced the system of hiring out convicts. The notorious Parchman plantation existed until 1972.
During the post-Civil War period, Jim Crow racial segregation laws were imposed on every state, with legal segregation in schools, housing, marriages and many other aspects of daily life. “Today, a new set of markedly racist laws is imposing slave labor and sweatshops on the criminal justice system, now known as the prison industry complex,”
The prison industry complex is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States and its investors are on Wall Street.
MAJOR CORPORATIONS BENEFITTING FROM PRISON INDUSTRY COMPLEX. [X]
- McDonalds
McDonald’s uses inmates to produce frozen foods. Inmates process beef for patties. They may also process bread, milk and chicken products.
- Wendy’s.
Wendy’s has also been identified as relying on prison labor to reduce it’s cost of operations. Inmates also process beef for patties.
- Wal-Mart
The company uses inmates for manufacturing purposes. The company “hires” inmates to clean products of UPC bar codes so that products can be resold.
- Starbucks
The company uses inmates to cut costs as well. Starbucks subcontractor Signature Packaging Solutions hired Washington state prisoners to package holiday coffees.
- Victoria’s Secret
The company uses inmates to cut production costs. In South Carolina, female inmates were used to sew products. Also, inmates reportedly have been used to replace “made in” tags with “Made in USA” tags.
The most fucked part of this whole twitching disaster is that these sorts of programs are used to corporations to paint themselves as humanitarian. ‘
Capitalism must be stopped.
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
Common Micro-aggressions: African Americans and/or
Black PeopleAnonymous 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.”
- 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
- “You’re pretty for a Black girl.”
- “You’re pretty! Are you mixed?”
- “I don’t usually date/aren’t attracted to Black people.”
- Calling attraction to Black people “jungle fever.”
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 womenAll 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.
so Kate Beaton did a comic on Ida B. Wells and that picture there is a click through and the whole thing is basically great
i hope everyone who reads this from now on uses ida as a symbol for suffrage instead of fuckin susan b anthony
The best thing about the parade on Washington was what happened next
So, Ida B. Wells and the rest of the Illinois delegation totally thought she’d be able to march with them, because WHY WOULDN’T SHE, right?
And then they got to Washington, and the parade organizers were like “uh, so, the southern delegations are freaking out about black women being in the parade. So you’ll have to march in the back, Ida!”Ida:….
Parade people: “Also, you’ll be surrounded by white quaker men.”
Ida: “Wait, so people won’t even be able to *see* the black marchers?”
Parade people: “We feel that *seeing* black women would send the wrong message.”
Ida: …. no.
Parade People: But think about how little pressure there’ll be on you, since no one will be able to see you! And you’ll be all the way in the back! We’re really doing this for your own good!”Anyways, long story short, the parade organizers threatened to kick out the entire Illinois delegation *unless* Ida B. Wells marched in the back. Ida still refused to cave, but most of the Illinois delegation was like “sorry, you can’t march with us.” And that’s when two of Ida’s friends blew up, and yelled at the Illinois delegation, and told them that if they made Ida march in the back, then *THEY* were going to march in the back, because FUCK THIS RACIST BULLSHIT, that’s why.
So the next day, Ida’s friends are waiting for her so that they can accompany her on the march, and she can still be with *part* of the Illinois delegation. But it’s getting close to march time, and they can’t see her anywhere. They go to the back of the parade… they go to the front of the parade… no Ida. They start to wonder if maybe she decided to sit it out in protest?
The march starts to move. The friends are like “WHAT DO WE DO WHERE IS IDA?” The Illinois delegation starts to march.
When suddenly, Ida’s friends see her just walk off the sidewalk, from the back of the audience, where she’d been waitingShe walks straight off the sidewalk, to the front of the Illinois delegation, and starts leading them forwards.
And no one says a fucking thing, because they were apparently too awed/cowed/aware that they had no right to say anything
Her friends run to catch up, and walk next to her in the front. And basically the march organizers tried to force her to walk in the back, but IDA B. WELLS LED THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION (which I don’t think was the original plan), BECAUSE THAT’S HOW AMAZING SHE WAS.
Have I mentioned that she also refused to give up her seat in the white section of the train, and they literally *dragged her off the train*? And then she sued them? In 1884?
This woman, I swear to god.
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.
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