WAKE UP!!!
black women
“In the light of what Black women often willingly sacrifice for our children and our men, this is a much-needed exhortation, no matter what illegitimate use the white media makes of it. This call for self-value and self-love is quite different from narcissism. Narcissism comes not out of self-love but out of self-hatred.”
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde #quote #blackgirlsrock
Hey bigots, I’m a Gay Black American and I’m Catholic!
Mentally ill is the white privileged diagnosis for racism
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153418054324096&id=791739095Black Privilege
#SayHerName: A Vigil in Remembrance of Black Women and Girls Killed by the Police. Although Black women are killed, raped and beaten by the police, their experiences are rarely foregrounded in our popular understanding of racialized state violence.
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Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Ken Holtzclaw was released from jail Friday as he faces charges for allegedly sexually assaulting 7 different African American women while he was on duty. Among the claims against him are forcible rape, burglary, and felonious stalking.
The judge who initially set his bond at $5 million said he researched his target victims and tracked them down before assaulting them, according to Michigan Live. The 27-year-old former college football player’s bond was later reduced and he paid $500,000 to be released from jail and placed on home arrest. Holtzclaw was removed from duty in June after a women reported a sexual assault during a traffic stop. Many other women subsequently came forward.
Holtzclaw’s sister had initiated a campaign on GoFundMe To raise money for his legal defense. The site removed the campaign citing complaints, even though it would not heed calls to take down the lucrative fundraising campaign for Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown. But in the first 72 hours, the campaign had raised nearly $7,000. And the campaign continued to solicit donations to fund Holtzclaw’s bail through its Facebook page. They are also selling t-shirts through that page with the messages “FREE THE CLAW” and “JUSTICE4DANIELHOLTZCLAW.”
In any given month, there are multiple reports of on-duty cops raping women. And while the details of the allegations against Holtzclaw have not yet been made public, other instances of assault often involve police abusing their position of power against women who called the cops seeking help. In Milwaukee, a teen mom who called 911 because someone threw a brick through her window was raped by one of the officers and then held in jail for four days on charges of assaulting the officer. That officer had been previously accused of assaulting several other women — two of them prisoners — but hadn’t been charged in those incidents. In Baltimore, a woman reported she was raped by a cop who reported to the scene of her car accident. And in Georgia, a woman was assaulted by a cop after she called 911 to report domestic violence. Rather than arrest the husband accused of assault, the officer took the victim in his car and gave her the choice between going to jail or having sex with him, then used his gun during the rape.
Unlike police shootings, these instances are most likely to become public only when criminal charges follow. Those incidents that have come to the fore illustrate the ways in which women are victims of police violence, too.
#shameless
There are a different set of laws for cops… Unspoken
“…the ‘stockade,’ as the county prison is called; the white folks say it is ever full of black criminals,–the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the State needs criminals to eke out its income by their forced labor.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
#blacklivesmatter
Don’t ever command me to, or demand of me to, forget about slavery. Don’t tell me it happened years ago and those people are dead now. Don’t tell me to get over it! This centuries old grudge that they have had against the nation of my People… My mother tried to explain this to me decades ago and I wasn’t sure what to think because of my US of A schooling.
They (Europe) could not get over the fact that these slaves freed themselves. Their revolution inspired enslaved people in other nations to revolt. Haiti opened its ports to freed people seeking asylum… White supremacist European leaders hated Haiti for this… America didn’t even recognized Haiti as a free nation until Lincoln (over 60 years later). The so called protector of the Western hemisphere [America], turned its back while France continued to threaten Haiti with invasion and enslavement. America and Europe would not trade with Haiti. They allowed France to extort ~22 billion dollars from this tiny nation.
People want us to forget slavery and yet these countries’ couldn’t let go of this grudge;
Let this country be free…. They had everyone believe that our religion, that is older than Christianity, was something evil…. That we were a backwards nation of people (black) that should be feared…. They had everyone believe, for a good amount time, that HIV/AIDS came from Haiti… They punished Haiti and continue to punish Haiti for truly being a land of the free and a home of the brave.
Let my people go!
Today, I have never been more proud to be the child of Haitian parents.
Forget? This is happening in my lifetime
Christian Ledan
I will reblog this often
“One ever feels his twoness,–an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
Weather Woman Fired After Defending Natural Hair And Black Kids Has No Regrets →
It’s been more than a year since Rhonda Lee (pictured) was fired from her meteorologist anchor position after defending her natural hair and Black kids on her station’s Facebook page. Take our poll…
This is appalling!!!
I cannot really speak on black women’s hair however, this idea that beauty is straight-haired and lighter-skinned is not healthy for our young girls of color. We are basically telling them they are not good enough. Change your hair, get a weave, make your nose narrow, lighten your complexion; all of this is just wrong. You are beaut and made perfect by whomever you call God/Goddess.
I see so many, still young, black women who have lost their natural hair because of the products they use so they fit into what society/media says is acceptable and beautiful. The weaves and extensions are causing hairlines to recede. Our hair was not made to carry so much weight for such long periods of time. It is a myth that it makes hair grow faster. Let your scalp breathe, give your hair some sun, don’t let anyone tell you that there is something wrong with your naturally tightly curled locks.
The more we teach our beautiful black daughters that natural is beauty, then maybe less people will go touching and grabbing their hair with fascination (not realizing that they are offending them) because it would become the norm for our girls to wear their black hair with pride.