FOREVER REBLOG: this is my life.
So glad school is over and I passed all my classes :)
(Source: onceupondisney)
Every culture values mothers, but in African American culture, mother love is raised to a new level of devotion. Worship is not too strong a word. Reverence for parents and ancestor worship are central to the traditions of many African cultures, and in the United States, reverence for the mother has been raised to an art form. Niara Sunarkasa has looked at the similarities between African Americans and the West African countries from which many slaves were taken. One of the striking similarities is the centrality of the mother. African slaves brought with them a mother-centered family structure, with her as the spoke of the family wheel. Western-style patriarchy is not endemic to African American communities—th much decried matriarchy of black families comes not from the pathologies of slavery and poverty but from West Africa. Strong black women have long been central figures in African and African-descendant cultures.Attempts to impose Western-style patriarchy have been disastrous for black men and women. Some African postcolonial scholars are arguing that rigid gender divisions of male and female are European impositions that ill fit their cultures and that African culture needs to work in its way back to the more fluid arrangements of before. They are recognizing the ways in which Western masculinity is misaligned with their cultures and are working toward reclaiming and updating some aspects of precolonial gender roles, where masculinity as defined by service to the common good. There was also a shared power. In many areas, men have a dominant role in the business of the village, while women have a dominant role in the home. Slavery sliced off the traditional public power of African American men but left largely intact—to the extent that it left any families intact—the family power of women.
Western masculinity is won by employment, wealth, and power, but the means of doing that have been cult off for many men. Western patriarchal culture carries the assumption that the greatest threat comes from men, and so in America, from the time of slavery, the dominant culture has worked to isolate and disenfranchise black men. Traditional Western culture also assumes a subordinated woman, and in that light, powerful black women appear to be in the way. Black women often perform a fragile balancing act, accomplishing a great deal without taking the credit.
So I watched for colored girls tonight. I’m so done with Tyler Perry and his choices of films that focus on the pain and suffering of black women. I shoulda learned my lesson after Precious. I want to see a film starring a black woman as the main character where she isn’t angry, suffering, abused, down-trodden, or poor. We don’t all lead rough lives. I want to see a film where a black woman is the main character but the story doesn’t focus on her being black…just a storyline (it could be anything - action/adventure, fantasy, thriller) where she just happens to be black and the story doesn’t revolve around that. Anyone have any film/tv show suggestions? Sidenote, was I the only one that found the part where Yasmine slapped her rapist’s corpse amusing? I also liked the fact that he was stabbed by one of his victims. He got exactly what he deserved. Yasmins slapping him was the only way to get back at him for what he’d done to her and I hope she was able to find some solace in that, along with the fact that he had been rightfully murdered.
New Beginnings
Starting today, I’m going to be a better person. I can’t continue to let my insecurities from my past ruin my future. They’re preventing me from interacting with people and making more friends. They’re preventing me from networking with pharmacy professionals. They’re negatively impacting my relationship with my boyfriend and I hate it. I’m so used to being criticized that I take what he says and I misconstrue it and get defensive. So he feels like he can’t talk to me straight. I get jealous over miniscule things and it frustrates him. Aside from all that, I don’t like the person that I am. I have self-loathing issues that always come out when I’m PMS’ing. But they wouldn’t surface if they weren’t there in the first place. I keep saying I’m trying to change, but I’m not trying hard enough. That ends today.
Unlike the beautiful 6-year old Jonbenett Ramsey who received coverage all over the media - every tabloid, newspaper, news channel, talk show, 7-year old Aiyana Stanley was killed by a police officer during a raid while she was sleep and her murder received very little coverage.
Police, searching for a murder suspect, threw a flash grenade through the window of her family’s apartment around midnight. According to Aiyana’s father, it landed on the couch, setting Aiyana on fire. A police officer’s gun then went off, and shot Aiyana in the neck.
Aiyana was asleep on the living room sofa in her family’s apartment when Detroit police, searching for a homicide suspect, burst in and an officer’s gun went off, fatally striking the girl in the neck, family members said.
Her father, 25-year-old Charles Jones, told The Detroit News he had just gone to bed early Sunday after covering his daughter with her favorite blanket when he heard a flash grenade followed by a gunshot. When he rushed into the living room, he said, police forced him to lie on the ground, with his face in his daughter’s blood.
“I’ll never be the same. That’s my only daughter,” Jones told.
We haven’t forgotten about you baby. R.I.P.
WHAT THE FUCK.
FUCK EVERYTHING.
As I said in a previous post: it doesn’t take a study to show that racism and violence towards people of color is prevalent in our society. It’s time to stop studying the problem and start doing something about it.
STAY AWAY FROM OUR CHILDREN, YOU FUCKING MONSTERS! I JUST CAN’T WITH ANY OF THIS.
My heart hurts. This needs to end but when will we get a reprieve?
Tarika Wilson, the 26-year old unarmed, bi-racial mother of six who was fatally shot by police officers during a raid-gone-wrong in early January of 2008.
She was likely on her knees and complying with a SWAT team’s orders to get down when she was hit in the neck and chest, two experts testified.
A forensic pathologist and firearms expert each said that bullet wounds indicate that Tarika Wilson wasn’t standing or struggling with officers.
She was holding her 1-year-old son on her knees when she was shot. The boy also was hit and had a finger amputated.
This tragedy set off protests and debate about race relations in the city (LIMA, Ohio), where one in four residents are black.
and she had her baby w her.
i. swear.
i really dont wanna live anymore sometimes.
(Source: anniekinns)
“It’s surreal because I was such a big fan of the books before I even auditioned. When I heard that there was going to be a movie, I remember being so excited for the opening in March, never thinking I was going to be a part of the cast! To be playing Rue is such an honor, and I can’t wait to see the movie.”
(Source: weasleyisourkings)
Remember that word ‘innocent’? This is why Trayvon Martin is dead.
And there you have it folks
Black children don’t have innocence. We’re guilty from birth
I’m pretty sure from the description that Rue’s on screen portrayal was quite accurate.
But there’s institutionalized racism there for you folks. Dumb bitch.
……. it’s all interrelated, isn’t it? and just so fucking depressing, besides….
The FUCK is this bullshit?
The racism really spurs when this ignoramus says ” SOME BLACK GIRL”. Like “some piece of trash”. This girl can handstand on a landmine
#TrayvonMartin
This picture. My heart hurts.
Damn.
The scariest part is that all we know for sure, is that we can’t say no.
SO POWERFUL.
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