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strugglingtobeheard:

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theoceanandthesky:

i’m down. let’s do it.

lets!!!!

for reals? srsly?

Make it happen!

yessssss just say what you need and im sure we’ll come up w it.

we need a name.

we need a good sized group (10 or…

I think that’s an awesome idea and would be down completely. And I agree about offline activism, that shit is hard right now. I be feeling guilty sometimes but what you said made me feel a bit better. I can’t contribute anything solid now, but I gotta reblog and come back to it.

i feel like i can say this clearer today. this is a really good idea. here’s the but.

i saw some things yesterday that really made my angry. like angry in a physically affected way re: these ideas. immediately after i blogged them, a few people either rebageled or sent messages saying the same thing: “this idea sucks.” (basically)

i’m going to say it again: a lot of people literally cannot do any type of offline activism - for one reason or another. to say “oh no we can’t do this thing because i’ve seen it before and it was shitty so instead of providing support, i’m going to add more problems to the mix - what do we do about this? what do we do about that?” is just… that’s not just shitty. that’s dirty. that’s divisive.

i don’t care if you don’t believe anymore - i understand people get burnt out and they quit and they have to stop believing. i understand that - but why do WE have to be burnt out with you? why do we have to scrap ideas because you’ve seen the same idea before and it didn’t work? did you see that same idea with the same people? no you didn’t.

this is one of my biggest issues with activism in the black and PoC communities. if we don’t like someone, fuck their idea. if we don’t know someone, fuck their idea. if we’ve been through something that seems like it could be similar, fuck their idea. if it’s not us starting it, fuck that idea. if we do like the idea but the person won’t put us in a position of leadership, fuck that idea. if we can’t somehow be in the front getting the most attention (even tho we’ll never say that), fuck that idea.

do you think nobody said to these groups who put together these demonstrations, “oh, people have marched before, it’s not going to do any good. just stay home.” - and what would have happened if they had? (the effects are debatable, for sure) what would have happened if, at the 3rd march in the 60’s, folks had listened to the detractors who said, “Well, we’ve marched twice and it obviously isn’t helping so let’s just quit while we’re not really ahead but we’re not dead.”

i’m not trying to lead anybody but myself to the life i want. but i am saying, what good does it do to shoot down the only hope some people have - and replace it with more problems? you can’t look at folks who are trying their best to come up with something and say, “nope. fuck that idea that’s brewing in your head.” and expect anything to get better. if you’re not providing a solution or some ideas then sit down and shut the fuck up. seriously.

yes, part of building is tearing down - but you’ve got to have something to tear down first. and if you’re tearing down? you’d better damn well have some way to replace what you want to take away before the entire building falls down.

hallefuckinglujah. let’s not all scramble for the big cheese so hard that we forget what the whole point of the cheese IS in the first place.

(Source: peechington-marie)

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Liquor&Spice: My Rape Culture: “Freedmen aren’t Cherokees/Choctaws/Chickasaws/Creeks/Seminoles!”

goddamazon:

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karnythia:

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liquornspice:

This is what anti-Black, racist, misogyny looks like. Also rape.

From “Tribal Kulturkampf: The Role of Race Ideology in Constructing Native American Identity” by CD Pratt:

[60] Sexual encounters between Native American slave masters and African slave women were documented by the…

it’s sort of funny to me how all the Native American Identified tumblrs want EVERYONE to stand in solidarity with them RE: “cultural appropriation” but it’s mothafuckin CRICKETS now.

When it comes to black women solidarity is a one way street & we should never expect to be on the receiving end of support. That much was extra clear yesterday when someone broke out the “My nephew is black & NDN, but these people aren’t” like they couldn’t be bothered to look up any actual history about tribal enrollment, the difficulties of documentation for slave descendants, or basic concepts of what it meant to be black, female, & enslaved by men in America.

Church.

I can’t even, there’s so much I want to say, but I just can’t. I can’t.

….there are no words.

as a [sort of] side note: this is why the song “Woman Is The Nigger Of The World” by John Lennon and Yoko Ono scrapes my fur the wrong way so harshly.

What other woman can we name who is accepted by no one, claimed by no one, blamed for being victimized, and expected to be strong in the face of all that - but is then vilified for her strength and has it labeled as “ghetto” or “attitude” or (worst of all) “bitter” or “angry”? 

What other woman? What other woman has been the mother of civilizations, born so many generations, borne out of so many lifetimes of rapes? What other woman has REPEATEDLY been denied her honor? Denied her motherhood, denied her beauty, denied her respect, denied common human decency?

No. For generations they snuck to the back and raped our mothers and grandmothers - and then labeled us wanton, harlot, whore, and slut.

When the white women couldn’t live with their jealousy and the obvious children their husbands produced with slave women, instead of labeling their men rapists and caring for another woman, they said it was voodoo and trickery. They taught their children that we offered sex and lessons - that we were to be used and thrown away - never acknowledged, never respected, never cared for - that we were breathing sex toys and nothing more. something to be owned, raped, and thrown in the back of the closet - no matter how many children came from those serial rapes.

And after raping our mothers and grandmothers, the Native communities made it so we’d not be able to have a say in their communities (because we didn’t belong, we never belonged) and they wouldn’t have to acknowledge their children or their repeat visits and rapes of black women.

What other woman can we name who has been a nomad in her own country for her entire life?

What other woman can we name who is rejected by everyone - until they need her? If you need a cook, a maid, a mammy, a wet nurse, a shoulder, a friend, a lover, an adviser, a partner, a supporter, a cheerleader, a worker bee, a queen bee - whatever you need, we are always there.

To be quite honest? I’m sick of it.

No one knows quite the horror, the shame, the sadness, the fight, the pride, the loss, or the win of being a black woman - other than a black woman.

Fuck the communities that refuse to acknowledge what I know to be true when I look at myself, when I look at my family - fuck them. Because next time you need someone to stand with you because a Kardashian wore some feathers? Next time you need someone with a megaphone voice that comes naturally to speak up for you? Next time you need some “solidarity”?

I’ll remind you of this moment - when you were silent. this moment when you tried to justify your racism. That’s what I’ll be doing.

(Source: blackraincloud)