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walkinameadow: thank you for the love! 

super-eklectic1:

pretty much

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racebending:

Salon.com published an article by Jeremy Adam Smith that talks about diversity and media.  Excerpts below, click the link to read the entire thing!

a series of four 2009 studies found that people who watched shows that featured negative nonverbal behavior toward blacks became more prejudiced themselves, as measured by tests of implicit bias — this was especially true when viewers didn’t recognize the behavior as negative. It seems that TV can indeed subconsciously induce racism.

So how can show runners correct for that? The research is overwhelmingly clear: job one is to confront the fact that racial difference exists. The new science of racism reveals that our brains do indeed seem to react negatively to people of different races — exposure of just milliseconds to a black face can cause white folks’ amygdalae to light up with fear

As researchers have developed new and creative ways to induce racial nightmares in brain scanners, they’ve found that the prefrontal cortex — that’s the newest, most human part of the brain, the one responsible for long-term planning and intentional thought — is able to tell the oldest, least human part of the brain, the amygdala, to calm down. In other words, people can outthink and unlearn subconscious prejudice.

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mehreenkasana:

Suheir Hammad speaks for all women of color. Listen to this right now.

Not Your Erotic, Not Your Exotic

Don’t wanna be your exotic
Like some delicate fragile colorful bird
Imprisoned caged
In a land foreign to the stretch of her wings
Don’t wanna be your exotic
Women everywhere are just like me
Some taller darker nicer than me
But like me but just the same
Women everywhere carry my nose on their faces
My name on their spirits
Don’t wanna
Don’t seduce yourself with
My otherness my hair
Wasn’t put on top of my head to entice
You into some mysterious black voodoo
The beat of my lashes against each other
Ain’t some dark desert beat
It’s just a blink
Get over it
Don’t wanna be your exotic
Your lovin of my beauty ain’t more than
Funky fornication plain pink perversion
In fact nasty necrophilia
Cause my beauty is dead to you
I am dead to you
Not your
Harem girl geisha doll banana picker
Pom pom girl pum pum shorts coffee maker
Town whore belly dancer private dancer
La malinche venus hottentot laundry girl
Your immaculate vessel emasculating princess
Don’t wanna be
Not Your erotic
Not your exotic 

This goes out to every single colored women in this world. You’re beautiful, you’re powerful. Nobody’s toy to fuck around with.

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mehreenkasana:

notasenator:

veri-pageofknowledge:

lizawithazed:

the-milk-eyed-mender:

thedailywhat:

African Stereotype of the Day: Gabriel, Benard, Brian, and Derrik, who live in Kenya, were inspired to poke fun at the way African men are portrayed by Hollywood: “If people believed only what they saw in movies,” they said, “they would think we are all warlords who love violence.” Mama Hope — an organization that partners with African organizations to help transform their communities — was more than happy to hand them a mic as part of a video campaign to “Stop the Pity, Unlock the Potential.”

Good stuff.

[boingboing]

we hate smiling

smiling is stupid

WE’RE TALKING TO YOU, SHIRTLESS MATHEW MCCANAUGHEY!

I love it. Perfection, sheer perfection.

I love this.

Can we all take a moment to appreciate this? Excellent.

bana05:

fuckyeahonceuponatime:

deealee:

thisislostinlace:

belindapendragon:

My teeth hurt from being grinding while I read this confession. As others have eloquently put it, OP your privilege, modern majority whitewashing, dipped in ass-backwards ignorant history of Grimm is showing. The Grimm Bros did not tell ONE SINGLE ORIGINAL FUCKING STORY. News alert, spoiler alert, and reality alert. They gathered the stories mostly from Arabic translations of fairy tales that were passed along trade routes that gathered in Western Asia. Most of what YOU think are traditional European fairy stories are actually thousands of years old and are from China, India, South Eastern Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, and North Africa.

For instance, the oldest and earliest telling of the Cinderella is actually from the western provinces of China. It was a cautionary morality tale of mistreatment because those who are most vulnerable to be mistreated will judge be the ultimate judge of character. It pains me every time I see Cinderella as a blonde, white, blue eye character because, like Jesus, she was turned white to PANDER to a European audience and all signs of her origins were “lost to history”.  Except that they weren’t. Those tales are still preserved in Chinese literature. Oop @ the Imperial Colonist, they missed one when they burned all those art pieces, literature, scrolls, and yes, books to make it look like people who weren’t them were ignorant savages thus making their treatment of said people legitimate.

Ironic, isn’t it.

Red Riding Hood has it’s origins in Central Africa far older very similar tales than what was retold in Renaissance Italy and Middle Age Europe. In those stories, the little girl is met by a lion, not a wolf. The lion or lioness/cheetah guides her to her new husband’s family because no one in her family can do it at the time. The lion(ness) gives very important advice about not fearing her husband and using logic and peaceful concessions to get what she wants. RRH doesn’t forget it. When the time comes for a hunt her husband has the lion cornered. The husband recalls advice his wife had given him. He tells the lion about it. The lion and the husband make peace.

OP, where’s your rage at all the whitewashing? There isn’t any is there? That’s shocking. By your damn logic the whole fucking show should be in German.

^Thank goodness for you intelligent women.

Reblogged for commentary.

Now I definitely don’t feel one lick bad about not being super impressed about OAUT

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sparkofserenity:

What Would You Do - Muslims in America

What Would You Do - Dad Rejects Daughter’s Black Boyfriend

A documentary on Shadeism: discrimination that exists within a community between lighter-skinned and darker-skinned members of the same community. A documentary on the devaluing and vilification of dark skin.

sparkofserenity:

youcrashstanding:

aleki-says:

thisthat-and-liberalstuff:

so-treu:

white girl says “i am not Trayvon Martin……and neither are you, fellow white people.”

THIS is how you collect your folks.

Bless this post. 

This is how you do white feminism correctly.

This is so fucking perfect. Oh my gods. Yes. This girl. Thank you. 

Well done.

The YouTube comments make me sad. 

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super-eklectic1:

pretty much

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a-lostbird:

africanfashion:

Interracial couple - Chinese guy and a black girl, both from Jersey.

Love has no color or age

I love this short, I’m glad to see it on here. 

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