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Opinion: Her inspiring life over too soon
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/31/opinion/levs-keegan/index.html


strugglingtobeheard:

I’m not seeing enough pictures of black/women of color strippers. So I’m throwing some up. This is called putting in motherfucking work. Do you see that fucking garter belt? Wow. Magic City.

I went to magic city once. Made me feel out of shape. Those women at truly talented.

I don’t know how I became so passive. I stood up to someone today. Two people. I don’t feel good. Cuz they flipped out. Acted like douche bags. Tried to make it like I did something wrong.

the bad dominicana: Like, the cultural disdain for the Bronx

note-a-bear:

bad-dominicana:

note-a-bear:

And the wholly genocidal whitewashing of our history here is disgusting.

And it happens anywhere there is a plurality or majority of folks of color, especially Black folks.

Like, people talk about the Bronx like it’s still 1977 and…

I live in Memphis and the diversity that the Bronx spoiled me with is nowhere near common elsewhere. They got three people down here - black, white, and mexican. What’s worse is they don’t interact and if you’re like me and thrive on diversity, its a killer. I had a group of best friends in junior high - we called ourselves the UN. The U fuckin N (and I cuss out of normalcy not anger) cuz we were all from different places with unique experiences - haiti, south korea, the phillipines, nigeria, dominican republic, italy, ireland, antigua, yugoslavia, ghana, taiwan. We were first generation and born abroad. We spoke a collection of languages between us. We were everything and anything. What was better is that our surroundings reflected us as well.

"Dear Phylicia, Romantic involvement distracts you and can blind you to what's really in front of you. And what really is in front of you? You are. You don't even know yourself yet. You think you know and you want to assert that you do, now that you're a certain age, but you don't. What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first. There are long-term repercussions to what you're doing now. Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways—ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective. With high hopes for you, Phylicia"

mscarmalita:

“Letter to My Younger Self”  Phylicia Rashad

Truth

the bad dominicana: [WARNING: ARSON, MISOGYNIST VIOLENCE] just received this from a friend: new orleans women with a vision office destroyed...

sadademort:

whereisyourmoosetonight:

tuanthecat:

closetospring:

from her email:

last night, an arsonist torched the office of Women With a Voice, a new orleans-based organization that helps marginalized women: poor women, sex workers, women with substance abuse…

Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as oppressed groups), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion. I say ‘whatever your insecurities are’ because as we very well know, sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the mouth, and want a woman to be quiet. We want to hit a homosexual in the mouth because we are afraid that we might be homosexual; and we want to hit the woman or shut her up because we are afraid that she might castrate us, or take the nuts that we might not have to start with.
Huey Newton, 1970 (via sonofbaldwin)

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U.N. observers say 92 dead in Syria massacre
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/26/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html

It doesn’t take a genius to let you know a cease fire wouldn’t work. This is a grown ass man who has been living the life for years. He could give two shits about the UN and a cease fire.

My biggest fear is to be stuck. I’m stuck and I feel like a failure.

General’s Blog Entry Reignites Army Suicide Debate

Maj. Gen. Dana Pittard commands Fort Bliss, one the nation’s largest Army bases, so his blunt comments about suicide has raised eyebrows throughout the military.

“I have now come to the conclusion that suicide is an absolutely selfish act,” he wrote on his official blog recently. “I am personally fed up with soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives so that others can clean up their mess. Be an adult, act like an adult, and deal with your real-life problems like the rest of us.”

You’re kidding me right?