February 2012
help a brotha out
kemetically-ankhtified:
my mom and brother back in The Bronx are grinding on around $150 monthly food stamps that run out in 2 weeks, and they just lowered it by $7 last week.
We used to get around $500, but now that I’m away at school the gov brought it down. I don’t understand how you can take away $350 from food stamps just because one person leaves the household for 8 months a year....
““We have to begin to explain to our young people who they are,we must stop...”
– (via mayateraza)
gotta love Kaba.
(via kemetically-ankhtified)
And this is the message I got my from my dad
(via larepublicadedet)
“While the idea of Afro-Latinos generally refers to African-descendant peoples in...”
– Dr. Juan Flores on AfroLatin@s (via larepublicadedet) (via lati-negros)
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via elige)
1 tag
on relating to european american folk
so last year, i was suddenly stricken by a unchecked disdain for european americans (commonly known as white people). i was heavily engaged in internalized oppression conversations that marked white supremacy as one of three ideologies that oppress this entire world (along with patriarchy and capitalism). i went through months of not knowing how i could possibly maintain friendships with european...
brugal, tea, honey and assholes
brugal, tea and honey reminds me of the couple of months last year when i would sip this concoction at the new york public library at 9am before going to work, get close to drunk and be sober enough to tolerate the workplace i reported to at the time.
this was also the time in my life when some asshole of a man was in my life temporarily and told me that if i was still smoking by age 30, he would...
Dear Saturn Return...bring it on. I ain't ready...
Do what you will, Imma take your shit like a womyn.
“Motherhood is raw and pure. It is fierce and gentle. It is up and down. It is...”
– Aviva Jill Romm (via traditionalwisdom)
some brugal with tea and honey would be so clutch...
Help My Brother Out!
mujerinterrumpida:
kemetically-ankhtified:
my mom and brother back in The Bronx are grinding on around $150 monthly food stamps that run out in 2 weeks, and they just lowered it by $7 last week.
We used to get around $500, but now that I’m away at school the gov brought it down. I don’t understand how you can take away $350 from food stamps just because one person leaves the household for...
LatiNegr@/AfroLatin@ Blogs
lati-negros:
aahsallamallaikum asked you:
I love youre blog! I was wondering if you could let us know about other tumblrs that are similar to this one or that you would suggest that discusses Latinos and AfroLatinos in general? Really appreciate it!
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Thanks for the love and support! We truly appreciate it. I’m making this into a post so that others can reblog and add to the list. There...
help a brotha out
kemetically-ankhtified:
my mom and brother back in The Bronx are grinding on around $150 monthly food stamps that run out in 2 weeks, and they just lowered it by $7 last week.
We used to get around $500, but now that I’m away at school the gov brought it down. I don’t understand how you can take away $350 from food stamps just because one person leaves the household for 8 months a year....
okay, American government,
ether-eden:
rather than all of us suing you
for poisoning our food
and selling us cancer-causing products and lifestyles
perhaps you could
at least pick up our medical bills.
I have not watched a movie in the theaters in a...
Demand more y’all.
“Just because there is one black man in the White House, doesn’t make up for the...”
– Angela Davis, speaking at Appalachian State University, January 24, 2012. (via douglass-forgot-the-chitterlings)
“Mixed” man in the White House,you mean? (his mother is white,I don’t know why people forget that) and if all you need to be considered “black” is a black father then we have a bunch of...
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
– Lemony Snicket (via 24ribs)
Venezuela giving Danny Glover $18m to direct film... →
Booyah Hollywood for not wanting to fund this man because there were no white heros. Actually, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
“A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks...”
– Edgar Cayce (via dopatonin)
This is the best description or explanation for a soulmate I have heard.
(via fieldofblue)
Conscious Accountability: Moving from Theory to... →
“The sustainability of social justice movements lead by people of color will depend on how committed we will be in having self awareness, creating self care action plans, hold personal and collective accountability for how we are showing up and have integrity with our word. A good way to measure where you are in this process is looking at your personal relationships. Being in...
when i used to think about compassion, i thought it meant that you let folks continue to be who they are without saying anything to them. and then i remember thinking, “well that’s pretty dumb, why should i be compassionate? some mofos need to know they’re buggin.” then i thought about my homeboy jesus (the christ dude) and how he was the illest compassionate dude and...
we get real angry
when folks dumbfound us with their ignorance.
compassion though. compassion. us “enlightened” folks had to do work to become conscious enough to know and search for the truth.
when i go to colleges and universities to talk about the afrolatina identity, i have to remind myself that i had relaxed hair and was in complete denial of my africanness too. it’s just the “take...
“We were born naked so we should pray naked. The nude body is not something to be...”
– Makeda Voletta (via eclecticalexandria)
Breaking: NYPD fatally shoots 18 year old in the...
occupyallstreets:
occupyallstreets:
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said the shooting happened following a struggle with the suspect. He said an officer from the Special Narcotics Unit fired one time, striking 18-year-old Rahmarley Graham in the chest.
The shooting happened around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon in the bathroom of the apartment house where Graham lived with his mother and...
Feminism (Via Straight White Man)
poeticartifacts:
The first time I was called a feminist, I was in high school. I didn’t understand it then. Not because i didn’t know what feminism was (or at least i thought i understood it), but because the word was hurled at me like a racially charged insult.
One of my best friends had broken up with his girlfriend and was trying to stick his dick into anything he could (with some success)....
“When pleasure starts to blossom within us, it’s an invitation. To soften,...”
– Sadia Desilets
I want to write you a love poem
And I can’t
I don’t know what to say.
Everything I could use to describe you falls short.
It doesn’t cover it.
The depth.
The length and parameters.
The width and enormity.
Is.
Just.
Too.
Much.
I will keep trying.
Just for you.
Reblog if your vagina is magical.
magical and extremely talented.
#jadeeggsareeverything
Help Dee Get to Haiti
apwbirth:
Hi Everyone - a former colleague of mine is headed to Haiti to volunteer with Mama Baby Haiti. Please help her get there! Here’s the note from Dee:
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Hello Friends, Family, and Friends of Friends and Family!
I’m going to Haiti!! I’m so very blessed to have this opportunity to accompany my new midwifery preceptor on this trip to Haiti for two weeks volunteering with the...
Ladies First 2012: Our Expansion in Consciousness...
Ladies First 2012” art exhibition at the Brecht Forum explores the ideas of the past and present: recognizing the iconic imagery of the Black femininity, while realizing the possibilities through ideas of Afrofuturism. During these trying times socially and economically, we hold the conversation of agency and colonialism when discussing our most recent attempts to “occupy” back our self...
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief...”
– Saint Bartholomew (via nirvikalpa)
At least 204 people have been killed by the NYPD... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
February 4, 1999 - Amadou Diallo, 23 - Bronx
May 25, 1999 - Rodney Mason, 38 - Queens
May 26, 1999 - Dante Johnson, 16 - Bronx
Jun. 28, 1999 - Renato Mercado, 63 - Manhattan
Jul. 24, 1999 - Delano Maloney, 32 - Brooklyn
Aug. 5, 1999 - Jatrek Hewitt, 17 - Staten Island
Aug. 9, 1999 - Robert Striker, 54 - Manhattan
Aug. 15, 1999 - Angel Reyes, 47 - Manhattan
Aug....
“And, brothers, y’all need to know: if too much sugar makes you sick, spoils your...”
– Christa Bell
Anonymous asked: Do you believe in (a) God?
marfmellow:
I believe there’s a drag queen in the sky tellin’ me to werk.
“Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees,...”
– Le’echappee (via light-essence)
*this is why this nyc shit is getting old…