INSATIABLE

Am I the only one who thinks that Ravaughn Brown is underrated?

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:37:45 -0400

I can’t be.

2damnfeisty: Juanita is not needed.

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:33:12 -0400

2damnfeisty:

Juanita is not needed.

just-call-me-vendetta: beauchocolat: heartsoulandboobs: My...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:24:56 -0400

just-call-me-vendetta:

beauchocolat:

heartsoulandboobs:

My 14yr old cousin had been missing since Thursday .Please contact NOPD if you have any information and Kerontea Brown where abouts #missing #nopd #AmberAlert

Help her family you guys.

Reblog

Children don’t just come up missing in New Orleans. Someone knows where she is. If you do, please tell her to go home. If the police find her first, they will arrest her until her parents come to get her.

SIGNAL BOOST!!!

2damnfeisty: A great show with a black family. Both parents...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:26:37 -0400

2damnfeisty:

A great show with a black family. Both parents were in the home, the mother and father worked, the kids were smart and outgoing and the show’s storylines kept you entertained.

2damnfeisty: I’m still mad black folks let Lincoln Heights get cancelled. Everytime I tried to...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:25:40 -0400

2damnfeisty:

I’m still mad black folks let Lincoln Heights get cancelled.

Everytime I tried to tell someone to watch the show all they could say was oh you mean the one where the girl is going with the white boy…

I’ve been saying this for years!

classicladiesofcolor: Lena Horne

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:51:00 -0400

classicladiesofcolor:

Lena Horne

beautifulinmybrokenness: smidgetz: Being Black gives me a 90% chance of looking 5-25 years younger...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:35:38 -0400

beautifulinmybrokenness:

smidgetz:

Being Black gives me a 90% chance of looking 5-25 years younger than I am at any age as an adult for the rest of my life, and I thank Black Jesus for dis skin everyday.

Black don’t crack.

Amen.

Lol I wasn’t gonna do it. But everyday someone tells me I look 12 but i’m 21.

How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:19:34 -0400

How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment:

In this context of widespread networking, the idea that there is a job “market” based solely on skills, qualifications and merit is false. Whenever possible, Americans seeking jobs try to avoid market competition: they look for unequal rather than equal opportunity. In fact, the last thing job seekers want to face is equal opportunity; they want an advantage. They want to find ways to cut in line and get ahead.

You don’t usually need a strong social network to land a low-wage job at a fast-food restaurant or retail store. But trying to land a coveted position that offers a good salary and benefits is a different story. To gain an edge, job seekers actively work connections with friends and family members in pursuit of these opportunities.

Help is not given to just anyone, nor is it available from everyone. Inequality reproduces itself because help is typically reserved for people who are “like me”: the people who live in my neighborhood, those who attend my church or school or those with whom I have worked in the past. It is only natural that when there are jobs to be had, people who know about them will tell the people who are close to them, those with whom they identify, and those who at some point can reciprocate the favor.

Because we still live largely segregated lives, such networking fosters categorical inequality: whites help other whites, especially when unemployment is high. Although people from every background may try to help their own, whites are more likely to hold the sorts of jobs that are protected from market competition, that pay a living wage and that have the potential to teach skills and allow for job training and advancement. So, just as opportunities are unequally distributed, they are also unequally redistributed.

thisdayandaige: I always imagine myself going back in time with news articles and obituaries and...

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:32:18 -0400

thisdayandaige:

I always imagine myself going back in time with news articles and obituaries and such so I can tell certain celebrities “DON’T DO ITTTTT!” for any situation.

So I ‘m not crazy. I’m not the only one who does this.

sandandglass: According to these Republicans it’s wrong for the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:46:43 -0400

sandandglass:

According to these Republicans it’s wrong for the Sandy Hook Elementary parents to plead with Congress for a law-change but perfectly okay to scare you by saying that a murderer will jump out at you on the way home.

2damnfeisty: thepeoplesrecord: The troubling viral trend of...

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:16:26 -0400

2damnfeisty:

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

Source

Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

If this aint the truth and nothing but.

rageandrapture: Missing from the VA 757 area Signal boost...

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:02:12 -0400

rageandrapture:

Missing from the VA 757 area

Signal boost please

knowledgeequalsblackpower: Immortal Technique - “Beef...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:08:01 -0400

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

Immortal Technique - “Beef and Broccoli”

Look, let me make something abundantly clear for people
that are so bereft of activities
they feel like they gotta comment on every one of mine
First of all, being a vegetarian should never be associated
with being a revolutionary or being open minded, that’s a dietary choice
If someone wants to proliferate the type of ignorance
we’re supposed to be fighting by thinking that, you’re just fucking yourself
I don’t go around promoting beef and poultry shoving it in peoples faces
I don’t castigate people for not eating steak sandwiches
And I would never diss someone for being a fucking broccoli head
or living off radishes or eating grass with tofu
I like a lot of vegan cuisine but the illogicality
of expecting everyone to adopt your particular idea
of what being healthy is, is just preposterous
I’ve seen some of you herbivores, and if you wanna argue health
y’all need to eat some kind of supplement
because some of y’all are so skinny that it’s disgusting
Lookin like the only hip hop motherfuckas on Schindler’s list
Being a malnutrition ass got nothing to do
with being revolutionary or being on point
I’ll be damned if I let somebody else push their agenda on me
You know, I don’t eat pork, not cause I’m a Muslim
I just don’t really like it, but I really will fuck a bird up
And fish is good when that shit is fresh
It’s like my nigga Vast Aire from Can’ Ox said
If you don’t like the smell of burning meat, then get the fuck off the planet
You know, I don’t criticize people for eating moss
And don’t open your fuckin mouth about my food man
I like beef and broccoli motherfucka, mind your God damn business
Matter of fact, you know what? I’m out
I feel like a some arroz con pollo, a banana daiquiri
and a motherfuckin bistec apanado

I love him!

Nippy!!!

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:01:21 -0400

thisdayandaige:

I’m sitting here listening to the latest Cissy Houston interview hours before she was scheduled to be at the Riverside theater thinking the SAME thing….

thisdayandaige: radicalrebellion: str8nochaser: greenwave: ch...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:22:52 -0400

thisdayandaige:

radicalrebellion:

str8nochaser:

greenwave:

chocolate-socrates:

wokeupinausedtoyota:

mocha199:

I sholl do!

but he right tho

lmfao ! all under my sink for future lunches or bathroom trash bags .

Damn you got me. I do have like 30 plastic bags in my kitchen

Look… we are ahead of the damn Love the Earth curve… okay? We are REDUCING waste by REUSING bags.

So there.

Truth

At home. In a drawer in my dorm room.

"It don’t make me no nevermind."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:22:17 -0400

“It don’t make me no nevermind.”

- African American Proverb that means, I don’t care one way or the other. (via blackproverbs)

Oh this is that one.

(via 2damnfeisty)

Black guy kills some people.

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:55:01 -0400

Black guy kills some people.
News: Criminal.
Muslim guy kills some people.
News: Terrorist.
Latino guy kills some people.
News: Criminal.
White guy kills some people.
News: Mental illness. (lost soul, complicated psyche, quiet loner, misunderstood, frustrated with life, experienced recent, traumatic, life-altering events that set him off; not to mention all the positive descriptors that are attached to him, i.e. intelligent, PhD candidate, honor roll student, etc.)

Thanks to Tumblr, I have found the topic for my social inequality paper.

everythingwhitneyhouston: && sometimes you just need...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:43:48 -0400

everythingwhitneyhouston:

&& sometimes you just need your best friend…

motherjones: brooklynmutt: @JuddLegum Yup.

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:06:13 -0400

motherjones:

brooklynmutt:

@JuddLegum

Yup.

Photo

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:19:10 -0400