ive seen a few other posts about this that didnt get a lot of notes because i know it makes nonblacks uncomfortable (š) but you people need to start examining why so many of your reaction pics and gifs and memes are of black people being expressive or literally just existing because its not a coincidence. it directly correlates to how black people are seen as overemotional and overreactive, the sassy black woman and the angry black man stereotypes and so on. like you really need to ask yourselves why such a large portion of the most used reaction memes this year are images of black celebrities like wendy williams and oprah and why non sequitur memes including dababys face seem to be so inherently funny to everyone, and if you are contributing to this problem.
this video explains it well:
"White people and nonblack folks using black memes and GIFs to express their emotional labor on black bodies contributes to what American literary critic Sienne Ngai calls 'the animatedness of black folks', A.K.A. seeing black people as hyperbolically emotional and expressive, particularly black women and [q word] black men."
in the video khadija also talks about how this relates to blackface and minstrelsy and about the appropriation (and butchering) of aave in online spaces, and cites these articles on the subject of digital blackface that i also recommend:
This is the face of someone who's ready to sacrifice himself..... again
jewish =/= israeli btw
not all jews are israeli and most jews worldwide are abhorred by israelās actions. there are palestinian jews too. dont turn this into antisemitism (hatred of All jews), make sure it stays anti-Zionism (anti-israelās colonization of palestine)
Can you imagine that this huge space we see here is Arcadia Oaks, or some other town?
Like-- let's assume that below is Arcadia Oaks High's soccer field, which we've already seen. We know that the high school was already destroyed to bits and would need some time to rebuild (maybe a year? I know that construction nowadays are pretty fast). Even if it's not, that's some mass destruction happening somewhere else.
But also what if Nari dies and the place that was originally burned and practically turned to ruin came back to life where she died; and that's why the gang looks so sad. Pls don't kill Nari, writers
With Mother & Fatherās day coming up, please remember you are not required to be grateful to abusive parents. Please remember,
Donāt break no-contact.
Donāt let family guilt you into breaking no-contact.
Donāt feel guilty for living w/ them as an adult, youāre doing your best.
Donāt feel youāre betraying yourself if you have to give āappeasement gifts.ā
DOĀ put your mental & physical wellbeing first, as we know they wonāt.
Maybe get yourself something, so many of us had to be our own parent anyway.
For anyone who doesn't know what's going on in Canada right now (which, let's be real, is probably everyone who's not in Canada):
This week, a mass grave was discovered at a former Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, BC. The grave contained the bodies of 215 Indigenous children.
For people outside of North America, residential schools were places that Indigenous children were sent to, to have their language and culture stripped away from them. They were literally stolen from their families, and scattered across Canada, to ensure that they would be surrounded by children who didn't speak their language. They were given Christian names and forced to speak English. They were horrendously abused, and the survivors have been traumatized.
Hundreds of children never returned. The assumption has always been that they died. This has now been confirmed.
The school in Kamloops closed in 1978. They are now trying to identify bodies to inform family members. The last residential school closed in the 1990s. There is growing demand to search all of them, but the government hasn't responded to that, as of yet. Ottawa JUST gave in to pressure to fly the Canada flag at half mast. They weren't even going to do that.
This is the reality if anti-Indigenous racism in Canada. The residential schools may be closed, but that hasn't stopped the abduction of Indigenous children, let alone the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
You donāt have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and your for us.
Demorestās Family Magazine, February 1895
Uhl just wanted some older lady to love him back šš
Lenora and Uhl never becoming canon physically hurts
PSA to my white friends and followers: In the wake of a phenomenally important guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin Trial, Iād like to remind you all that the fallout of this case will likely mean more police violence against our Black friends and neighbors, not less. Looking at the statistics in the weeks leading up to this verdict shows that this is already the case. Police in this country are angry that society is beginning to hold them accountable for their abusive actions, and they are looking for revenge. So if you see a cop interacting with a BIPOC, DO NOT walk away. Video record if you can (and as long as it doesnāt further jeopardize the safety of the BIPOC involved), but absolutely do not walk away. It is critical that we do our part and look out for people, and make cops think twice about abusing their powers of authority and near-immunity to murder citizens people.
My family makes fun of me because I prefer to have captions on while watching shows/movies, even though I'm not hard of hearing. It just helps me to 100% comprehend what's going on.
And then they ask me if I would want captions when talking to real people, and its like-- yea that would be pretty nice actually š
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