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Pulp Poetry
Scraps of fascination are the building blocks of an interesting life.
Yarn Bombing
If it was actually WOC abuelit@s hitting up the night bombing the city, I would be down as fuck for it. However, it is not. Instead, it is white feminists who essentially steal an idea that has criminalized, ridiculed, and even killed people of color. They seem to think it is innovating art that parallels graff culture. Pero, they’re extremely cray to think so.
Their privilege allows them to get away with the bastardization of this subculture without having to deal with the gruesome repercussions. You see, yarn bombing doesn’t happen in los barrios. It takes place in affluent areas, the burbs, and gentrified hoods. They don’t have to watch out for bangers who don’t want you tagging on their turf. They don’t know shit about traveling deep into tunnels and having to fend off meth addicts. They won’t have to experience running away from trigger-happy cops, and not because
theirthey’re not carrying montanas, but because white girls (with or without yarn) are actually protected by cops—no matter what neigborhood they’re in.I can’t see myself ever being down with recognizing yarn bombing for these very reasons.
Thanks for opening my eyes to this perspective.
(Source: tortillachronicles, via frijoliz)
Malcolm X: Panel discussion, WINS Radio, February 18, 1965
- White man: You're doing all you can to encourage it, Malcolm-
- Malcolm X: Not encouraging it.
- White man: -with your inflammatory and demagogic language-
- Malcolm X: No, no, I don't-
- White man: Oh yes you do.
- Malcolm X: I don't encourage it; but I'm not going to sit here and pretend that it doesn't exist.
- Another white man: Don't you incite Malcolm? Don't you incite?
- Malcolm X: I don't think so. How are you going to incite people who are living in slums and ghettos? It's the city structure that incites. A city that continues to let people live in rat-nest dens in Harlem and pay higher rent in Harlem than they pay downtown. This is what incites it. Who lets merchants overcharge people for their groceries and their clothing and other commodities in Harlem, while you pay less for it downtown. This is what incites it. A city that will not create some kind of employment for people who are barred from having jobs just because their skin is Black. That's what incites it. Don't ever accuse a Black man for voicing his resentment and dissatisfaction over the criminal condition of his people as being responsible for inciting a situation. You have to indict the society that allows these things to exist.
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
Another white vigilante murders a 17-year-old African in Florida. Make some noise for Jordan Davis!
“Stand Your Ground” is just the new legal excuse in the old, New Jim Crow system.
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
SECRETLY?
Yes, secretly. It’s possible to lie to ourselves thoroughly and blind ourselves with what we want to believe.
I believed that having compassion and love for other people regardless of race, and avoiding all conscious actions that would result in oppressing or judging another based on race, made me not a racist. But I was born into a racist culture, and benefited from a racial power imbalance. Despite all my wishes and actions, I can’t avoid being a racist for those reasons. It’s a big, dark secret that will take much longer than my life to fully discover and purge.
Let Us Build A New Nation
“Let’s build a government that serves the interest of property owners. We’ll fight on their behalf against their oppressors, for promises of trinkets, fine speeches, and honest work. One that keeps all women, all non-whites, and poor whites outside the power structure as much as possible….”
Wow. Santorum, a little too comfortable saying “nigger,” almost uses it against Obama. And he’s supposed to be the religious one. Hate drives this man. Nothing but hate.
States where it’s legal to kill a black person.
These states have a “stand your ground” style law like the one that is allowing a man to get away with the murder of Trayvon Martin.
They are made under the lie that the only way to protect yourself is by killing another person. They give the excuse to the killer beyond self-defense. One can murder another under these laws just because a person looks threatening or dangerous (which often translates to “black”).
King now became a chief target of the FBI, which tapped his private phone conversations, sent him fake letters, threatened him, blackmailed him, and even suggested once in an anonymous letter that he commit suicide. FBI internal memos discussed finding a black leader to replace King. As a Senate report on the FBI said in 1976, the FBI tried “to destroy Dr. Martin Luther King."
(Source: historyisaweapon.com)
