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Was looking at youtube videos with little to no views and thought about how cool it is that there are so many people in the world and that they all have things they love and want to document and share with others. Most of the videos are about community and friendship and i think that's pretty cool :))
(and also i felt like, because these videos were only seen by so few people, it was like getting this private, intimate look into peoples lifes. these videos weren't posted to go viral, they don't feel staged. i felt really thankful to be "let in" to the lifes of these people.)
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Decorated my headphones and met a cute cat :)) it's been really nice lately, especially since it isn't as cold and dark amymore.
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#black panther party#black history#black power#black power movement#huey p newton#malcom x#history#historyedit
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I read in the paper that my brothers are being thrown from rooftops blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs for violating sharia law. I heard the crowds stone these fallen men if they move after they hit the ground. I heard it鈥檚 in the name of God. I heard my pastor speak for God too, quoting scripture from his book. Words like abomination popped off my skin like hot grease as he went on to describe a lake of fire that God wanted me in. I heard on the news that the aftermath of a hate crime left piles of bodies on a dance floor this month. I heard the gunman feigned dead among all the people he killed. I heard the news say he was one of us. I was six years old when I heard my dad call our transgender waitress a faggot as he dragged me out a neighborhood diner saying we wouldn鈥檛 be served because she was dirty. That was the last afternoon I saw my father and the first time I heard that word, I think, although it wouldn鈥檛 shock me if it wasn鈥檛. Many hate us and wish we didn鈥檛 exist. Many are annoyed by our wanting to be married like everyone else or use the correct restroom like everyone else. Many don鈥檛 see anything wrong with passing down the same old values that send thousands of kids into suicidal depression each year. So we say pride and we express love for who and what we are. Because who else will in earnest? I daydream on the idea that maybe all this barbarism and all these transgressions against ourselves is an equal and opposite reaction to something better happening in this world, some great swelling wave of openness and wakefulness out here. Reality by comparison looks grey, as in neither black nor white but also bleak. We are all God鈥檚 children, I heard. I left my siblings out of it and spoke with my maker directly and I think he sounds a lot like myself. If I being myself were more awesome at being detached from my own story in a way I being myself never could be. I wanna know what others hear, I鈥檓 scared to know but I wanna know what everyone hears when they talk to God. Do the insane hear the voice distorted? Do the indoctrinated hear another voice entirely?
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