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Intuition is real. Vibes are real. Energy doesn’t lie. Tune in.

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Trevante Rhodes in Moonlight (2016) Dir. Barry Jenkins

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I feel like Taylor Swift has been suspiciously quiet and that scares me like she could pop up at anytime and give me an album full of her two note range songs that no one asked for and I’ll have to deal with them on the radio for the next three years

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thank you so much!!! that is honestly bs tho.

help

how do you log out via web?

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The “Invisible” White Male Holding The Camera at McKinney: White Privilege 101

Look at any of the gifs or the video itself. Every white person there was free to walk away and go about their business without being threatened or harassed by the police. No questions asked…of white people. The white person who filmed the police for several minutes, Brandon Brooks, was not assaulted or spoken to rudely. Even the adult white woman, Tracey Carver-Allbritton who used racial slurs against and then physically fought with some of the (black) minors, was not detained, arrested or questioned

But almost without exception, every single black person there was instantly targeted and criminalized by the police - with absolutely no questions asked. Some of the black people there were invited guests at the pool party, others lived nearby…but as always their skin color and their skin color alone, and not their actions, was sufficient probable cause for the police to detain, brutalize and berate unarmed black children

And that is how policing is done every day in America. How do police determine who needs to be arrested, or who is an imminent threat or who is breaking the law? If you’re black then you already know the answer to that question. If you’re having trouble with the answer, then just think about Tamir Rice, John Crawford or Mike Brown, and the answer is obvious: cops make an instant “suspect” of whoever happens to be black

Being Black = Suspicious and Presumed Guilty. No questions asked

Conversely, “white privilege means, basically, that if a white person goes to someone else’s party, insults the black guests, calls them racial slurs, and starts a brawl—they can then call the cops and get the black people arrested.”

Related posts: Racism By Proxy and White Privilege - Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack

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Margot Robbie + instagram

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In order to really understand Freddie Gray’s death and its aftermath, one must consider his life and the kind of city in which he grew up — the city that would eventually be the death of him. The same city that broke an 87-year-old woman’s shoulder.

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Brown girls with blonde hair are magic💕

I do not own any of these photos or hair :(

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James Spader in Pretty in Pink (1986)

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all the worries of tonight, do it tomorrow

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Sorry I’m crying. As someone in my position; Bisexual, disabled (hearing impaired), not confident in my appearance, and struggling. I tend to avoid posting pictures for a movement. Even if it is one meant to motivate, inspire, and more.

However after seeing some pictures of other African-Americans in similar positions as myself…after some thought I built up the courage. Thanks you all so much for #blackout

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The Beatles in a 1964 interview.

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In light of banks refusing to send money transfers to Somalia for fear of it funding terrorist groups, I started the hashtags ‪#‎IFundFoodNotTerror‬ and ‪#‎Somalis4Remittances‬ on twitter. 

Support if you are an ally. If you are Somali, chime in! Somalis have been sending money back home for the last 20+ years. The money goes back into the local economy and is a major source of income for many Somalis. It pays for everything from food to school fees to medicine. Every single Somali family sends money back home. If Somalis living abroad can no longer send money to their families it will have DEVASTATING consequences. It is condemning so many innocent people to starvation. I now no longer have a way to send money back to my own family. My brother and sister and father are not terrorists. Neither are the millions of Somalis who rely on money transfers to survive. This isn’t about terrorism. It’s about Islamophobia, anti blackness, U.S. hegemony/imperialism, and capitalism. We refuse to allow this to happen to our families. Somalia deserves to continue to develop. Let’s make some noise about this!

https://storify.com/HYMire/ifundfoodnotterror

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