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I would like to say,

Thank you to every single one of my Black sisters and brothers that spoke out against the racist, Islamophobic, homophobic, xenophobic shit that Miss Banks spewed on Twitter last night.

You came to stand by us in a moment when many of us had to relive our childhood horrors and tortures through the words of Miss Banks. You stood up against her ignorance and helped uplift us. You helped shine a light on the positive and bash the negative. Despite how difficult it was.

I wish to sincerely apologize on behalf of my South Asian brothers and sisters, that chose to retaliate with such negativity and antiblackness. You deserve better. I wish there was some way I could end their ignorance instantly, unfortunately I am a drop in the ocean.

Please let this contribute to the ocean of solidarity that I hope we can amass to over the course of time.

I know our community has much to address. And I promise, myself and many others, to fight against this in our communities just as you fight for us!

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“Perhaps the bar is low, but the president displayed genuine intersectional bona fides during the commencement address to the Bison. Since the day he was elected, President Obama has engaged in an important practice of naming and centralizing the African American women in the narratives of community and country.  

As the president made an argument about racial progress in America, he cited the Chicago playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry: “If you had to choose a time to be, in the words of Lorraine Hansberry, ‘young, gifted, and black’ in America, you would choose right now.” By citing Hansberry, the president allowed this black woman both to represent genius and to frame his thought. And even while he wanted to say there has been important progress, Obama still acknowledged continuing inequality. Even here, black women stand at the center when he intones, “Harriet Tubman may be going on the 20, but we’ve still got a gender gap when a black woman working full-time still earns just 66 percent of what a white man gets paid.” This phrase both invokes revolutionary Tubman and measures the progress of equality by the value of black women’s earnings. Name another American president who has done that.

President Obama not only name-checked black women of the past, but he also looked to those making changes in the present. He talked about his administration’s partnership with Black Lives Matter activist Brittany Packnett. There are important disagreements among Black Lives Matter activists about Brittany’s choice to work with the Obama administration. (Packnett joined the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.) But the president himself acknowledged that criticism: “If young activists like Brittany had refused to participate out of some sense of ideological purity, those ideas would have remained just ideas.”

Read the full piece here

More President Barack Obama posts on Profeminist

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STOP PUTTING THE WORDS OF BLACK WOMEN ONTO IMAGES OF WHITE WOMEN. YOU WILL NOT ERASE US FROM OUR OWN CREATIONS.

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People paying for my complexion 😊 Sick of this shit tbh though…I guess tanned White girls going to make dark skin popular 😒

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In other news, water is wet. 

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On average, 75 out of every 100 full-time faculty members at four-year colleges are white. Five are black, and even fewer are Hispanic. But that’s not the whole story. Among the higher ranks and at certain types of institutions — say, small, private master’s universities — the faculty is even less diverse.

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Blue sky. Harlem, USA.

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"I can't breathe." Harlem, USA.

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Harlem, USA.

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Harlem: where Storm is the most important of the X-Men

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Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and activism in the arts | The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore  The Nightly Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm est on Comedy Central 

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I bet White people saw absolutely nothing wrong with this. This isn’t a made up storyline. This happens to everything Black people do that catches on. I’m just trying to figure out how the fuck White people legitimately don’t see anything wrong with this shit like, who raised yall??

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