expose him

Lmao😂

Demanding Black people to pledge allegiance to the flag or “honor” the national anthem is a demand to show gratitude for being here. And behind all of the “patriotic” rhetoric is the seething statement “You ought to be grateful that we let you live here”. If the athletes are Black, there is a requirement that they show deference and gratitude for being able to play for an American team. Usually athletes are supposed to entertain. Black athletes are only valued for their ability to win awards and trophies for America. #Hate it!

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Since my boyfriend makes me feel insecure about my natural hair I know tumblr would show love

♕ Erika

Lmaooo!! My fav! 😂😭🔥🔥🔥🔥

Where my introverts at?

I never thought I’d be asked nor would I ever have considered before, but since @Playboy has gone semi-nude and allowed my creative direction…I fully-agreed. September Issue on sale today. Support your favorite #halfdressedharlot. Link in BIO. http://ift.tt/2b6KizN

Ravi Zupa’s “The Turmoil of Being” at Hashimoto Contemporary.

Opening on Thursday, September 1st, 2016 at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, California is Ravi Zupa’s solo exhibition “The Turmoil of Being.”

Taking cues from Renaissance portraiture, totalitarian propaganda and Eastern iconography, Zupa creates a unique universe of historic characters and anthropomorphic creatures. Figures are precisely rendered to emulatethe stylings of Japanese wood-block illustrations, Medieval religious art, and zoological drawings. However, each pastiche is intervened with bold reference to modernity and a looming dystopian future. “The Turmoil of Being” brings together several of Zupa’s ongoing bodies of work. His series, “Age of Enlightenment,” display his mastery of combining traditional methods of printmaking, assemblage, and painting. Zupa’s ornate work seems as it were unearthed from centuries ago, yet it contains traces of our contemporary age. Dreamlike, unsettling and mysterious, these works unify what is seemingly unrelated, to strive towards something universal.

In his continuing series, “Mightier Than,” Zupa dismantles and welds together pieces of antique typewriters to create realistic depictions of modern assault rifles. Upon closer inspection, barrels and triggers are merely carriages and keys. Each weapon is even loaded with ammunition meticulously crafted from discarded pencil stubs and fountain-pens. This work confronts the violent and absurd by re-interpreting the old adage “the pen is mightier than the sword.”

“The Turmoil of Being” will be on display until September 24th, 2016.

Rep 868 #Trinidad

https://www.instagram.com/j.hamilton.photography/

https://www.instagram.com/j.hamilton.photography/

Willow Smith for Chanel

Woman Was Fired From An Upscale Hotel Over Her Dreadlocks

Sakabo’s bosses told her, she claims, was being “let go” because she wasn’t a “good fit” with the “culture” of the St. Regis.

But Sakabo believes her firing had everything to do with her hairstyle: dreadlocks.

“You’re not supposed to have braids at the front desk,” Sakabo recalls the front desk manager telling her.

“Well, don’t worry, they aren’t braids,” Sakabo said she told the manager, “They’re locs.”

“Well, can you unlock them?” Sakabo says her manager responded.

Around a week after the conversation about her hair, Sakabo, who kept her dreadlocks, said she was called into a meeting with the front desk director and a union delegate — who is also a hotel employee.

She was told she was “ did not fit into the culture here.” and was being let go.

“After hearing that I asked, what does that mean exactly?” Sakabo said, still confused. The union delegate told Sakabo: “You don’t fit our culture here, you may be better suited for maybe a W hotel”. 

She added that at no time during orientation or the interviews was there any mention of her hairstyle or hairstyles in general.

“I don’t think I was rightfully let go. I definitely think it has to do with the fact that I’m black and I have dreads,” Sakabo told BuzzFeed News.

It seems to me that many white people don’t (want to) understand that black hair care comes in the form of many options. All black people with kinky hair do not prefer weaves, wigs, or to perm or straighten their hair. So if they don’t wear their hair straight, what are the options? Not only is it not that convenient for us to just have straight hair everyday, but many of us don’t want to, and our hair in its natural state requires different upkeep then yours which means it requires certain styles.This is why black people and other poc need to continue focusing on owning our own businesses and supporting each other doing so, there are certain things that white supremacy culture will not accomodate. #Hate it!