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lotus-flower-writes-history · 3 months

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'You can't hate the roots of a tree' - Malcom X (1965)

#black activism #black history is american history #black history matters #black tumblr #black culture #black history #learn your roots #black stories #malcolm x #black history is now #black history month #black community

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personal-blog243 · 2 years

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"Emmett Till's accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham seen in Kentucky for the first time in nearly 20 years. "SIGN the Petition TEXT “EMMETT” to 243725

CALL the DA #dewaynerichardson NOW ❗ 662-378-2105 and Demand that he:

1) #servethewarrant 2)#impanelagrandjury

3) #ChargeCarolynBryantDonham

#JusticeForEmmettTill #AccountabilityNow #EmmettTill #MamieTillMobley #MoseWright #SimeonWright #CarolynBryantDonham

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idontwikeit · 5 months

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Ask a historian, “What was mankind’s greatest invention?” Fire? The wheel? The sword? I would argue it’s history itself. History isn’t fact. It’s narrative, one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pen strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero, a lie becomes the truth.

-Gaal Dornick, Foundation

#black sails #blacksailsedit #james flint #billy bones #bs max #bs madi #vcreations #vgifs #i will watch a show and think now how do i make this about black sails more r coming #eh i hope this makes sense 1st gif is general history 2nd gif old wives' tale 3rd gif when max said the pearl has no history #my own pet peeve is i dont like reusing scenes i used as gifs before so this couldve turned out better ig

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quiddie · 3 months

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Someone warn Lily Du - there’s a coupe d’état (pun absolutely intended) coming 😈

#2 for 2 on Dirty Laundry #I think I should do it now while it’s Black History Month #oooh and get Rashawn to take over Make Some Noise #and Lou takes Game Changer #just a full Dropout overthrow #we’ll call it the Blackout #anyway I’m WAY too into this bit now #and I’m salty I couldn’t tell at Sam on Twitter about it #but in all seriousness I’m so excited for Ify #he’s the fucking BEST and going to crush it #and I’ll always have Trapp on my board game box #and Saltzman in my heart!#let’s fucking GO!!!

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southpauz · 2 months

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Black History Month Art Challenge

DAY 16: The Beyonder - Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur

#the beyonder #moon girl and devil dinosaur #bhm #black history month #my art #my bhm art #ughhh im so sick right now 😭😭

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hussyknee · 7 months

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History isn't a disparate collection of stories from long ago. It's the necessary context for the present moment and the forecast for the future. All histories are intertwined, and the narratives of power and privilege, oppression and resistance, adversity and triumph are as constant in their patterns as the laws of physics.

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sandersstudies · 3 months

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It really says something about the (non-black) History Buff amateur community when they get all excited that Queen Charlotte might have had <1% African heritage but then it’s crickets any time there’s content about an actual British-African person because it includes the evils of colonization, racism, and the slave trade and it’s more fun to point to a privileged 99% white lady and call her a biracial queen.

#now I’m white #so maybe this isn’t my place #but I follow a lot of history channels and content #and every black history month I see the way real african content is consumed #vs famous people with a great great great great black ancestor

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citylighten · 3 months

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Melissa Roomies the FIRST black premade sim! Inspired by @cinamun's post

#simblr #ts4 #ts4edit #happy black history month melissa ur my oc now

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cultlifecollective-blog · 19 days

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LET’S DO IT NOW….NO BUTS OR IFS

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deadmotelsusa · 3 months

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The Green Acres Court of Dallas, Texas opened in 1950, at a time when Dallas was 90% white, and closed in the late 70s, after co-owner Redmon Revis died.

At one time, it was one of the only motels in the city that welcomed black people and was featured in the Green Book. Prominent guests included Ray Charles and Etta James. The city's Landmark Commission briefly pushed to save it but when that didn't work, it was suggested that the new owners erect some sort of memorial to recognize the motel's significance instead.

It was replaced by a new development. Not saying it doesn't exist but I was unable to locate a memorial on the property.

#green acres court #dallas #texas #then and now #deadmotelsusa #green book #black history

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lotus-flower-writes-history · 3 months

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#black activism #black history is american history #black history matters #black tumblr #black culture #black history #learn your roots #black female writers #black stories #black history month #teach black history #black history is now #black history is everyone's history

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personal-blog243 · 2 years

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Go see this movie!!!!

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omegalomania · 2 months

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What are some of your favorite aro-/ace-coded fob lyrics?

oh fuck yes a little bowl of seeds just for me

boycott love from disloyal order of water buffaloes is a personal favorite of mine. its a lyric i really really want tattooed at some point. that's not the only lyric i latch onto from an aro perspective but it's probably the biggest one

basically the entirety of it's hard to say "i do" when i don't but a special mention goes to you are appealing to emotions that i simply do not have as well as the only ring i want buried with me are the ones around my eyes

it's true romance is dead / i shot it in the chest and in the head from the music or the misery is also a favorite of mine, also just that whole song in general

i thought i loved you but it was just how you looked in the light in hum hallelujah resonates with a lot of queer folks i've found, and it's no different for me

same goes for it's a strange way of saying that i know i'm supposed to love you from g.i.n.a.s.f.s.

i'm outside the door, invite me in / so we can go back and play pretend from alone together brings me back to when i was trying to perform heteronormativity/amatonormativity even if it was making me miserable

i also hold to a very similar vibe with she said "i love you 'till i don't" / i am just playing house, no idea what i'm doing now from sunshine riptide and also most of burna boy's verse, frankly. i fell in love but i didn't fall down and feel like i'm bulletproof, baby in particular

american beauty/american psycho, particularly the first verse. i think i fell in love again / maybe i just took too much cough medicine

golden is a big one for queer folks in general i've found. the chorus especially hits hard from an aro and/or ace reading. and i saw god cry in the reflection of my enemies / and all the lovers with no time for me

i've got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth is a heavy song no matter how you slice it. but that chorus gets to me in particular: we can fake it for the airwaves / force our smiles, baby, half-dead / from comparing myself to everyone else around me

the kids aren't alright reads to me as one big anthem for platonic love above anything romantic, which resonates super hard with me. the second verse has a lot of good lines that i latch onto from an aroace lens too. your love is anemic and i can't believe / that you couldn't see it coming from me

pretty much the whole chorus of HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON'T does it for me, and those verses have got some good aroallo vibes too! i never really feel a thing... confidants but never friends...

the whole of fake out is a gimme. that chorus rings real true. starts with love is in the air, i just gotta find a window to break out and finishing with but it was all a fake-out

i've got all this ringing in my ears and none on my fingers is one that has another highly applicable title but the whole refrain of the truth hurts worse / than anything i could bring myself to do to you paired with the one-two punch of that second verse REALLY gets under my skin

and of course, the culminating one: you are what you love, not who loves you from save rock and roll. obviously there are a LOT of ways to read that line

there are a couple other songs i latch onto - wilson (expensive mistakes); a little less "sixteen candles", a little more "touch me"; the (after) life of the party to name a few - but the ones listed above are the big lyrics that resonate with me on a personal level

just in general i have a shitton of fob over on my aro playlist (which doubles as a general aroace/queer playlist but has a lot of emphasis on aromanticism) in case i forgot to mention anything but like i said those are the big ones

#askin hours #anon #happy aro awareness week lol ive had this in my drafts for mONTHS and forgot about it #sorry it took so long to answer i have a million asks in my inbox and just do not have time most days #go listen to aromanticism by moses sumney for black history month and aro awareness week btw #now THAT there is an album that rewrote my neural chemistry

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iero · 2 years

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