for reference: the title of this post is a reference to the extremely discriminatory signs that were in front of stores during racial segregation:
imagine being so privileged that you compare people not wanting men in their spaces to literal apartheid and racial segregation.
"they all need to be institutionalized" oh my god
probably because you behave exactly like a cis man and these people are able to pick up on that
"I really hate it when people assume that just because I am male, I am violent. That's why when someone tells me that I can't go somewhere, I am going to FUCKING BEAT THAT PERSON UP!"
Due to the new "anti-woke" laws in Florida. Rosa Parks' story is being changed from "Due to segregation African Americans had to give up their seat on the bus if a white person wants to sit down" to "She was told to give up her seat. She did not". Notably the newest version does not go into segregation or race.
Conservatives can't even handle historical facts and they call us the snowflakes.
Israeli soldiers have photographed themselves posing with the lingerie of Palestinian women they have displaced or killed in Gaza. They join a long line of conquest images, from Abu Ghraib images to the spectacle of Jim Crow-era lynchings.
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It was the tongue that stopped me cold. The tongue and the savage, shit-eating grin on the soldier’s face as he and his buddy mug for the camera. Look at us! Look what we found. It’s a bra, a woman’s bra, a Palestinian woman’s bra left in a home she was forced to flee. And now it’s ours, and we’re going to play with it because we can, and we’re going to take it on the street and pose with it and show the world who we are, frat boys pumped for genocide.
I am 9 years old and I think it was a disgrace that in Washington 51 children were not let in to a hotel because 4 children were colored. The capital is supposed to be for freedom.” May 28, 1948.
Collection HST-OFF: Official Files (Truman Administration)
Series: Official Files
File Unit: Official File 93B
Transcription:
93-B
May 28, 1948
Dear President Truman,
I am 9 years old and I think it was a disgrace that in Washington 51 children were not let in to a hotel because 4 children were colored. The capital is supposed to be for freedom. I am proud to be an american but this makes me feel ashamed because in my own classroom we made up a play on brother hood.
Sincerly,
J. Jagliarin
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x
[Drawing of 2 children, one with a colored-in face and one with a light face]
[Drawing of a person at a hotel, with words "no room"]
Everyday I find something else that shows how strange(?) white supremacy is in practice. Like I remember joking with my sis n law how black people especially older black people prefer butter pecan ice cream. OFC it’s somehow connected to Jim Crow. Around the country, Black people were only allowed to eat Vanilla ice cream on the 4th of July. The racists will do anything to subjugate people wtf
Here's one last political post because I have over 3k followers and I really think this is an extremely important message to spread around so PLEASE REBLOG but
Y'all... Do realize we can start petitions to fire the people in the supreme courts and all these legislators that are banning abortion and trans rights as well as erasing black and native history.... Right?
I see y'all talking about it .... But y'all don't actually do anything about it. Why not go directly for their jobs? Take they jobs!
I've been emailing legislators regularly telling them they're shit heads for passing these bills but they don't want to listen to one single fat trans man so why don't we start a petition to remove them?
A petition to reverse abortion bans in Florida recently got ONE MILLION SIGNATURES. THATS... UNHEARD OF.
and guess what? The bill is being challenged by legislatiors in FL.
I promise I won't make anymore political posts, I just... Think it's important we all know that we can take these mfs jobs.
It's good to talk about it but just talking about it doesn't do anything to stop these fascist bills. Tumblr queers work your magic with me, maybe we can get the Trever project on board?
Institutional racism & its deep effect on mental health in the black community
Journalist Antonia Hylton & I talk about the history of institutional racism and the twisted way black people's health and well-being was, and to some degree still is, deeply impacted by those views.