They Were More Than "just slaves"
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Random fact about me: I reallly enjoy reading about Kemet( ancient egypt)
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There is a reason why Black women are sensitive about nappy hair. Nappy hair pivots on conversation about what is deem “universally” beautiful.
“Topsy: Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Lithograph, 1899
Courier Lithograph Company
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Harvard and Slavery: Seeking a Forgotten History
Harvard University was the first institution of higher learning in colonial America. Founded in 1636 as a training ground for aspiring ministers, it capitalized on this early start and became during the nineteenth century the nation’s most influential university, and by the middle of the twentieth century, arguably the world’s. Not surprisingly, then, Harvard’s four centuries’ long career is tightly connected to the history of New England, the United States and the Atlantic World on whose most dynamic eastern edge it was perched. Notwithstanding a deafening silence on the topic in most remembrances of this great university, Harvard’s history entails a whole range of connections to slavery.
This site is a result of investigations Harvard students made into this forgotten part of the University’s history.
Yes, because I have no idea about slavery. You know what pisses me off? The fact that some black people act like your race was the only race that has ever been discriminated against. Guess what? There have been all kinds of slaves through out history, including white people. And you know, it’s not okay to call someone a nigger, but any other derogatory term is just fine, as long as it’s not attacking the blacks. Funny that you’re telling me to go to the library when you can barely structure a sentence. Point is, black people get hated on the most because that’s the minority bitches the most. Do you hear the Japanese people bitching all of the time or how about Native Americans? You’ve never been a slave. You live in a free country. Time to get the fuck over it.
Followers pay this prick a visit please.
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are. you. fucking. kidding. me?
LMAO omg isn’t ron paul a libertarian too? SEE IM TELLING YA’LL THESE PEOPLE IS ON THAT CRACK ROCK. ALL OF EM. ALL OF EM IS ON CRACK ROCKS.
I SEENT IT. THIS LIBERTARIAN PERSON IS ON THEM CRACKS ROCKS.
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Ayn Rand would be proud of this little shitbag.
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Thou art worthy of my giggles: I want the apologize for the use of the N word
First of all, I am clearly not racist. Second, I tend to forget that I have numerous followers. I don’t mean to offend anyone at all. I am truly sorry. Yes, maybe I have used the word too much. It’s overrated but do I mean to…
If hearing the word nigger causes you the same amount of pain as your parents dying than you need some serious fucking therapy. Go back to school and learn some better analogies.
Did I say same? nah I didnt.
I need therapy but racist ass fucking people who think disrespecting the people who build this fucking country still deserve to be degraded 400 years later.?
Take that ass to library and learn a few things about American slavery, early African civilizations and—shit wasting my time. you know what just fuck you!
Yes, because I have no idea about slavery. You know what pisses me off? The fact that some black people act like your race was the only race that has ever been discriminated against. Guess what? There have been all kinds of slaves through out history, including white people. And you know, it’s not okay to call someone a nigger, but any other derogatory term is just fine, as long as it’s not attacking the blacks. Funny that you’re telling me to go to the library when you can barely structure a sentence. Point is, black people get hated on the most because that’s the minority bitches the most. Do you hear the Japanese people bitching all of the time or how about Native Americans? You’ve never been a slave. You live in a free country. Time to get the fuck over it.
Did I say only black people struggle or have been oppressed? no. I did not. this was about the n word. the word used for black people. used by someone who was not black. How did you end up in the conversation?
You said I dont know how to structure a sentence. Great I dont. I aint white or from England. Surprise: I’m african (Igbo). My people came from Africa. We speak english this way because guess what this is not our original language. This is the legacy of our being enslaved. A legacy you try to dismiss as being so long ago. You would know that had you ventured to the library like I told you and learned a little something from Geneva Smitherman or Rick Rickford about African American Language.
Japanese people dont bitich is this why the govt had to repay them for interment? Native American people dont bitch (perhaps because they are very few of them: my ancestors were also Native people) do they not still live on reservations? do they not get certain exemptions from the gvt?
How did the country become free? on our black fucking backs! DOnt go there with me sweetie. Read a book. eat a dick. and go fuck yourself im done.
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how to be Nola Darling (deux): Inspired by Hayden: What Is Africa to me?---by Yours Truly
what is purple tree and lovely dreams
that is home to me?
what is bleak bloom and copper wired tongue
that is
home to me
what an extravagant journey to the shore, white castles of doom stare at us,
porcelain creatures from the deep poke us, run their rough fingers along our penis’s and…
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Reports of the savagery of white men had spread to the most remote corners of the hinterland: “In their own country they have themselves heard such dreadful tales of how the slaves are treated in Columbia [America] that one is appalled when one hears them. I was once asked by a slave, in complete earnest, if the shoes I was wearing had been made of Black skin, since he had observed that they were the same colour as his skin.
Isert, Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade, Eleventh Letter, 175
Human waste covered the floor of the dungeon. To the naked eye it looked like soot. After the last group of captives had been deported, the holding cells were closed but never cleaned out. For a century and a half after the abolition of the slave trade, the waste remained. To control the stench and the pestilence, the floor had been covered with sand and lime. In 1972, a team of archaeologists excavated the dungeon and cleared away eighteen inches of dirt and waste. They identified the topmost layer of the floor as the compressed remains of captives—-feces, blood, and exfoliated skin.
Hartman, Saidiya (2007). Chapter Six: So Many Dungeons. Lose Your Mother (p. 115).
Soul by Soul, Introduction: a Person with a price by Walter Johnson.
how to be Nola Darling (deux): Black Art: how to climb the racial mountain while eating your watermelon and enjoying it within the company of white...
Here’s the thing. I am a film buff. I love movies. So I read film reviews of several of the movies I watch, even if i’ve watched them a hundred times. I like to see how people receive art, especially black art. Eve’s Bayou is one of those movies I could watch and quote all day.. “Cicely’s…
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everything is illuminated: soydulcedeleche: Latinegro: Poetry/Music: Black Latino/Latina Isn’t A...
Latinegro: Poetry/Music: Black Latino/Latina Isn’t A Dirty Word
http://blacksnob.com/snob_blog/2010/9/30/black-latinolatina-isnt-a-dirty-word.html
Clutch Magazine posted an article recently entitled “Is She Even Black?” in reference to black Latina actresses, models and status climbers like Zoe Saldana, Amber Rose and Sessilee…
It always catches me off guard when Black people say someone ISN’T black. It’s usually the other way around, in my experience. Like, if Amber Rose didn’t rep her Cape Verdeanness she would get SO MUCH side-eye.
But I guess if somebody was like, “Amber Rose tops list of 50 Most Beautiful Black Women!” a lot of people would be like “she ain’t eem Black doe…”
it happens more often than you’d think. i have gotten the 3rd degree litmus blackness test from both whites and blacks. being latina means your blackness is apparently “questionable” even if youre brown and nappyheaded. :|
Coming from a regular negro’s perspective:
A lot of times, black people use that “I’m latina, Cherokee and Japanese” to distance themselves from just being a regular old black person, like adding those other signifiers makes you better than just plain old black.
And because that’s been done so many damn times, black folks have gotten to the point to where “If you ain’t sayin you black and black alone, don’t even fuckin bother, because it makes you sound like you’re trying to be better than what you are…”
understood but, frankly, that sentiment only leads to the whole “you betta drop the spanish, your culture and the latina shit and just be black or else youre an uncle tomasina ass hoe” i hear so often that makes me wanna break shit.
its not cute to peg your own insecurities about blackness on others—- stripping them of their identities for your own sake…so they wont seem “special” or like theyre trying to be “better than you”. when in reality im not trying to be special. i am a black latina, period, that is simply WHO I AM. no matter who likes it or not. and alot of people really dont fucking like it which is what this article is about.
alot of people battle us day in, day out. you’d think they get fucking paid to fuck with our self-identification
Blackness has no real definition..
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