April 2012
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“Whatever you do, do not let them begin your history with slavery; we did not...”
– Asa Hillard III
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How Student Debt Impacts Students of Color
anticapitalist:
On July 1 the interest rate on federally subsidized Stafford Loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent if Congress doesn’t act. Though this rate hike will have devastating consequences on more than 7 million students nationwide who currently hold a Stafford Loan, change will hit students of color especially hard.
The facts...
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A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
tobia:
by LINDY WEST
There’s been a lot of talk these last couple of weeks about “hipster racism” or “ironic racism”—or, as I like to call it, racism. It’s, you know, introducing your black friend as “my black friend”—as a joke!!!—to show everybody how totally not preoccupied you are with your black friend’s blackness. It’s the gentler, more clueless, and more insidious cousin of a hick in a...
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“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so...”
– Audre Lorde, ‘Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface’, in Sister/Outsider, p. 63.
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“However, comments about trans folks, black people, lesbians and women will serve...”
– Nico Lang: When in Boystown: Don’t Create Racism, Create Change
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“I always feel bad, man. I promise you there is no white writer out there, who...”
– Junot Diaz
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re worshiping black men
daniellemertina:
there is literally a way that you can be around ALL black women and then a black man walks in and there is like this visual deference given to him
i’ve began to really notice that
like everything he says is of utmost importance esp if it’s about black women… in which if he’s sexist he’ll do that fake complimenting “women” thing like while simultaneously hella policing women...
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“In contrast, the sexual violence visited upon African American women has...”
– Patricia Hill Collins
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