Lakou Souvenance Mystique celebrations are going on now in bring in the spring season. With traditions from the Dahomey, worshippers to trek to Souki or Badjo where the trees are massive & old. Rada lwa are celebrated particularly Ayida Weda & Danbala. I wish I was there
#Ayibobo
@lexbearrr
We used to do this a lot especially because it was hard to find laces that weren't super long. I think people stopped doing it around the late 2000s but it was thing even in the 70s
@MIHNT_0
SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT! They never give them a Black femme girlfriend let along a dark skinned femme girlfriend. They automatically see being dark as only a masculine trait. I hate it.
@jeremiahdjones
@jjmastermind
I've noticed how many people use afro-latino as synonymous with light skinned with kinky hair. Y'all really think Afro-Latinos/Black Latinos don't look like the rest of us huh?
Grits like a lot of gain cerals are similar to Black people's diets before slavery and have gone through an amazing evolution after slavery. Corn grains are also apart of many Native American foods. Don't speak on things you know nothing about.
Happy Black History Month
@mayowasworld
For this particular person, it may not have mattered much because her locs were permanent extensions rather than her hair that grew over time. So there's less attachment.
@MOLENAIDE
That's what I got from the article because he's made this same critique about some newer anime just being cash graps rather than good art and entertainment.
@danulmao
I will never forget when I remembered that Clementine from the TellTale games was supposed to look darker and not ambiguous despite being a Black child. The reasoning that while people are ok with Lee being a hero, they aren't ok with an innocent child being Black too
@lmTheReasonWhy
So they fired someone who actually actually cares about patients.....to keep someone who can potentially get you killed during care? Alright then.
@ultralovedeluxe
I think we're regressing in a lot ways, but it's hard to have that conversation with nuance and people not thinking that we're imposing on their autonomy. Frankly, it's very anti-Black & a lot of hate towards type 4 hair is evident. Baby hairs & wigs has a choke hold on niggas.
@blvkinquisition
It seems like a lot of people have done this and are having a moment of cognitive dissonance now seeing how such actions are manipulative. They don't want to believe they did this or someone did this to them and will defend such behavior just because it isn't blatant.
@lingerie_addict
All that tells me is that they think fashionable means what is on trend rather than creating their own person style. It's why some people look frumpy in certain looks.
@GreatCheshire
The topic is a bit more nuanced. We're in an era that simultaneously has a dwindling market of media for minors, while simultaneously having sex scenes that are terrible all around. Instead of purposely awkward or dark scenes we have scenes meant to be sexy that are just cringe.
@theashleyray
See, my parents prioritized buying me Black barbies dolls and Black dolls in general. There's some nefarious narratives on this app where you can tell people haven't unpacked their own internalized issues and wants to make it every else's problems.
Those who've studied Black literature know that she was often shamed for writing in southern Black dialects & AAVE of the time. However, works like Huckleberry Finn got great acclaim for doing exactly that (with white southern dialect) many years prior. Much like people do today.
Little known Black history fact:
If you know anything about Zora Neale Hurston you know she died penniless and not acclaimed. Come to find out her work wasn’t that popular among her peers. They thought her work was giving minstrel show.
@Kyla_Lacey
I mean he is still on trial for federal crimes of releasing U.S. citizen information to foreign entities and rigging a whole election in Trinidad & Tobago.
@Imani_Barbarin
A lot of people have and did disable themselves now having a hard time coping with being 30 and having chronic illnesses they thought they'd never get.
@ultralovedeluxe
I have a lot of theories but the main one of because the creator knows non-Black people won't read it which unfortunately can be the case. It's also why I hate the "lighter Black woman, darker Black man" common pairing.
I love when they start talking about Black and Brown people affecting the environment when we're building but ignore the planet destroying mess that is the western military complex. The Caribbean, Africa, and South America has less carbon emissions than the UK and South Korea.
“Let me stop you right there…”
Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President
@presidentaligy
; lobbyists say oil is bad for the climate.
Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready!
@cen4rillon
I feel like they see oppression is inherent to Black people. As if our existence is to only suffer and be mules. Which is why they don't get phased when they see it. It's so ingrained in history and even language that people literally use Black/African synonymous with = inhuman.
The demonization of African based religions, especially vodou, is white supremacist propaganda. At a time when those who believe in "God" endorse & participate in the genocides happening right now. If we're evil, before the ships came, how many of your ancestors are in hell now?
There are people till this day who feel bad for the slave masters who got unalived by those people they enslaved. Never underestimate those who care more about capitalism than anything else.
@ultralovedeluxe
I know what he's trying to say but it's still from a sexist place. He's saying that he doesn't want to be with a woman who dealt with trauma which can be a toll. However sexism is damaging to all women. Men on the other hand expect women to deal with their trauma all the time.
@ultralovedeluxe
There's a larger conversation about how media only allows for white couples and then interracial couples. It's becoming more radical just to see two Black people together and God help you if it's actually two Black gay folk.
@feelmyhelpcomin
We have to call it foe what it is, childhood sexual abuse and molestation. This man preyed on a child and introduced him to hard drugs.
@stillnotziora
@hallefanatic
@thenamesreader
You know you can't tell people anything on this site when they:
1. Have poor reading comprehensive skills
2. Think dark skinned women with narrow features looks "eurocentric".
3. Equate being lighter to good looking.
I love how they're rebranding themselves as refugees and not settlers taking advantage of a land abandoned after slavery. It's how they keep business out the Black population's reach.
@lingerie_addict
I do find it interesting how the rich are trying to sell this idea of modern minimalism with monochrome lack of color to the rest of as "the way of the future", while they themselves pine for a "simpler" life but with thousand dollar furnishings.
@kyoruyeye
So reading it in both novel and manga format I always felt it was the author's way and showing that Koji is a coward. That the main reason he didn't get to be with Miyo is literally because he can't stand up for her or himself and will take the easy way out.
@pierrefleury_
You can tell who sees women as replacements for their mother. Meanwhile the women in their life are also working AND taking care of home 😬
@ultralovesymbol
They find it controversial because they don't want to admit that the UN picked the area at random and said fuck it. Other picks before Palestine was Uganda and Argentina so imagine how the narratives would be different had they chosen one of those two places instead?
@lingerie_addict
It's on the venndiagram of "education & school is worthless to me but I also don't know what I'm talking about because I'm not educated nor went to school". Anti-intellectualism at its finest.
@LilBaddieG_
@phuckyourbadgal
Lol no it isn't. He's blaming migrants because he can't justify why there's been over 15 billion used for the NYPD alone. His "solution" has been shipping people to other states like cargo.
This was basically every country where Black and Indigenous people were the majority in the 50s-60s. The anti-communist regime of the U.S., which more a pro-capitalism regime decimated whole continents.
@platformedboots
I wished more people knew about the pedophile culture in France. When they had a whole conniption when the laws finally made it illegal for teachers to pursue their students. It passes me off everyday 😣
@ultralovedeluxe
The shit that gets me is how complacent people are about it, then boil it down to the misogynistic view of Black women being jealous. It let's us know they have a concept of too Black for women but not for men. No one wants to admit they're conditioned.
@WhatsUpSmooth
@Kyla_Lacey
Ethiopians weren't the first Christians, even they converted. Also you can count the milage from East Africa to West Africa and it would still be bigger than the US and Mexico combined. No one was walking that for organized religion into Christianity. Stop this misinformation.
I tried to ignore this shit bc I have my own issue with comics from that place, but I find it interesting for Mogura to downplay what wasp translated when the whole chapter was about some fake great replacement theory cause the author thinks Black people are taking over Korea
YLAB & Naver Webtoon "Get Schooled" has been suspended indefinitely due to racist remarks on the lastest chapter.
This is kind of a wild situation, the chapter in question blew up because of an illegal fan translation of the latest paid chapter in Korea, but WEBTOON was forced…
@FuckMontanaaa
Those Latinos are lying out of their ass btw. They know its harsh for Black people to speak up in their countries because of racism and caste systems but know Black Americans and Black Anglophones get them packed up immediately.
@Shomicita
Not to mention how literally photoshoped every single phase of those photo is. Dark lips don't typically look like this and lighter lips aren't doing this bleached look either omg🫠
@sighahh
They also weren't replacing their whole cultures, religions, good practices, and agriculture either. Europeans and Arabs on the other hand didn't (and still don't) think Africans were people.
What gets me about this conversation is that they're using eurocentric in place of attractive. It makes me question if they think certain noses are inherently ugly bc it's on a Black person. It also implies that they don't see much Black people to know these noses are also common
@HebbonM
She tried to claim she never used AAVE, then when she was in Shang Chi she was asked if she'll speak more like her patents because of heavy East Asian themes, said she doesn't want to put on a fake accent because it's disrespectful. 😒
@iTerryTommy
I don't know if its actually regression as it is public reveal. A lot of people who say they have progressive views do so only because there were consequences. Not because they believed it. Ex: The aggressive colorism coming back as "just being honest".
@Million2RC
@thecindynoir
Wait till you realize women under 23 have been to Paris on their own, some of us even lived there as kids 😃. They haven't seen everything, you're just boring.
You basically wrote an opinion piece about how misogynistic women should be given grace despite the dangerous & patriarchal situations they put other women in. The "unbelievably high standards" you talk about fail to mention the real life situations such women & girls are harmed.
@platformedboots
I'm trying to understand wtf the this comment even means. They say Black people aren't a monolith but then want other Black people to fit in their monolithic boxes?????
@krystalshanelle
They even have a problem when we make our own stories then talk about why there's no white people in it or how we shouldn't be creating at all.
@ultralovedeluxe
I think this is why people get the deluxe sets because this makes absolutely no sense. I got Beyonetta 3 in the deluxe cause I'll be damned if all I get is glorified Tupperware 😭
@microgoeswild
I think there should be accommodations for the other child to get transportation. Alternative learning times are hard to schedule given the other students who also take those classes vs. offering a ride for the younger one.
@Lexual__
Part of it being that she has a track record for saying very misogynistic things so this was the straw. I don't think you and her are the same and I do think as a community a lot of us don't want to admit that many queers are indeed misogynistic and woman hating.
@InspectorNerd
The mayor of NYC is doing the absolute most stop fare evasion meanwhile fare is $2.90 each way. They got rid of the 2 week unlimited then there's major delays because they skimped out on repairs.
Did you care about Haitian people when you decided to bus us into detention centers? When ICE got sent into neighborhoods in Brooklyn for us specifically? When you got drones to do surveillance during our events but not others? And why tf is Al Sharptons know nothing ass here?
@pierrefleury_
I'm not exactly sure if people like this know that when others say they were unhappy in a marriage it wasn't some temporary feeling. It was YEARS of consistent disappointment and sometimes communication didn't lead to conflict resolution.