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@thesadnessrabbit / thesadnessrabbit.tumblr.com

"rJ", 37. Product of the Middle Passage. Residing on occupied Lenape land. He/they. Professional Safety Corvid. If you're younger than 18, ehh I'm not explicit here but I'm not trying to be responsible for children on the internet. 🇵🇸🔻
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el-shab-hussein

For the Americans. Say:

Eee-rawn. (Iran)

Eee-rock. (Iraq)

Please don't say.

Eye-ran.

Eye-rack.

It makes me want to strangle you.

Except @vague-humanoid you're allowed cuz it's funny.

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el-shab-hussein

Like if you say Eye-rack I immediately picture a that gun toting redneck who yelled at an Arab guy at the bank and bragged that he killed "4 Ay-rabs" in "Eye-rack". If you don't want to evoke that kind of impression, please pronounce it properly.

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el-shab-hussein

Oh and it's "Ah-rab" not "Ay-rab" but I feel like the average American person has already left behind the latter.

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el-shab-hussein

RIGHT! That's why I made this post I can't keep hearing this shit.

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audrey-hepbae

American mispronunciation sounds like slurs tbh. Slurninciation

#like it's not explicitly a slur but it FEELS like one#<- prev tag#the way whyte americans weaponize their ignorance into slurs is something
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fairuzfan
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opencommunion

2012 poster by Riyad Hamad with Mahmoud Darwish's poem "Think of Others," bringing attention to the Palestinian prisoners' struggle, and particularly the Zionist regime's deliberate medical neglect of sick and disabled Palestinians held hostage in its prisons. [ID: Illustration in a linocut style printed in black on beige paper, showing a Palestinian prisoner blindfolded with his hands cuffed behind his back. He stands in the light from a small barred window with barbed wire beyond it. Behind him is an IV dispenser, the bag is nearly empty. The Arabic text of the poem is printed at an angle in the dark space. /end ID]

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je-had-thoughts
As you prepare your breakfast, think of others (do not forget the pigeon’s food). As you conduct your wars, think of others (do not forget those who seek peace). As you pay your water bill, think of others (those who are nursed by clouds). As you return home, to your home, think of others (do not forget the people of the camps). As you sleep and count the stars, think of others (those who have nowhere to sleep). As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others (those who have lost the right to speak). As you think of others far away, think of yourself (say: “If only I were a candle in the dark”).

“Think of Others” by Mahmoud Darwish, from Almond Blossoms and Beyond. Translated from the original Arabic by Mohammed Shaheen

#mahmoud darwish#Palestinian prisoners day#palestine#free palestine
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fairuzfan
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tododeku-or-bust

What I need for White Americans (ppl in general really, but I'm talking to the U.S.) to understand about Americans of Color is that You don't know Us, but We know YOU.

We've spent generations upon generations of our entire lives learning YOUR social norms, forced to assimilate to YOUR idea of society. We live and learn entirely separate cultures, but we also learn from birth what it means to have to cater to Whiteness in America. It's why I can name so many famous movies with white casts, but most white people didn't even know where "Bye Felicia" came from. It's why I was raised to professionally Code Switch from childhood, but grown white people struggle to even grasp the basics of the grammar of AAVE. It's why people who speak different languages think they have to give up their own mother tongue just to function in this country.

It's why you all are so uncomfortable with the idea of people of color questioning and rejecting what seems "normal" to you- and to be honest, I actually think older white generations are better at admitting this than younger ones. It's because what you know as normal is usually not "normal"- it's White. Whiteness is just as loud as any other presentation of race in this country, you just don't see it that way because everyone else has been forced to maintain your comfort. The entire system is built around it, and you don't even know it.

It's why it frustrates white Americans of some marginalization- queer, disabled, neurodivergent- because you do not have access to the "norm" as it is shown to you. But that frustration- literally everyone of color (who shares those identities btw) lives under that understanding.

Idk, I didn't really have a direction. I just think it's wild how so many conversations require this... Constant Verbal Leveling of the Playing Field simply because Whiteness blinds white people to what things ACTUALLY look like out here.

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tododeku-or-bust

Yes, it's okay for white people to reblog. You are the target audience to consider these things.

#dear white people#this is america
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