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Gymnastics has come a long compared to that old footage, but this difference is particularly significant for black girls! Because they have never taken seriously our abilities! Just because the color of our skin is not what they want to see!

Simone Biles’s fantastic performance has been covered by many news outlets all these years! Now we can see the real difference!

#BlackGirlsMagic

It’s like a metaphor of what millenials have to do to get jobs vs baby boomers lol

I was debating whether to reblog but that last comment did it for me

Ok Ken (and David). As much as I hate to make you guys famous or even respond to you directly. We all die one day and you're old so fuck it. Yea yea my 2013 performance at the Grammys was absolute shit. Technical difficulties, blah blah. Thanks for the reminder. Very much appreciated. Fuck that performance though. You think that's why I kept my work out of the Grammy process this year? Don't you think I would've wanted to play the show to 'redeem' myself if I felt that way? In reality, I actually wanted to participate in honoring Prince on the show but then I figured my best tribute to that man's legacy would be to continue to be myself out here and to be successful. Winning a TV award doesn't christen me successful. It took me some time to learn that. I bought all my masters back last year in the prime of my career, that's successful. Blonde sold a million plus without a label, that's successful. I am young, black, gifted and independent.. that's my tribute. I've actually been tuning into CBS around this time of year for a while to see who gets the top honor and you know what's really not 'great TV' guys? 1989 getting album of the year over To Pimp A Butterfly. Hands down one of the most 'faulty' TV moments I've seen. Believe the people. Believe the ones who'd rather watch select performances from your program on YouTube the day after because your show puts them to sleep. Use the old gramophone to actually listen bro, I'm one of the best alive. And if you're up for a discussion about the cultural bias and general nerve damage the show you produce suffers from then I'm all for it. Have a good night.

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Yall know the “i’m not a feminist” “”phenomena”” has existed since feminism has been a thing right

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TW: Rape

For the first time in my life I’m in a place I don’t know how to deal with. I feel so violated to the point where I feel like I’ve been robbed of something, my ability to articulate myself, to express my anger and displeasure at something. To even feel it fully. The last couple of days have been a mix of confusion and numbness and I feel like the full capacity of what I’m feeling is locked yo somewhere I can’t access. Maybe it’s a defense mechanism.  I honestly don’t know where to go from here, don’t know what the next move should be. What does someone do when threatened with rape, specifically as a form of punishment for the crime of being an outspoken woman? How does someone react to the hate of a person you barely know? How do you behave when you know there are people out there that you’ll probably never talk to who are at this moment thinking of what atrocities they can perform to your body so that they can damage you to the point of silence? What’s the protocol of dealing with this?

Fro #18

“It amazes me that in Africa women are still told wearing their hair the way it grows is unprofessional. I’ve heard so many stories of women who have been forced to relax so that they can advance their careers.”

University of California(Davis) has been reported to pay $175000 for this image to not appear when you search it on google

On November 18th, 2011, a peaceful protest was held in UC Davis. A branch of “Occupy Wallstreet”, Occupy UC Davis was intended to protest police violence on UC campuses. The police responded by hearing their concerns, agreeing and then pepper-sprayed the protesters. That’s right, they attacked students that were protesting the fact that they attack people. source

If you’re thinking “Oh man, someone got some compensation for this, right!?” Yup. Someone did. The cop. 

The stress of being the poor victim netted him a $38,000 in worker’s comp. 

That’s more than a lot of people make in a full year. source

UC Davis “Investigated” this. And the guy who conducted the investigation was a Police Chief William J. Bratton - Chairman of the private business that provides UC Davis’s security. SOMEHOW there wasn’t enough evidence to charge the officers involved in this incident. source

It just came out that UC Davis has paid $175,000+ to a private “Image Management firm”, who is putting all of that sweet, sweet dollar into manipulating Google’s search engines, as well as other networks, to make it a lot LOT harder to find reminders that this happened. Read that what-proper: 

They’re spending almost $200,000 of school funds to escape being remembered for this awful incident.

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So let’s take a stand. Let’s fight back against their attempts to censor the truth and avoid accountability for their awful, awful actions and violent corruption. I have before you a perfectly shareable image set, complete with sources and screenshots of proof. Let’s all work together and get the word out about this chicanery. #Love it!

106-year-old woman has priceless reaction meeting Pres. Obama and First Lady.

What's something you love about black men?

Their hair man 😩🆗 I could play in those kinks & curls all day , especially with these thotboi cuts

Right!! Like I want a bae with natural hair so we can deep condition together 😻😂

Their smiles😩 I melt whenever I see a chocolate man with the pearly whites 😍

Just their skin 😍 i wanna rub coco butter on it

….I need friends like this

this whole postt

They lips, I love feeling they lips fit mine.

ladies..

#shootyourshot2k16

Fuuuuuck lol I hate being light skin cuz I got most of this so i kinda count but I dont cuz im not chocolate lol fml

@chrissasje don’t hate being light skin! We still got mad love for you ❤️❤️. And yes you still count 🤗

Me and all other brothas looking at this post

I love when they know they fine af and it’s a warm summer day and they smell good and they catch you peeping and the smile at you 💀💀💀💀💀💀kmn

I love when they stare at you as if they’re staring into your soul. How comfortable you feel when youre around them.

Y'all making me miss mine 😩😩😩…I love me a brotha

This made me happy

I love the vernacular of the black man. The way they speak so eloquently using euphemisms and slang and can still school your ass on current issues using Ivy League vocabulary is just

Never felt more appreciated 

How soft they can be. I know media likes to portray black men as hard ass thugs but they can be soft and gentle as hell. Making you feel safe and like an ethereal goddess with one look. Yes lawd!

☝🏾️☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

The replies…… ANOTHER REASON WE GOTTA PROTECT OUR BLACK WOMEN. They love us so much.

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This makes me feel less ugly lol

😱Y'all skin omg especially when u guys are playing basketball and its glistening😍 those brown eyes 😍and y'all voices and y'all broad shoulders and the arch in y'all backs. The way y'all speak. The way y'all lick ur lips… Or poke ur lips out. (Omfggg those lips) Or tighten ur jaw. Y'all hair. Whether u got a fresh fade or curly top or dreads or whatever I don’t care I love y'all so much. I love when y'all grow y'all beards out too yes daddy yes. Also the stroke is unmatched bc we got rhythm. Oh and the way y'all walk makes me low key excited af🤔 I think that’s my favorite thing….s Lol

How funny y'all are! Y'all are so goofy and fun to be around! Always fun to hang around and joke with ☺️☺️

The smiles. Like omg. I love y'all sense of humor especially. They’re a work of art I can’t even describe how much I love y'all.😊

Everything 😍  literally everything mentioned above. Especially y’all hugs, always smell amazing, y’all can go from goofy to serious in a second, you guys’ eyes, smile, hair no matter what style it’s in (and s/o to my boris kodjoe and morris chestnut black boys too !!) God took his everloving TIME making y’all!!! There’s almost too much to list 😩 

Well they are so different yet so alike. Sometimes I love his curls or the way his dreads shape his face. Other time it the way his teeth glistens or his pump lips. It’s the way his skin glisten and sparkle at any shade. Ahh, it’s his everything. It’s their knowledge and he teach me things I didn’t know I could learn. Man I love all black man from my brother to my future son.

now i’m all in my feels n’ shit…..

S/O to All of Y'all 😩🙏🏾

Yes all of this. Black men are just the best. They’re great to look at, they have wonderful personalities, can be the best thing that has ever happened to you. So strong and powerful but also compassionate and understanding. Just yes 😍😘🙌🏾

^^^ that gif…it explains it all. Black men are everything. There is literally nothing to hate 😍

What I love about black men is their shoulders and upper back, placing your hands on them and feeling the energy in their body is amazing.

Or when you run your hands along their bodies and you feel how soft and squishy they feel.

That genuine smile and laugh, and just seeing the curl of their lips just does something to my heart.

Also rubbing your hands across their chest is just sooooooooooo satisfying.

This made me a little emotional.

All things aforementioned are cold hard #FACTS

I feel so loved right now 😅😊😭

The way the sun hits their skin, and their skin always be so flawless-from the face to the chest 😍

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti , handcuffed to Nicola Sacco , Massachusetts Superior Court, 1923

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Hot town summer in the city Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty Been down isn’t it a pity Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city All around me people looking half dead Choking on the sidewalk, it’s hotter than a match head At night it’s a different town.. It’s boom town!

#Nairobi #kenya #sonyalpha (at Nairobi, Kenya)

“I was working as a school safety officer when I met her. She was a teacher. But she kept working her way up. She became a principal. She went to work in the central office. She got her doctorate. Eventually she became the highest-ranking black woman in New York education. She was always taking that next step. I was working as a custodian when we got married. She was making five times more than me. It bothered me at first. It took some counseling to convince me that she hadn’t ‘settled’ for me. I’d been raised on the idea that the man was supposed to provide. But eventually I came around to the idea that money wasn’t the only way to provide. I could support her by doing chores, or taking the kids to school, or picking her up from the airport. Her work benefited all of us, so I could help provide by making her job easier. And eventually she inspired me to want more for myself. She’s the one that convinced me to go back to college.”

“I didn’t go to college until I was fifty. I was working as a custodian and it just got tiresome. You could find me in the exact same place, at the exact same time, every single day. Clean the halls, clean the classrooms, clean the bathroom. I wasn’t feeling fulfilled. I started going to college classes on the nights and weekends. It was difficult because I was always tired. There’d be times when I didn’t want to do an assignment or I didn’t want to go to school because it was raining. But my professors kept telling me: ‘You’re not looking for a job anymore. You’re looking for a career.’ I graduated five years ago with my BA. Then 2.5 years later I got my Masters. Now I’m a parent coordinator at the same school where I worked as a custodian. I get to counsel parents about how their children can get the most out of school. My confidence has doubled. I used to be unsure about speaking up, because I didn’t feel qualified to offer my opinion, but now I’ll stop parents on the street– just to make sure that their child is on the right track. Some people in my position get stressed when they’re given a heavy workload, like: ‘Why do I have to do this?’ I always think: ‘I get to do this.’ I’ve been working in the Department of Education for thirty years, so I could retire next year with benefits. But I don’t want to. Because I love my job. Every day is different.”