1946 Portraits at Howard University

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Kita Bee, a black trans women, was killed in a hit-and-run in Kansas City on May 3rd. She was hit twice by two drivers, both of which fled the scene. Investigation into her death are still ongoing.

The KCPD misgendered her in their original announcement of death.

https://www.them.us/story/kita-bee-kansas-city-black-trans-icon-killed

using ai to write your papers is so embarrassing stop being a pussy and just dont turn anything in if you dont want to do the work... have strength in your convictions

A lot of zionists have willfully adopted right wing talking points but just modeled it after their own specific cause. Denigrating campuses and protests as "spoiled" and "privileged" and "not knowing history" is exactly what right wingers do to discredit any type of information dissemination they don't like. What's really concerning is the amount of people that don't mind that they're doing it, or that they lend an ear to what they have to say. You should be far more concerned that they're paving the way to let right wingers do whatever they want under the guise of progressivism.

The whole "I don't listen to rap" wave making a return makes me wonder like. Do you guys listen to any band that's fronted by a person of color? Like, go ahead, name one metal band you listen to that's fronted by a person of color. Maybe not even metal, it could be pop, indie, punk, whatever. Congrats, you BEGRUDGINGLY listened to Kendrick Lamar past the diss tracks, have you made other efforts to decolonize your music tastes? And don't give me the shit of "It's so hard to find Black/Latino/Asian/Native fronted bands!" You could literally just fucking look it up. Like I'm not your fucking encyclopedia for this shit, neither are other people of color. You wanna prop yourself up as a "revolutionary punk" and "anti-racist"? Stop using us as a fucking crutch for recommendations because we're frankly all fucking tired of it

"you need to let it go" that would be really cool, unfortunately I'll take it with me to the grave

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this is way off the topic du jour but i feel like a lot of people dont understand the difference between indentured servitude and chattel slavery. indentured servitude was a horrible inhumane system which stripped workers of fundamental rights and autonomy, however, crucially, it did not legally strip workers of personhood. a worker who was indentured was not legally considered property. someone enslaved under chattel slavery, as the name implies, was. legally, personhood of enslaved people, who were institutionally encoded to be black people, did not exist except as property to be purchased or earned via manumission.

A lot of you on here feel waaay too comfortable admitting that you don't and refuse to listen to rap music, and I'm not loving the incredibly reductive takes on rap because the kendrick/drake beef has it on some of yall's radar for the first time in your life.

I'm not going to sugar coat it-- for americans especially, if you consider music a significant interest of yours but still feel the need to search for acceptable reasons to keep yourself ignorant of black music, or think of rap as a monolith of hate and violence and not equally as diverse as any other genre, or can only name nonblack rappers… you should be embarrassed of that. And your embarrassment should not keep you from being active about exposing yourself to unfamiliar art and broadening what you listen to.

'I don't understand what they're saying/they rap too quickly' I'm surprised by how much I keep seeing this-- speed is not a stylistic trademark of most rap music, & clearer diction as a performer is much more necessary in rap than other genres?? Statistically rap has a lower bpm (here's an example of one person's study) average than other genres. (of course these aren't all-encompassing, but you can look into this yourself using sites like bpmdatabase.com.) Do you really feel overwhelmed by speed listening to Kendrick or Biggie or Nas or 2Pac, or have you never actually listened to their songs?

'I have to look up the lyrics'-- so what? is it a bad thing to take an extra few seconds to engage with an artist's work? If you listen to lyrical music, do you care when it's the artists you listen to? Why does the thoughtful art consumption everyone talks about not also apply to black art?

'there is too much violence and misogyny and commercialism' this is not unique to rap, or true of all rap music. Artists exist that talk about other things, the way they exist in all genres. There is an entire wikipedia page listing alternative hip hop musicians and rappers if you consider seeking it out too much labor. Click one!

'i find it unrelatable'-- who cares? Being unable to engage with art you don't find wholly relatable is a deeply childish and self centered way to exist. You get on here reblogging feel good navel-gazey posts about the shared human experience and caring for one another, but a rapper talking about living with violence or poverty is stretching the limits of what you can imagine or empathize with too much for you to care about it? You don't find that embarrassing to admit to?

You don't have to love rap, you don't have to incorporate it into what you listen to every day, but a lot of you need to be aware you're parroting reagan era anti-rap (& antiblack) pearl-clutching talking points, and it's a very ugly look. It isn't racist if your favorite genre isn't rap, but you need to do some serious self reflection if you consider it inherently less artistic, intelligent or positive than 'whiter' genres when you don't actually listen to it. I am looking at you, people into other counterculture genres-- it's crazy how much I see this from self-professed punks and metalheads especially lmfao. If expression, counterculture art, anti-censorship in music and the right for raw and unfiltered music to exist matters to you as much as you say you do, you should care about rap's relationship to censorship & fight for its legitimacy just as much as what you listen to.

I was high off my ass last night and had this dream where I was in this dense ass forest and sitting there was a tall woman. She was so tall I couldn’t see her face but she was wearing gold and I was like “uh…hi?” And she said “I made you, do you know that?” And I nodded and she was like “I hear your thoughts. Why do you hate my creation? Why do you try to destroy yourself? I made you perfect as you are. Please don’t break my heart”. Then she started crying and it flooded and I woke up with fucking heart palpitations like what does it Mean™️????

polar opposite of this post

inspiration struck and would not let me go until i drew this

edit: you can now get this comic as a print!

Please help us escape death from Rafah .. my friend posted here and I'm forever indebted to all of you for your generosity.. we started to lose hope. please help and share .