when white people say they wanna save the world
i be like
you mean from y’all?
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Black people are made fun of for living in “the hood” or the projects but
Society becomes silent when reminded that many generations ago, African Americans were barred from buying private homes and private property, even when they had enough saved up. You can’t force a people into poverty and then make fun of and blame them for being In those perdicements.
First thought in my mind after reading this: the white people who say “go back to Africa.”
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One symptom of accepting colonization is adhering to the standard American diet, even while it is killing us
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These were made for the exhibit by Josie Seymour from Pueblo of Laguna for #SORR #MMIW earring exhibit. beautiful! -Tanaya Winder
(Source: twitter.com, via mamabeez)
create non-sexual queer spaces 2k15
create non-alcoholic queer spaces 2k15
create actively trans-inclusive queer spaces 2k15
create actively anti-racist queer spaces 2k15
create anti-ableist queer spaces 2k15
create better, stronger safe queer spaces all around
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Brad Pitt Heads For Africa
He’s in negotiations for Angelina Jolie’s poaching filmSome people have to wait months to even try to get a script to Brad Pitt, who is offered most of the high profile projects. And then there’s Angelina Jolie, who happens to be married to him and can probably just chuck a screenplay at him across the breakfast table and see if he wants to star in it. He’s now in negotiations for her fourth film as a director, Africa.
Eric Roth has written the script, based on the true story of paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his battle with the ivory poachers who threatened the African elephant population in the 1980s.
“I’ve felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life, and was taken with Eric’s beautiful script about a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers who emerged with a deeper understanding of man’s footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him,” Jolie has previously said.
Pitt has already worked with Jolie on By The Sea, her third directorial effort, in which they co-star as a couple trying to figure out their marriage in a picturesque French seaside town in the 1970s. That one should hit screens this year. Africa boasts Unbroken cinematographer Roger Deakins and may start rolling its cameras this summer.
James White.
Which culture did they feel a connection to? There are hundreds of cultures on the African continent. So a movie called “Africa” is about white people saving elephants?
What do you think of movies that aren't culturaly appropriating, but are borderline? The movie "Thunderheart" comes to mind in particular?
Asked by Anonymous
one of the problems with Thunderheart is that it stars a white guy, from a white guy’s perspective, about another act of genocide against indigenous peoples. In the movie he supposedly has “Sioux” heritage.. Umm.. Okay.. So basically he is a white passing person who is disconnected from his distant ancestor’s culture and peoples? Why couldn’t the movie focus on an actual native person, who is actually witnessing genocide? It had to be a white guy? Stuff like that is unsettling. I was talking to someone the other day, they told me that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie-Pitt are going to either be in a.movie or are making a movie called “Africa” .. How can white people be the stars of a film about the African continent? Am I answering your question at all? Talk to me :)
What are your thoughts on the Solutrean hypothesis?
Asked by Anonymous
I am less interested in whether peoples immigrated to the “American” continents and more interested in why theories like the Solutrean hypothesis exist. Discussions on the Bering Strait theory and the Solutrean hypothesis typically lead to or is used to justify the genocide of indigenous peoples, and that European settlers had/have a right to these lands because they may have been some of the first to immigrate. I do not believe in the Solutrean hypothesis or the Bering Strait Theory. I believe these theories are used to justify racism and genocide.
I haven’t been on tumblr as much as I probably should be. Things are much the same here, working and caring for my father. Today I am missing work because LB is sick. So I will be on tumblr for a little while. Let’s talk.
