Gorgeous.
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Untitled portrait of my friend Mette, by Daisy Giles
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Hello :)
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A Beautiful Disaster - Why I Embrace Natural Hair and Reject Weave | Poetry
Thank you for this. My people have really got to acknowledge how warped and sick our mindset has become surrounding our hair. I’ve played both characters in this video, therefore I can attest to the amount of work it takes to change a mindset that has been ingrained for hundreds of year. It took a lot of self introspection, and reading Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X to help emancipate me from this type of self-hatred. All I can hope for today is that we raise our Black daughters to love and care for thier hair; to wear it proudly like the glorious, beautiful crown it is.
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AMAZING.
“You don’t come back in here until you’ve apologized to every person in this room, Because you just exercised a freedom that none of these people of color have. When these people of color get tired of racism, they can’t just walk out, because there’s no place in this country where they aren’t going to be exposed to racism. They can’t even stay in their own homes and not be exposed to racism if they turn on their television. But you, as a white female, when you get tired of being judged and treated unfairly on the basis of your eye color, you can walk out that door, and you know it won’t happen out there. You exercised a freedom they don’t have. If you’re going to be in here you’re going to apologize to every person of color in this room. And do it now.”
“I’m sorry there’s racism in this country—
“BULLSHIT! No, you’re not going to say ‘I’m sorry there’s racism.’ You’re going to apologize for what YOU just did.”
“I will not apologize because it’s not a matter of race always—”
“OUT.”
Jane Elliot is a champ.
Every. Anti- Privilege. Argument. EVER.
my skin is tingling.
Amen.
We must stop confusing religion and spirituality. Religion is a set of rules, regulations and rituals created by humans, which was suppose to help people grow spiritually. Due to human imperfection religion has become corrupt, political, divisive and a tool for power struggle. Spirituality is not theology or ideology. It is simply a way of life, pure and original as was given by the Most High of Creation. Spirituality is a network linking us to the Most High, the universe, and each other.
~Jah Rastafari
agreed
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This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
—Chief Seattle’s Letter To All THE PEOPLE
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