tom hanks

1-9-9-1: Audrey Tchekova by Eric Traore

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:27:50 -0400

1-9-9-1:

Audrey Tchekova by Eric Traore

i just saw honey boo boo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:44:21 -0400

i just saw honey boo boo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jenny Holzer, Lustmord, 1993-1994.

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:45:57 -0400

Jenny Holzer, Lustmord, 1993-1994.

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deliciouskaek: private-revolution: theblackamericanprincess: c...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:52:42 -0400

deliciouskaek:

private-revolution:

theblackamericanprincess:

crackerhell:

brandx:

ianthe:

im flatlining

bye

o my stars n garters think i may have to reactivate my twitter

BROKEY MCPOVERTY

I think I Reblogged this before but it’s still funny as shit.

Yallllllllllll

OMJ you guys

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Fri, 17 May 2013 12:50:24 -0400

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fashinpirate: iamkiam-photography: QUEER POWER! Wes...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:51:38 -0400

fashinpirate:

iamkiam-photography:

QUEER POWER!

Wes Perry, Sissy Spastik, Darling Shear, and Mister Junior
Photography by Kiam Marcelo Junio, 2012

THAT CONTOUR GAME ON SISSY THO

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send me 'have you evers' and i will reply with yes or no

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:27:30 -0400

Tracey Isiofia

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:36:37 -0400

Tracey Isiofia

sourcedumal: blackwithflowers: blackwithflowers: I think...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:35:28 -0400

sourcedumal:

blackwithflowers:

blackwithflowers:

I think Black people are not afforded the luxury of existing without being pigeonholed into an aggressive state of being. Many times Black people are displayed as hyper-aggressive and because of this display we create a mentality that were stuck with hyper-aggressiveness.

That isn’t to say that being strong, tough, or aggressive are bad things, they come with our survival. But the vulnerability pain, and gentleness that Black people reveal are not present many times in the media or even in our homes. The luxury of intimacy with other people is so small in comparison to the thousands of images of us being strong and “animalistic” (by intimacy I mean without guards, barriers, being invested with other people without a facade to what you are or layers you create.)

Similar to the phrase ”carefree black girls and boys”, I wanted to give a safe space to vulnerablity of Blackness to be on display

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Genteel, Romanctic, Poetic, Ethereal, intimate and vulnerable imagery of Black people.

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Submissions are highly welcomed!

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1.Jourdan Copeland|Source

2. Men by Eric Nehr | Under The Influence Magazine | Source

3.Jessie Adore|Source

4. Solange Knowles by Dominic Hayden-Route for Oyster Magazine | Source

Signal booossttt ??

Yes.

Genteel.

A word never used for Black people.

We need this

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Fri, 17 May 2013 10:24:19 -0400

"Making racist jokes doesn’t mean I’m racist!!!11"

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:53:43 -0400

“Making racist jokes doesn’t mean I’m racist!!!11”

- Racists (via callingoutbigotry)

nickgrimshade: [salsa dances away from your shitty opinion]

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:53:32 -0400

nickgrimshade:

[salsa dances away from your shitty opinion]

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Fri, 17 May 2013 08:50:40 -0400

I.

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:44:08 -0400

lifeinthearctic:

it’s not you. it’s me. it’s me, and i’m sorry.
5.9.13

i’m horny but i’m not
in the mood to pretend
i like myself enough
to get naked in front
of you.

majere616: addisonblackdays: thereisterrorinthesky: Credit...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:58:35 -0400

majere616:

addisonblackdays:

thereisterrorinthesky:

Credit goes to one Jason Taylor for this post on Facebook

Internet rumors have prompted new research into the origins of the Statue of Liberty, American’s 151-foot-tall monument to freedom erected in New York Harbor in 1886.

The traditional view, as taught to American schoolchildren for the past hundred years, holds that Lady Liberty was created to commemorate the friendship forged between the United States and France during the Revolutionary War. By 1903, when the statue was inscribed with Emma Lazarus’s poetic words, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” it had come to symbolize America’s status as a safe haven for refugees and immigrants from every corner of the world.

The rumors, which have circulated in various forms and served as the direct inspiration for National Park Service anthropologist Rebecca Joseph’s decision to revisit the Statue of Liberty’s past, tell quite a different story:

A History Lesson
It is hard to believe that after my many years of schooling secondary and post) the following facts about the Statue of Liberty was never taught. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of people including myself have visited the Statue of Liberty over the years but yet I’m unable to find one person who knows the true history behind the Statue- amazing. Yes,amazing that so much important Black history (such as this) is hidden from us (Black and White). What makes this even worse is the fact that the current twist on history perpetuates and promotes white supremacy at the expense of Black Pride.

During my visit to France I saw the original Statue of Liberty. However there was a difference, the statue in France is Black. The Statue of Liberty was originally a Black woman, but, as memory serves, it was because the model was Black.

In a book called “The Journey of The Songhai People”, according to Dr. Jim Haskins, a member of the National Education Advisory Committee of the Liberty-Ellis Island Committee,professor of English at the University of Florida, and prolific Black author, points out that what stimulated the original idea for that 151 foot statue in the harbor.

He says that what stimulated the idea for the creation of the statue initially was the part that Black soldiers played in the ending of Black African Bondage in the United States. It was created in the mind of the French historian Edourd de Laboulaye, chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society, who, together with sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi,proposed to the French government that the people of France present to the people of the United States through the American Abolitionist Society, the gift of a Statue of Liberty in recognition of the fact that Black soldiers won the Civil War in the United States.

It was widely known then that it was Black soldiers who played the pivotal role in winning the war, and this gift would be a tribute to their prowess. Suzanne Nakasian, director of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island Foundations’ National Ethnic Campaign said that the Black Americans’ direct connection to Lady Liberty is unknown to the majority of Americans,BLACK or WHITE.

When the statue was presented to the U.S. Minister to France in 1884, it is said that he remonstrated that the dominant view of the broken hackles would be offensive to a U.S. South, because since the statue was a reminder of Blacks winning their freedom. It was a reminder to a beaten South of the ones who caused their defeat, their despised former captives.

Documents of Proof:

1.) You may go and see the original model of the Statue of Liberty, with the broken chains at her feet and in her left hand. Go to the Museum of the City of NY, Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street write to Peter Simmons and he can send you some documentation.

2.) Check with the N.Y. Times magazine, part II_May 18, 1986. Read the article by Laboulaye.

3.) The dark original face of the Statue of Liberty can be seen in the N.Y. Post, June 17, 1986, also the Post stated the reason for the broken chains at her feet.

4.) Finally, you may check with the French Mission or the French Embassy at the U.N. or in Washington, D.C. and ask for some original French material on the Statue of Liberty, including the Bartholdi original model.

You can call in September (202) 944-6060 or 6400. Please pass this information along!

Oh my god! Im not American but this shocks me. How can this not be known? & why does it not have many reblogs?

SNope