Shit I'm Too Black For

When Black people argue relentlessly about dark skinned vs. light skinned issues, I’m like…

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

My skin is brown. 

And, all I see is a buncha Black people… arguing… while we’re all (light, brown, and dark) struggling. I mean, I GET IT. I do… but as long as we all realize that we’re all Black and have a common history and struggle, to be stuck on the dark skinned vs. light skinned thing just seems like the White man has succeeded in distracting you. 

I think the point isn’t to say look this is who is better and who is not and who is treated worse and who is not, but to call people out who still perpetuate this shit. Of course we’re all oppressed, but things are historically set up that way. Distraction or not, we still have niggas rapping about redbones, we still have darker skinned women bleaching their skin, we still have animosity towards lighter-skinned folks for their ability to pass and for having the ability to escape some of the treatment that darker skinned people face (even if they don’t want to). We still have light skinned girls get in free days, we still have paper bag tests, we still have good hair vs. bad hair discussions, we still have authors and notable scholars having these discussions about playing in the sun and recounting the things that they heard from their own parents.

We still have videos were the youth in a NY highschool can talk about how dark skinned people are evil and the devil. We still have #darkskin tags on twitter. So no, it’s not just going to go away because it is a direct result of hegemony. When we argue without hurt feelings, then maybe those conversations can happen in a serious way. What if we said to our favorite artists, stop lightening yourselves on your album covers. Add more darker skinned women to your videos. Hire more darker skinned models. Stop rapping about how much you want a lighter skinned bad bitch. This is not about disenfranchising lighter skinned women. This is about calling out the white supremacy that we all have ingested.

So if you are lighter-skinned and you’re mad, you have no place to be mad, simply because you have more options. That would be like the lighter skinned Haitian elite being mad that they couldn’t get rights but didn’t want to help the enslaved darker skinned Haitians get free. Oh wait, that happened though. So when lighter skin equals institutionalized benefits, lighter skinned people have no reason to get upset when the colorism discussion happens over and over and over again. Of course, we’re all fucking brown. But “brown” still doesn’t hold the key to escaping the global phenomenon of white supremacy.  Take your darker-skinned ass to India and see what treatment you get. Now, take your lighter-skinned ass somewhere and see if you even have to THINK about what treatment you’ll get. Don’t worry.

We’ll wait.

When you leave the United States, skin color does become a privilege. It’s hard to see that when we’re all stuck in this black-white paradigm. But in places where there is no black-white, but instead a shade-ist system of racism, you’ll understand why we have to keep talking about this.

Shit we’re too black for: BEING TOO BLACK.

mini hiatus

cornel louis gates hooks and i, ratchet darling mahogany onyx blak, are taking a mini hiatus until we reunite and make it feel so good. cornel’s internet connections are wack and i just don’t feel right telling people off without them.

just so you know, cornel’s preferred gender pronoun is they. mine is she. don’t trip.

anyway, so i want to thank all of the followers, all 300+ of you, for flocking to us and for rocking with us. as a seasoned tumblr user, i recognize some of your URLs. cornel is still learning the ways of the tumblr jedi.

we’ll return in about a week maybe. this blog may also start to follow new directions so bear with us as we try to decide how we want to use it to express our frustrations with the mecca of whiteness that we both have to live in. in the place where we share our experiences, white is not a color or a race, it’s a fucking mentality. think on that until we come back. maybe then you’ll understand our rage.

xoxoxo to all of you.

Just to clarify, as I believe the post is being misunderstood.

icingonthekaek:

I do not expect for anyone to report the blogs listed on my previous post.

That list was meant only to be an example of how tumblr allows for certain offenses which harm its users who are POC, while the rest of its user base is well-treated. If you visit those blogs, and find that they should be reported, then by all means, do report them. However, if you find them to be innocuous, please let them be. 

Again, it was meant to be an example, not a list of people to abhor.

For sure, @icingonthekaek. We’ll still do the abhoring for you, tho.

We too black to have patience for this bullshit.

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poem about my rights: june jordan

ancestryinprogress:

even tonight and i need to take a walk and clear my head about this poem about why i cn’t go out without changing my clothes my shoes/ my body posture

my gender identity my age my status as a woman alone in the evening/alone on the streets/alone not being the point/the point being that i can’t do what i want to do with my own body because i am the wrong

sex the wrong age the wrong skin and suppose it was not here in the city but down on the beach/ or far into the woods and i wanted to go there by myself thinking about God/ or thinking about children or thinking about the world/ all of it disclosed by the stars and silence:

i could not go and i could not think and i could not stay there

alone as i need to be

alone

because i can’t do what i want with my own body and who in the hell set things up like this

and in France they say if the guy penetrates but does not ejaculate then he did not rape me

and if after stabbing him if after screams if after begging the bastard and if even after smashing a hammer to his head if even after that if he and his buddies FUCK ME after that then i consented and there was no rape because finally you understand

finally they fucked me over because i was wrong

i was wrong again to be me being where i was/ wrong to be who i am

which is exactly like South Africa penetrating into Namibia, penetrating into Angola

and does that mean I mean how do you know if Pretoria ejaculates

what will the evidence look like the proof of the monster jackboot ejaculation on Blackland and if after Namibia and if after Angola and if after Zimbabwe and if after all of my kinsmen and women resist even to self-immolation of the villages and if after that we lose nevertheless

what will the big boys say

will they claim my consent: DO YOU FOLLOW ME:

We are the wrong people of the wrong skin on the wrong continent

and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about and according to the Times this week back in 1966 the C.I.A. decided that they had this problem and the problem was a man named Nkrumah so they killed him and before that it was Patrice Lumumba and before that it was my father on the campus of my Ivy League school and my father afraid to walk into the cafeteria because he said he was the wrong age the wrong skin the wrong gender identity and he was paying my tuition and

before that it was my father saying I was wrong saying that I should have been a boy because he wanted one/ a boy and that I should have been lighter skinned and that I should have had straighter hair and that I should not be so boy crazy but instead I should just be one/ a boy and before that

it was my mother pleading plastic surgery for my nose and braces for my teeth and telling me to let the books loose to let them loose in other words I am very familiar with the problems of the C.I.A. and the problems of South African and the problems of Exxon Corporation and the problems of white America in general and the problems of the teachers and the preachers and the F.B.I. and the social workers and my particular Mom and Dad/

I am very familiar with the problems because the problems turn out to be me

I am the history of rape

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

I am the history of the terrorized incarceration of myself

I am the history of battery assault and limitless armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul and

whether it’s about walking out at night

or whether it’s about the love that I feel or

whether it’s about the sanctity of my vagina or

the sanctity of my national boundaries

or the sanctity of my leaders or

the sanctity of each and every desire that I know from my personal and idiosyncratic and indisputably single and singular heart

I have been raped because I have been the wrong sex

the wrong age

the wrong skin

the wrong nose

the wrong hair

the wrong need

the wrong dream

the wrong geographic

the wrong sartorial

I have been the meaning of rape

I have been the problem everyone seeks to eliminate by forced penetration or without the evidence of slime and/

but let this be unmistakable this poem is NOT consent

I do not consent to my mother to my father to the teachers to the F.B.I to South Africa to Bedford-Stuy

to Park Avenue to American Airlines to the hardon idlers on the corners to the sneaky creeps in cars

i am not wrong:

wrong is not my name

my name is my own my own my own

and i can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this

but i can tell you

that from now on my resistance

my simple and daily and nightly self-determination

may very well cost you your life

this poem is a blessing.

Sent to tumblr:

icingonthekaek:

I’m about to write an post, as well as a guest post to a well-known external blog about this, and if need be, I will submit it to my local news organization for review, and I need for you to understand that before I proceed. This is not something you will be able to explain away or cover up. There is already a blog post that is spreading across tumblr about this, so it’s not like no one is going to hear about it. It’s already out there. Your staff has made a mistake.

You recently removed a blog titled deathtoallwhitepeople from your servers. This is understandable, and was expected, as the entire reason it was created was to point out the hypocrisy in how certain users are well-treated at the expense of others. However, you appear to have missed all of the following blogs:

• http://niggers.tumblr.com/post/15516686727/aw-my-first-hate-mail-this-is-so-cute
• http://niggayoujustwentfullretard.tumblr.com/post/15314167553
• http://niggersbeingniggers.tumblr.com/
• http://fatniggers.tumblr.com/
• http://theadventuresofniggers.tumblr.com/
• http://itsrobertoniggas.tumblr.com/
• http://niggayoujustwentfullretard.tumblr.com/post/14605588623
• http://niggersandicecream.tumblr.com/

These blog titles are equally reprehensible, equally offensive, and violate your Terms of Service in the same way. I can’t imagine why they are all allowed to remain.

I also need to point out that the 1st Amendment protects private citizens against governmental censorship. It does not provide protections against the actions of a private company, like yours. You  have the option — the power — to do something about this, to stop such hateful terms from being used against a group of people who are being harmed and oppressed by them. You’ve already chosen to use that power, and therein lies the hypocrisy: you didn’t protect the free speech of the person or persons who started the deathtoallwhitepeople blog, or protect other people of color from the death threats they reported to you.

In doing what you have done, you let all of the people who were involved, along with anyone who is reading and reblogging the related posts, know that you care for the so-called 1st Amendment rights of white persons, but none for the rights of people of color.

I am disgusted by your actions, and ask that you treat your members the same — that you remove blogs that use the word “nigger” in their title, and do not allow anyone to use it in their URLs in the future.

I look forward to your prompt response.

what i wish for…

i wish for every person who identifies as black and who grew up in the united states to have the opportunity to leave this country at least once and to see the world.

anywhere.

but preferably latin america to learn even more about what colonization and u.s. occupation has done to our sisters and brothers just south of us.

i also wish for those latin@s who grew up hating/disliking black americans to look into their own history and discover that their own roots contains some of the very history that they claim not to have and not to like.

yes, my latin@ homies. slavery touched your countries, too. if you’re going to love the patría, then love all of it. give me a Latin American country and I’ll SHOW you an afro population. don’t come for me, today. branqueamento/blanqueamiento is not the way to survive anymore. we all have more in common than you think.

and then i wish for black americans and latin@ americans to put all of that animosity and sadness that is destructive to both of our communities aside and fucking organize.

we would be some baaaaaaaaad ass mufuckas if and when we did.

viva la raza. viva la raça. one day, we’ll triumph. but we can’t do it separately.

shit i’m too black for: tumblr, on occasion

only one of us has been on here long enough to see you white racist motherfuckers do some silly racist shit and then shit your pants when someone calls you out on it.

we’re too black to deal with your bullshit.

Tumblr staff? We know you’re racist, too. We’re also too black to deal with YOUR bullshit. Talmbout freedom of speech. Bitch we got yo’ freedom. And your speech.

White people who like to write racist shit because you think it’s cute, funny, or provocative? We’re tired of reblogging your ignorance only to argue with you long enough to figure out that you haven’t the least bit of intelligence. Just because we wear watches, don’t assume we have time for your bullshit.

So let ME write this and I’m sure you can hear the humor, the cuteness, and just how provocative it is, mmkay?

FUCK  YOU. Most of you stupid racist motherfuckers are under 20. This saddens us. Why? Because your dumb privileged asses are probably going to end up being the future leaders of our country. You know the type. Fuck shit up, fuck more shit up, fuck even more shit up, go on the run, and then retire. Without being checked, you’re probably going to grow up with those same ideas and you’re going to have kids (and you’ll bitch about shit) and give your kids those same ideas and then you’re going to be the reason why our country just falls the fuck off. A million intelligent and driven people of color can’t seem to affect the stupid ass decisions that a few wealthy white people in power make. I hope that when people of color become the majority of the U.S., like we already are in the rest of the world, (in 2050)that we’ll whip your asses into shape. Talmbout reverse racism. Psshhhht.

Okay then.

So we see you. We do.

And you all can kiss our asses. We welcome you with open arms and so much love :)

We might even forgive you and help you see the better path to righteousness.

xoxooxoxoxoxo

P.S.S.

We reserve the right to be a dick until you can stop being one. When you are able to be called out without you getting all defensive about your racism, then we’ll stop calling you racist dumb ass motherfuckers. We promise. Luh youu! *muah*