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Anyone else read “SLYTHERIN MOTHAF**KA” in Samuel L Jackson’s voice????

Let it be known that #BlackHogwarts made my day. It warms up my meme loving, melanin embracing, and Harry Potter nerd heart.

Apparently I need to repost this because shit haven’t changed.

Another hard week of black people being slammed and beaten down again.

And it’s taking a toll on my mental and emotional health.

Nonblack followers, please check on your black friends and families. Please show that you care. 

And for the love of all things holy, please do not make up “Black creators post yourself here” threads! We’ve had it! If you want to find more black creators, check the hundreds of already made threads on the internet! Type it in the search bar and I promise it’ll come up! 

Cause I know y’all are gonna swarm black creators, during a sensitive time, not letting them get a breather, and then will forget all about them in the next week. Y’all did that shit in June and will do it again! I just KNOW it! Please fucking don’t. 

Cause that shit STINKS of performative activism. And black people don’t need a performance, we need real action.

This week

This week has been………an absolute shitshow for us black people. And it looks like its gonna get worse. I’ve been able to handle previous police murders but for some reason this one is hitting me hard. And I don’t know why. I don’t know if its because I’m older now and technically an adult or if because I have a more online presence but All the shit we’ve been dealing with this week has been taking a toll on me.

Its tiring

It’s exhausting

and its just depressing.

Well, well what have we here?

Hmm I wonder what this is all about if it's not racism...HMMMMMMM

FATHER & SON: James Earl Jones with his Father Robert Earl Jones on Stage in the 1962 Production "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl."

Robert Earl Jones (February 3, 1910 – September 7, 2006), sometimes credited as Earl Jones, was an American actor and professional boxer. One of the first prominent Black film stars, Jones was a living link with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career.

Jones was best known for his leading roles in films such as Lying Lips (1939) and later in his career for supporting roles in films such as The Sting (1973), Trading Places (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), and Witness (1985).

Jones was born in northwestern Mississippi; the specific location is unclear as some sources indicate Senatobia, while others suggest nearby Coldwater. He left school at an early age to work as a sharecropper to help his family. He later became a prizefighter. Under the name "Battling Bill Stovall", he was a sparring partner of Joe Louis.

Jones became interested in theater after he moved to Chicago, as one of the thousands leaving the South in the Great Migration. He moved on to New York by the 1930s. He worked with young people in the Works Progress Administration, the largest New Deal agency, through which he met Langston Hughes, a young poet and playwright. Hughes cast him in his 1938 play, Don't You Want to Be Free?.

Jones also entered the film business, appearing in more than twenty films. His film career started with the leading role of a detective in the 1939 race film Lying Lips, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux, and Jones made his next screen appearance in Micheaux's The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940). Jones acted mostly in crime movies and dramas after that, with such highlights as Wild River (1960) and One Potato, Two Potato (1964). In the Oscar-winning 1973 film The Sting, he played Luther Coleman, an aging grifter whose con is requited with murder leading to the eponymous "sting". In the later 20th century, Jones appeared in several other noted films: Trading Places (1983) and Witness (1985).

Toward the end of his life, Jones was noted for his stage portrayal of Creon in The Gospel at Colonus (1988), a black musical version of the Oedipus legend. He also appeared in episodes of the long-running TV shows Lou Grant and Kojak. One of his last stage roles was in a 1991 Broadway production of Mule Bone by Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, another important writer of the Harlem Renaissance. His last film was Rain Without Thunder (1993).

Although blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s due to involvement with leftist groups, Jones was ultimately honored with a lifetime achievement award by the U.S. National Black Theatre Festival.

Jones was married three times. As a young man, he married Ruth Connolly (died 1986) in 1929; they had a son, James Earl Jones. Jones and Connolly separated before James was born in 1931, and the couple divorced in 1933. Jones did not come to know his son until the mid-1950s. He adopted a second son, Matthew Earl Jones. Jones died on September 7, 2006, in Englewood, New Jersey, from natural causes at age 96.

THEATRE

1945 The Hasty Heart (Blossom) Hudson Theatre, Broadway

1945 Strange Fruit (Henry) McIntosh NY theater production

1948 Volpone (Commendatori) City Center

1948 Set My People Free (Ned Bennett) Hudson Theatre, Broadway

1949 Caesar and Cleopatra (Nubian Slave) National Theatre, Broadway

1952 Fancy Meeting You Again (Second Nubian) Royale Theatre, Broadway

1956 Mister Johnson (Moma) Martin Beck Theater, Broadway

1962 Infidel Caesar (Soldier) Music Box Theater, Broadway

1962 The Moon Besieged (Shields Green) Lyceum Theatre, Broadway

1962 Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (Charlie Adams) East 11th Street Theatre, New York

1968 More Stately Mansions (Cato) Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway

1975 All God's Chillun Got Wings (Street Person) Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway

1975 Death of a Salesman (Charley)

1977 Unexpected Guests (Man) Little Theatre, Broadway

1988 The Gospel at Colonus (Creon) Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Broadway

1991 Mule Bone (Willie Lewis) Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway

FILMS

1939 Lying Lips (Detective Wenzer )

1940 The Notorious Elinor Lee (Benny Blue)

1959 Odds Against Tomorrow (Club Employee uncredited)

1960 Wild River (Sam Johnson uncredited)

1960 The Secret of the Purple Reef (Tobias)

1964 Terror in the City (Farmer)

1964 One Potato, Two Potato (William Richards)

1968 Hang 'Em High

1971 Mississippi Summer (Performer)

1973 The Sting (Luther Coleman)

1974 Cockfighter (Buford)

1977 Proof of the Man (Wilshire Hayward )

1982 Cold River (The Trapper)

1983 Trading Places (Attendant)

1983 Sleepaway Camp (Ben)

1984 The Cotton Club (Stage Door Joe)

1984 Billions for Boris (Grandaddy)

1985 Witness (Custodian)

1988 Starlight: A Musical Movie (Joe)

1990 Maniac Cop 2 (Harry)

1993 Rain Without Thunder (Old Lawyer)

TELEVISION

1964 The Defenders (Joe Dean) Episode: The Brother Killers

1976 Kojak (Judge) Episode: Where to Go if you Have Nowhere to Go?

1977 The Displaced Person (Astor) Television movie

1978 Lou Grant (Earl Humphrey) Episode: Renewal

1979 Jennifer's Journey (Reuven )Television movie

1980 Oye Ollie (Performer) Television series

1981 The Sophisticated Gents (Big Ralph Joplin) 3 episodes

1982 One Life to Live

1985 Great Performances (Creon) Episode: The Gospel at Colonus

1990 True Blue (Performer) Episode: Blue Monday

Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.

It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.

This and I think mothers lose their minds when they realize daughters aren't gonna be carbon copies of them and aren't dolls to dress up and manipulate🤷🏾‍♀️

This and I think mothers lose their minds when they realize daughters aren't gonna be carbon copies of them and aren't dolls to dress up and manipulate🤷🏾‍♀️

There's a colorism issue in the black community. No shit, right? But what people fail to acknowledge is the colorism light people face. I'm talking mixed race and albino people. There's this bar of 'black enough' that just fucks us over and I don't fucking fit in anywhere racially because of it. AND THEN? If that wasn't bad enough, some people uphold a 'too dark' meter?????? Make up your minds, do you want to shit on light skinned folk like me or the dark skinned folk? If you answered yes to either fuck you figure out how to not alienate people from your own community.

I tend to just say I'm black, because if I reveal the fact that I had the audacity to be born mixed with white I would be fucking crucified in some spaces. My black identity is not taken seriously. I tried to fit in as a 'white' person for about fifteen years, with half of that being subconscious (ex: refusing to boxbraid my hair and using relaxer and pressing it often to keep it manageable. For the record my hair is kinky straight but my roots have always tightly coiled). It didn't work because I was sniffed out. Fucking shocker/sarcasm. I wasn't white enough either. I'm fucking tired of the race shit, I'm tired of racism, I'm tired of colorism.

Do better.

Communities are supposed to uplift each other, so tell me why there's ALWAYS a handful of asshats enforcing the segregation of minorities? We see this with lesbian exclusion, favorable and oscillating aroace exclusion, anti endo bullshit... the list goes on.

There are people in MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES forcing a bar of [identity] enough, and so help me I am so sick of it. Stop making light skinned people feel not black enough. Stop pushing those with PCOS out of intersex spaces. Stop it with the fucking goldstar lesbian/gay shit.

Debunking & Countering the "Black ppl commit more crimes argument"

People with this bigoted belief usually bring up this particular stat

This data shows that black ppl (just in the US btw) commit the most murders, not crimes just the most murders. Which obviously isn't good but like I said if u r gonna make a specific claim at least present specific data that supports that claim

Which is actually real and true for the most part, but something funny about racists is that they love to ignore other stats that actually give the full story

Fortunately for common sense users like myself there is another stat that literally contradicts the entire statement of black ppl commit more CRIMES

Despite the unfortunate truth of the first stat racist aren't looking at the big picture here, first of this is just from the USA. Black ppl don't just exist there and even if they did let's not forget systematic racism which further creates a wealth divide between black communities in the USA and everybody else, And when black communities continue to be underfunded, under resourced & overall poor they tend to commit more crimes

it's common sense, obviously its not a justification for their actions but it proves that black ppl don't have this "genetic" urge to commit violence like white supremacists believe

ALSO more black ppl arrested for certain crimes doesn't necessarily mean they actually committed these crimes, if anything it just shows the injustice in America

white ppl r 10x more likely to get away with crime because they r rich and powerful in America and Black ppl being a minority are more often wrongfully convicted

A flaw in the Black American Culture & flaws in different cultures overall

As an African woman I love African Americans and their culture but like many groups they genuinely have their own flaws and issues they need to really fix

and one of them happens to be the fact they simply don't value education as much as they should...

Yes systematic racism will always be a small part of the reason things are the way they are, meaning black schools are generally underfunded but the kids have no willingness to learn.

Many teachers at these majority black schools have claimed that being high achieving at school is seen as a "whitewashed" trait for black Americans and it's honestly saddening

I recently saw a video speaking on how 66% of black twelfth grades do not possess even partial mastery of basic twelfth grade math skills

and like I said it's pretty sad

Of course white supremacists never fail to add their useless commentary to stuff like this, they claim its "genetics" and black ppl are just naturally stupid

and that in itself is a stupid statement.

When people talk about "black" they assume we are all the same and obviously African Americans & Africans share similarities in culture but we still have different cultural values

As a Nigerian one thing ik and love about my country is that we really don't play when it comes to academics, most of us start exams by the first grade and we do it all throughout our school years. Usually three per each grade and depending on your school they can be very difficult/advanced. Nigerians are hardworking and any time we move to other countries we excel because of the skills we learn from our country and also by utilizing the opportunities we get from foreign countries (that we can't get from ours unfortunately)

Please keep in mind I'm not saying all this to degrade African Americans in the name of lifting up Africans.

Nigerians (and other Africans) have their own cultural flaws, ACTUALLY a lot of them actually and in some cases African Americans do it better than we do and it's important to acknowledge these things then learn from each other.

I'm just saying people love to group all black people together by not recognizing that there are different cultures within the black community as a whole. They do it to claim we are some genetic mistake that is unworthy of the title "human" and it's wrong

Every culture has its own flaws.

Someone tell the whites their biggest issue is narcissism and it is what is destroying our earth, people are only ready to see black people's flaws because it has made us "less fortunate" but what ppl don't notice is that the white community's flaws has cost the entire earth

I will go more into this on another day but to summarize their colonization of the entire earth was based of the fact they saw the way of living of other cultures as "barbaric" because they preserved the earth and didn't believe in industrialization

Keep in mind it is that industrialization and capitalist mindset that is destroying our earth today. Yes it caused evolution (according to white ppl) but who said Africans couldn't have evolved in their own way without destroying the earth and its natural resources?

And it does not just stop at the white community, even Asians, Latinos, Hispanics have their own flaws.

If only people learnt to respect, educate and support one another. If the Europeans back in the time of colonization just lent their support & collaborated to African nations to help with evolution by utilizing their nature preserves and then having a normal trade system where they could borrow from Africa/Asia's resources while providing them with technology that could support evolution

Sorry I've gone off topic but till date I wonder what the earth would be today if Europeans didn't have such a hostile narcissistic mindset back then

they had little natural resources and instead of collaborating, they stole & destroyed. It's greed and corruption.

ik it's a naive thought to wish for peace considering the big difference in cultures back then, like people didn't even understand the concept of human decency back then. Considering how most African, Asians and European countries did not agree with the way they all did things back then, we'd never really reach a state of peaceful co-existence.

but it's fun to dream!

Human nature is cruel anyway

I don't know if it's just me but people are treating black girls awfully and I mean it. I've seem videos in the pass 3 days abusing or degrading black girls .

Examples

A dad records his daughter high

A mom going live to slutshame her daughter

A group of young girls singing sexy red

And by this point its ridiculous that black girls dont have the super system they deserve plus how are these things not considered a form of abuse

I may keep an update just to prove my point....