People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance
If you know your history, you know that Texas used to be part of Mexico. I’m a 9th generation American. My family never crossed the border. The border crossed us.
shit tier: no gays existed before the modern terms for them were invented
okay tier: words like gay and straight are not exactly accurate but are not wholly incorrect either
good tier: while we shouldn’t use modern lgbt terminology in a scholarly context, there’s no harm in using it in a casual context, especially if it gives lgbt people role models in history to look up and relate to
How is that inferior to 16 year-olds shooting each other
or selling crack outside the convenience store?
or harassing everyone who walks down the street for being in their “hood”?
Let be veryyyyyyyyy clear, 99.9999% of residents do not sell crack. Let’s talk about how crack and other drugs were brought into these neighborhoods to bring it down. Driving down property rates so that developers could buy properties for cheap & move in people like you at a higher cost . Let’s not mention that the MAJORITY of hipsters moving into these neighborhoods are DRUG USERS. & they harass you for being in their hood? The place where they grew up? The place you’re trying to change? And move them out of? Let me know when they burn crosses on your yard, or put in place laws that keep you out of these neighborhoods.
The first two comments are how racists justify gentrification. They imagine that black people in dilapidated areas are all just drug dealers and gang members so it doesn’t matter if they push people out of their homes and communities. Racists think it’s better to put money into building cupcake and bike shops than to invest money in these communities I see my beautiful Brooklyn overrun by spoiled racist white people who are comfortable being a part of gentrification for these very racist reasons. And it makes me sick to my stomach
The last two comments (Iamchinyere & youngblackandvegan) gave me LIFE. It is pure, unadulterated TRUTH.
Studies show that there is more drug use in white neighborhoods, mostly prescription drug abuse by white suburban kids and moms. It is also the leading cause of accidental overdose and has been rising so fast the CDC put out a notice about the rise in white deaths for the first time.
It’s just a priority of police to police black neighborhoods because they a trained in what “suspicious” looks like. But when you look at the data for something like stop and frisk, the percentage of white people found with drugs and/or weapons has actually been much higher than that of blacks that were stopped.
I’m just saying if I was going to be racist about drug abusers and people who carry weapons I would start with the data.
I live in a white middle class aka a thousandaire neighborhood and white folks are out here dropping like flies from drug overdoses. I couldn’t even get the pain pill I needed when I had oral surgery because all of the pharmacies were out of them. I had to take an Advil.
I’m literally surrounded by crack dens, marijuana grow houses and gang violence. Crackers, please come save me.
That’s not how it works
Question: where were these developers during the previous 40 years of drug infested Detroit neighborhoods? Because housing has been shit for that long. Why are they only buying land now? It ain’t the drugs. In fact, it’s the fact that so many people moved out during the recession that the land is finally priced at what it’s worth. This ain’t about gentrification. I’ve lived in Detroit before the rebuild. I’d rather live there now that it’s coming back.
It’s not about “developers” it’s about your government. Why did people move out? Because the government pulled money from education, closed schools. They do this in every poor black city. Cut resources let the schools go to shit, the residents move out, THEN the developers come because it’s cheap. It’s like when your landlord wants you to move out so they can get richer residents. They stop fixing your building, if you’re not getting heat & nothing is getting fixed you move out. Now once people start moving out they start fixing up the building which attracts a more affluent set of people. Before he rebuild was all strategy
^^^a condensed term that is Municipal Disinvestment, in case if people want to research more into it. Started with the idea of “benign neglect” by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (the idea if you leave something alone, it’ll fix itself – kinda like how some people suggest leaving a baby alone when it’s crying will help it learn to fend for itself). Moynihan said benign neglect was made to ease tensions after the Civil Rights Movement, and the term was adopted by government officials to justify municipal disinvestment.
Lets talk about how in dc they bunch all of the people of color together and let the ghettos and areas property value diminish and how soon as they fall whites come in and buy up all the area and kick out the poc residents, steal the culture and make the area unrecognizable. Lets talk about how Columbia Heights, Adams Morgan, Shaw Howard and other gentrified places were predominately black in dc.Lets also talk about how once whites move in they build stores where they know the average low income black family cant afford and maintain. Lets talk about how they come to my city and take all the opportunities away from poc just to use them for themselves
Lets talk about how whites tried to shut down the H.O.P.E Project because they dont want inner city poc learning about the IT Field and becoming the new middle to upper middle class lets talk about this shit cause it needs to be addressed im fucking tired of whites period bruh. You cause chaos and confusion in black areas and destroy the environment and send police there and monitor it like a jail, when the police force is barely present in white areas lets talk about that bullshit fam
I’m here for all this commentary. Black folks and POC are not talking out the side of their necks. We or family members are witnessing these things firsthand. Here in Los Angeles I just found out that residents in an apartment complex near USC got eviction notices so the complex can be turned into student housing.
The crazier part is, this post couldn’t explain gentrification of our neighborhoods even more clearer yet they’ll still 1)act like they don’t know what we’re talking about or 2)say that we’re wrong, continue to think that what they’re doing is right and play the “savior” like always.
Lmao I am LIVING for all the facts. Throw ‘em up and let ‘em fall where they may.
The crazy thing is, I wrote a term paper about this and got an F. I talked about how they were doing this to my old neighborhood for a paper on the plight of a disenfranchised community and the professor said it wasn’t relevant or true.
The story of the Distant Goddess is absolute proof that it’s a crime that Ancient Egyptian mythology hasn’t entered the popular conciousness in the same way as Greek stuff.
Short, super paraphrased version: Ra is sick of humanity being rebellious wee bastards, so he sends a goddess as an embodiment of his vengeance, usually Sekhmet in the form of a great fuckoff lion - first to the southern deserts to wipe out the followers of Set. She does so, and then for unspecified reasons, Ra decides maybe humanity is redeemable hey call off the murderlion. But being an embodiment of pure divine retribution, she isn’t really having it.
So Ra sends Thoth out in an effort to soothe the goddess before she arrives in the north and wipes out everything including the gods (she’s just that strong). He’s terrified, but he tries all sorts of cunning and wisdom and trickery and tells her moral tales and all that, but all he can do is delay her.
In the meantime, Ra’s priests of the north are hard at work. They brew thousands of barrels of beer, and mix pots and pots red dye. And when the goddess inevitably arrives, they mix it up and pour it into the reeds of the nile. Believing it to be the spilled blood of her enemies, she drinks it up proudly… And gets EXTREMELY drunk, calming down and transforming into Hathor, goddess of joy and love.
And once a year to celebrate this momentous occasion, Egyptians would get Absolutely Plastered.
Being able to roll your eyes at the term “cultural appropriation” is a sign of privilege. You think everyone should just do what they want right? Because you’ve never been ridiculed or shamed for your traditions, culture, features, and appearance while at the same time seeing others copy or take those traditions, culture, features, and appearance and be praised for “starting trends” or “being edgy”. Keep that in mind next time you wanna throw a temper tantrum because a black girl told you you shouldn’t wear dreads.
