i hate the term "POC" i honestly dont know why people who identify as such use it.
it reads as this:
person.
and then there's a person of color.
i'm not anybody's exception. it makes white the standard.
This is brilliant and I’m doing this.
Agreeing with the almost all of these candy takes
Just now realizing
Maybe I just don’t like candy
I’m in a professional transition so I have to change my handle and pic and everything and wah internet identity is so weird
They’re calling us doomers for naming lethal sociopolitical patterns that have existed for centuries, calling out reality, and insisting that they act differently
We’ve been through unconscionable brutality, maybe listen to us?
You might live in praxis, but we’ve been forced to live in practice
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
I’ve been trying to find this documentary forever. Thank you for sharing so I can forward it to some people who really need their eyes opened 🙏🏾
some friendly advice: if you’re not Black and you see two Black people talking to each other on here, consider the possibility that the dialect is more unfamiliar to you than you think it is and the unspoken communication that is obvious to them may not be obvious to you
Y'all be thinkin your white mutuals are cool people but I be scrolling through BHM to see if they shared ANYTHING Black at all.
They very rarely do and y'all should honestly check. Lol..
The United States's "beef" with Iran started during the 1979 Hostage Crisis, where they held 62 American hostages they believed were spies.
What they dont tell you is they released all the Black hostages because they considered American Blacks to be oppressed
www.nytimes.com/1979/11/20/a...
(And also, the "culture discussions don't get traction here" argument is a white user problem. We don't have that problem on Blacksky.)
OMG DO IT. I played for hours today. It’s really well done and accessible. And so forgiving! Let me know if you get into it. It’s my “main game” right now. I’m slow at but I’m loving it. And it’s great that it’s super cute too ☺️
Echoes of Wisdom is everything I’ve ever wanted in a Zelda game
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾!!!
I’m in a polycule with my Birkenstocks and Subaru
I just found a deep cut I’ve been searching for since 2007… I think I can do anything now 😭
!!!!!!!!!!!
If you’re 3 people walking side by side on the sidewalk toward me
and one of you doesn’t move
I’m not walking on the street or the grass
I guess we’re just gonna have to run into each other 🤷🏾♀️
(And yes, you know what kind of people refuse to move for someone who looks like me)
I was just in my feelings reading reading an obituary on a funeral website and a pop-up ad came up. Why?
Yes! I was listening to the soundtrack this morning. So many feelings.
So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...
“Natural flavorings” in the ingredients list often include castoreum, which is derived from beaver castor sacs and often mixed with urine and anal gland secretions. The American food industry is fucked, knowledge is power
I swear to God if the government murders me in cold blood and you niggas call the Jabbawockeez I'm coming back to haunt y'all
It is.. a LOT. I’m halfway through and 😵💫 (But worth watching!)
Watching this ANTM docuseries is reminding me that you can’t use the “times were different back then” excuse for everything
I’ve always wondered, is there a setting that capitalizes every word you text? No judgment, I just see it sometimes and it just seems like a lot of effort to text that way
One of the best things about this app is being able to open links in my preferred browser. Because I will never use an in-app browser. Like, why?
Video screenshot of a school boy with his arm pulled back, ready to punch a kid who was defending ICE
If I send you this, it means I warned you
