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December 2018

refinedlace:

the-taintedtruth:

“If you’re ever lucky enough to find a girl who is a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind, you should hold onto that. Because she’ll be yours at two in the morning and at two in the afternoon the following day. She’ll kiss you where it hurts and until it hurts. And that’s important. Someone who not only knows how to turn you on but also knows how to treat you right is someone worth a little something… and a little more than usual.”

—

Mio

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black-diaspora:

homefixin2shavemister:

nyquiljackson:

thighetician:

whiskeymolasses:

chief keef is 23 years old with 9 children and all them baby mamas are only getting $500 a month in child support. coulda got pregnant for a nigga that work at radioshack for that bullshit

Dude is losing 54,000/Year because he don’t love himself enough to pull out. Wild.

Shit. 26 with 0 nigga got me beat on fatherhood for life

One of the mother’s of his children is 43.Like,bitch wtf is wrong with you?

9 whole damn kids? When he start having them? 13?

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You’re going to receive GOOD NEWS this week.

witchfromthemidwest:

I CLAIM THAT SHIT

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guess what fucking day it is

nbralseis:

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When hipsters, Starbucks, & bike lanes pop up in your hood.

ayeyosledge:

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spaced0utcyd:

sephezade:

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iamchinyere:

prontobrontosaurusburger:

iamchinyere:

penalcolada:

stayingwoke:

macharose:

profoundreviewsandwich:

youngblackandvegan:

iamchinyere:

eee-in:

professional-non-sequitur:

dlgrahamjr:

iamchinyere:

Gentrification

Originally posted by televandalist

Detroit

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.

^^Let’s not forget white flight, redlining, and housing and public assistance discrimination. All intentional practices meant to (further) disenfranchise low income minority, specifically Black, communities and maintain economic and social opportunity disparity. Link that with the school-to-prison pipeline, and it’s like they don’t even need to push us out or lock us in these communities anymore. They just either defund schools, which discourages new teachers and stretches existing resources thinner, or wreck homelives with prejudicial policing.

But what’s new pussycat?

Gentrification also brings down the black family owned/ small businesses that actually help grow and give back to the community

Their leases go up or they get unwarranted complaints from gentrifiers that will do anything to “clean up the crime/bad apples” (aka drive out the black people) if anything its gentrification that fucks up black neighborhoods not the black people themselves

Stop watching stereotyped tv and believing everything ya racist uncle says at thanksgiving

My white roomates in college did more drugs than I’ve ever seen in my life…

I go to a PWI and hear nothing but white and Asian kids talking about smoking weed, doing lines of coke and using popping pills but y’all mfs wanna act oblivious to it.

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lovedripdrop:

catchymemes:

Wild

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moonbuckets:

a BeTtEr mOrE poSiTIve THuMbErler

right, @staff ?

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73-1:

For you, anything.

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do-it-over:

place0fperfecti0n:

you know what hurts my heart?

that someone can be so much to you, everything really, for so long. and in a matter of moments, seconds really, that person becomes nothing. all of the good becomes tainted by the bad, the anger, the fights, all the words you never thought you’d say, and all of a sudden you can’t remember what that everything really felt like. even though at the time it made you feel so much happiness, love, and compassion. you take down the pictures, rip up the love letters, you remove them from your sight, hide it all, put it in a box and throw it under your bed. only to be pulled out when your mind is racing and your heart is heavy. yet somewhere deep down they’re still sitting there, still hiding in the bottom of your heart. taking up one tiny little piece for the rest of your life, where the memories, the laughs, and the kisses all hide. you were everything to me for so long and now you’re just a box under my bed.

fuck

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sophialikestowrite:

“I think new writers are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you.”

— Asha Dornfest

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actuallywatson:

“Yesterday is heavy. Put it down”
- an anonymous six word story

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feministism:

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silkandsunlight:

“I’m starved for connection, not attention.”

— Unknown (via quotemadness)

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narutooth:

neptunain:

can someone from the science side of tumblr explain this

covalent bonds

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krxs100:

krxs100:

                       !!!!!!!!! BREAKING NEWS !!!!!!!!!!

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled former sex slave Cyntoia Brown MUST serve 51 years in prison before she is eligible for parole.

According to them:

“In today’s unanimous decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court explained that, under state law, a life sentence is a determinate sentence of 60 years,” the court wrote. “However, the sixty-year sentence can be reduced by up to 15 percent, or 9 years, by earning various sentence credits (good behavior. & getting involved in prison based education programs while incarcerated) Therefore, the Supreme Court concluded that a defendant serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder committed on or after July 1, 1995, may be eligible for release after serving at least 51 years of the sentence.“

For those of you who haven’t yet caught up to this story:

Cyntoia Brown was a 16 yr old girl, who at the time of the incident was living in a room at a Nashville InTown Suites with Allen (the man who propositioned her for sex) because her pimp and boyfriend Garion McGlothen, nick-named “Kut Throat,” insisted that she needed to earn money.

Kut Throat abused her physically and sexually throughout the approximately three week period in which she lived with him.

After Allen took her to his house, he showed Cyntoia multiple guns, including shotguns and rifles. Later in bed, as she described in court, he grabbed her violently by the genitals, his demeanor became threatening and, fearing for her life, she took a gun out of her purse and shot him.

IF YOU WANT TO HELP:

You can sign this petition 

Call Governor Bill Haslam (615)-741-2001. she has a Clemency hearing May 23rd. DEMAND JUSTICE!!

#StayWoke

The parole board split on whether Cyntoia should be granted clemency. /BillHaslam can still grant her clemency before he leaves in January. You can reach him at: phone #: (615) 741-2001; e-mail: bill.haslam@tn.gov

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aidashakur:

don’t carry that hurt into 2019 or it’s going be another toxic year.

you right.

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vhmad:

my new year’s resolution is to stop wondering if i’m good enough for other people and start wondering if they’re good enough for me

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bootyscientist2:

every once in a while, i post some outrageously niggardly content to scare off the whites and non-black PoC

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perkistani:

A wild ride from start to finish

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