by Miriam Lenk
oh god, can you imagine it covered in vines and moss in a garden? gorgeous it’s such a beautiful piece.
I’m thinking some graffiti tattoos are in order…
thats also how you get the 9847589748574756 rappers claiming dark women or nonmixed women are gross, when theyre unmistakebly black themselves and dark at that.
its not just selfhate, its fuckin antiblack misogyny.
its a special brand of more extreme misogyny you subject just black women to, as you praise any and everybody else.
Have you ever heard of the group psquare? They are a huge sensation all over Africa . I was at a dinner party this weekend with some other Africans when we put on their youtube video and I was surprised to see that even their music videos, all the way in Nigeria, feature a lot of women who are not black or very light skinned. And have blonde wigs and weaves on. I know Nigeria has like 167 million people and the country is very diverse but the whitewashing of even their video models in terms or their hair, ethnicity and body shapes was unbelievable.
They made us think that Africa was a land of jungles, a land of animals, a land of cannibals and savages…they were so successful in projecting this negative image of Africa, those of us here in the West of African ancestry, the Afro-American, we looked upon Africa as a hateful place…Why? Because those who oppress know that you can’t make a person hate the root without making them hate the tree. You can’t hate your own and not end up hating yourself. And since we all originated in Africa, you can’t make us hate Africa without making us hate ourselves…And what was the result? They ended up with 22 million Black people here in America who hated everything about us that was African.
—El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (1925-1965) (الحاجّ مالك الشباز), formerly Malcolm X (via 7lettersofglori)
This :
(via zenjamaican)
This... is White Privilege: #1208
White Privilege is applying for jobs and not worrying about your race being an obstacle for employment.
Too dark to work here. Braids are okay, but not dreads.
Whereas its completely cool for white girls with piercings, highlighter colored hair and covered in tattoos——its okay for THEM to…
This
Le Modèle alangui
Marrakech, Maroc
c. 1934
Jacques Majorelle
(Source: wahaladey, via dynamicafrica)
