“Pointing out white privilege and the normalization of whiteness in ozhiphop is not an act of “blaming whitey for our problems”, its about recognising that there exists a power structure that limits Aboriginal exposure and often ignores Aboriginal artist completely. Not to mention attempts to tear down and invalidate Aboriginal artist who don’t fit in with in with the oz hip hop mold. It’s an important issue and it is not solved simply by pretending it doesn’t exist. Nor does the success of a single Aboriginal hip hop artist mean that everything is ok now.”
Darah Morris
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Would love folks thoughts about this. How do we hold anti-Black women misogyny in hip hop (and media generally), Black women’s agency, and the awesome that is black women’s dance? How do we talk about the sometimes direct correlation between street harassment and video representations of Black women?
The greatest evil in omitting or misrepresenting Black history, literature, and culture in elementary or secondary education is the unmistakable message it sends to the black child. The message is ‘your history, your culture, your language and your literature are insignificant. And so are you.
Susan Rice
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This.
Do ya’ll even know what happened yesterday in Canada?
Shit is getting real.
March on parliament hill yesterday
This is parts of what was said while they were there…sorry no time to write the whole dialogue out but you get the idea of the greatness of yesterday. This happened in the hall way.
“What is being deemed by the federal government as consultation with afn or any other political organizations is not what we stand for, we are here for our people…we are here to pose objection of any bill that is continuing to violate our inherent right as a people of Turtle Island…no longer will government tell our people what to do, this has got to stop, and this is what we’re here for. Two, three people across the land is not consolation, I represent almost 6000 people in treaty six territory nobody has come and asked me and my people for our opinion of what is being proposed today. We are here to serve notice to government enough is enough we will not tolerate we will not put up with it any more.”
~shitty response by government official~ “my colleague John Duncan blah blah blah”
“We are people we are human beings too cotrary to what legislation initially [the indian act]…it is an inherent right to land…why is government policy and legislation always wanting us to surrender land?~gets interrupted by government person~ WE WOULDN’T BE HERE IF YOU WERE FOLLOWING THE CONTITUTION…your legislation don’t mean a dam thing to us.”
the government officiall walks away
the police stop them from entering a meeting they were invited to](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_melbxrFZTw1qfw9doo1_500.jpg)
This.
Do ya’ll even know what happened yesterday in Canada?
Shit is getting real.
March on parliament hill yesterday
This is parts of what was said while they were there…sorry no time to write the whole dialogue out but you get the idea of the greatness of yesterday. This happened in the hall way.
“What is being deemed by the federal government as consultation with afn or any other political organizations is not what we stand for, we are here for our people…we are here to pose objection of any bill that is continuing to violate our inherent right as a people of Turtle Island…no longer will government tell our people what to do, this has got to stop, and this is what we’re here for. Two, three people across the land is not consolation, I represent almost 6000 people in treaty six territory nobody has come and asked me and my people for our opinion of what is being proposed today. We are here to serve notice to government enough is enough we will not tolerate we will not put up with it any more.”
~shitty response by government official~ “my colleague John Duncan blah blah blah”
“We are people we are human beings too cotrary to what legislation initially [the indian act]…it is an inherent right to land…why is government policy and legislation always wanting us to surrender land?~gets interrupted by government person~ WE WOULDN’T BE HERE IF YOU WERE FOLLOWING THE CONTITUTION…your legislation don’t mean a dam thing to us.”
the government officiall walks away
the police stop them from entering a meeting they were invited to
When you fetishize someone because of their ethnicity, you’re being racist.
You are not complimenting me.
I do not feel special, nor am I grateful for your attention.
Your attention is disturbing and feels abusive to me.
You’ve reduced me to an object of your unwanted desire.
Leave me alone.
Which reminds me: Fetishizing and stereotyping of different races and ethnicities is a huge problem that too often goes unaddressed in the mainstream porn industry.
“different races and ethnicities”
Different than white you mean.
When feminists can see the problem with all male panels but can’t see the problem with all white television programmes, it’s worth questioning who they’re really fighting for.
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Jada Pinkett-Smith: “The War on Men Through the Degradation of Woman”
“How is man to recognize his full self, his full power through the eye’s of an incomplete woman? The woman who has been stripped of Goddess recognition and diminished to a big ass and full breast for physical comfort only.
The woman who has been silenced so she may forget her spiritual essence because her words stir too much thought outside of the pleasure space. The woman who has been diminished to covering all that rots inside of her with weaves and red bottom shoes.
I am sure the men, who restructured our societies from cultures that honored woman, had no idea of the outcome. They had no idea that eventually, even men would render themselves empty and longing for meaning, depth and connection.There is a deep sadness when I witness a man that can’t recognize the emptiness he feels when he objectifies himself as a bank and truly believes he can buy love with things and status. It is painful to witness the betrayal when a woman takes him up on that offer.He doesn’t recognize that the [creation] of a half woman has contributed to his repressed anger and frustration of feeling he is not enough. He then may love no woman or keep many half women as his prize.He doesn’t recognize that it’s his submersion in the imbalanced warrior culture, where violence is the means of getting respect and power, as the reason he can break the face of the woman who bore him 4 four children.When woman is lost, so is man. The truth is, woman is the window to a man’s heart and a man’s heart is the gateway to his soul.Power and control will NEVER out weigh love.May we all find our way.”~ Jada Pinkett-Smith, Sinuous Magazine](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_men6sjAHjN1qf5iito1_500.jpg)
Jada Pinkett-Smith: “The War on Men Through the Degradation of Woman”
“How is man to recognize his full self, his full power through the eye’s of an incomplete woman? The woman who has been stripped of Goddess recognition and diminished to a big ass and full breast for physical comfort only.
The woman who has been silenced so she may forget her spiritual essence because her words stir too much thought outside of the pleasure space. The woman who has been diminished to covering all that rots inside of her with weaves and red bottom shoes.
I am sure the men, who restructured our societies from cultures that honored woman, had no idea of the outcome. They had no idea that eventually, even men would render themselves empty and longing for meaning, depth and connection.
There is a deep sadness when I witness a man that can’t recognize the emptiness he feels when he objectifies himself as a bank and truly believes he can buy love with things and status. It is painful to witness the betrayal when a woman takes him up on that offer.
He doesn’t recognize that the [creation] of a half woman has contributed to his repressed anger and frustration of feeling he is not enough. He then may love no woman or keep many half women as his prize.
He doesn’t recognize that it’s his submersion in the imbalanced warrior culture, where violence is the means of getting respect and power, as the reason he can break the face of the woman who bore him 4 four children.
When woman is lost, so is man. The truth is, woman is the window to a man’s heart and a man’s heart is the gateway to his soul.
Power and control will NEVER out weigh love.
May we all find our way.”
~ Jada Pinkett-Smith, Sinuous Magazine
“..pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence..”
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
@TheBlackVoice: They say we are “playing the race card” every time we speak about our oppression.yet they still benefit off our contribution to this country
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DARAH MUSIC presents Darah – Aboriginal Style (The Album)
Download Link - http://www.mediafire.com/?7as68vf4abnwafn or http://uploaded.to/file/um480sz8
“I’m a survivor you can’t stop me from rising, Blackfella born raised for my people I’m ridin’…”
Aboriginal…
Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if you don’t know how to use it, if you don’t know where to point it, or what you’re using it for, you can end up shooting yourself in the foot or killing your sisters or brothers.
Assata Shakur
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I feel the same way when I see ppl rock ‘authentic’ moccasins .
“We’ve been ‘cool’ for a very long time, and in that sense our culture has been taken for a very long time. How do we define when we’ve arrived? It’s not when a young, white girl in Berkley is wearing nice garlands or those nice buddhist beads, or wearing bindi. I don’t feel like my life in anyway has been improved because she has the ability to do that and thinks that’s okay. My life hasn’t improved. The life of my mother has not improved. Our voice as a community within this economic system has not improved.
A good friend of mine, she’s south Indian, and she grew up in Connecticut. Her mom would make her wear her bindi and go to school. She would get harassed by kids… she would be harassed so much that what she would do, is that because she was so ashamed to have that bindi on her head, she would leave her house, wipe it off… and then come home and put it back on.
To the point where a child would have to think about such a deliberate attempt to refute their own culture I think is pretty profound. If there’s a white girl wearing a bindi walking down central avenue in the heights, she’s not considered a dot head, even though she has a dot on her head.
For me, the feeling is disgust and anger. The way I look at it if I see it, I just get so mad because I think, how dare this person be able to wear that, or hold that, or put that statue in her house and not take any of the oppression for that. How dare they. That’s not fair. We have to take so much heat and repression for expressing ourselves.
I’m going to rip that thing off your head, and I’m going to scrub that mehndi off your hands, because you don’t have the right to wear it. Until the day when you walk in our shoes, and you face what we face… the pain, and the shame, and the hurt, and the fear, you don’t have the right to wear that. It is not your right, and you’re not worthy of it. I feel like it’s so superficial and it’s so disrespected. One day, wake up, be me, and then you’ll see how powerful what you’re wearing is. “
—Raahi Reddy, Yellow Apparel: When the Coolie Becomes Cool
