searchingforknowledge:

so-treu:

Relying on family and public records and oral history, the authors (Howard Sacks is chair of the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Kenyon College; Judith Sacks is an editor and researcher) present a credible and carefully researched case which attributes authorship of the Confederate anthem Dixie to an African American family of musicians. Thomas and Ellen Snowden, liberated from slavery and having moved to the Ohio frontier, formed the Snowden Family Band; they and then their children performed banjo and fiddle music for black and white audiences from the 1850s to the early 1900s. Dan Emmett, a white minstrel performer, claimed to have written Dixie in 1859; but the authors argue that the Snowdens, who swapped songs with Emmett, either wrote the song or coauthored it. The Sacks’s analysis of 18th-century African American musical culture documents the ways in which this music was appropriated by white performers.

perfect example. the song that was the anthem for post-Civil War “lost cause” white southerners was originally created by *drumroll please*

black people yeyy!!!!!

DED. the irony is too delicious, in a wtf in this world type of way

queerhairyvag:

lettherebecramp:

lalondie:

i didn’t know mountain dew had that much cocaine

dude give me the bag of sugar taped under the mountain dew

i will just EAT it

*rethinks drink…ing style*

*pours red bull into bag of cocaine and drinks*

^^reblogging for spot-on commentary while eating from a bag of sugar (taped to a birthday cake) with a tablespoon.^^

fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:

howtobeafuckinglady:

Happy Birthday Grace <3

 Happy Birthday Grace Jones. She is 64 years young today!!

Grace Jones= REBLOG FOREVER

genderbitch:

goldenheartedrose:

trafalgarslaw:

inflateablefilth:

redlightpolitics:

rosa—sparks:

madamethursday:

[Image: A picture of a tall, very thin Black woman with her shoulder over a shorter, older white man wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing on a New York sideway.]

staghunts:

“This one is very serious, guys:

I came upon these two on the sidewalk. They were having a conversation. “Excuse me,” I said, addressing the girl: “I’m sorry to interrupt, but is there anyway I can take your photo?”

“Why would you want my photo?” she asked.

“Because you look beautiful,” I said. And she did. She was Sudanese. There is a very distinct beauty among people from the Sudan, and she was filled up with it. Suddenly the man cut in: 

“I was just telling her she was beautiful,” he said. 

Naively, I assumed I had just walked up on one stranger giving a compliment to another. I wanted to capture the moment. “Let me take your photograph together,” I said. The man seemed reluctant, he started smiling nervously and inching away. But the girl called him back. 

“Come take a picture with me,” she said. Encouraged by her attention, he returned. She put her arm around him, and I took the photo.

As I examined the photos on my camera, the man started whispering to the girl. She answered him in a loud voice: “I told you! I’m not that kind of girl.” She seemed agitated now. Finally sensing that I had misread the situation, I stepped between them. The man began hurrying down the sidewalk.

When the man left, the girl’s demeanor changed completely. She seemed shaken. Her eyes were tearing up. “He just offered me five hundred dollars to go out with him,” she said. “And then when I said ‘no,’ he offered me one thousand. Why does this always happen to me?”

“It happens a lot?” I asked.

“All the time,” she said. “I’m sorry I’m getting emotional. I just can’t go out of my house without this kind of thing happening. I have a son. I’m a mother. I would never degrade myself like that. I just don’t understand why this keeps happening.”

“Do you mind if I tell this story?” I asked.

“Please,” she said. “Tell it.”

Let’s hope this man, and all men, realize the emotional damage they are inflicting on the women they try to buy. In the meantime, feel free to SHARE.*

Dear Tumblr, fuck you for trying to erase this. 

I’m saving this post because as many times as Tumblr tries to erase this woman’s story and act like anything about this was okay, that’s as many times as I’m reposting it. They can either cut me off or stop being assnuggets about this. whichEVER. 

Do not forget this. 

Let’s make sure we all get screen shots too, in case tumblr manages to get this off again.

So, tumblr is trying to delete this? Well… no. No fucking way. You don’t go around deleting stories like this.

Reblogging just on fucking principle. If you are following me, would you please consider doing the same?

They are; I believe this is a repost because of the small amount of notes. The original post had thousands.  If I’m not mistaken, the original post was deleted because the guy’s family complained.  What about HER family, though? What about her? Simply fucking disgusting.

Please spread this far and wide so tumblr can’t kill it.

ethiopienne:

i neeed youuuu

o for fuck’s sake srsly

ahhh this. forever.