What Whites Will Never Know

could you PLEASE PLEASE tag any asks or w/e that have the r slur in them with #ableist language

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:41:00 -0400

Oh right.

I forgot to do that, as I did noticed the word. Will do.

Updated: It’s done. I’ll keep that in mind in the future as I can actually related to hearing those type of words.

stfu

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:35:43 -0400

You’re the one who pulled the fubar and turned it into a snafu. Better, stop before you it becomes tarfu and you’ll be in a tutu going chu-chu.

u need to understand that racism will always be a problem with societty. we cant change aniones retarded views, people hate minorities, some dont. all we can do is get over it.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:28:00 -0400

… can we talk about minorities for a minute?

I can talk about things like how we need to talk about the reality of policies that favors the “majority” in this graphic here, or how it’s not “hate”, but more of a “we want to make sure to keep you minorities from getting more power” type of thing…

… but instead, I will talk about…

why did you came into my inbox with typos and this? I know my grammar isn’t on point at times, but come on.

Why the Spying Scandal Is a Serious Racial Justice Issue

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:44:31 -0400

Why the Spying Scandal Is a Serious Racial Justice Issue:

sinidentidades:

Given the massive investment in national security after 9/11, recent news that the federal government is spying on hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the world may not have come as a surprise. Polls suggest that a majority of Americans are shrugging their shoulders at the revelations of a government espionage effort against them. But an uncomfortable reality of the once secret scheme is the degree to which people of color are disproportionately caught up in the government’s dragnet. That’s because the routine, legal activities of blacks, Latinos and immigrants—96 percent of whom are people of color—make them targets for monitoring in a way not true for whites.

For the over 40 million foreign born immigrants living in America—more than at any point in U.S. history—the basic act of keeping in contact with friends and family abroad is all that’s required to be sucked into the Obama administration’s electronic dragnet. Disturbingly, the fact that much of this historically broad snooping program is conducted by private companies with dubious oversight makes it that much harder for communities of color to figure out exactly what’s going on and how to curb any potential abuses.

Let’s review the key details of what’s known about these clandestine projects.

America’s intelligence services—particularly the National Security Agency, or NSA—are collecting an almost unfathomable amount of information on the phone calls, spending habits, and Internet activities of countless people in the U.S. and around the world. William Binney, a former NSA employee, estimates that the agency has collected over 20 trillion individual pieces of information on millions of people, American citizens and foreigners alike.

The sheer scale of these activities was revealed by 29 year-old Edward Snowden, another former NSA employee himself, in documents released to London’s The Guardian newspaper and The Washington Post. Snowden said that he was doing so in order to uncover an “architecture of oppression” at the heart of the U.S. government.

The efforts that Snowden exposed include the scooping up of records on the more than 3 billion daily phone calls made through carriers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Bell South. The Wall Street Journal reported that major credit card companies, such as Visa and Mastercard, are also turning over huge swaths of information on the purchases that individuals make.

But particularly troubling for people of color is the program called Prism. With Prism, the NSA works with leading Internet companies to transfer sweeping amounts of user information to the government whenever it wants—of particular interest are social media sites and sites with social media features. Data on who viewed videos uploaded to Youtube, phone calls made through Skype, IM messages sent through AOL, data saved on Apple’s iCloud, e-mails sent through Microsoft’s Hotmail as well as Google searches must be given up by these companies when the NSA asks for it. The only major Internet company to resist participation is Twitter, according to The New York Times.

We know that social media sites are used more on a proportional basis by people of color than anyone else. According to research by the Pew Research Center, blacks and Latinos in particular use social media more frequently than any other group.** That’s not just driven by culture but economics. The cost advantage, speed and reliability of social media sites—combined with their constant access and ease of use on mobile devices—have helped to close the modern digital divide. Whites are still far more likely to have telephone landlines and broadband Internet access than blacks and Latinos. People of color have closed this gap by using smartphones aggressively to access the Web. Black Americans are 20 percent more likely to have a smartphone than whites and Latinos are 10 percent more likely. And we’re eagerly engaging the growing communications economy that spawns from those devices.

For immigrant communities, that engagement can be an important part of economic life—finding jobs, connecting to global networks for both business and support, sending over $120 billion a year to relatives abroad. Those annual remittances show just how connected individuals remain to the communities they’ve left behind.

Perhaps even more important is the fact these ties sustained through social media and Web-based communications are vital to maintaining the mental health of people of color in a country where racial discrimination remains a major obstacle. To put a fine point on it, people of color are using social media to ease larger economic, social and emotional challenges of their lives in America. Ironically, their attempt to do so puts them at unique risk for greater government intrusiveness and scrutiny.

But President Obama says that these groups need not worry about Prism. He claims that those inside the U.S. aren’t targeted by the program. Snowden disputes that. “I had the authority to wiretap anyone” including “the President of the United States,” he says.

Even taken at his word, Obama’s assertions are little comfort. It all boils down to the fact that the only major legal limitation on the NSA is it’s banned from eavesdropping on communications between U.S. residents inside the nation’s borders. Communications between those outside the U.S. and people inside the country are fair game.

The Trouble With Going ‘Meta’

Prism’s potential impact on people of color, particularly immigrants, underscores the problem with so-called “metadata” initiatives. Their core defect is that they need to be massive and intrusive to work. Metadata is not concerned with just one individual, but rather with networks of individuals and their corresponding actions. Without mind boggling amounts of information, metadata initiatives just can’t reveal what the nation’s security services want them to show.

This explains why constitutional rights organizations, like the American Civil Liberties Union, are so worried about these secret metadata efforts. They worry that the very nature of these programs is to be the constant, boundless, Orwellian domestic monitoring system that many have feared for decades.

Adding to the difficulty of these initiatives is that many lay in private hands. Spying on Americans is big business in the wake of 9/11. Having granted itself expanded powers to gather intelligence after the terrorist attacks, the U.S. government found itself short on the arms and legs required to cover new ground. To fill the gap, it turned to corporations.

According to The Washington Post’s Dana Priest and William Arkin, there are over 4,000 companies in the Washington, D.C., area alone who profit from spying on Americans, 250 of them located in just one “top secret” cluster. As Priest and Arkin write, this cluster “is the largest of a dozen such clusters across the United States that are the nerve centers of Top Secret America” and its 1.1 million workers.

The challenge with such a sprawling, decentralized surveillance apparatus is that there’s no way to know precisely what it’s up to. Though the Obama administration claims that it has the legal authority under the Patriot Act to enact these programs, there’s no way to test this claim against the reality of what’s actually happening. Why? Because the vast array of data collection was and remains ultra-secret and off the books.

Therefore, Obama’s recent call for a “debate” on these programs and their “trade offs” in liberty seems a tad late. Given the way in which people of color have been targets of expanded police power in the past, historically marginalized communities need the conversation to take place with particular urgency. As a result of Edward Snowden, they might just get it.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:31:18 -0400

http://werespectdarkwomen.tumblr.com

If you are a Black woman or a Black man that thinks Black women are not beautiful, look here…

Black women are beautiful.

All skin tones. Not just the light ones. Every single shade. No matter if you’re skinny, thick or chubby… I got it covered.

how do i deal with people that are like "how about instead of fighting for gay rights or women's rights or minority rights, we have human rights. why cant we all be equal <3"

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:11:47 -0400

Simply put it like this…

“You have no rights. Rights can be given and taken away. And if you don’t believe me, tell that to…” and research the hell outta whatever answer you want to follow up on that.

Trust me, they will be left pondering what to do.

Cause chaos.

That answer literally didn't make sense. Don't talk in cryptic clues and pop culture references. That's called rhetoric, and it makes it hard to get the real core of a point across to people. Now I put it to you again - I don't think you're fighting for equality, I think you're fighting for vengeance.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:07:00 -0400

But I love talking in cryptic clues and pop culture references. I’m a geek. And I’m also a hip-hop artist. Wanna sample? Okay…

The divide been happening a long time now
Suddenly people like you want me to watch the sound
Because I realized that everything I learned are lies
Feed by the US education system + political allies
See, y’all erase slavery, reduced MLK’s bravery
Make a fool of Malcolm X’s ability and adaptability
Then you want me to simplified my statements
So you can use them as Tim Wise’s restatements
We ain’t getting nowhere is what y’all keep telling me
I’m dividing up the country is what y’all keep selling me
But honestly, I only reach only way below .0001%
who actually agrees with most of my augments
In order to fight for equality, we need to talk policies
Because there’s absurdities ever since the 13 colonies
The problem with this democracy, they wave it like a novelty
Trying to be serious is like a television comedy

So, please tell me exactly how restating stuff that people didn’t know about is “causing a divide”?

You're just dividing white and black people further. It's brilliant to call out institutional and other racism where you see it, in fact it's incredibly important. But you're going way further, it's like you're on an attack against people whose ancestors were assholes. How very eye for an eye of you.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:07:00 -0400

How come this is the most common concern? I have this in my inbox more than once…

I am causing a divide?

I mean… you know what I think when people tell me this?

“Rap music is increasing violence in America.”

Same story.

I didn’t woke up one morning and decided to become Magento. This took a process, if you will.

But seriously… talking about how people talk about racism is causing a divide… as if Trayvon Martin, Troy Davis, Sean Bell and everything you done to Black people and PoCs ain’t enough.

But my rap music is making people aware. I am sooooo gangsta.

Reblog if you once thought...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:56:32 -0400

MLK ended racism. (I once did… until I got to High School and got a proper, no-holds-barred teacher)

Seriously. I want to see how far this goes.

This is all so messy, everything involving conflicts and racism and all this. It's just - I mean, love each other, you know? We're all human, all of us. Just... don't hate, love.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:41:00 -0400

*looks at you and sits by you, listens to your heart*

*looks into your ears*

*ask you questions*

I see… you are experiencing…

Getting tense because of the elephant in the room…
I see you don’t wanna talk about White supremacy and how it was used to get White people to where they are now… and still enjoy.
I have to simplified things… and things are still over your head…
And you think instead of facing the problems, that love conquers all..

OH NOES! You’re experiencing the “Kumbaya” disease. You’re having a problem with facing reality and think people are going to transform to hippies.

*writes a prescription* I suggest you… don’t visit this blog until you spend one year off the Internet. You are clearly not in the position to help, understand or even able to face reality.

I’m sorry. *sighs* We hope you’ll feel better.

colibree: koripxo: crazy-pretty-reckless: pretty-muchamazing: ...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:26:43 -0400

colibree:

koripxo:

crazy-pretty-reckless:

pretty-muchamazing:

whiteboywaves:

sick-slut:

whiteboywaves:

inwildnessistheworld:

So you can be proud of being black, hispanic, or asian, but you can’t be proud to be white? Wtf is wrong with society?

white people are behind the worst genocides in history what your sus ass got to be proud of? the invention of graham crackers?

idk pretty sure we invented toilets or something

bitch we invented the soap to clean your filthy asses dont talk shit

Jessusssssssssss

Actually, white people invented the following;

Geography
Telescope
Microscope
Automobile
Television
Electricity
Aircrafts
Computers
The Piano
Electric Engineering
Telephone
Theory of Evolution
The Wormhole
First one’s in Space
First one’s on the Moon
Banks/Banking
The theory of Natural Selection
Theatre
Pencil
The Jet Engine
The discovery of DNA
The discovery of the Atom
The discovery of Cells
The Camera
US Constitution
Democracy
Republic

And yes, a white person did happen to invent the graham cracker.

If you want to cling to every invention that white people are responsible for throughout history as if it’s some sort of accomplishment of your own, then you should also accept responsibility for all the disgusting things that white people have done, correct? You can’t just claim the things that make you look good and disregard the history that makes you look bad. Take it all or leave it all.

Geography- The oldest known world maps date back to Islam in the 9th Century B.C.

Automobile- automobiles were base on chariots created by the Indo-Iranians.

Electricity- Nobody invented electricity, pendejo estupido. Electricity is a natural phenomena.

Computers- Computers were based on the abacus, created by the ancient Sumerians.

The Piano- The piano is based on string instruments created in ancient Mesopotamia.

The Wormhole- Einstein discovered this, and given that Einstein was a dedicate member of the NAACP and called racism America’s “worst disease”, I’m sure that he would not appreciate you using his discoveries to promote white supremacy.

Theatre- The earliest recorded theatrical event dates back to 2000 BCE with the “passion plays” of Ancient Egypt.

The Jet Engine- This is based on rockets invented by the Chinese in the 13th Century

The Discovery of the Atom- Atomism dates back to India during the 6th Century BCE

The Camera- Photographic cameras were a development of the Camera Obscura, a device dating back to the ancient Chinese.

The U.S. Constitution- The earliest known code of law dates back to the ancient Mesopotamians. The American Constitution is based on the Iroquois “Great Code of Peace”. And given that the original U.S. Constitution was used to enslave and murder thousands of people, maybe you shouldn’t be so proud of it.

Democracy- Based on the Sanghas of India during the 6th Century BCE

Republics- See above.

Nice try, white person. Practically everything you guys invented comes from PoC

friendlyneighborhoodblackgirl: The problem that I have with the “Black Is Beautiful” movement is...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:57:19 -0400

friendlyneighborhoodblackgirl:

The problem that I have with the “Black Is Beautiful” movement is that at the beginning it seemed to be so that darker black women would feel just as beautiful as lighter black women, but the focus (just like for any group made for all black women) seems to be focused more on lighter skinned women than on each skin tone.

And honestly, while there are light skinned black people who are insecure about their color we all know they are much more widely accepted among the black community and even outside the black community than those of us who are darker.

So when you make a whole movement that’s basically focused on lighter skinned women with the occasional “medium” tone and possibly a darker skinned woman when the general issue of skin color for black people is that the darker your skin, the less attractive you are deemed to be… that whole movement seems to be pretty pointless… and possibly counterproductive

Thing that disturbs me more than "White Guilt"...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:58 -0400

… is when White people think they have to travel OUTSIDE the country to get over it… as if they can’t do nothing in their “homeland”.

pocproblems: Being privileged does not mean you have to bring...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:49:03 -0400

pocproblems:

Being privileged does not mean you have to bring your white saviour complex to one of the most powerful countries in the world.

I'm not white but I'm in a primarily white class. A group of my classmates always make subtle racist black "jokes"/remarks and I want to say something but there is already a black guy in my class who doesn't say anything. Sometimes he laughs along, but the jokes are rude and I think he's just too shy to speak up. I want to overstep and say something but Im worried he'll think I find him incapable of handling his own battles. Is it acceptable for me to tell the kids off in this situation?

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:39:00 -0400

Why don’t you talk to the guy first?

I can’t speak for him, but I pick my battles. And sometimes, it’s not worth trying to combat a large class. Especially with the odds already against him.

Or he’s just not confident.

Either way, maybe talk to him first.

But in general, know what you’re up against. I mean, some would “knock some sense into you” for not minding your own business…

blackhistoryday: in October of 1982, Sheila Johnson and Charles...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:39:30 -0400

blackhistoryday:

in October of 1982, Sheila Johnson and Charles Williamson were the first black people to be featured on the cover of GQ magazine

thezone88: George Junius Stinney Jr. Was at the youngest person...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:08:37 -0400

thezone88:

George Junius Stinney Jr. Was at the youngest person ever excuted in this country. He was only 14 years old. He was small for his age only 5’1 so they had to stack books in the electric chair. He was accused of murdering two white girls, there was literally no evidence that was found against him. Today this remains one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in this country. This is a clip from a movie that told his story called carolina skeletons.

FYI: This clip is from the 1991 movie “Carolina Skeletons” which is based on that event.

Because there was literally no evidence against him (accused of murdering two white girls) …the question of Stinney’s guilt and the judicial process leading to his execution remain controversial (ie. there’s a strong possibility they executed an INNOCENT person)

Kamau and Living Colour’s Vernon Reid vist pre-teen metal...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:13:54 -0400

Kamau and Living Colour’s Vernon Reid vist pre-teen metal band Unlocking the Truth at their home in Brooklyn to see where it all began. Watch Vernon and Kamau manage to break through the trio of badass stone-faces just long enough to feel incredibly old.

whatwhiteswillneverknow: Would you like to discover what you’re...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:49:57 -0400

whatwhiteswillneverknow:

Would you like to discover what you’re made of?

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The contest ends ~~July~~ June 17th. So, go and sign up for your chance to win!

BTW, you’ll be signing up for a mailing list, which isn’t a total bad deal if you’re self-employed and looking for great deals on materials to help you take yourself to the next level. And if you want to unsubscribe, you can.

(I personally use their services and offers.)

So… come on and enter. Got nothing to lose… and maybe you can save your life!

Reposting because today is your last chance to do this. Ever want to see what you’re made of? It’s your chance! Come on. DO IT!

They say “marketing is key to maintain brand...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:18:35 -0400

They say “marketing is key to maintain brand visibility”.

So yeah, I could do fancy graphics to promote the new W3NK YouTube video series that will explore the many different topics and questions of social constructs.

But instead, I’ll be immature and leave you with Bill O’Reilly screaming.

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