February 2012
when people justify anti-blackness in academic terms like theyre fucking smart for it: typical whiteness-based fail.
you may be educated, but youre dumb and racist as fuck.
Anonymous asked: do you think blackness can be exclusionary & plays into oppression olympics when it is brought up in terms of black exceptionalism?
Anonymous asked: hey i wanted to know if u know where in africa dominicans came from exactly? like, which region? east/south/etc. & if you any book/any site, anything i can read to further my knolwedge ..
Anonymous asked: Am I wrong to get pissed off when white people tell me how jealous they are of my afro and how they'd kill to have hair like mine? Because it makes me want to choke a bitch lol. Especially after years of being teased by little white kids because of it.
Anonymous asked: u are so cute. lol like youre just a cute and funny and whip smart person.
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sometimes it ain't that complicated
R: Men are so complicated. We just want sex and they're all sensitive about it.
H: I mean to be fair when we had sex he did all the work, because I was like, he doesn't deserve my doing anything that requires real effort. We joked about it a lot actually. Plus he's Dominican so he's gonna think that if I take charge too much then that emasculates him or some shit that backwards Dominicans think.
R: Word yo. Like "she's trying to use a strap-on and be the man" kind of thinking Dominicans.
H: Well as I told my friend J -- at the Dominican student conference, which is likely the next time I will see him, I'm getting it in. So he can get with the program, or I will find a hotter Dominican with an even larger penis.
R: There's always a hotter Dominican with a bigger penis. Always.
dreaminginspanish:
Le doy mil gracias a dios por ser negro. Si hoy estoy vivo es porque mis ancestros fueron fuerte y pudieron sobrevivir las torturas de los blancos. En mi cuerpo corre sangre negra y de eso estoy orgulloso. Si en mi sangre también hay esclavitud pero eso me hace aun mas fuerte y si tuviera la oportunidad de ser blanco no lo haría, porque al final los inocentes siempre...
Anonymous asked: wouldn't you watch a porn that would be just people cuddling and making out, no sex/nudity? i would watch that.
CDC on racial differences in drug use:
“White high school students are seven times more likely than blacks to have used cocaine; eight times more likely to have smoked crack; ten times more likely to have used LSD and seven times more likely to have used heroin. What’s more, white youth ages 12-17 are more likely to sell drugs: 34% more likely, in fact than their black counterparts. And it ...
HIV Stops With Me
lati-negros:
foto of HIV activist who is living positive Jahlove a AfroLatino from NYC.
foto credit @C.Read
larepublicadedet:
That awkward moment when the ex-boyfriend asked “you wanna wear the pants, don’t you?” in a tone of all in jest seriousness.
I still don’t know what that even means and how it even got to the point of me being asked this? It’s like a guilting question … a ridiculous ass question …
‘Relationships + race + gender +class’
What is it about women who perform themselves in a...
vagabondaesthetics replied to your post: i confess: i have a terrible crush on skin…
Is that a snake?
not quite.
i confess:
i have a terrible crush on skin diamond.
i confess:
i used to be a boy scout.
yes, a BOY scout.
there are no girl scouts in the DR and i decided i wanted in and they said “but the rules” and i said “fuck da rules”
and they were like “ahh fine”
and i went to maybe 3 or 4 meetings and quit out of boredom LOL
Anonymous asked: Difference between polyamory and polygamy?
Anonymous asked: I am Puerto Rican and I have an afro, but very pale skin. I moved to the states when I was pretty young and white people could tell I wasn't white, so they treated me like shit, but when I went back to PR every summer, people there and my family called me a whitewashed traitor. It really fucks with my identity, ya know? And I don't feel comfortable talking about my struggles because...
Anonymous asked: Do you sincerely believe in bisexuality? Also, how can people be in a polygamous relationship?
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DICTIONARY : TAINO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE...
unaguerrasinfondo:
Abá.-Arbusto de la isia de Pinos. (Pichardo.) Abacoa.-Nombre boriqueño del río Grande, de Arecibo. Conservado el vocablo en el Informe dado al Rey en 1582, por el Bachiller Santa Clara y el Pbro. Juan Ponce de León, nieto del Conquistador. Abey.-Arbol silvestre de Cuba. (Poepigía exelsa.) Abuje.-Insectillo que pica y provoca comezón. En las cercanias de Holguin (Cuba) según...
Anonymous asked: Do you consider yourself Black? Why do others have a hard time accepting it and having that pride?
sweetietooth asked: I want to start experimenting with bold eyeshadow colors, but I'm not sure how to start. Could you help me please? I have the same skin tone as you and think that you are bold and beautiful :)
Anonymous asked: Do u believe in romantic love?
Anonymous asked: Why do people get pissy when others say "black love" when they see a black, healthy couple? It's sad that we have to reward these couples with so much praise because what we usually see presented to us are broken black couples. What do you think?
makeitthroughthis asked: Alls I'm saying is, look at our peoples who been out in the sun, working and working, and compare them to white folks who covered up and hid themselves and they *still* look better. I don't even wanna compare between our peoples who been struggling with addiction and white addicts, cause, uh...*whispers real close* we still look better.
makeitthroughthis asked: I was just talking about this the other day. I feel like I remember seeing a blurb on melanin being a major anti-aging element. Like, if you had it, your skin could hold up a lot better against basic environmental factors. Plus there's the fact that we're all magical. *poker face*
United.
konichiwabrooklyn submitted: 2012-02-25 21:39
Saw your blog name, had to click on it…. Skimmed through your page and loved the fact that I wasn’t the only Afro-Latina who existed (because for a minute, I wasn’t sure what was going on)… nonetheless, just shouting out a fellow queen.
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Anonymous asked: Is it offensive to say white people don't generally age well? I've never looked at facts but in my household full of brown faces, I got taught that growing up.
i just wanted to say
thank you tumblr
because as fucking insufferable as some folks on here can be,
i have ended up connected to and meeting so many amazing people, who are all after my own heart…
<3 <3 <3
yo and fuck gaga,
fuckin celia cruz did it first, bitch.
I gotta say
unaguerrasinfondo:
I think it is completely bizarre that so many in the USA treat black latinos like its a ‘new thing’ when most of the most recognized latino figures are black. I’ll just drop two big names, Celia Cruz and Roberto Clemente. At one point in time Roberto Clemente was the most recognized Puerto Rican in the entire world. -and it wasn’t a secret to the sports world! nearly all of...
Milkee Mountain Mama: on a "trying to be more... →
milkeemountainmama:
had an interesting thought—there’s always SO much “feminine” energy wrapped up in alternative healing methods (like: reiki, acupuncture, etc). i don’t know how that energy *got* there—like, if the original manifestations of the reiki conciously presented itself in a feminine power—or if it became…
yo…this. and im so a macha/femme omgah that is it. i am a total...
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I love you all to bits
blackamazon:
But If I get on, get scared or whatever I’m nuking this tumblr my blog , emailing about 100 of ya and riding ff into the sunset
i already know i will likely end up having to do this as well.
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sexism & the black community
daniellemertina:
I think the myth of there being a matriarchy in the black community is willful dismissal on behalf of white feminism… or just any notion of black women being less oppressed by their men than white women are by theirs
I actually heard (in white feminist land) the explanation that since white men are the ones with the power, they can act out more misogyny/ sexism unto white women...
So the message I'm getting is
blackamazon:
under the blah blah BLah:
A black celebrity is always a role model, because being talented in their field is not enough, the must justify this attention.
A woman who does not act the way we want after she is abused is forfeiting her right not to be abused by us as well, we can ignore her requests and non consent to ” teach people”
White women have no obligation to WOC regarding...
unaguerrasinfondo replied to your post: somebody was bumpin the hell outta jon secada…
must be some collective short term memory. did everyone forget that celia cruz has been on american tv since the 50s? or that at one point in time roberto clemente was the most popular, most recognized puerto rican on earth?
chile, yes.
*coughs* rosie perez *coughs*
i mean… :|
this, to me, is...
somebody was bumpin the hell outta jon secada right now
and i was thinking, how dare these amerikkkan motherfuckers come up on afrolatinos in fucking 2011
talmbout “we just discovered you”
when you was jammin to a negro who you knew good and well is latino in the 90’s? lol
didnt him and toni braxton used to be an item, even?
i see ya’ll, selective memory ass...
Anonymous asked: <3
Anonymous asked: I wish I could hug you right now. I'm so sorry that this happened to you and it keeps happening to other women, especially those that society deems unnecessary. Our bodies are not our own and I get sick and tired of me and mine not being safe because of the melanin of our skin. Again, I wish I could just hug and make the pain go away. - Marsha, la panameña
blackamazon:
karnythia:
baddominicana:
and this burns me up especially, coz this is something i rarely talk about,
but the guy i was dating, who raped me, (he was 23, i was 16) got me drunk first. :/
and even in the haze i still said no at least a hundred times.
and even then it was still a game to him, as far he was concerned, my body was never my own? men reserve the right to...
“So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t...”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via volviomarilia)