Fun fact: The original models for the statue were black women. White people, even scholars, will obviously fight you on this and on what it all means, but it’s an undeniable fact. The sculptor based his designs for Liberty on a concept for a colossal statue he had been working on based on Egyptian sculpture and using…

You should laugh at your own ignorance. You have not done homework on this topic, clearly.

The same people bitching about Okoumou “defiling” the Statue of Liberty on the 4th of July are shrugging their shoulders over the 8 GOP Senators and Reps spending the same day in Moscow asking Putin if he prefers butter or jelly when Trump tosses his salad on the 16th.

That’s horrible, and also would have made her point, and inconvenienced tourists by closing the attraction for a lot longer.

Damn, that was a powerful read.

That’s great but how about some protection? White men have been openingly coming for black women and children in public.  How about having our backs? Don’t let trashy Becky use her bbc addiction to be an asshole. And admit you’re not getting reputations between her legs. And stop bitching about us in your music, on the…

Thank you very much for sharing that part of Frederick Douglass’s speech-of course, ALL of it is wonderful-and still so valid, sadly.

black women have always been at the forefront   (the 2nd woman is the mother of esteemed horror writer tananarive due):

There is an unfortunate collateral damage of ruining a tour for a large number of tourists who probably already got robbed by NYC hotdog vendors whilst waiting hours for the boat to the island. Other than that, I am sure this amazing protest and the name of this great American, Okoumau, will endure in our memories for…

My fave grey comment is saying shit like “this isn’t what MLK died for.”

The best part of this story, to me, is how the closure of the monument is described as an “evacuation”.  Oh noes, someone was climbing on the statue, send in the Red Cross!  I hope there were warm blankets and hot cocoa ready along with the crisis counselors.  

So according to white person pulled from the greys the forced separation of children from parents and placing them in concentration camps, destroying records so that they can’t be reunited, all for seeking asylum and/or committing a civil misdemeanor isn’t an actual issue or mistreatment. 

At first I was like “what?”, and then I was like “OOoohh, I get it; the President’s a fucking moron.”

Spoken like someone who’s been raised to believe his perspective is the only way the world works. 

Can I watch this without seeing the first one? Black Panther is pretty much the only Marvel movie I’ve seen other than the first Iron Man.

The unseasoned are SHOOK 

Apparently there’s a hidden Hollywood rule that any black actress under 40 who gets a role has to pass the brown bag test and racial diversity mostly means white guys get their choice of light-skinned or multiracial black women as love interests.

Maybe since Falcon is the guy who literally said the government will go Mark Furhman on his black ass, he knew he had a better chance as a fugitive than getting a fair deal from the justice system.

I said this in the thread about the congresswoman who was campaigning; it’s already insulting that they think we’re stealing, but it’s more insulting that they think we’re such bad fucking thieves.

and being there for an hour! it’s a brilliant criminal setup...really lull them into feeling safe and just at that moment grab the money you just gave them!