To prevent Africans and Native Americans from uniting Europeans played skillfully on racial differences and ethnic rivalries. They kept the pot of animosity boiling. Whites turned Indians into slavehunter and slaveowners, and Africans into “Indian-fighters.” Light-skinned Africans were pitted against dark-skinned, free against enslaved, Black Indians against “pure” Africans or “pure” Indians.
William Loren Katz, Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage, p. 13 (via a-lostbird)

Whoa

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madeyouupinsidemyhead:

But please ask them nicely.  Thank you!  Also, silence your cell phones.  Keep your drinks away from the computers.  Try to stay awake.  Don’t pop your gum.  Refrain from excessive printing, etc.

madeyouupinsidemyhead:

But please ask them nicely.  Thank you!  Also, silence your cell phones.  Keep your drinks away from the computers.  Try to stay awake.  Don’t pop your gum.  Refrain from excessive printing, etc.

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dionthesocialist:

  • When POC say we’re proud of our race/skin color/ethnicity, it is a response to the dehumanization and self-hatred that imperialist peoples (read: white folks) have been using as a key tool in our oppression since, well, forever. It is a rallying cry to say, “No, we’re not…

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Fairy stories are in a sense the opposite of religion: You don’t believe them, you know you don’t believe them, they’re there in order not to be believed, and yet you need them.
A.S. Byatt. (via positivepanic)

So true!

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curiositycounts:

Read on with this multi-tasking bookworm’s best friend. 


Want!

curiositycounts:

Read on with this multi-tasking bookworm’s best friend. 

Want!

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