Jack Daniels was created by a slave. Bourbon giant finally acknowledges the truth after 150 years.

The story told by the media for centuries appeared to be fake af. 

The story went that Jack Daniels recipe was created by white moonshine distiller named Dan Call who passed it down to Jack Daniel.

Now the brand has revealed it was, in fact, one of Call’s slaves Nearis Green who taught the young Daniel how to distill.

Slaves made up the majority of men working in the distilling industry who were passing ancient African techniques down through the generations.

However, like so much else appropriated from enslaved African Americans - the distillery owners would take credit for their slaves’ whisky.

The fact that Green invented the original recipe has been known to local historians for decades but was only recently acknowledged by the whisky makers and the public.

Another example of what we call “appropriation”. In this case, I would call it “theft”.

I bet none of your friends really know the truth.

Make it Viral

White people. Don’t ever again in your fucking life EVER ask my why appropriation is wrong.

so being from mississippi my grandpa would tell me stories about this and how white people took ownership. he also then started making moonshine and sold it to only black people. 

i hope he is looking down and finally at peace bc libations were his life

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Why did you just take part of my post and repost it? It all worked together for a reason and if you wanted to have it on your blog you could've just reblogged it from said blog aka @writingwithcolor. Please take this down, thanks.

squad goals

Adryan: Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Libra Derek: Gemini, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces Kyle: Aquarius, Leo, Sagittarius, Aries

ain’t this a gentrified version of a hood joke

http://imgur.com/gallery/b9tgc

OH MY GOD?

white people’s thieving ways knows no bounds. this plagiarized mess ain’t even funny and the tone is hella forced lol you can tell it ain’t authentic.

You’re mad dumb Adryan

“Came in clutch”

Copyrighted memes is the future

Racial epithets. Why does it always come down to that?

My “Pass the Read” (via bonitaapplebelle)

Black-ish 01x01 - Pilot

I enjoyed this

Word? I need to check this out.

white people (especially europeans) always wanna talk about how much they hate immigration while casually forgetting that 99% of their history is made up of invading and stealing other people’s countries smh

Ploop!

!!!

11 Words White People Love (And Almost Always Using Wrong) And Who They Got Them From

(inspired by Buzzfeed’s 23 Words Teenagers Love To Use And What They Mean)

side eyeing THE FUCK out of this. Buzzfeed needs to stop lurking around black tumblr. 

I should of known this was gonna be some shit when they got Miley on the front of this. White folks forever fucking up our language, “TBT” is does not refer to last week events what the fuck? “Doe”…….ugh, no, stop you didn’t even use it right. “YAAAAASSSS” No white people. “Turnt” they fucked this up too. “Can I get an Amen?”…..this is RuPaul’s fault. “Swerve” I ain’t never a more misunderstanding, like white people forever thinking they know what shit means and love to be an expert with their blatant ignorance.

I rebuke buzzfeed and this list to hell.

THIS IS ALL WRONG WTF

WHITE PEOPLE STOP

We can’t have shit, we can’t have shit. The only thing they got that counts cause white folks came up with that is “flannel friday” and “swag money” I ain’t never heard no black folks saying swag money….like I’m sure they had Laganja write this list.

this shit beyond problematic.

This is the best example of Cultural Appropriation from Black Culture and AAVE.  All those words with the exception of Swag Money, and Flannel Friday, is our words. That they taken credit for, and also fucked up the actual context and meaning of these words. These words have know been applied to the the general mainstream teen audience meaning white kids. White folks this is what y’all do, y’all destroy all our shit, and then take credit for it. This is why we don’t like you, this is why we can’t stand y’all this is what y’all do. Y’all pillage and claim ownership of cultures that don’t belong to you.

"Racism isn’t even that bad anymore. Get over it!"

"White people don’t steal from other people’s cultures!"

The fact you have to type in “Black” dreadlocks to actually see the very thing we created blows my life. 

So stealing from other people’s culture and throwing away the cultural significance and meaning it holds is a part of white culture???? Really. Listen to what you’re saying.

(I think it may have been sarcasm / irony but still)

This looks like it came from Gawker, in which case I think that shit was real. Gawker, Jezebel and the lot are for the most part, a bunch of white feminist/psuedo allies.

OH MY LAWD. YESSSSSSSSSSS

I JUST FEEL LIKE AS WHITE PEOPLE APPROPRIATE MORE AND MORE OF BLACKNESS RIHANNA FALLS DEEPER INTO HER OWN BLACKNESS IN DEFIANCE OF THEM AND I LOVE HER FOR THAT I LOVE HER SO FUCKING MUCH

Like they did Josephine Baker.

so this guy right here is one class-a asshole

he stated, as above, that he had created this artwork

after he gained 100s of RTs and favs, it appeared on my timeline and i recognised it as the work of Vince Low, who created a series of pieces in this style, paying homage to celebrities, mainly actors, with dyslexia

I read through the replies to his tweet, including “wow”s and “i’m so jealous of your art skill”s, and only spotted one other person who realised this was in fact not this guy’s art, though he completely dismissed this person’s comment saying “that guy stole my picture”……

so, me already being sick of this art theft shit, as i see it every day on the web, piped up

and you can read above (excuse the bad quality) that he completely dismissed me, saying i was “jealous”

ha

what angers me most is that he’s getting praise from 100s of people, and they will keep praising him because they won’t see the tweets where me and the one other person pull him up on it

ALSO, I GAVE THE FUCKER PROOF THAT IT WAS NOT HIS WORK. DOWNRIGHT, PROOF FROM AN ONLINE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT THE WORK WAS BY VINCE LOW, AND THE LITTLE DICKHOLE STILL DENIED IT

some may say i’m overreacting, and that i shouldn’t use such foul language, but i am completely sick of this bullshit. i’ve had this happen to me in the past, and it made me less inclined to create art to share on this site.

when you create something you’re proud of, that you put a lot of work into, and someone credits it as their own and people believe them and continue to praise them, even after they’ve been shown proof that they’re lying.. it is one of the most crushing things to ever experience, i know.

so if you experience something like this, it may not make a difference, but you need to at least try to expose the assholes and voice the truth

and please signal boost!!!

we need to try and stop this bullshit, because it is a serious issue.

it gets less better.

Holy shit the original artist called them out and they still swore up and down that it’s theirs. Wtf.

On Josephine Baker 

The Beautiful Ones by Micheala Angela Davis. Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture edited by Greg Tate