Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.

Thank you.

I will always re-blog this

skywritingg

I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.

Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.

thewellofastarael

I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y'all gon learn today.

Teach the children.

fifty-shadesofgay

also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.

IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.

no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.

#history #race #racism #queer #queer history

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stoneyboboney

i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because:

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live
most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person
im not a pissbaby

my white friends that have reblogged this give me life

4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP

If ur white and like this post I fux with u

^absolutely

verdant-witch

5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.

blackpoeticinjustice

i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this

#race #white people jokes #I resemble these jokes

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amaditalks

The 14th Amendment

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States…”

These words were not added to the U.S. Constitution, initially, with the children of immigrants in mind. They were added in order to assert the citizenship of enslaved people who were recently emancipated, and their children. So when Republicans start attacking the 14th Amendment and the concept of birthright citizenship, they pretend that they’re only attacking undocumented immigrants but, as in all ideas from the stronghold of American institutionalized white supremacy, they’re also attacking the legitimacy of the citizenship of every Black American who is a descendant of formerly enslaved people.

#race #racism #citizenship #republicans #something to keep in mind

pastthestorm

casual reminder for miley cyrus and her fans that queer people of color exist!!! you CANNOT be a successful queer advocate without being actively anti-racist. educate yourself. do better.

#Miley Cyrus #race #racism #LGBTQ #vmas

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tangledupinlace

the-perks-of-being-black

What it’s like to be a Black parent: unsure of, or feeling unable to protect your kids; having your children fear for your life, feeling that they must protect you. To bring life into the world that sees it as value less; to bring a life into the world that is aware of this.

#race #racism #police brutality #black lives matter

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iridessence

ethiopienne

Bree Newsome, the black woman who scaled the flag pole at the South Carolina statehouse to remove the Confederate flag, is receiving death threats after her bold action. Please send her words of encouragement!

#bree newsome #allyship #race #racism

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gothhabiba

I keep getting questions about this, so I wrote up some basic guidelines as to how white people should interact with race issues on tumblr imo (and you can extend this to irl conversations too, with a little imagination)

do:

reblog our rebloggable posts / PSAs about racism (when in doubt, ask the OP if something is okay to be reblogged)
try to educate other white people with information you’ve gotten from people of colour, preferably linked or otherwise sourced. basically just collect your trash
while you’re at it, be blunt. don’t say things like “ignorance” or “mistreatment,” say things like “racism” and “white supremacy”
take on the burden of examining how your actions speak on your own. don’t expect us to tirelessly work to educate you or morally guide you or keep you in check
however, listen when someone does decide to call you out
look up what you can easily look up (e.g. word definitions, what acronyms stand for, etc). don’t use us dictionaries or encyclopaedias, we’re people
make sure that you note that you’re white somewhere on your page, especially if you run an sj kind of blog

do NOT:

make your own rebloggable posts / PSAs on anything relating to racism (I guarantee you a person of colour has already said it better, and you’d just be speaking over us and taking credit for it)
reblog intracommunity posts or posts solely directed at other people of colour. a good guideline is that if reblogging that post would make anyone who doesn’t know your race assume that you’re anything other than white, don’t touch it
reblog, make, or otherwise participate in white people jokes or insults against white people
interact with posts that are tagged with something like “white people don’t touch” (obviously)
expect that we will perform emotional labour for you simply because you demand it (e.g., ask us questions that we have indicated that we’re not open to, get upset if we don’t respond to you, etc.)
reblog Orientalist, exotifying, or otherwise othering / voyeuristic photographs (e.g. pictures of brown kids with light eyes that were taken by white photographers, likely without permission or compensation, etc) because that’s really sketchy
tag pictures of brown + Black bodies “aesthetic” if you don’t do the same with white bodies, because that’s also really sketchy
tag pictures of Latin American / Asian / African countries with “travel” if you don’t do the same with literally every other place picture you reblog because, again, that’s really sketchy
forget that, no matter how nice of a person you think you are, you still unavoidably benefit from our oppression for as long as the system of white supremacy is in place. don’t try to distance yourself from that

feel free to ask for clarification on any of this, I’ll answer if I feel like it. there’s more information of this kind in my notes for white people tag. also iaopoc can feel free to add to this list.

#resource #race #racism #white supremacy #allyship

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iridessence

psa to white people

how/when to use the acronym PoC / poc / POC:

not in front of a noun. why would you say “PoC author” when you can say “author of colour”? poc isnt an adjective. similarly, “poc” + noun should just be noun + “of colour”
not pluralised like PoCs. you know people of colour is already plural. (people of colour)s makes no sense. stop.
not when you’re referring to a specific race. just say black or asian or whatever. there is no “poc” experience. cease.
do use it when you’re talking about people who aren’t white. even tho it’s not strictly a dichotomy, saying “not white” places white as the default.

tldr just stop throwing it around like it’s an adjective + stop being embarrassing

#race #language

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ohmslewis

Pay attention to how Rebel Wilson is received opposed to Gabourey Sidbibe.

#fat #race #racism #fat acceptance #body positivity #body politics

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sunkenlane

rniguelangel

Non-black students should be very hesitant before speaking in politically black spaces. If you can Google it, take a class, or ask a friend then don’t speak. You will be doing everyone in the room a favor. You are contributing to the mobility of the discussion by not contributing. Only in non-black, non-political spaces and in the event that a black voice is being silenced, you may echo them. You have non-black privilege and may be taken more seriously. If you really want to help the cause just re-iterate what has already been said. Otherwise, do not steal their agency and ownership of a narrative by speaking on behalf of them. You cannot “engage in conversation” because black people and their experiences have nothing to do with you. By not speaking sometimes, you are able to contribute by simply listening.

Marwa Aboubaker. At UCI: Do #BlackLivesMatter?

(Marwa is at 3asal-eswed)

#race #racism #ally ship #white anti-racism #black lives matter

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towardsanemo-nihilism

Like seriously why aren’t we talking about the fact that white trans people like Brandon Teena and Leelah Alcorn are made into symbols, have foundations opened immediately for them, are turned into fucking movies, but the names of TWOC like Islan Nettles, Alejandra Leos, Nizah Morris, Tiffany Edwards, Zoraida Reyes, Kandy Hall, and Yaz’min Shancez don’t even escape our fucking mouths.

#race #racism #trans #transgender #transphobia #intersectionality

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disciplesofmalcolm

If all the white people who claim they don’t hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we’d see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn’t want to have a South African situation … there’d be none. If white people in America didn’t want segregation, there’d be none … it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.

Malcolm X

Taken from Hakim Jamal’s book “From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me” (page 180)

#malcolm x #race #racism #ally ship #note to self

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swingsetindecember

Damon Wayans Jr. on returning to ‘New Girl’

#GIFSET #race #damon wayans jr.#new girl

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brown-nena

I love how people are justifying his death by saying he was a thug who smoked weed. I guarantee your son smokes weed Susan dont let the north face jacket and ugly ass sperrys fool you your sons a pot head

#literally half the country is trying to legalize pot and ppl think somehow a black 18 year old allegedly smoking pot deserves to die.#amazing

#race #racism #weed #ferguson #mike brown

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clementinevonradics

bostonpoetryslam

In 2010, Brent Staples coined the term Whistling Vivaldi, recounting college days when he’d hum classical music in public to put the whites around him at ease. But in Cambridge, black Harvard professors still get arrested for going home. In North Carolina, a college degree won’t stop a cop from emptying a clip into an unarmed graduate. In Detroit, an honor student’s pleas for help are only answered with shotgun. You’ve been whistling Vivaldi your whole life & even when you went to college & got that good job & wore clothes that fit you have always sounded like a police siren to them.

Mckendy Fils-Aimé, “For Those Who Whistle Vivaldi,” published in Drunk in a Midnight Choir (via bostonpoetryslam)

#race #racism #poetry #whistling vivaldi

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frenching101-blog

My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK

gawker.com

#academia #police brutality #institutional racism #race #america

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ohmslewis

if youre white stop saying ‘im sorry for being white’ or ‘as a white person, i’m sorry’ it makes you sound like youre distancing yourself from the issue. circulate posts as needed. don’t speak over us and stay aware of the system you benefit from. we dont need an ‘apology’

hey reblog this

#race #whiteness #okay