That would happen to me....
Wow… Simply wow
Not in a good or bad way but in a thought provoking way.
(Source: blackpeopleconfessions)
The same thing happened to me :( Like even my mom had a problem with me having a non-POC as a bff. We have been friends for over 10 yrs and have stood the test of time.
I feel as though its an assumption that we have to be best friends with POC just because of skin color. I’m friends with people I have something in common with and I look further than skin color. I have read other black people confessions and hear “I could never be friends with a non-POC… because of this and that” and that is fine, I don’t care but don’t call me names because I choose a person who has stuck with me through thick and thin.
(Source: blackpeopleconfessions)
I am tired of saying this but… my parents and grandparents didn’t go through the Civil Rights movement and racism for us to turn this a term of endearment!!! People weren’t jailed and abused by police for this to be used as a “Hey what’s up!” Ask anyone who went through the Civil Rights movement and ask them did they do it so future POC could use it so willynilly! Watch video from that time or look at photography then justify the use of this word. If you can then I think that is a problem. I feel as though when we use this word to talk to our “friends” and “family” i feel as though we are using it in the wrong way too. I call my friends by their name because I respect them and care for them.
(Source: blackpeopleconfessions)
No.
Respectability politics never stops racism. It never has. It just lets you throw the most vulnerable under the bus in the hope they’ll focus on them and not you. History has shown, time and time again that if people want privileges fostered by inequality, they will do all they can to…
I always wonder why we don’t bring up the instances about black people who kill black people? We only say something if a Non-POC kills a POC. I understand the whole “don’t pick on my brother only I can” but we still have to be accountable for our own actions to our own. I am not down playing this boy death. It was tragic but what about the mother who lost her son to gang violence or a little girl shot in a drive-by. Do their deaths mean less because it was done by a POC?
Misfits rewatch (favourite Alisha/Simon moments) - Season 2 | Episode 3
Oh the feels… why would you post this…
(via weloveinterracial)
I would have rocked his world and ended that play with a standing ovation!
(Source: blackpeopleconfessions)
