Correct me if I’m wrong but no other rapper aside from Macklemore has ever paid tribute to Trayvon Martin. Aside from Plies, Wyclef Jean, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Game, Ace Hood, Lil Scrappy, Papoose and numerous other rappers. Let’s not forget Jamie Foxx and Ebony Magazine who were applauded as “wise” and “educated” for speaking out against racism. Oops, wait.
Boom! From the moment I saw that Hurricane Katrina photo side by side with coded racism in how hurricane survivors acquired resources to more recently Nicki/Miley media narratives and now Jamie/Macklemore, I keep remembering how White people and White supremacist media are not even trying. They are blatantly going to applaud the beneficiaries of oppression for saying something about what they will never experience while further oppressing the oppressed who speak out. And then they call this process of sheer White supremacy and racism being an “ally.” Both comical and disgusting.
(via gradientlair)
United Nations announces Macklemore and Ryan Lewis as its ‘equality champions’
The United Nations announced today that hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis will be joining its Free & Equal campaign as “equality champions.”
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FUCK OFF NO I WILL FIND THIS DUDE AND FUCK HIS SHIT UP OMG
Things like this make me so frustrated, I want to hurt myself
United Nations announces Macklemore and Ryan Lewis as its ‘equality champions’
Free PDF Books on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture
Found from various places online:
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Angela Y. Davis – Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis – Race, Women, and Class
The Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America- Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism – bell hooks
Feminism is for Everybody – bell hooks
outlaw culture – bell hooks
Faces at the Bottom of the Well – Derrick Bell
Sex, Power, and Consent – Anastasia Powell
I am Your Sister – Audre Lorde
Patricia Hill Collins – Black Feminist Thought
Gender Trouble – Judith Butler
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Medical Apartheid – Harriet Washington
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory – edited by Michael Warner
Colonialism/Postcolonialism – Ania Loomba
Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
This Bridge Called by Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
What is Cultural Studies? – John Storey
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture – John Storey
Michel Foucault – Interviews and Other Writings
Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3
Michel Foucault – The Archeology of Knowledge
This blog also has a lot more.
(Sorry they aren’t organized very well.)
Free PDF Books on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture
Herb goat cheese and pickled fig, courtesy of #MurraysCheese
#ExecutiveRealness…with crooked glasses. #WigSeason #GrownFolk #FierceFatty
#RussandDaughters will be the end of me. The freaking END. Btw, I have wasabi salmon (?) roe in my cleavage.
#SantaHat is back! Time to work, and by work, I mean ho-ing.
on Watching Christine Quinn
The disappointing, but not at all surprising thing about watching Speaker Quinn stump in front in Citeralla is seeing some of her staff not only ignore giving flyers to POC, but actually RECOIL from them. It’s all good for her to come up to Harlem, “WHERE ALL THE BLACK FOLK ARE”, and try to get our vote, but she’ll totally ignore us if we are below 96th Street. Apparently, we have to approach her. She seems to have forgotten that SHE needs OUR vote.
Then again, it’s not like she has a Black family to pimp out….
Joanna Meets Quinn (by Sur Madam)
Joanna, a homeless woman in NYC, allowed me to record her account of meeting Christine Quinn
SurMadam 
