Mothering Is Love By Any Means Necessary

[neo_prodigy]

The Mother Of All Link Roundups

-My internet wife afro_dyte pens a brilliant piece on why POCs need to create our own social justice movement. Not just battling racism, but sexism, homophobia and other forms of institutional oppression.

Because I will state once again. As the fail on Racebending taught us, when white people are able to make

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[underlankers]

What Witchsistah said about "there are centuries of POC writing they can read" is entirely accurate. I think the most profound writings I've read by POCs were The Autobiography of Malcolm X and The Narrative of Frederick Douglass. Two books, both testament to brilliant, courageous men.

And you're right also that people who always learn but never apply aren't that useful because always learning without stopping to consider how that learning is applied is not really learning in itself, it's an excuse to remain passive and avoid ever doing something useful but not be blatant about it.

As usual an awesome, thoughtful post, Neo.

[neo_prodigy]

Thank you.

A few times I've posted Douglass's speech on What The Fourth Of July Means To The Negro. The setup for anyone else reading is a bunch of liberal white folks were expecting him to give a nice safe speech on how America is so wonderful. So you already know how shocked they were when he told them how he REALLY felt.

Centuries later, too many white folks are still flipping their shit when POCs express how we REALLY feel when it comes to our experiences.

[underlankers]

I do indeed. Douglass to me is one of the most awesome figures of his time in US history, period, and it's a pity that most histories of the 19th Century USA tend to overlook him (and also obfuscate the degree to which he worked for suffrage for white women). There's another speech by a WOC activist, Maria Stewart that I think is quite relevant to the mindset discussed here:

http://www.blackpast.org/?q=1832-maria-w-stewart-why-sit-ye-here-and-die

[witchsistah]

Actually, that was a quote from a link to Guerrilla Mama Medicine. I didn't write that. I cut and pasted that from her site. Just want to give credit where credit is truly due.

[neo_prodigy]

Hopefully the event will pick up and become an international event.

[box_in_the_box]

It is a proven fact that any woman becomes even hotter when dressed as the Baroness. She is the reason why entire generations of American men are so dangerously susceptible to the charms of sneering, glasses-wearing women with weird accents who are enemies of American freedom:

[neo_prodigy]

Like that's ever stopped men. LOL!!!

[neo_prodigy]

*is dead*

[leoprincess]

*head desks @ the Bill Nye post*

[night_train_fm]

Which was hilarious because when he greeted me by name (with the mask on), he didn't understand why I slowly began backing away.

Best. Day. Ever.