WHY DO PEOPLE USE GANDHI AS AN EXAMPLE OF SUCCESSFUL NONVIOLENT PROTEST??? HE LITERALLY WANTED THE BRITISH TO FUCKING WIN HE HATED DARK-SKINNED INDIANS HE HATED BLACK PEOPLE HE WAS ON THE SIDE OF THE BRITISH POLICE FOR FUCK SAKES HE WAS A HORRIBLE DESPICABLE HUMAN BEING SO FUCK YOU FOR USING GANDHI AS AN EXCUSE NOT TO MENTION HE WAS MISOGYNISTIC, A DOMESTIC ABUSER, AND HOMOPHOBIC AS HELL 

so i think i mentioned how my entire junior class got to sit in our auditorium and listen to ruby bridges talk about racism for two hours yesterday, but i didn’t talk about one of the most powerful moments in the presentation?

so we got to the end—like, the last twenty minutes—and she asked for questions. and we had a few standard questions (”how do you feel about people taking their education for granted?” “what would you say to the people who stood outside and protested you going to school if you met them again?”) but there was this kid waiting in the question line fidgeting nervously. and everybody could see it?? when he finally got up to ask his question, he asked her about her opinion on the events on ferguson.

and she mentioned her sons again, who she talked about earlier in the presentation. and then she told us about her son who was murdered. and she talked about the mothers who had their children taken away and how if you took a life unjustly and forsake your role as a keeper of the peace, you should be punished. and then she talked about how everybody chooses a side in this thing; good and evil.

and then she said that racism today is scarier than it was to her when she was growing up.

and the entire junior class was silent.

Africans didn’t sell “their own people” because Africa has never been a homogenous land. People who were handed over to European slave traders for profit were POW and indentured servants. Those folks were loaned labor that African believed would be returned after Europeans received the labor they were looking for.

Nobody could predict what would happen to Africans once they made it to the New World. Nobody could predict the vile conditions that they would be placed in as well as the generational oppression they and their offspring would face. Additionally African nations began to cut ties with European traders once those European nations started to become greedy and hostile. When the populations of african nations started to deplete and African royalty were being kidnapped and dragged into chattel slavery there was a problem.

African people literally fought against European colonialism once they found out what exactly European were up to. Unfortunately African leaders were executed for resisting European forces and their lands taken over by colonizers. This revisionary tale about chattel slavery propagated by white people and their apologist, telling the lie that Africans share equal blame for chattel slavery is a gross attempt to warp the narrative.

It’s the same as “the first slave owner in America was black”, a small grain of truth at the center of a fistful of white nonsense. Even with all that said no one made European create race based chattel slavery. No one put a gun to their head making them strip people of their humanity, create whole economies off of that dehumanization, and implement shady systems that would uphold white supremacy for generations to come.

Chattel Slavery =/= indentured slavery or religious slavery so people need to stop conflating. White slaves weren’t slaves because they were WHITE, Africa NEVER had race based slavery EVER. This is the reason why white people are not living with a legacy that still marginalizes based on their race till this day.

god, i hate teenage girls, they’re so vapid and awful

like, let’s go over a list of all the terrible things teenage girls have done

• volunteered for the first line of defense at the battle of stalingrad to fight against nazis
• invented science fiction
• rode twice as far as paul revere, in the pouring rain and alone, to alert americans to the approaching british during the revolutionary war
• pioneered the art of investigative journalism, and its use as a tool of social justice
• turned the tide of the hundred years’ war
• put themselves in the line of fire, often literally, in order to help end injustice
• organized a student strike that helped spark brown v. board
• hid from the nazis in an annex for two years and found such great poignancy in their experience that their ordinary day-to-day-thoughts have become world famous
• led lewis and clark across the north american continent— while pregnant/raising a child
• worked to desegregate schools in 1835, as well as to end slavery
• helped found the aclu and fought for women’s suffrage; also, got arrested for being radical socialists
• wrote the first known work of literature by an american black person

like, god, what a bunch of bubbleheaded excuses for human beings

I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.