January 2012
31 posts
Potions by Yusef Komunyakaa
The old woman made mint Candy for the children Who’d bolt through her front door, Silhouettes of the great blue Heron. She sold ten-dollar potions From a half-lit kitchen. Chinese boxes Furnished with fliers & sinkers. Sassafras & lizard tongues. They’d walk out Of the woods or drive in from cities, Clutching lovesick dollar bills At a side door that opened beside A...
I used to work in a restaurant as a waitress/server. One day I was attending to this table of ladies and I over heard them talking about Communism in an ill light. Do you know they left the restaurant mad that day and I didn’t get tipped. Because they were speaking out of ignorance and I knew all too better the price of giving them the truth…& that’s what I did. Communism and...
For Skinny Black Women, because those DO exist:... →
skinnyblackbabe:
Many ( but certainly not all) Black women and girls either want to gain up to or slim down to what is known in the Black community as “thick”. But what is thick anyway ? Who decides what is thick and what is not? The definition changes from coast to coast, state-to-state, as it seems like the…
In a perfect world there’d be no light gas...
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December 2011
33 posts
Dumb Things White People Say: I'm sure by now, →
stfuconfederates:
Most of you have seen this poster:
I really don’t like this poster. I don’t like the idea that racism is ‘stupid’ or simply comes from a place of ignorance. It denies the fact that racism has an extremely intelligent and systematic propaganda machine behind it.
Racism…
