CHAD V ALEXANDRA OCASIO CORTEZ

DREAMING OF BEING AN OVERSEER AT AMAZON HIMSELF ONE DAY, CHAD SAID... 

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ON BEING BLACK AND SCARED OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY

It took me less than 10 seconds to realize this is probably true. It took me another 90 seconds to realize that I've probably had this in the back of my mind since I was a small child.

So many racist actions have been taken in the name of patriotism. So many. Immigration and "the wall" are just the latest.

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ANGELA DAVIS ON OUR WEAKEST LINKS

WHITE WOMENAll you have to do is look at every single one supporting the GOP (Grand Ole Party) Take an especially hard look at the ones sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court.

They support white male supremacy because they can marry into it's power.

Married white women have the secondary status assigned to them by their husbands. And the unmarried ones are too foolish to realize they don't have the same level of status as white men or married white women -- which is likely why a percentage of single white women like to call the police on black folks for stupid stuff -- so they can prove to themselves their whiteness is worth just as much as the next white person. 

At the very least, calling white cops on black people proves that they, as single white women, have higher status than black people. And this is very valuable to some white people. It must be. They've been seeking confirmation of white skin status for centuries. 

For example: Poor white people fought for slave owning whites for the very same reason -- to prove white skin status-- despite the fact that they were kinda fighting to slit their own throats. 

I mean, but for fighting to hold on to some kind of superiority, how hard is it to figure out that fighting for somebody else's right to have free labor is not good for you as a laborer or a farmer in competition?

BLACK MEN

This explains why so many black men (and the pick-me-s that follow them over any cliff) had a hard time seeing Killmonger as a villain in BLACK PANTHER.  Killmonger wasn't wrong on the facts. But he was dead wrong on the solution, which was rise up and take the white man's place as top oppressor.

A large percentage of non-feminist variety black men as well as the ashy-s and the hoteps, all of them want to replace the white man as top dog. 

And, lately, what that has meant is that they want the right to rape and pillage their own women....same as white men do; 

This is exactly what many black men mean to communicate to black women every single time we say #MuteRKelly and they respond by throwing some white man out in front of Kelly by saying something like, "What about Harvey Weinstein?"

And you know Kelly is being defended when they throw Weinstein's name out precisely because it's so lazy a choice. With all the white men who have skated on sex crimes, the black women and black men talking about "What about Weinstein?" have conveniently forgotten that this man has already lost his business and is being ground up (hopefully) by the justice system as we speak. 

Other than losing his record deal with SONY-RCA, R. Kelly is just walking around embarrassed -- instead of having a real chance at real prison time.

THE BLACK WOMEN 
WHO DEFEND BLACK MEN AT ANY COST

Actually, I'd make a correction to Angela's quote if I could. I'd say the weakest links in overcoming oppression in this country are white women, black men, and also black women who defend black men at any cost. 
Maybe Angela Davis would change this quote if she could too, especially now that she's seen the reaction to the SURVIVING R KELLY documentary. Black response to that television series has shown just how little black girls are seen --through the prisms of black patriarchy* and internalized-racism-- as over-sexed and lacking innocence by our own people, including black women.

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EARTHA KITT ONCE SAID...

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A MESSAGE FOR BOSSY GIRLS FROM MICHELLE OBAMA WITH LOVE ON HER BIRTHDAY

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     Michelle Obama doesn't care if you call her bossy. In fact, the former first lady encourages young women and girls to be proud of being labeled as such.

Last year in Madrid, during a tour to promote her Let Girls Learn initiative, Obama discussed the importance of breaking down gender norms.

"It means telling your sons that it's okay to cry, and your daughters that it's okay to be bossy," Obama said in the speech, as reported by Harper's Bazaar.

Obama dismissed the bossy stereotype again last year while discussing the obstacles she faced as a young girl, at a speech in Argentina for the same initiative.

In the speech, she said that she's dealt with "teachers who didn't think I was smart enough and would call on the boys instead of the girls, even though the girls had better grades."

As she got older, Obama said that she had to deal with being sexualized by men who would catcall her as if she were an object or a piece of property to be commented on. This, she said, led to self-doubt....

Read More: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/22/michelle-obama-to-young-women-its-okay-to-be-bossy.html

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WISDOM FROM JANELLE MONAE ON HER BIRTHDAY

“There was a lot of confusion and nonsense where I grew up, so I reacted by creating my own little world. [...] I began to see how music could change lives, and I began to dream about a world where every day was like anime and Broadway, where music fell from the sky and anything could happen.” 

“Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.” 

“Even if it makes others uncomfortable, I will love who I am.” 

“Bring wings to the weak and bring grace to the strong
May all evil stumble as it flies in the world
All the tribes comes and the mighty will crumble
We must brave this night and have faith in love” 

Wisdom From WINNIE MANDELA On Her Birthday

Winnie Mandela passed away earlier this year in April. And she was so right about this when she said it. And she's still correct now.

But black feminists are changing this truth of hers into fiction one day at a time.

 Fewer and fewer women are buying the negative stereotypes men perpetuate about feminists.  And the Pick-Me-s are decreasing in number every day.   

Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Brittney Cooper, Danai Gurira, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paula J Giddings,  bell hooks, Melissa Harris-Perry, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, Beverly Bond, Beyonce, John Legend and all the rest of us famous and not famous are going to see to it.

Issa Rae's show INSECURE has Toxic Masculinity as one of its themes in the third season on HBO.

We're moving and shakin' Winnie. I know you're not worried. 

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From CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE On Her Birthday

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.” 

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE

Relando said, “I’m a feminist because patriarchy is harmful to women and can hurt men as well with idealized notions of masculinity that demean and subordinate women and punish men who don’t follow suit. While male privilege is VERY real, when I think about it, we all lose collectively while patriarchy is sustained. Men need to do more.”

Approximately 1 in a trillion chance this is Renaldo

I WAS GOING TO DIE SOONER OR LATER...

I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me... 

Your silences will not protect you...  

I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night.  

Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. 

Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end.

And the speaking will get easier and easier. 

And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. 

And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."

And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is MORE frightening than speaking your truth. 

And that is NOT speaking.”

~ Audre Lorde

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MAXINE WATERS ON HER BIRTHDAY

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a life that does not show itself in protection from suffering.

The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering. The love of God did not protect His own Son. The cross was the proof of His love – that He gave that Son, that He let Him go to Calvary’s cross, though “legions of angels” might have rescued Him. He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.”

~Elizabeth Elliot

VIOLA DAVIS ON HER BIRTHDAY

ON MEN AND JEALOUSY

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LET IT OUT

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IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS GARDENS EXCERPT

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Trellie Jeffers, as quoted by Alice Walker in In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, 1983

“What then can be the destiny of a people that pampers and cherishes the blood of the white slaveholder who maimed and degraded their female ancestor? What can be the future of a class of descendants of slaves that implicitly gives slaveholders greater honor than the African women they enslaved? What can be the end of a class that pretends to honor blackness while secretly despising working class black-skinned women whose faces reveal no trace of white blood?”

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FRIDA KAHLO ON TAKING LOVERS

WHAT IS LEGAL VERSUS WHAT IS RIGHT

FEMINIST ANSWER TO THE QUESTION IS NOT OFTEN ENOUGH

DON'T GET MAD GET FUNNY: ISSA RAE

"The Council of Fashion Designers of America awards ceremony -- known as "the Oscars of the fashion industry" -- attracted some star power Monday night. 

"Insecure" star Issa Rae hosted the event at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
In her opening monologue, Rae took a swipe at Kanye West's controversial remark that 400 years of slavery for African-Americans was a "choice." "

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/entertainment/celebs-cfda-awards/index.html 

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