melancholynecrokiss:

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blunthought:

Bobby Seale looking over bags of food being donated to the black community.

I think it’s telling that folks are more likely to circulate images of the BPP holding guns than they are of them passing out food. Even folks who supposedly support/ed the party. Guns are sexy and ~political~and virulent and masculine—groceries bags of food—that’s not what revolution is about. Except, that’s exactly what revolution is about.

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this is why, this is why the government destroyed the BPP, because they were winning the hearts and minds of the people, and most importantly the YOUTH..

Free food to people who need it is more revolutionary than ten thousand bullets.

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gdfalksen:

Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.

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justamus:

A rare vintage photograph of an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan.

Often mistakenly referred to as “female samurai”, female warriors have a long history in Japan, beginning long before samurai emerged as a warrior class.

dude look at how cool this lady is

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pythons:

A photo by Liu Heung Shing, featuring a young couple hiding beneath a bridge in 1989 when Beijing had been placed under Martial Law.

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[Ian McEwan] recalls, while researching Atonement, how he came across a letter in the Imperial War Museum from a young lieutenant to his fiancee written as his company was withdrawing from Belgium and all of France seemed on fire.

‘He wrote, “This is the end of civilisation. I don’t see how we are ever going to get out of this.” He’d just seen 20 or 30 orphans lying on the ground, killed by the shelling of the city centre. In a letter sent by the very last post available, he told her to go and see his father and borrow 80 guineas and buy the house they had seen. He said “only ordinariness will save us”.

‘It was a sort of proposal of marriage and reading that I thought something of my own parents and their generation – they seemed so timid and boring in their love of ordinariness and domestic life and simple things. That was why they went on about the new colour TV or the car they polished every Sunday, the regular unthreatening life. They’d seen things we’d never seen.’

mizjenkins:

Eve Arnold
School for black civil rights activists; young girl being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face
Virginia, 1960

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bundesligaclassic:

The epitome of the 1980’s “hard man” in German football.  Ewald Lienen curses his luck, and Werder Bremen’s Norbert Siegmann, after a challenge caused a 25 centimeter tear on Lienen’s thigh in 1981.  ”The most famous foul in Bundesliga history.” 

We use our criminal justice system to label people of color ‘criminals’ and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

owsposters:

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That’s why there is no need for an Ivory Magazine, White History Month or White Entertainment Television. Look at Seventeen, Elle, Vogue, W Magazine, Fox, Vh1, MTV, NBC, CBS, Philosophy/History/Anthropology classes. They all talk showcase, discuss and study whiteness.. this all belongs to you. It’s run by the white people, of the white people and for the white people. The fact that there needs to even be ethnic classes aside from regular History courses should be a good indicator of how non-existent we are in the grand scheme of things.