angryblackgirlsunited:

TW: ANTI-BLACK DIALOGUE

SAN DIEGO - Words of hate scribbled on a note have the mother of a college student fearing for her daughter’s safety.

San Diegan Stephanie Lyons told 10News a note was slipped under her daughter’s dorm room door at UC Irvine Tuesday night.

“If they were brave enough to put that note there, who knows what extent they’ll go to next time,” Stephanie Lyons said.

According to Lyons, the note read, “… Go back 2 Africa slave …”

Lyons’ daughter, Charity, is a freshman at the school on an academic scholarship and a member of the school’s track team.

Lyons said last week an Asian student called Charity the N word. In addition, last week, an Asian fraternity at the campus was shut down for a year over a blackface video.

i’m asian american and am ashamed of how anti-black UCI is (which has a LARGE percentage of asian american students.) us non-black poc should remind ourselves hourly that we must stand in solidarity with our black brothers and sisters.

derica:

1. Seeing the darker skin at Naomi Campbell’s joints is the reason for this post. 

2. Here Naomi Campbell communicates some feeling / atmosphere / affect that fabulous and fierce Naomi Campbell is not usually invited to communicate.

3. This is skin usually evened out for editorials to create smooth lengths of mahogany and ebony. Here we’re confronted by the skin’s life and history.

4. We read Wole Soyinka’s ‘Telephone Conversation’ in English Lit. The words “has turned / My bottom raven black” prompt one of my classmates to ask me if I too have a black arse, like the man in the poem.

5. Cambridge, a decent chunk of the country’s elite is at this party, on MDMA, watching interracial porn. A friend screams ‘YUCK!’, swivels her head towards me and demands to know if my labia are also black like the woman’s in the film.

6. Here, Naomi Campbell’s body is not what black women’s bodies often are in these editorial contexts. Which is:

• contrast against the white background, clothing, other model(s)
• present as shorthand for exoticism (cue animal prints) / diva status / sass

7. Naomi Campbell’s body does not tell the viewer anything at all about whiteness - which is to say, she is not an instrument

8. Naomi Campbell’s skin is not mahogany or ebony - which is to say, she is not an ornament. Here, almost pathetically human.