I Am What I Am

Tree-top view of Great Blue Herons in amazing double flight to nest (by LabofOrnithology)

“It’s Friday…Friday’s Good!!”

Freda Payne_Bring the Boys Home (by cgray11100)

Happy Memorial Day.

dopegirlfresh:

lefthandedlibra:

Clips from the upcoming documentary exploring the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color—-particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture.

Directed by Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry
Produced by Bill Duke for Duke Media
and D. Channsin Berry for Urban Winter Entertainment
Co-Produced by Bradinn French
Edited by Bradinn French

i couldn’t even finish watching this.

it made me nauseous.

it made me angry.

Civil Rights Roundtable 1963 (by DocChannel)

Marlon Brando, James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Charlton Heston, Joseph Minklelwitz, and Sidney Poitier, talk about the Civil Rights Movement of 1963.

colorlines:

”[…] I began to cry. I thought of my ancestors, both direct and collective, who had fought and died so that I might be treated as an American. I then thought of this fetid, smug, hate-filled, wealthy white man taking credit for the release and yet still not being satisfied. It does not matter how long we’ve been in these United States. We will never be American.

So, tears in my eyes, pain in my heart and rage in my soul, I composed this video message. More than written text, it comes close to expressing my full pain at witnessing a white man who was handed everything call the President of the United States (and me) a nigger.”

• Baratunde Thurston, With President Obama’s Birth Certificate, Klansman Trump Reminds Blacks They Will Never Be American