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thenoobyorker:
The White Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole [The Atlantic]
If Americans want to care about Africa, maybe they should consider evaluating American foreign policy, which they already play a direct role in through elections, before they impose themselves on Africa itself.
There’s no point in quoting the entire piece, just read it.
I really admire Teju Cole. Somebody needs to keep it real.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m18tt8Bvqd1qzs6yjo1_500.png)
![daniellemertina:
thenoobyorker:
The White Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole [The Atlantic]
If Americans want to care about Africa, maybe they should consider evaluating American foreign policy, which they already play a direct role in through elections, before they impose themselves on Africa itself.
There’s no point in quoting the entire piece, just read it.
I really admire Teju Cole. Somebody needs to keep it real.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m18tt8Bvqd1qzs6yjo1_1280.png)
The White Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole [The Atlantic]
If Americans want to care about Africa, maybe they should consider evaluating American foreign policy, which they already play a direct role in through elections, before they impose themselves on Africa itself.
There’s no point in quoting the entire piece, just read it.
I really admire Teju Cole. Somebody needs to keep it real.
Claude McKay #BlackHistoryMonth Tribute Design (2/9/12)
-(via howiviewafrica)If you expect the present day school system to give history to you, you are dreaming. This, we have to do ourselves. The Chinese didn’t go out in the world and beg people to teach Chinese studies or let them teach Chinese studies. The Japanese didn’t do that either. People don’t beg other people to restore their history; they do it themselves.
-John Henrik Clarke
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Willie Cole
Five Beauties Rising, 2012.
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Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967 (via killertofutaylor)
White privilege is being able to think of white privilege as an intellectual concept, rather than an inescapable reality with tangible effects.
CS: Ladies, gents and folks, we’ve made it to 1000.
IBEJI: African Orishas of Youth & Vitality. Also known as the “SACRED TWINS”. One male & one female child.
models: Little Jaylen & Jaida
stylist/photographer: James C. LewisI really do know what Cosmic Yoruba means now about these pictures. It’s beginning to get Irritating. Yes they are African divinities but please give credit to the appropriate Ethnic groups when using this stuff. They are Yoruba Orisha’s, they cultural framework for Orisha come from Yorubaland, Ibeji is a Yoruba word.
It’s not me telling people off I’m saying give these belief systems the proper cultural framework.
(Source: zausworld)
We must always remember that before Dr. King made reference to “The Dream” he said, “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free… the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of di…scrimination…the Negro lives on a lonely island of…