Mental Purgatory

I’m Eve, who eats the forbidden fruit. I’m Pandora, who opens the box. I’m an idealistic female who desires a society absent of gender and racial inequalities. I’m also a realist and I acknowledge that there’s a very slim chance this will happen anytime soon. But if no one strives for the change, then there’s no chance at all.

I very much love Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Nicks, the beautiful artwork of Gustav Klimt, Led Zeppelin, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1&2, books, KNOWLEDGE (intelligence and wisdom are sexy), and non sense.
~ Tuesday, December 20 ~
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“ Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks, but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation? The prejudicial feelings some blacks may express about whites are in no way linked to a system of domination the affords us any power to coercively control the lives and well-being of white folks. That needs to be understood
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-bell hooks (via cuntflavor)

Um, “cause white folks don’t want to accept it”, for a thousand, Alex.

Not to be glib but individual white people simply do not WANT to accept any reality wherein they are not fair recipients of their good fortune. Period. It’s like telling a really beautiful woman that, no, not every one gets free racks of ribs at the grocery store; you’se special. No one wants to accept that they are the product of an accident of birth.

Also, there’s no incentive for them to accept it. /shrug

The real question to me is always why should I care anymore what white folks believe? Just knock the system over the head for what we’re due, let white folks cry into their light beer at summer BBQ parties, and keep it moving. Or, something.

(via anothergirlontheirt)

(Source: gutsyfemme)


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