diversity

Because you are not funky. I mean, I've seen you dance.

I say fuck the police, thats how I treat em We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom

Hashtags offer a window to peep through, but it is only by stepping through that window and “following” (in both Twitter and non-Twitter terms) individual users that we can begin to place tweets within a broader context.

The spheres of influence created and sustained by African-American women are not meant solely to provide a respite from oppressive situations or a retreat from their effects. Rather, these Black female spheres of influence constitute potential sanctuaries where individual Black women and men are nurtured in order to confront oppressive social institutions.

But what really got Zachari exasperated, causing Aaliya and me to sit up from our vegan rancheros, was their pointed question: why does racial “progress” seem to require acts of violence, including the taking of Black lives?

And the fact is that the lives of Black people—not ALL people—exist within these conditions is consequence of state violence.

Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her own voice saying silently to whomever - you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her

Thus we have to ask in the context of the expansion of the prison-industrial… prison and policing-industrial complex under neo-liberalism: What does it mean to utilize the police as a protector of gay and lesbian rights?