502 bad gateway.

latina best friends: we’re cousins

Desi family friends who don’t wanna explain the relationship to anyone non poc: we’re cousins

Arab person about the children of people their parents grew up with in the home country: we’re cousins

black people to someone you met who comes to all the family get togethers now: we’re cousins

white couples: we’re cousins

i legitimately didnt register what was wrong at first

why do potatoes have more chromosomes than us, what do they need them for??????????

thats none of your business

There’s a lot of interesting history in the ways that urban planning and infrastructure development have been used to reinforce racism. Robert Moses, the guy who designed the roadways in New York City, made the bridges on the Long Island Parkway too low for the city busses at the time to go under, because he wanted to prevent the type of people who ride buses (wink, nudge) from getting to the wealthy white beachfront properties he was developing. He did a lot of other stuff like that to make it so that, in the most literal sense possible, the city was physically hostile to black people

I wish I could delete myself from other people’s memories once I don’t want to be associated with them anymore (which is rare because I’m forgiving) but it doesn’t work like that and people will carry pieces of me with them forever