visual mayhem

going through life at your own pace does NOT equate laziness or failure.

And I’m just talking about America, Brazilian slavery lasted about 20 to 30 years longer. 

As in we have colored pictures of former slaves.

As in we have radio audio recordings of former slaves.

As in you could type” former slaves” into YouTube and find about 12 authentic, different interview videos. 

As in the oldest person in America, who by the way is a black woman named Jeralean Talley who just died at age 116 would have been the daughter of former slaves if they hadn’t been born in the North. 

Olivia De Havilland died just this year, 2020. Her Gone with the Wind co-star Hattie McDaniel died at a very young age, but being the youngest of 13 siblings, had she survived to 2020, some of her siblings and her parents were born into slavery. 

We have broken audio recordings of Frederick Douglass’ voice for god’s sake.

Harriet Tubman died only 20 years before the full-fledged color picture existed. Meaning that adding color by professionals onto black-and-white photographs was already an established art.

Here, have a color picture of Harriet Tubman. 

a small selection of the incredible “skinclusive summer line” designed by (@)acnhfashion on twitter ♥♥♥ there are 19 skin types represented in all skintones

(i.e. perfectly legal slavery)

New Orleans is one of the hardest hit cities in the United States, but I haven’t seen that point get much national mainstream media coverage. Furthermore, the racial disparities in access to medical care and healthcare outcomes in general in Louisiana are staggering, and this crisis has made that clearer than ever. This is truly atrocious

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/support-new-orleans-sanitation-workers