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Mexican immigrants referred to this plant as “marihuana”. While Americans were very familiar with “cannabis” because it was present in almost all tinctures and medicines available at the time, the word “marihuana” was a foreign term. So, when the media began to play on the fears that the public had about these new citizens by falsely spreading claims about the “disruptive Mexicans” with their dangerous native behaviors including marihuana use, the rest of the nation did not know that this “marihuana” was a plant they already had in their medicine cabinets.

The demonization of the cannabis plant was an extension of the demonization of the Mexican immigrants. In an effort to control and keep tabs on these new citizens, El Paso, TX borrowed a play from San Francisco’s playbook, which had outlawed opium decades earlier in an effort to control Chinese immigrants. The idea was to have an excuse to search, detain and deport Mexican immigrants.

That excuse became marijuana.

This method of controlling people by controlling their customs was quite successful, so much so that it became a national strategy for keeping certain populations under the watch and control of the government.

During hearings on marijuana law in the 1930’s, claims were made about marijuana’s ability to cause men of color to become violent and solicit sex from white women. This imagery became the backdrop for the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 which effectively banned its use and sales.

While the Act was ruled unconstitutional years later, it was replaced with the Controlled Substances Act in the 1970’s which established Schedules for ranking substances according to their dangerousness and potential for addiction. Cannabis was placed in the most restrictive category, Schedule I, supposedly as a place holder while then President Nixon commissioned a report to give a final recommendation.“

How Did Marijuana Become Illegal in the First Place?, Drug Policy Alliance (via lvndula)

yourfaveisilluminati:

trapcard:

it’s always so funny learning about the Great Depression in grade school cuz they don’t ever talk about how latinx and Hispanic people were lowkey deported to Mexico even if they weren’t Mexican and how the depression was literally twice as worse for black people who were the first fired and last hired. like educators always report these tragedies by how they impacted whites UNLESS you are in a class like AA studies or something.

This is the truth. The experiences of poc have been outright erased from history in US public education. The white experience is labeled as universal in order to cover up white crimes and to keep white kids ignorant so that we uphold white supremacy throughout our lives.

I sure can’t WAIT to read all these white liberal think pieces by white MCU stans on why Wakanda is oppressive, misogynistic, backwards and harmful. They’ll talk endlessly about how the whole royal family thing is corrupt and be hyper critical about it, yet they’ve said nothing about Asgard and it’s royal family. They’ll say Wakanda is selfish for “hoarding” technology + not sharing it with the outside (read: White) world. Boy, this is gonna be a wild, migraine inducing ride

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*There’s
gonna be white people in fandom who justify reducing T’Challa to a Sugar Daddy
and Vibranium dispenser for Steve and other Whites by saying “Well in the
comics, he designed the Quinjet for the Avengers so it’s totally
plausible…”. The way they twist and exploit T’Challa’s noble, kind
nature with stuff like “He’s a good, selfless guy so he’d do this!”
to shout down rightfully angry black fans is gross and tiring. 

I’ve been preparing for this
– all of this – from the second that I first had confirmation that the Black Panther film
was in the works. One thing I don’t think most non-black members get is that
from the moment that a Black character gets introduced, Black fans start
worrying. They see “T’challa takes care of the Avengers” as a positive
because it’s what they want from him,
not bothering to look at the history of how Black characters and people have regularly been forced
into playing “nanny” positions for white characters and people.

So from the moment that I was
first told “Hey, just so you know, Black Panther will be a thing,” I knew that things would get bad. They would
get creepy. Fans would pant after T’challa’s BBC the way they did with every
single Black character ni fandom as if Black men are only

Because we’d already been
through fandom looking at Sam and seeing a psychologist, a secret HYDRA agent,
or someone who exists only to serve and protect the white Avengers because
they’re freaking TODDLERS.  

We’d already been through
#NickFuryLies being a major point of characterization in the fandom despite the
fact that Nick is not even remotely required to spill his entire plans to the
kind of untrustworthy Avengers who had proven over multiple times that they
were incapable of being responsible.

We’d already seen how fandom
literally erased Rhodey from Tony’s life because Steve (who Tony doesn’t even like
half the time) is somehow a better friend than the man that has been with
Tony for most of his life and who knows him better than he knows himself.

So really, Black fans knew that shit was going to get ugly when T’challa was officially introduced to the MCU.

And okay, I think a really huge sign that these T’challa
“fans” who are slotting him into the Sugar Daddy role for the
avengers really don’t understand anything about his characterization in any
film/show/comic he’s been in.

Like you said, they’re all
“he’s so kind and selfless so of
course he’d drop a couple billion bucks on making sure the Avengers have
the best toys” when part of what makes T’challa such a great character is
how flawed he can be.

 He can be kind and is a king, but he’s also human. Which
means making mistakes and making decisions that are more selfish than selfless.
But fandom is too busy salivating over the idea that the richest man in the MCU
can now be at the beck and call of their white favorites to care that his actual personality isn’t a damn think like the Sugar Daddy they’re dead set on turning him into.

And let’s be very real here:
on no level in any universe has
T’challa ever flung money at the Avengers because it was “the right thing
to do” and he’s certainly not going to start here. Yeah, T’challa has
Bucky literally chilling in Wakanda, but that doesn’t mean that suddenly, the
country he and his ancestors have kept safe and secluded for centuries to
protect them from colonialization and whiteness is suddenly going to lay out
the welcome mat for the Avengers and their assorted family members.

Fandom doesn’t get that what
they’re doing is wrong with these AUs and the passive aggressive posts and the
super shitty characterization they slap on T’challa because they don’t want to
get it. They want to write their super racist, colonialism-worshiping AUs
without people calling them on their shit. They want to reduce Black men to
what’s between their legs without being criticized.

You know… because it’s just fandom.

That’s where you get the willful
“oh Black Panther is for everyone, stop segregating” bs you see every
time a Black fan brings up that Black Panther and T’challa have a special and
specific place in Black nerd history and hearts.

I don’t think non-Black fans
realize how important T’challa and Wakanda are to Black comic fans across the
diaspora and how Black fans are sick to death of fandom ’s fucked up
characterizations for Black characters, but they’re going to learn.

the6thsiren:

pansykin:

bogleech:

This “artist” going around “correcting” graffiti into fucking times new roman might be the most pretentious, condescending upper class shit I have ever seen referred to as “art” and the aesthetics of it illicit a visceral revulsion in me

imo its a pretty cool, fun little thing. the whole point of graffiti is to be painted back over anyway.

That is literally not the point of graffiti but whatever you need to convince yourself that this isn’t uncool and steeped in racism. 

Like as a teen I worked with other chicanx teens who did street art. We all met at school and did this as a way to express ourselves. There are actually a lot of places around my area where the businesses are cool with it and it’s like well known that you can go put up art on their walls. It’s like street art code not to go around putting your work up over other people’s work. You don’t go and cover it up with something you think is better. Like yeah some shit overlaps and some of it is tags upon tags but you don’t just take a bucket and cover up it in it’s entirety and put your own “better” shit up. Disrespectful. 

Speaking for chicanx street work when I was a teen, it meant that our work was on public display. We weren’t in the art classes, we weren’t going to go to the fancy ass art school out here. We went out and gave ourselves exposure and expressed ourselves how we wanted. Don’t speak about “the whole point of graffiti,” when you clearly don’t know what it means. 

This “artist” said this street art was ugly and unreadable to most people so he made it “better.” It’s disrespectful. Not everything is for him, or people like him. POC expressing themselves doesn’t have to be packaged nicely and accepted by people like this dipshit. Our art is valid. 

iwriteaboutfeminism:

profeminist:

magnolia-noire:

caliphorniaqueen:

the-real-eye-to-see:

Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.

This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.

People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!

Ruby you might not think you’re a hero… But to other people you are! You are A HERO and you are A PERSON WHO MADE AMERICA CHANGE!

this is white culture, this is their history, this is their legacy…being enraged at a damn baby just because she’s black.

she’s still alive by the way

Ruby Bridges in 2010 

“As Bridges describes it, “Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.“ Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, “She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn’t whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we’re all very very proud of her.“ 

U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school

As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.”

Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, allowed Ruby to eat only the food that she brought from home.

Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.”

More info on Ruby Bridges on Wikipedia

THIS SHIT WAS ONLY 58 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS RACIST TERRORISM AND ACTS LIKE IT ARE STILL ALIVE, AND THEIR KIDS ARE IN THEIR 40′S AND 50′S. 

DON’T LET RACISM APOLOGISTS GET AWAY WITH “WHY ARE YOU LIVING IN THE PAST,” BULLSHIT ARGUMENTS. WE ARE LITERALLY STILL DEALING WITH THE FAMILIES THAT FORMED HATE MOBS OVER BLACK CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL WITH WHITE KIDS.

And amazingly, segregation in schools is still a BIG problem throughout the whole country, yet particularly in the south. There are even schools that, until a few years ago, were still having separate, segregated proms. 

medievalpoc:

glorfindely:

diversehighfantasy:

goseiwonder:

fihli:

fihli:

hear me out: all-female remake of lord of the rings

hear me out: all-female racially diverse remake of lord of the rings

Isn’t 2 humans, an Elf, 4 Hobbits, a Dwarf and a celestial being in a corporeal form already racially diverse?

Well, at least in how most high fantasy uses the word “race.”

No.

If every fantasy race is imagined as entirely white it absolutely does not count as racial diversity. The implications of a world where every race (or every race that matters) is white are quite the opposite, in fact, and point to conscious or unconscious white supremacy.

feel free to re-imagine the characters as any race you want, but please understand that, in context, tolkien’s characters (almost) all being canonically white does not “point to conscious or unconscious white supremacy”

you see, tolkien’s mythology was intentionally written as stories for the english people. they had no mythology of their own – all of “their” stories had originated from other cultures. middle earth originated as an alternate history of europe (especially england) as it may have been told from an ancient english mythological perspective. 

as the professor himself wrote:

“I was from early days grieved by the poverty of my own beloved country: it had no stories of its own … Do not laugh! But once upon a time (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story… which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country.”

“I am historically minded. Middle-earth is not an imaginary world… The theatre of my tale is this earth, the one in which we now live, but the historical period is imaginary.”

people from europe, are, of course, mostly white, so it naturally follows that the people living in an alternate history of europe would be white – as well as the fantasy creatures borne out of european mythology. including a lot of non-europeans in it would make no more sense than native american mythologies featuring white people, or japanese mythologies featuring black people, and so on.

basically, middle earth = europe, southern areas = africa, and eastern areas = asia. there are poc in tolkien’s arda but most (not all) come from places outside middle earth, which makes sense when you put it in a real world context. 

diversity in fantasy is great, but please do not assume that everything that does not meet your criteria of diversity is automatically racist. thank you

When I die, they’re going to be doing the autopsy and find out that the cause of death is a bleeding stomach ulcer that, upon close inspection, actually is text that reads out the commentary directly above my own here.

“which makes sense when you put it in a real world context”

Except how about no, no it doesn’t.

 Dr. Caitlin Green has compiled some documentary and archaeological resources specifically
showing African populations in Bronze Age, Roman, and Medieval Britain.


A note on the evidence for African migrants in Britain from the Bronze Age to the medieval period

The degree to which pre-modern Britain included people of African origin within its population continues to be a topic of considerable interest and some controversy. Previous posts on this site have discussed a variety of textual, linguistic, archaeological and isotopic
evidence for people from the Mediterranean and/or Africa in the British
Isles from the Late Bronze Age through to the eleventh century AD.
However, the focus in these posts has been on individual sites, events
or periods, rather than the question of the potential proportion of
people from Africa present in pre-modern Britain per se and how
this may have varied over time. The aim of the following post is thus to
briefly ponder whether an overview of the increasingly substantial
British corpus of oxygen isotope evidence drawn from pre-modern
archaeological human teeth has anything interesting to tell us with
regard to this question.

[The De Brailes Hours: f. 1r. England (c. 1240)]

13th Century: Ipswich Man, one of nine African people buried in that particular medieval cemetery (covered by BBC in 2010)

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[This image, an extract from the 60ft-long Westminster Tournament
             Roll, shows six trumpeters, one of whom is Black and is almost certainly
  John Blanke. Westminster Tournament Roll (1511)]

Islamic gold dinars in late eleventh- and twelfth-century England

The following post offers a map and brief discussion of the Islamic gold
coins of the later eleventh and twelfth centuries that have been found
in England and their context. Whilst clearly rare finds, there are now
ten coins of this period known, all but one of which are thought to most
probably have their origins in Spain. Moreover, these coins are
considered to be the survivals of a potentially substantial body of this
material present in England at that time.

Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the concept of an Anglo-Saxon
‘Heptarchy’: Harun ibn Yahya’s ninth-century Arabic description of
Britain

The aim of the following post is to offer a draft look at an interesting
Arabic account of early medieval Britain that appears to have its
origins in the late ninth century. Despite being rarely mentioned by
British historians concerned with this era, this account has a number of
points of interest, most especially the fact that it may contain the
earliest reference yet encountered to there having been seven kingdoms
(the ‘Heptarchy’) in pre-Viking England and the fact that its text
implies that Britain was still considered to be somehow under Byzantine
lordship at that time.

[Canterbury Cathedral Choir, north aisle, north window (Second Typological Window)The Queen of Sheba Before Solomon. England (1178-1180)]


A great host of captives? A note on Vikings in Morocco and Africans in early medieval Ireland & Britain

The following short note is based on a narrative preserved in the eleventh-century Fragmentary Annals of Ireland that
tells of a Viking raid on Morocco in the 860s. This raid is said to
have led to the taking of ‘a great host’ of North African captives by
the Vikings, who then carried them back to Ireland, where they
reportedly remained a distinct group—’the black men’—for some
considerable period of time after their arrival.

[3 possible burials of African Women in 9th-11th Century England]

[Sub-Saharan African woman aged 18-24 from Fairford, Gloucestershire]

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[Sir Morien, Black Knight of the Round Table]

[The Murthly Hours f. 12r: Magi, or Kings, Before Herod. Scotland/England (c. 1280s) From the National Library of Scotland]

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So, in conclusion:

DRAGONS

AREN’T

REAL

jennytrout:

alwaysbewoke:

daddybearthings:

badgalarih:

abbyinparadise:

exam:

in a scale from 1 to “i love the beatles” how boring are you?

it’s not like the beatles created the revolution that spawned every fucking thing you listen to on the radio or anything

you’re right they didn’t black folks did

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Reblog for the gif cuz it proves a wicked point

if only there was some kind of research or analysis that could… oh wait!

Study: Beatles did not revolutionise music, Hip Hop did. British bands such as the Fab Four and the Rolling Stones only followed existing musical trends, researchers using data analysis say

Ringo Starr famously said “Our music is second-hand versions of negro music.” 

Even the fucking Beatles know that The Beatles didn’t revolutionize anything.