S/o To Everyone Who Is Still Tryin To Heal From Things That They Don’t Talk About

This will be the first thing I've ever reblogged or even posted because it is so true and I see it all the time and it really needs to be understood that so many people make fun of black girls and women for the things they praise the white women or women who just aren't brown for

Don’t mind me, I’m just speaking the fucking truth.

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Jesse Williams gives a powerful, touching, and monumental speech at the 2016 BET Awards

“Before we get into it, I just want to say I brought my parents out tonight. I just want to thank them for being here, for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career, and that they make sure I learn what the schools were afraid to teach us. And also thank my amazing wife for changing my life.

Now, this award - this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country - the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do.

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