Russell Brand discusses Iggy Azalea and the appropriation of black culture (watch the full interview here)
“Hasn’t that always been the way with mainstream culture? Whether it’s the blues or rock n’ roll [or hip hop]. The re-appropriation of black culture into the mainstream? That’s always been the way. It becomes sanitized. It loses its original message without ever conceding any rights to non-white people. Take the best bits. Keep the fruit. And abandon the people.”
“The idea that black culture is constantly being ransacked is a powerful narrative, a powerful story that began with slavery, one of the great abominations of human history. That injury hasn’t been healed. The civil rights struggle is only 50 years ago and still racism is a prevalent issue in this country and all over the world.”
Capitalist culture is service industry workers not being allowed to sit down for their entire shifts, no matter how dead the traffic flow gets.
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Today I got to skype with Andrea, this precious 7 year old trans girl. She’s my friends cousin and she never got to speak with another trans woman before. When we started the first thing she says is “you have pretty hair” and we started talking about being a girl.
The first thing I asked her is i said “have u ever spoken to another trans girl?” she didnt know what trans meant she was like “ummmmm….i don’t know” in her adorable high pitched voice so i said “me and you are trans girls sweetheart bc we were boys at first’ (i dumbed it down cuz shes 7) and then she said “well being a trans girl is cool!” and I told her “yeah it is!”
I asked her about her family and she told me her parents love her so much ^_^ she said her mom bought her dresses and her sister is gonna teach her make up and she was so happy I could tell how wonderful her family was.
She told me about how other kids she knew bullied her about her gender and I started to tear up and I told her “you don’t have to listen to those people. You’re such a beautiful girl and you’re gonna grow up to be so pretty and so happy I promise” and she made me pinky swear so I did bc she’s perfect and cute.
When the call came to an end she told me she to be like me when she grows up and i started fucking sobbing and she asked why i was crying and i told her “I’M SO PROUD OF YOU” and she said she was proud of me too.
This is what every young trans girl deserves. Trans girls deserve to be trans girls no matter how old they are. Andrea is being given so much love and that’s exactly what little trans girls deserve.
Protect trans girl children. Protect them with everything in your power. Do all you can to make sure these angels grow up to be happy and loved. They’re so vulnerable to this horrible transmisogynist hellhole - protect them please. They all deserve to be happy and beautiful women.
we really need allies right now, and I know seeing this on people’s blogs could be comforting to other Jewish people.
Selma 50 years later.
“Because of what they did, the doors of opportunity swung open not just for African-Americans, but for every American,” President Barack Obama said, standing in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where the violence took place.