It’s 250 years of freedom for white men only.
It’s 106 years of voting freedom for white women.
It’s 72 years of voting freedom for Asian immigrants.
It’s 61 years of voting freedom for Black people.
It’s 51 years of voting rights for Native Peoples, but we all know that’s a farce when their lands were stripped from them and their ways of life were classified illegal.
It’s 10 years of marriage freedom for queer couples.
It’s 0 years of voting freedom for Puerto Ricans.
I told my husband about the concept of 4th of July and the fireworks bc he’s not well versed in American culture and he responded “it sounds like they’re trying to retraumatize veterans to the point of suicide so the government doesn’t have to give them benefits” 😭😭😭😭
u know black ppl have a lot of social power when pretending to be black online is an entire industry. if a black person says it, it automatically has more weight in the eyes of many. youre seen as more authentic
I’m being dead serious when I say this, but Roll Bounce is an incredible film.
It’s a coming of age story about the average Black American teenage experience in the 70’s
No drugs, shooting, pimping or degeneracy.
Just Black kids enjoying their summer and dealing w/ issues
You don’t realize how grown you are until you have to pay rent, electric, Wi-Fi, buy groceries, pay for gas, house supplies all while paying for car repairs but somehow it still gets done.