Hero That Never Carried The O, Guess I'm Just Her

publicshaming:

Jamie Foxx attended the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night to accept the 2013 Generation Award. He did so while wearing a shirt that had the phrase “kNOw Justice” above photos of Trayvon Martin and the Newtown kids.

Many intelligent humans would view Jamie Foxx’s shirt as a way a celebrity can bring awareness to America’s young people and remind them that justice has not yet been served for our country’s young victims of gun violence.

Sadly, many humans lack this intelligence…

“This Trayvon Martin case is soooo annoying…now give me my MTV MOVIE AWARDS!”

Props to the guy above who used a gun emoji to criticize a shirt condemning gun violence. Good work, dude.

lmao @ the dude running to tattle to Anthony from Opie & Anthony and George Zimmerman’s brother.

Yeah, fuck Tavon! Who’s Tavon, again?

And then there were people who could not possibly understand what Trayvon Martin and the Newtown victims, all children killed in the United States by gun violence, possibly had to do with one another.

Basically what they’re trying to say, without saying it, is “why is that evil black thug sullying those poor innocent white children…”

Yes, as you can see, white people were pretty pissed. And some were clamoring to know WHAT ABOUT THE POOR WHITES:

lmao. Yes, NO ONE cares when black people kill. The justice system totally doesn’t cater to whites. There’s like zero black people in prison.

“Can’t believe Jamie Foxx spoke out for the dead kid and not the guy who killed him who’s alive and walked away with a scratch on his nose.”

but “the n-word just means ignorant person guys!”. “post-racial!” “Black president!”

theotherchristel:

this is the same type of thing that has Chinese girls named Minxiu telling people their name is Michelle because they want to make it easier on White Americans.

this is not a hypothetical example. every one of my Chinese and Indian brethren from grad school had an “American name” they used for White people and White-identifying people as not to have their names fucked up.

It was telling to me that all of us Black and Latino students insisted on knowing their real names and learning to pronounce them properly… because we respected their whole humanity on their terms, not ours.

this is was in response to this exchange i had with a supposed “fan” of a Black, Latino, and white actress. in which this was said…

Me: I’m always advocating for not making multiracial people claim one race… but i do find that a lot of racists find some sort of solace in accepting someone’s humanity by calling them mixed as if that’s a race as opposed to acknowledging their Blackness along with everything else in them. If she were White and Latina only, people would say she’s white and Latina. If Asian and Latina, they would say Asian and Latina. The only reason we keep hearing “mixed” when it relates to her, Obama, Drake, J. Cole, Mariah Carey, is because there is Black or Afro-Latino in there and these are attempts to skip over that.

twerp: lol, ain’t nobody got time to called someone Asian and Latina, or Latina and white please, all I hear is people telling them mixed because that is what they are, and in this world you are mostly define for the place where you grew up and the people whom you grew up with (this is more relevant when you are mixed), at the end she is just a California girl

notice how Black was still conveniently skipped over…

Me: “it’s too hard for me to recognize who someone is. so i’ll just define them how i damn well please and erase their identity as i do it… and then i’ll create asinine rules to define them in a way that makes me comfortable and state my rules as if they are fact”…

what you see at the top is the sidenote.