Happy Black History Month.
Pictures like this annoy me.
The sole purpose of this picture is to perpetuate anti-Black rhetoric. It’s annoying. it’s sad. It’s hurtful.
This picture attempts to erase humanity from Black people, meaning it attempts to make Black people appear as a monolithic group. This is wrong. Not all Black people from the 1950’s looked like this, and not all Black people today look like that.
But here’s the bigger issue: So the fuck what? So what if Black men walk around with there pants low? What then? Do they not deserve to be treated like human beings?
Does this mean that Black people have not progressed/are not progressive?
..because that’s what this picture ultimately promotes: the failing of Black people (specifically Black men).
This picture is not poignant. It does not do anything good for the Black community except that it attempts to divide the “good Blacks” from the “bad Blacks.” This is foolish. This is wrong. This is anti-Blackness at its best.
And what hurts the most is that so many white-identifying Black folk think this picture speaks volumes. No.
Well, yes, it does—in the sense that it speaks to how anti-Blackness is one helluva problem.
I need a preach gif for this post.
ugh jesus nutsacks
COMMENTARY FOR THE GODS!!!!!!!!!!
I’m so tired of this notion that the men on the right don’t have as much integrity or respect as the men in the left. Putting on a suit does not a good person make. And fuck anyone who thinks this is so.
I just want to know what makes anyone think black men didn’t go shirtless in the 1950’s. Or have tattoos. Like, I don’t know who your people are, but mine are complicated & they can get thuggish when they need to, or play the businessman. Code switching is more than how we use language children.
