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hibikikiki — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:18:09 -0400

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hibikikiki — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:37:23 -0400

ohdearolive: it’s okay.

hibikikiki — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:01:37 -0400

ohdearolive:

it’s okay.

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hibikikiki — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:48:28 -0400

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hibikikiki — Sun, 12 May 2013 12:42:44 -0400

stfusexists: ihaveabsolutelynoidea: Time uses a picture of a young woman taking a selfie to...

hibikikiki — Sat, 11 May 2013 03:31:45 -0400

stfusexists:

ihaveabsolutelynoidea:

Time uses a picture of a young woman taking a selfie to demonstrate how fucked up our generation is

Why not use a picture of a 50 year old white male banker masturbating with mortgage papers into the mouth of a senator

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hibikikiki — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:58:39 -0400

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hibikikiki — Sun, 05 May 2013 23:38:02 -0400

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hibikikiki — Sun, 05 May 2013 13:19:18 -0400

"What’s Genocide? their high school principal told me I couldn’t teach poetry with profanity so I..."

hibikikiki — Sat, 04 May 2013 14:06:58 -0400

“

What’s Genocide?

their high school principal
told me I couldn’t teach
poetry with profanity
so I asked my students,
“Raise your hand if you’ve heard of the Holocaust.”
in unison, their arms rose up like poisonous gas
then straightened out like an SS infantry
“Okay. Please put your hands down.
Now raise your hand if you’ve heard of the Rwandan genocide.”
blank stares mixed with curious ignorance
a quivering hand out of the crowd
half-way raised, like a lone survivor
struggling to stand up in Kigali
“Luz, are you sure about that?”
“No.”
“That’s what I thought.”

“Carlos—what’s genocide?”

they won’t let you hear the truth at school
if that person says “fuck”
can’t even talk about “fuck”
even though a third of your senior class
is pregnant.

I can’t teach an 18-year-old girl in a public school
how to use a condom that will save her life
and that of the orphan she will be forced
to give to the foster care system—
“Carlos, how many 13-year-olds do you know that are HIV-positive?”

“Honestly, none. But I do visit a shelter every Monday and talk with
six 12-year-old girls with diagnosed AIDS.”
while 4th graders three blocks away give little boys blowjobs during recess
I met an 11-year-old gang member in the Bronx who carries
a semi-automatic weapon to study hall so he can make it home
and you want me to censor my language

“Carlos, what’s genocide?”

your books leave out Emmett Till and Medgar Evers
call themselves “World History” and don’t mention
King Leopold or diamond mines
call themselves “Politics in the Modern World”
and don’t mention Apartheid

“Carlos, what’s genocide?”

you wonder why children hide in adult bodies
lie under light-color-eyed contact lenses
learn to fetishize the size of their asses
and simultaneously hate their lips
my students thought Che Guevara was a rapper
from East Harlem
still think my Mumia t-shirt is of Bob Marley
how can literacy not include Phyllis Wheatley?
schools were built in the shadows of ghosts
filtered through incest and grinding teeth
molded under veils of extravagant ritual

“Carlos, what’s genocide?”

“Roselyn, how old was she? Cuántos años tuvo tu madre cuando se murió?”

“My mother had 32 years when she died. Ella era bellísima.”

…what’s genocide?

they’ve moved from sterilizing “Boriqua” women
injecting indigenous sisters with Hepatitis B,
now they just kill mothers with silent poison
stain their loyalty and love into veins and suffocate them

…what’s genocide?

Ridwan’s father hung himself
in the box because he thought his son
was ashamed of him

…what’s genocide?

Maureen’s mother gave her
skin lightening cream
the day before she started the 6th grade

…what’s genocide?

she carves straight lines into her
beautiful brown thighs so she can remember
what it feels like to heal

…what’s genocide?
…what’s genocide?

“Carlos, what’s genocide?”

“Luz, this…
this right here…
is genocide.”

”

- “What’s Genocide?” by Carlos Andres Gomez (via girl-violence)

hachikuji: i got my bus time wrong so now im stuck here for 20...

hibikikiki — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:49:23 -0400

hachikuji:

i got my bus time wrong so now im stuck here for 20 mins

a lost little ghost girl

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hibikikiki — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:06:40 -0400

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hibikikiki — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:54:32 -0400

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hibikikiki — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:53:07 -0400

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hibikikiki — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:45:26 -0400

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hibikikiki — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:56:39 -0400

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hibikikiki — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:54:09 -0400

prettycolors:

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lackofloss: GPOY

hibikikiki — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:45:20 -0400

lackofloss:

GPOY

vagabondaesthetics: James Baldwin and Dick Gregory: “Baldwin’s...

hibikikiki — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:40:57 -0400

vagabondaesthetics:

James Baldwin and Dick Gregory: “Baldwin’s Nigger” (1969)

In 1969, one year after the assassination of Martin Luther King in the USA, the West Indian Student Centre is crammed with people, mostly black and predominantly male, waiting with palpable excitement to hear the words of esteemed author James Baldwin and comedian Dick Gregory.

Baldwin immediately disarms the audience with his wit, eloquence and charm. His talk spans issues as varied as the Middle Passage and the African Diaspora, his identity as a proud American even though he is the descendant of slaves, the use of language and culture by slaves to outwit their white owners, and the abuse of power by the USA disguised as a defence of freedom.

The lecture is followed by a good-natured, warm, earthy interaction with members of the audience. Gregory uses cutting humour to draw parallels between the lives of black people in Britain and America as well as ‘white-acting’ blacks and ‘black-acting’ whites. —BFI

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hibikikiki — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:34:58 -0400