One of my favorite commissioned projects I got to work on this year. HP asked me to create coloring pages that centered around diversity and inclusion. They gave me 100% creative freedom to do what I wanted and paid me well to do it. Download the free pages here.
It is so important to see color because every color has power and meaning. From a young age we assign certain behavior to particular colors without realizing that it is harmful and something we must unlearn. For this reason, I will always put black women and girls at the center of my work. I understand that dark skin is far too often devalued, misrepresented, and overlooked.
“The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is 'anti-racist.’ What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an anti-racist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an anti-racist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an anti-racist. There is no in-between safe space of 'not racist.”
This is a long read but I would like anyone who stumbles across it, whether you know me or not, to read it. It will take a maximum of ten minutes, probably. It’s a bit of a stream of consciousness.
I have sat and thought a lot in the past few days, weeks and months about who I should be as a person and how I will look back on myself when I am old.
For a long time I have dealt with hatred against White people as a result of my upbringing. My parents disliked them, and so did I. Despite the fact both were wealthy, my father hated White people for the apparent economic deprivation they had brought to Black people. This translated over to me. I had the best upbringing in terms of education for the world of work, but it seems they left out the one thing that one needs for the world of humanity, love.
After several months I have come to the conclusion that I no longer hate White people. They are fine. 99% are fine. 1% go and join the KKK or shoot Black people or whatever, but that’s problems for another day.
I need to address this blog. Although I have not always been very active on it, it has been a constant feature of my life. I have updated it with stories of one travelling holiday I took through Europe. They were based off photographs and writings. They were also just stories. They were twisted and manipulated until they hardly fitted the truth. Sorry. I had sex with some White women, true. Race did not really come into it. I wanted it to, but it didn’t.
Most of the apparent “academic” posts on here are complete lies. End of. Don’t believe them.
The historical one I posted last month has a grain of truth in it, but that’s it.
The fact this “interracial” culture is very unhealthy. Me, I have a sex life, but when I’m single - which has been for a while now, unsurprisingly - I masturbate to interracial porn a lot. I’m presuming most of the White men who follow me do even more. It’s not healthy, mentally.
The whole cuckold, and indeed interracial, lifestyle is terrible. It encourages the view of Black men as hyper-sexual beings who are stupid and brutish. This is not the truth. I was part of this, and for that I truly apologise. Cuckold porn is also awful in how it portrays White women as beings only driven by lust. And the whole thing is a self-affirming cycle as the man believes himself a “loser,” so masturbates more, which makes him (in his mind) even more of a “loser.”
Cuckold porn, and the subcultures that surround it, is overwhelmingly racist and built upon lies.
I’m attaching a conversation I had with a “cuckold” a few months ago. I’d say it was one of the things that began to tip me over the edge (combined with many other things). This was when I still hated White people.
I also got a message from a Black Lives Matter supporter who rightfully told me what a piece of shit I was for objectifying White women and Black men like this. I don’t know if it was legitimate, but they were right.
I’m sorry for all my “fans” who will be sad with my departure. No doubt many of you will create fake accounts for imaginary Swedish women to fill the void. Use reverse image search, it’s not hard, and you’ll see so many profiles are fake. It’s not surprising. I know of one prominent user who uses a Russian girl’s photos, yet pretends to be from the USA…
I have also come find stealing innocent couple pictures wrong, on that note. And using photos of random teenage girls to enhance your perverse fantasies? Who the fuck are you to do that? That’s absolutely disgusting and you should be ashamed.
To all the cuckolds, and those who watch interracial porn so much: you need help. Get it. You think you don’t, you think you can quit any time, or maybe that’s it’s all real. But it’s not. It’s a fantasy, and it’s not healthy. TAKE THIS FROM A BLACK MAN HIMSELF.
Europe is not dying to immigration, Black men are not superior, White women are not leaving their men in droves.
So thanks everyone. I don’t really know if I’ve enjoyed the past few years, but I’m glad it’s over. It’s a weight off my shoulders. I will try my best not to come back.
I’m going on a philosophical journey at the moment. I’m reading more politics. I like Malcolm X, especially after he renounced his racist views (yes, they were racist, you can be racist to White people). Heck, I’m even reading Edmund Burke, he’s an interesting man and I like some of his ideas. Yes, an old conservative White guy. Terrible isn’t it?
Maybe nobody will see this post? I get that impression. Most of my text posts get steady attention over the months and years. I will try to keep this up anyway, because it NEEDS TO BE SEEN.
Thank you. Stay safe, enjoy your lives. Seek out love and pleasure, but limit your intake of everything because otherwise quality will diminish. Have fun. Don’t stop reading. And love one another, regardless of skin tone.
Reposted from @nowthisnews The Native Counseling Services of Alberta (NCSA) is offering free wallet-sized cards to members of Indigenous and Black communities in Alberta, Canada, to help them invoke their rights and provide them with a statement to read aloud during a police stop.
The card is a revamped edition that was created after Alberta banned ‘carding’ — where a police officer requests personal information from someone ‘without reasonable grounds.’ The NCSA says this tactic has disproportionately affected members of Alberta’s Indigenous and Black communities. Legislation has recently been introduced to formally ban carding and street checks.
The NCSA says that while the card isn’t a solve-all for systemic racism, it offers a short script that can be read should someone be stopped in order to invoke their rights.
‘The goal of this card is to increase Indigenous individuals’ knowledge of their rights,’ according to a release from the NCSA, ‘and provide them with a statement to read out loud, if they wish to invoke their rights when stopped by police. The inside of the card lists one’s rights with the police in an effort to ensure those rights are upheld by the police.’
I drew this beaut in enragement & despair, but also in love & empathy. Silence is not an option at this point, and resoundingly loud; we as a human race should stand for love, justice and equality. I know I will never understand the depths of fear, sadness and horror that my fellow humans feel, but this is to let you know I stand for, and with you. What side of history are you on?
Me and bestie are having a conversation about what whiteness even is and we reached the point where even I had to reread the conversation once or twice and be like wait.
And I’d love for to include y'all in on this (especially white people) cuz it seems fairly profound to me and I’m wondering if anyone has anything to add (even on anon, like this convo is so interesting to me rn and I’m so genuinely invested in hearing y'all’s thoughts).
And when I say whiteness I mean the construct of whiteness, not necessarily white people. Just wanna clarify that.
So Whiteness -after this talk- at it’s core really just seems like it’s about being seen as better than others. It’s almost defined more by everything white people don’twant than what they Do want to be. Not much else.
And what they don’t want is to be like the poor, the savages, those icky colored people, the gays, and those gd annoying mentally ill people. And whiteness means separating yourself from them by any means necessary. Shitting on poor people, stigmatizing mental illness, calling poor whites White Trash, trying to eugenics/genocide everyone you dont like out of existence, “luxury food”, 1st class seats, comparing dicks and country GDP, measuring success by numbers and accomplishments, hoarding more and more billions of dollars just because you can, having the newest/latest gadget to prove how trendy and well off you are, children’s pageants, punishing everyone who can’t meet the standards of whiteness with shame and passive aggressive “well if you tried harder…”
Everything is centered around being better than someone else in any way you can measure.
And following that same line of thought… Whiteness can’t count generosity. It can’t tally how good your music taste is to determine your artistic value. It can’t break down how much you care about your community into a braggable percentage. There is no way to prove that you support human rights more than anyone else. Supporting BLM and Landback doesn’t increase your social currency. You can’t argue and prove with evidence that you’re the funniest person in the room. You can not add, subtract, debate, or use logic to make someone understand and accept you’re a Nicer person than them. There is no I’m An Objectively Loyal Friend test that you could humble brag about passing to your #positivevibes insta followers. Being happy and content with your life doesn’t make you morally better than anyone else. Being there for people when they need you isn’t how you get on a magazine cover- so that’s not success. And most importantly Whiteness has no measure for when you’ve been a good enough person, let alone better than anyone else. You’re eternally building yourself up with no sense of relief or accomplishment.
Imo, whiteness happens when you take every natural thing about being human and make humans hate it.
And that’s just my take after some discussion. Look at the golden truth bombs bestie is illuminating on whiteness though. Because damn.
Y'all really live like that???
All seems to boil down to the fact that perhaps white people struggle so much to dismantle whiteness because you have no sense of self or clue on how to behave outside of it.
How many of my white followers would agree with that? And if you do… Are you discussing this with other white people or is this something most don’t even think about? Or is this like a thing you all Feel but never talk about? And if you disagree with the post… Can you tell me why?
This is still sitting at under 1000 notes and I’m judging every single white and lightskin follower I have over it.
Y'all have gotten my posts to well over 15k in a week before and when I had Much less followers
What about this conversation makes you uncomfortable?
White folks ain’t going to reblog this. They want their version of MK Jr. that only said “I have a dream”.
Guilt tripping white people into reblogging stuff isn’t going to make you have more allies, just saying.
It’s not about guilt tripping.
It’s about white people, even well-intentioned white allies, being too comfortable in their privilege and not learn more about the complex beliefs of civil right leader MLK Jr other than his “I have a dream” speech. MLK Jr. talked extensively about American Imperialism, Capitalism, and White Fragility/Complicity throughout his career and activism, which most Liberal white allies won’t share because they’re too comfortable with the white lies they were taught in schools.
Reblogged.
totally agree, however that is still guilt tripping lol
here’s the hilarious thing about calling this “guilt tripping.” the psychological definition of a “guilt trip” is an UNJUSTIFIED feeling of guilt induced in someone else. um, what about anything here said about white people that’s “unjustified” or baseless? we’ve got over 400yrs of evidence to back up our statements about white people. we even got studies, research and stats. none of which shows what @dreamyblackchild said to be false.
lmaoo white people love to act like we don’t have centuries of examples of who they are. always want to act brand new. like this suspicion and mistrust of your character isn’t earned every fucking day by your behavior, your treatment of black people, native people, brown people, by who you vote for, who you support with your money, who you tone police, your “jokes” and more. foh! like there isn’t a trail of dead black, native and brown bodies in your wake. we watched y’all whitewash the fuck out of mlk’s legacy (AFTER KILLING HIM BTW) and then tried to use that whitewashed version to limit our fight for liberation and justice to just the acts your comfortable with and then have the fucking nerve to say that calling out your typical behavior to be “guilt tripping?” fuck you.
the one other thing i know about “guilt tripping” is that it only works on people with a fucking conscious. foh!
no effort whatsoever. like mlk said…
for all the constant mlk quoting about “content of our character” blah blah blah i hear from white people, how do they think this reflects on their character?
