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Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.

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Sylvester Magee, the (probable) last American born into slavery died in 1971.

The last living child of former American slaves, Mississippi Winn, died in 2010.

Slavery in the territory that is now the United States lasted more than 330 years. We will be 330 years removed from slavery in the year 2195.

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I don’t even agree. Chattel slavery will be done for that long by that time. The U.S. has maintained many forms of slavery since then and it has never been fully abolished via 13th amendment allowing for the enslavement of prisoners. We have 25% of the worlds prisoners and most being used for labor are Black and brown. You can still buy a dude if you run private owned prisons and state work camps

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watch Slavery By Another Name. all about how slavery basically transitioned to indentured servitude, then chain gangs and then prisons as they are today. its some awful shit.

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Paula Deen Admits Using The N-Word & Making Racial Jokes In Explosive Deposition

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Celebrity chefPaula Deenhas admitted tousing the N-wordand tellinginsensitive racial jokesduring a May 17 deposition that was videotaped — and also confessed to her brother’s cocaine, pornography and alcohol addictions!

Paula, 66, admitted to using the N-word and wanting black waiters to play the role of slaves at awedding partyshe was putting together, a new bombshell report from theNational Enquirer claims.

“The personal disclosures uncovered have stunned Paula’s family and could mark the collapse of her entire empire,” a source told the tabloid.

The Emmy-winning kitchen queen was questioned for three hours because of the $1.2 million 2012 lawsuit in which the former General Manager of their Savannah, Georgia, restaurant, Lisa Jackson, claimed use of the N-word by Paula and sexual harassment and infliction of distress and assault by her brother Bubba Hiers.

When asked by Lisa’s Atlanta-based attorney if she’d ever used the N-word, Paula responded, “Yes, of course,” and gave examples of times she used the offensive term.

In terms oftelling racist jokes, Paula said, “It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.”

And when asked if she wanted black men to play the role of slaves at aweddingshe explained she got the idea from a restaurant her husband and her had dined at saying, “The whole entire waiter staff was middle-aged black men, and they had on beautiful whitejacketswith a black bow tie.

“I mean, it was really impressive. That restaurant represented a certain era in America…after the Civil War, during the Civil War, before the Civil War…It was not only black men, it was black women…I would say they were slaves.”

During the deposition, Bubba also made shocking admissions, including using the N-word in reference toPresident Barack Obama.

“While Paula and Bubba did make some pretty damaging confessions in their depositions, what they admitted to only scratches the surface of what actually goes on in their daily lives,” an insider told theEnquirer.

To find out more about Paula and Bubba’s disturbing deposition, pick up the latest issue of the National Enquirer, on newsstands Thursday.

but is anyone REALLY surprised, tho.

yeah I thought we knew this already? and remember how much glee she had when she found out her relative was a slavemaster?

Yeah, we knew, but it was confirmed when she admitted to it during a deposition, I think

I hate her and im sure she did all of this, but the national enquirer is NOT a reputable source for info.

except for the fact that they’re accurate.

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But why would you care about racist people's feelings who hurt other feelings.. tbh the world would be a better place without a racist so i don't care if someone tells them to go kill themselves. They may sound harsh but who am I to care about a racists feelings or their own being

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We never tell anyone, no matter how ridiculous, bigoted, racist, etc. they are to kill themselves. It’s cruel. Potentially fatal. Yes, racists are cruel, but there are better ways to convey that. No need to tell someone to end their life.

-Sru

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Some girl yesterday asked me if India (I'm Indian and Pakistani) was hot and I was like "yeah...?" and her and her friend (they're both white) are like "oh, is that why Indians are so black- uh, I mean tan?". I am literally the only person in my family with tan skin.

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Yes, because EVERY Indian person has dark skin lol. Clearly they don’t know very much about the country, various regions, etc.

-Sru

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1. I don’t need feminism because that whole 74 cent thing doesn’t even apply to my people (we make less)

2. I don’t need feminism because held up against the delicate faerie white woman I’m a curvaceous brown succubus just asking for it… and nobody’s talking about it

3. I don’t need feminism because feminists still exalt Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

4. I don’t need feminism because APPARENTLY it doesn’t need me

I’ve tried to identify as a feminist, I really have. But how can I identify with a movement that doesn’t want to identify with me?

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Some of the best of #PaulasBestDishes on twitter.

oh my god we shall over crumb cake I AM DONE.

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I think those anons are talking about that time when another anon commented on how that thin privilege blog was problematic because its mod had been caught telling people to kill themselves (TRIGGER WARNING TW) and one of you mods who answered that acted like... It was okay

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TW: Suicide 

That was me. And I do remember that. I think I recall saying something like, “I’m personally not okay with telling others to kill themselves but I have no place to tell other social justice bloggers how to deal with their oppressors.” I mean, that’s not a direct quote and I tried to find the original post in question but I can’t find it. It’s pretty deep in there because this conversation was from a few months ago. If you find it you should link me so I can see exactly what I said. 

I stand by this still though. Like I said, I will never say it. I will never stand by and watch any of the moderators on this blog say it because I know how triggering of a comment that can be.

But I really do have no place to tell a victim how to handle their oppressors. That doesn’t mean that I think it’s okay. That doesn’t even mean that I condone it. That just means that I know not to police how others react to people that hurt them. 

I do apologize if that discussion triggered anyone though. 

-Gabriella

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hi there! sorry to be bothersome, but when you tag things can you out tw afterwards? if you put something before the actual trigger word, it isn't caught in tumblr savior.

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Oh no! I’ll double-tag, because I know some people have the ‘tw:’ version blocked too. I don’t actually use Tumblr Savior so I’m not sure how it works, thanks for the check!!

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hey, could you tag or put a tw or anything in discussions or mentions about suicide, please? (the ppl saying that someone told someone to kill themselves or discussions about it). I don't mean to be an ass for asking this, but those stuff are kind of triggering

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Of course! Sorry, entirely slipped my mind. 

Tumblr really needs to make it easier to tag answers to asks…

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all you blacks want all the same things: lukas-bondevik: theuppitynewslave: white people are just now becoming...

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white people are just now becoming afraid/distrusting of the police/government

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It fucking irritates the shit out of me when they group ‘white people’ into one fucking amalgamation like we’re one fucking person and we all thing and act and say the same things the same way. We don’t. We’re not the same. We’re not all bigots and thieves and appropriators. We don’t all take for granted the relative level of privilege we gain just from the color of our skin.

I’m a woman, which does dampen that privilege a bit, also a woman who identifies as something other than straight, which also dampens that privilege. However, while because I am white I will never know what POC endure at the hands of the government and bigots and everyone else, that doesn’t mean I can’t sympathize and help try and fight for equal rights for everyone. Including myself.

girl what the hell are you talking about

damn all you whites take shit so personally 

done wrote two paragraphs full of bullshit about a sentence

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TL;DR - Just because I’m white doesn’t mean you can just lump me in with a monolithic group like ‘white people’!! I’m a special snowflake! I know I’m different from all you homogeneous PoC!

White people, everyone.
- Zoe