If you speak in an angry way about what has happened to our people and what is happening to our people, what does he call it? Emotionalism. Pick up on that. Here the man has got a rope around his neck and because he screams, you know, the cracker that’s putting the rope around his neck accuses him of being emotional. [Laughter] You’re supposed to have the rope around your neck and holler politely, you know. You’re supposed to watch your diction, not shout and wake other people up— this is how you’re supposed to holler. You’re supposed to be respectable and responsible when you holler against what they’re doing to you.
― Malcolm X, the ultimate truth teller (via ancestryinprogress)
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Memphis Minnie—“I Hate to See The Sun Go Down”
Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937) (Columbia/Sony 1991).
“You can’t turn a hoe into a housewife”
“You can’t turn a sexist, double-standard holding, woman-shaming douchebag into anything remotely useful, nevermind a husband”
but you can turn a feminist into a sandwich maker
Don’t be surprised when you turn up in a hospital for eating a poisoned sandwich.
