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21 y/o nursing student all about quietly analyzing and deconstructing white supremacist capitalist patriarchy....I luv cats, food, fashion, afros, frilly pretty things, I post rambles/whines/thoughts a lot, and anything else I find interesting/inspiring/whatever
Sep 15 '11
Feeling Like A Tourist: Being Black In New England [NPR]

soydulcedeleche:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

soydulcedeleche:

chetmanley:

ramou:

Many residents here have never known a person of color. Some want to; others do not. Problem is, when I leave my own small town, it’s impossible to know which type I will encounter.

Some of the comments on NPR are rage-inducing, but this is a great piece.

why you couldnt PAY me to live in new england again. those racist “educated” fucks can keep their gray, ugly ass plot of land.

Any brown people have information on how it is in Massachusetts? I’ve been wanting to leave where I’m at cause the costs are too high, but gay marriage isn’t legal in Pennsylvania (if it is by 2014, forget this existed), and Philly was my first choice. Boston and thereabouts would be my second choice.

other than racist as fuck? cold as fuck, what else you wanna know? lol

northamptons the only place worth a damn and its the queer hub too.

^ Northampton is the shizzzz

and yeah, this is like painfully relevant to my life right now. I didn’t really feel this really bad until I started at Umass…

(Source: wthellokitty)

88 notes (via bad-dominicana & wthellokitty)Tags: racism living brown Black in New England NPR

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    As a Southern white female who has spent 5 years in college a la Hartford, CT- a meeting place of several thousand...
  5. masteradept reblogged this from karnythia and added:
    @Bottlegoose needs to read this and comment.
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    I’ve bolded some really, really relevant bits, but read the entire conversation! I know Tumblr has probably made it...
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    Now you know it is impossible to let POC talk about the reality of their lives without interjecting a defense of...
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    [Previous posts snipped, you can read here] And then, there’s also this ^^^ Which is far more to the point than what I...
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  10. desalmada reblogged this from ramou and added:
    listened to this on...work today. A bit shocking.
  11. theblueandthewhite reblogged this from vanillaandlavender and added:
    wow reblogging because I hear this a lot and I think it’s really sad
  12. vanillaandlavender reblogged this from bad-dominicana and added:
    ^ Northampton is the shizzzz and yeah, this is like painfully relevant to my life right now. I didn’t really feel this...
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    All those fucking comments are just UGH ‘let me comment on an article about a black person’s experiences and make it...
  14. banji-realness reblogged this from theanimalnamesofplants and added:
    The first problem with New England is too many white people; this is also the second, third and fourth problem (the...
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    Many residents here have never known a person of color. Some want to; others do not. Problem is, when I leave my own...