Day: May 16, 2018

otsitsyataka:

lyd-ia:

thefalsefaces:

IG: lyle4thompson

“Growing up lacrosse has always been there for me. When I played, it was always with a clear mind. That’s the way it was taught to me and I would never do something that would risk not playing this game. Off the field I can’t say the same.
This article touched me, I can relate to it, but what got me was the fact that these kids can’t play lacrosse right now. I think the first thing that needs to happen is for these programs and uslacrosse to come together to make sure that these kids can play. I will do everything in my power to help this situation.
The racism is not to be ignored. It needs to be acknowledged and dealt with. Parents should not have to prepare their kids for racists and hateful comments. And looking back that’s exactly what my parents did.
In a nutshell we Can do better.
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Link in bio—— give it a read”

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LINK

LACROSSE IS A NATIVE INVENTED SPORT LET US PLAY OUR OWN DAMN SPORTS IN PEACE

This is the thanks my people get for creating this game. 🤦‍♀️ This is what happens when you forget the true origins and meaning of the Creator’s game. I think a history lesson should be at least required before picking up a ká·nhya (stick).

hucowgoddess:

cadosanctus:

eccentric-nae:

darkmoonperfume:

secretsunkept:

wakeupslaves:

afrojabi:

localstarboy:

I just starting bawling my eyes out

Slavery was a choice though right? 

My grandpa lives in clarksdale, Mississippi and HATES white people with a passion. I grew up listening to stories like this. His cousins had to flee to Chicago in the 60s for trying to fight a group of white landowners who wanted to hang them for trying to leave the land they worked on.

Slavery turned into “share cropping” if you kept your slaves ignorant and isolated then they didn’t know they had been freed. This went on well into the 60’s the fucking 60’s these people are still alive dealing with this type of shit in the deep south.

My friend said to “fact check” this and I’m like…black ppl are literally saying they were kept as slaves what is there to fact check. Anyway, sharecropping was still slavery as far as I’m concerned.

I did not know this

I didn’t either and it breaks my heart to see stuff like this. To hear of more darkness that was just swept under the rug like this.

imakegoodchoices:

“I VIOLATE ARTICLE 27, SEC. 553-4 OF THE MARYLAND ANNOTATED CODE SAFELY, OFTEN, AND EXTREMELY WELL,” Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Washington, D.C., October 11, 1987. Photo © Exakta.

Sections 553 and 554 of Article 27 of the Maryland Code prohibited sodomy (punishable with a sentence of “not less than one year nor more than ten years”), oral sex, and “any other unnatural or perverted sexual practice with any other person.”

via @lgbt_history

Source: muck-raker