When I walk into General’s and am bombarded with country music
I experienced this less than 24 hours ago… worse night ever.
(TW) Graphic description of lynching, mutilation, rape)
After taking the nigger to the woods…they cut off his penis. He was made to eat it. Then they cut off his testicles and made him eat them and say he liked it. [Howard Kester’s real account in The Lynching of Claude Neal]
As a response to to the unspeakable crime of black-on-white rape, the act of forcing a man to ‘fuck’ himself to death with his own excised genitals, to feed and gorge himself on his own violating (violated) pleasure, may well have been hugely satisfying to those assembled (lynch mob)—-especially when the man got to confess his (seeming) enjoyment. To hear him desire his own death—and so turn their terrible pleasure into his own violent wish—was to construct a vision of the castrated black man as one actively seeking the pleasures of castration. And what of the black man’s desires and identifications here? It must have been exhausting trying to name that pleasure, to mention —without choking—how much he liked that severed penis now become his new protruding tongue…This little bit of theatre serves to reveal, and support, a race hatred predicated on an identification between blackness and sexual guilt, an identification which generates the sadistic desire to witness the spectacle—the stench—of emasculated black men slowly bleeding to death.
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David Marriot, On BLACK Men. 2000.
(via howtobeterrell)
TW: Necessary but violent images above. ^
(via elisawilliams)
Racism is not just about color. I repeat. Racism is not just about color. When we tell these clueless folks on Tumblr that racism is prejudice + power, we should break down that power into easy-to-comprehend nuggets for better retention:
Prejudice: the ideology that Group B…
do white people confuse slavery with like taking somones toys without returning it?
then i could understand the whole get over it movement (cant excuse it but can understand it)
its one thing to steal something and never return it
but we’re talking about millions of…
Melissa Harris-Perry describes herself as “cis” (via “MSNBC Talks To And About Trans People For An Hour, Doesn’t F*ck It Up” on autostraddle)
