- Person Z: We are designing a new website for the agency. Please take time to look over the samples we sent you and vote for the one you like best!
- Me: (looks over samples) So...There are no people of color anywhere to be found. How could you fail to have pictures of families of color?
- Person Z: Well...this is just a sample.
- Me; Are you trying to tell me that people of color don't own houses? Are you serious?
- Person Z: No! We just...
- Me: (in my mind) showcased your ignorance and called attention to the racism present in this agency.
- Me: (out-loud) fix this before I start something you can't handle.
24th May 2013
Reblogged From neoafrican
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Jackie & Martin @ HU
(Source: lovingbasketball)
THE WALK.
Highlights from Ferrari Challenge Europe Brno 2013
The exciting moments from the Ferrari Challenge Europe races at Brno in the most significant images.
Sound so smart, like you graduated college. Like you went to Yale but you probably went to Howard.
SOOOO accurate!! I LOVE my HBCU! HOWARD PRIDE!!!! <3 <3
Yes!! ALL OF THIS
Copper alloy hollow cast statue of the princess-priestess Takushit at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
If God gives me breath for 20 more years I see myself changing the world because my thought patterns are so opposite of what is the norm; so I would have to change the world or I would have to be changed by the world.
She bout That Life
(Source: theclassyissue)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, with 38,387 points. He’s now 65. But once upon a time he was just another black kid growing up in Manhattan.
In New York magazine’s great “Childhood in New York” issue, he talks about moving from Harlem to Inwood and being among the first black people in the neighborhood. His mom was harassed at the supermarket because the manager insisted she was shoplifting, and there was a constant fear he’d get beaten up en route to school by the Irish kids.
“I remember I saw a man get out of a Rolls-Royce—the man was Caucasian, and his driver was black. I said to the driver, “I’m gonna have a car like that one day.”
