nightingale6374

Musicals + tweets (or text posts or anything else I found on the internet!)

The fourth and final part.

saturnsorbit

Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month

The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man. 

That’s excellence.

latinagabi

Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.

princessnijireiki

Other things not to forget about Alexandre Dumas:

• chose to take on his slave grandmother’s last name, Dumas, like his father did before him.
• grew up too poor for formal education, so was largely self-taught, including becoming a prolific reader, multilingual, well-travelled, and a foodie, resulting in his writing both a combination encyclopedia/cookbook (which just— is fucking outrageous to me) AND the adaptation of The Nutcracker on which Tchaikovsky based his ballet
• he also wrote a LOOOOT of nonfiction and fiction about history, politics, and revolution, bc he was pro-monarchy, but a radical cuss, and that got him in a lot of hot water at home and abroad.
• even beyond that, he generally put up with a lot of racist bullshit in France, so he went and wrote a novel about colonialism and a BLATANTLY self-insert anti-slavery vigilante hero (which he then cribbed from to write the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character of which, Edmond Dantés, Dumas also based on himself).
• (…a novel which also features a LOAD of PoC beyond the Count, and at LEAST one queer character, btw, bc EVERY MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING BY DUMAS IS A LIE; seriously, at LEAST one of the four Musketeers is Black, y'all.)
• famously, when some fuckshit or other wanted to come at Dumas with some anti-Black foolishness, Dumas replied, “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”

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• for the bicentennial of his birthday, Pres. Jacques Cirac was like, “…sorry about the hella racism,” and had Dumas’s ashes reinterred at the Panthéon of Paris, bc if you’re gonna keep the corpses of the cream of the crop all together, Dumas’s more widely read and translated than literally everybody else.
• and they are still finding stuff old dude wrote, seriously; like discovering “lost” works as recently as 2002, publishing stuff for the first time as recently as 2005.

ALSO IMPORTANT:

SWAG

incorrect-musketeers

I know I’ve reblogged this before, ages ago, but it’s important enough that I’m doing it again

punlich

Everyone’s like “when you stop being dirt poor you’ll start liking capitalism” and now that I’m actually able to survive and have some financial security I’m like, “nope still have long term memory and still want to Eat The Rich”

foulmouthedliberty

AKA: you don’t have to be the one suffering to want to end suffering

solarpunkcast

I’m fairly certain I am MUCH ANGRIER about capitalism now that I have a stable paycheck that allows me to save slightly. Not only did it take me so long to get here that I have terrible anxiety, but I see so many other people struggling and am still angry that they can’t survive easily.

w-ayekwaakamigaa

Rez Natives deserve basic amenities

Rez Natives deserve basic amenities

Rez Natives deserve basic amenities

• REZ NATIVES DESERVE BASIC AMENITIES

1. REZ
2. NATIVES
3. DESERVE
4. BASIC
5. AMENITIES

cree-bird

and they honestly deserve it WITHOUT having to relocate themselves, their family, and their WHOLE community. 

fabriquer-en-jamaique

Or neglecting part of their identity or culture

creativenative1981

Or being judged for taking money or resources they are already owed.

slinging-salukis

from a friend in northern ontario. $43 for shitty mass produced muffins that cost $6 down south/in the city

slinging-salukis

here, have some wilted asparagus at the cheapest low quality grocery story

seventh-gen-moon

THIS is why i get so angry when non-natives say, “just go to the grocery store! you don’t need to hunt such and such animal bc of _______ bullshit reason!” Like NO. it’s not as simple as that. going to the store ? this is what you see ^^^^ please educate yourself. I am so very tired of the ignorance and assumptions that all people in america have the same basic amenities. Also stop ridiculing NDN people who hunt their traditional way on THEIR traditional hunting grounds. whatever the “problematic” animal may be. Those animals were put here by the creator FOR indigenous peoples, to live belong side us in harmony and good health, and to feed the people when the time comes. ALL ndn people of the “americas” are hunter/fathered people traditionally. respect our ways of life or GTFO.

w-ayekwaakamigaa

👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾

I feel like this article is relevant here, especially with that last comment:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4787000/Alaskan-boy-bullied-social-media-whale-killing.html

Be aware that price-gouging is enourmously prevalent in Alaskan Native villages too, so here comes this young adult who goes out and kills a whale the traditional way, all to feed his village!!! ONE SINGLE WHALE.

Which by the way isn’t even endangered.

And you know what the animal rights’ activists do?

They sent him death threats.

All over a fucking NON-ENDANGERED whale.

This man is a hero in his village, he fed everyone there for days. Below-working class Alsaskan Natives who otherwise would’ve had to travel hours to get to the nearest grocery store.

Entitled vegans always say “well why don’t you just go to the store and buy fresh produce?”

Because there aren’t stores where Rez Natives live.

And if you’re lucky, you’ll find shit like the images above, you wanna pay $30 CA for some fucking asparagus???

Unless you’ve seen the Rez life and how shit is, then you need to shut the fuck up and keep your entitled shit to yourself.

nizhonihomie

And not only food. Basic amenities like properly insulated/ventilated houses. Reliable water and electric. Postal addresses that don’t require a P.O. box. And in this age I’d say internet can be considered a basic amenity that a LOT of rez native houses don’t have. Don’t get me wrong, I love talking about food. But I feel like most posts like this get bombarded with food-based discussions and miss other equally important points.

cursmudgeon

In film studies I remember a lot of talk about how it’s impossible to make an anti-war movie. And most of that conversation focused on how just by representing violence the camera tends to glorify it, to make it into an aesthetic object. And there’s interesting stuff there to consider. How attempts to critique the system get reappropriated and turned into propaganda for that same system.

But then I think about how the US Military can sue you for copyright infringement if you depict a gun developed using their funding without them first approving your script and giving them editorial review over the final cut of your film.

Maybe the problem isn’t with the cameras.

kingscrown666

There's an old saying (I think it's Russian): the same boiling water that softens the potato will harden the egg

cutiebabykitten

Reminding you that with a single click you can:

• feed the hungry
• provide a free mammogram 
• give food and care to a shelter animal
• provide a homeless veteran with a meal
• fund alzheimer’s research 
• fund diabetes research 
• provide books for children
• protect wildlife habitat

It’s completely free.

lovemedonlothario

the thing abt diet culture is that there’s no way any junk food could possibly be more self destructive than viewing your own body as not only a separate entity from yourself but as an enemy to be conquered

punkyiddishkeit

Would have been cool if they did this in 2015!

wellmetkinsman

ben shapiro is feverishly attempting to find this man and cut a deal

catgirlforeskin

Fool, the man was Ben Shapiro on stilts