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Varnette P. Honeywood
Dixie Peach, unknown date
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If this world were mine -WAK
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You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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Photo series: Ladies and their pipes
Women shown are from: Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Namibia, Lesotho, Benin and Rwanda
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Julia Sarr-Jamois, outside Marni, by Gastro Chic
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Inna Modja. French Soul
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KNOW YOUR HISTORY.
She ( Nanny) put herself on a boat to the New World to come free her people. She was the leader of her tribe. She was an African queen who put herself into captivity to come to the West in order to be with her people so that she could free them. She didn’t come as a slave; it was her own plan. — Folk Historian Naakaa Cush via Karla Gottleib
Nanny, Queen of the Maroons, born into the Akan ethnic group in Ghana in the 1680’s ,lived to become one of the greatest freedom fighters of the New World.
Grandy Nanny was a chieftaness, a leader of Jamaica’s Windward Maroons, who successfully waged war with and held off the greatest military power on earth from 1724 to 1739 suffering only one majour defeat in 1734 at Nanny Town when the British, having managed to surprise the Maroons as they slept, fired upon them with portable swivel guns.
Historians acknowledge her as a master military strategist who developed and excelled at guerilla warfare. She perfected the art of camouflage and created a system of long- distance communication using the Abeng, a cow horn with a hole drilled at one end. Sophisticated Maroon communications put British troops at helpless disadvantage in the hills of Jamaica.
In the 1730’s, the war’s period of the most-intense fighting, the Maroons suffered only about 100 casualties while the British losses numbered in the thousands.
Nanny was named a National Hero for Jamaica in 1976.
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[Flash 10 is required to watch video]the pizza guy’s confusion makes this video so brilliant
O-oh lord. Brilliant.
You do not know how bad I want to do this. lmao!!!!!!
Did he pay for the pizza? O_o
Either way…I feel like that was my church for the week.lmao
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Of the world's almost 7,000 languages, half will be gone in hundred years due to colonialism →
450 of those languages are already in their final stages of breathing, with a handful of elderly speakers left of each language.
Languages have always waxed and waned. If they hadn’t we wouldn’t be speaking English. When did this become a bad thing?
Dear human being, please do yourself a favour and find yourself your state’s national museum and library and then drop a nuclear bomb on them. Make sure that everything pertaining to your own family history is stored in these buildings as well.
Then tell me how much happier you are with your life, now that everything that represented you as a people and an individual has been erased from the face of the earth.
This is not a critique of natural language change, but a critique of colonialism as a catalyst of thousands of language homicides around the globe and if you don’t understand how intrinsically linked your identity is with your cultural identity, you have probably never had to fight for it by virtue of being a speaker of one of the world’s major languages.
This is not a critique of Shakespeare’s development of the English vocabulary that took Chaucer’s language into the Early Modern period of the English language, this is a critique of residential schools, children beaten for daring to speak their languages, children being suspended from their schools for using their minority languages and so on and so forth.
This is not an issue of prescriptivism versus descriptivism, this is an issue of life and death.
King Johan everybody
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