sourcedumal:

How so many BLACK FOLKS vehemently railed against me, telling me that I clearly wanted to ‘be like a white woman’ and ‘had no spine’ because I had the AUDACITY to want to be treated like a complex human being who was fragile.

dreams-from-my-father:

certifieddimepiece:

coldbloodwarmheart:

thepanduchessofshade:

barbiewitch:

when people say they don’t date black girls what i hear is “i’m not interested in the baddest bitches on the planet i enjoy mediocrity and green bean casserole during the holidays and milk with my pasta and keds”

HA!

DAS RIGH BITCH. Also, when I hear “I don’t date fat girls.” Because then fuck you, fat girls don’t wanna date you, first. 

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Imagine that you are a twelve year old girl sent to do an errand in your backyard by your mother, when three men jump out of a van call you a prostitute and try to abduct you from your home.  What would your reaction be?  Would you try to escape, or meekly surrender to these strange men?  Her reaction was to hold on to a tree and scream for her father as they beat her repeatedly around the face and the neck.

As it turned out, the three men were plain-clothed Galveston police officers who had been called to the area regarding three white prostitutes soliciting a white man and a black drug dealer.

All this is according to a lawsuit filed in Galveston federal court by Milburn against the officers. The lawsuit alleges that the officers thought Dymond, an African-American, was a hooker due to the “tight shorts” she was wearing, despite not fitting the racial description of any of the female suspects. The police went to the wrong house, two blocks away from the area of the reported illegal activity, Milburn’s attorney, Anthony Griffin, tells Hair Balls. 
After the incident, Dymond was hospitalized and suffered black eyes as well as throat and ear drum injuries.

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How could a black girl in tight shorts not be mistaken for a prostitute?  Everyone knows our bodies are designed for consumption.  What business did this girl have dressing this way in her own backyard in the first place?

Given the racial and sexual nature of the assumptions made by the officers, one would assume that they would be at least contrite if not downright apologetic for their mistake, but that was not to be the case.  Two weeks after this incident they arrested the victim and her father who came to her aid for resisting arrest.

Two years later, “Dymond regularly suffers nightmares in which police officers are raping and beating her and cutting off her fingers, according to the lawsuit.” Her trust in law and order  has been destroyed forever.

(Source: womanist-musings.com)