Ideal Black Female // Mandy Harris Williams

When you think about it, PLUR is inherently genocidal.

It’s got me thinking about the desire to divest musicians from those that manufacture weapons from genocidal entities. How does this make any sense?

I really can’t imagine making my living off of another cultures survival traditions. Maybe this is the privilege of being Black… alas, how does one’s soul survive this?

It is plainly evident that r&b, once a survival utility and tradition of African Americans has been completely divested and commodified. The same goes for house music.

I woke up this morning and began watching an MTV countdown of girl group singles from the 90s up to now. It confirmed what I’ve known, about the racialization of popular music…

Now this is a white flight that I can endorse.

To any young person who wants to make the world a better place, best of luck to you. But I must admit that shit has been deeply unsustainable, largely unrewarding, financially risky and damaging to my health. I think it was stupidity and naïveté to try to be good.

As for now, I wanna be bad 💁🏾‍♀️

I hate it here and nobody has the critical thinking skills or the fucking heart to risk their convenience or pocketbook or reputation to change it. Disgust does not BEGIN to express how I feel.

I struggle, truly to find a popular cultural act that is not in some way appropriating Black people’s swag.

Yall watch people act like complete vampires, sucking all of the creativity, sweetness, and gifts out of real ones and as long as they have clout yall don’t say SHIT.

Black women are losing their jobs at alarming rates. (And no, it’s not because they’re over reporting unemployment). It’s because we are the cultural mules of the world and people do not give two shits about us except for propping up their little tokens who don’t stir shit up-maintaining status quo

We’re all drugged (self/or prescribed, no judgement) just to make it through the day. And frankly it still isn’t enough to make any of this shit feel okay.

We have all these apps to create connection, meanwhile, this plethora of persons creates the most fickle sort of connecting. We trade ourselves and others like commodities.

Rapists and Serial Killers (a.k.a. Weapons investors) hold so so so much power. This is not even capitalism it’s straight murderocracy.

The culture, exceptionally broadly speaking, is a mess. It feels exceptionally hopeless. Once again, I watch young people move in deeply segregated modalities. Once again, thin is all the way in and now we are also lying about full bodies (acceptable provided an ideal ratio).

I somewhat loathe the saying “random thought.” Like absolutely not random, that is not how thoughts are made…

Omg yes please @bsky.app so we can subtweet and draft. I really need the ability to do that I almost did something naughty. I may want to come back to it, but it’s not the time.

It’s almost Spring and I can fucking feel it 🌱

I’m hot in France. Not to brag—actually just wanna share for anybody who looks and feels similar(oft ignored). Wore my hair natural and gained 15 lbs I couldn’t style from what I’d packed, and still turned heads in
Toulouse and Paris. If you look like me and wanna feel hot, go there/Leave LA.

I got my first hickey this year it was such a cute experience.

I’m confused… we like Lady Gaga again ? So the Zionism is not an issue anymore? Or…

I miss the shea butter neo-soul era so much. Those late 90s-early 2000s… just Black folks just loving on ourselves and each other with phenotypically Black sounds. Damn, it was a beautiful time to grow up in musically.

If you are looking to do your part in saving democracy, I highly recommend you buy and read ONE book:

Howard Zinn’s a People’s History of America.

It’s a MUST read. It’s not for the faint of heart, but we are at war for the soul of this nation & you have to be hardened to face the fight

READ IT!

Being a Black woman may require that you stop at a Walgreens after your flight because the travel size requirements are no match for your thick hair.

This is how many hours per week a person needs to work in order to escape poverty.

The US is dead last.

#Poverty #USA

Did you know that "house" music was invented by gay Black producer/remixer/DJ Frankie Knuckles? If you did, great! If not, check out his bio:
chicagolgbthalloffame.org/knuckles-fra...

#BlackHistoryMonth

Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months?

Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

A week or so ago I learned that a certain squiggly braid pattern was to alert enslaved people of a river so they could escape.

I always saw how women braided on stoops and in their living rooms and wondered how they did that.

Damn near cried when I made the connection.

Don’t be a “legacy” guardian. That’s weak sauce. Demand accountability and refuse to be fan boys/girls.

Elon Musk’s big payday: ‘We haven’t seen this type of abuse until now’ As the billionaire guts federal spending, his companies keep getting more federal money.

Elon Musk is raking in federal $ as he slashes government spending. Just this week:

-Tesla gets $767M from Puerto Rico
-SpaceX nets $8M from NASA
-Tesla gets $400M to sell Cybertrucks to State Dept.

One expert: "We haven’t seen this type of abuse until now.”

kaufman.substack.com/p/elon-musks...