sometimes I wish I didn’t have to go through this and we’d just be in the same place right now
I’m sorry
I miss you
I love you
I would take all the cruelty and pain you experienced if it meant you could still be here, if it meant you could be happy and healthy because you deserved it more than anyone I could ever think of
USA. California. Oakland. 1973. Leonard Colar helping a woman with her shopping as part of the Black Panther Senior Escort program.
The program was just one of many programs the Panthers ran to address the needs of the poor and disadvantaged. In fact, they developed more than 60 Serve the People programs, including efforts to provide free clothing and shoes, medical services —including drug and alcohol awareness, —legal aid education, and what was thought to be some of the first true early childhood education programs in the nation, preceding Head Start.
Photograph: Stephen Shames/Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery
I hate when you’re like “wow nothing is exciting anymore” and someone pipes up like “it’s called growing up” actually deborah, it’s called major depressive disorder but thanks for your input
Mestizo is a race and probably what you meant to say.
Latinos are majority mestizos, but not all Latinos are mestizos.
In Latin America there is black / chinese / native / white / turkish people… and they’re all latinos.
Racism might not be actually the same in LatinAmerica as is in USA, but antiblackness is still prevalent, so is discrimination towards native / Romani / Asian / Jewish people, mestizos and so on.
Colorism is real, and white and white-passing people have privilege over dark-skinned people.
Xenophobia is real, and it won’t be hard to heard of the discriminations Bolivians face in Argentina, or Peruvians in Chile (these cases also affected be racism).
White people have white privilege even in places where they’re a minority.