Quiet Soul, Loud Mind

curvyisthenewblack:

Olivia Campbell

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blackintellect:

dredrefab1b:

blackfoxx:

searchingforknowledge:

racismschool:

This teacher needs to be terminated immediately….at LEAST.

This bitch needs physical violence. LOTS OF IT.

but notice how they humanize the teacher by constantly calling her frustrated. Notice how they put her frustration on the same level as the violence enacted upon this little girl. Lets talk about how deeply an act of violence it is to cut off and throw away a little black girl’s hair to the laughter of the classroom. Or about how the teacher shows the little girl that her mother has no power and cant do anything to protect her by asking “What are you going to tell your mother?” And about how cutting her hair was just as much a message to her mother for sending her child to school with a hairstyle that she deems disruptive and frustrating. And how as a teacher, if you dont have constructive ways of discipline that dont involve terrorizing children then you are unfit for the job. but o she is frustrated and is receiving a small fine as opposed to being fired. Lets talk about what would happen if you terrorized and cut some white child’s hair in a school district with some means, whose parents have a higher property tax….

oh HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL NO!!!!! i am bouta to flip out!!! i dont care HOW much hair it was… she shouldnt even have TOUCHED her, let alone cut her hair!!! nah nah nah!!! I need her mom to be madder, she’s not mad enough for me. I need to go to this town and speak for this girl. This is never ok. Teacher should be gone! I need to see what this teacher looks like. Im done

Coming from the experience of having been a boy with hair that his mother braided for over 16 years of his life THERE IS NO EXCUSE OF JUSTIFICATION FOR PUTTING YOUR HANDS ON ANOTHER CHILD’S HAIR! Especially not a little Black girl’s hair. Hair is a sensitive topic, you don’t just cut off a little girl’s hair cause you can’t deal! No, it is unacceptable. You have traumatized a young girl, not to mention taunting her about what she’ll tell her mother. All I got to say is if it would have been one of my little sisters, (13 and 14) of which my mother still makes them sit on the floor between her legs and does their hair this wouldn’t just be on Channel 12!! I am disgusted.

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Charles Bukowski (via wordsthat-speak)

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Stop insisting on clearing your head — clear your fucking heart instead.

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brucewayneatl:

In case you forgot

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