- Women can’t show nipples unless men say they can
- Tumblr hates you if you’re LGBTQ+
- Tumblr keeps patting itself on the back
So great fucking job @staff, but hey you’re back on the App Store so I say everyone should go on there and give a one star review detailing why, contact the staff and tell them you hate this garbage website and for the hell of it contact Apple and tell them to pull Tumblr off the App Store again because we don’t want our (hypothetical) kids to be exposed to this bullshit
Black people, who invented hip-hop, jazz, and rock and roll, have long been tastemakers of American cool. In many ways, fashion, music, and slang are dictated by black people no matter how little credit they get for it..
In fact:
“Our research shows that black consumer choices have a ‘cool factor’ that has created a halo effect, influencing not just consumers of color but the mainstream as well,” said Cheryl Grace, senior vice president of U.S. Strategic Community Alliances and Consumer Engagement, Nielsen.
Thus, presumably, if you want to be cool and sell records, you ought to start acting black. In fact, it’s great if you’re not black and act black because you get the benefits of being cool without the baggage and limitations of being subjected to racism.
Its what the Kardashians, Iggy, Justin Bieber, Ariana, and alot of other celebrities do in order to rise in popularity as well as be accepted into the black community.
Grande’s music is largely influenced by hip-hop and R&B, meaning that in order to build a fanbase, she needs to court listeners (ahem, black folk) with those musical preferences.
Grande, who is quick to shut down any perceptions about her ethnicity being anything but Italian. Most people presume Grande is Latinx, not necessarily black, when mistaking her race, but I am here to tell you, most Latinos are part black, sis.
Thus, for years, Latinx women have been sounding the alarm: Grande is doing brown face. Look at her tan!! Look at how she speaks! Look at her music!
The point is: Most of us don’t get to pick and choose which parts of blackness we get to have — only white folks seem to have that luxury. And we need to give her the SAME ENERGY we give the kardashians.
Mr. Ernie Barnes (1938-2009) was an artist with a distinct style of elongated figures in his paintings.
He gave us this painting, The Sugar Shack (1971),
which was featured in the TV show Good Times, and also on Marvin Gaye’s I Want You album cover in 1976:
Some modifications were made to the album cover version to allude to Marvin Gaye’s album.
Of the painting, he said, “The Sugar Shack is a recall of a childhood experience. It was the first time my innocence met with the sins of dance. The painting transmits rhythm so the experience is re-created in the person viewing it. To show that African-Americans utilize rhythm as a way of resolving physical tension.”
He also worked on album covers for jazz/R&B trumpeter Donald Byrd, B. B. King, Curtis Mayfield, and jazz fusion group The Crusaders.
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✨Just looking out of the window…
Shawty in the orange a freak and the one in the yellow? I don’t gotta say anything
An open mind is one of the most attractive things ever. A person who chooses to view things from all perspectives and see all possibilities and oppurtunies is so fucking attractive to me.
