Wisdom from the S.O.U.L

1 month ago

E look like a grown man @poizonivytheDJ (Taken with instagram)

Notes: 2344 / 3 months ago from kimjohansson (originally from ciggsandrambles)

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Notes: 1056 / 3 months ago from thedailywhat

thedailywhat:

The Interpipes Are Leaking of the Day: Success Kid spotted on a Virgin TV billboard (and on the Virgin Media website).

I sincerely hope Laney Griner is getting paid for this.

[kym.]

Notes: 2951 / 3 months ago from kimjohansson (originally from counterfeitindustries)

I Wish!

Notes: 4517 / 3 months ago from kimjohansson (originally from onlylolgifs)

official310:

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Notes: 653 / 4 months ago from devoncarrots (originally from mi-chellexo)

cakeandotheredibles:

How could I not see this before.. It’s so obvious!

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Notes: 2901 / 4 months ago from kinahskloset (originally from thespunkywallflower)

chokolatesoul:

pixyled:

esmeweatherwax:

racemash:

thespunkywallflower:

J. Marion Sims is called “the Father of Gynecology” due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure.

He kept seven women as subjects for four years, but left a trail of death and permanently traumatized black women.

Anarcha was one of the women Sims experimented upon. A detailed history of this monster is in Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid.

Sims believed that Africans were numb to pain and operated on the women without anesthesia or antiseptic. The procedures usually happened this way.

Black female slaves who were guinea pigs would hold one subject down as Sims performed hysterectomies, tubal ligation, and other procedures to examine various female disorders.

Sims also performed a host of operations on other slave populations. The following excerpt details his “practice” on enslaved infants.

Sims began to exercise his freedom to experiment on his captives. He took custody of slave infants and, with a shoemaker’s awl, tried to pry the bones of their skulls into proper alignment.

You guys should really google him.

(if you click the link, I did it for you)

fucking hell I just nearly got sick.

tumblrs tuaght me so much
I had NO IDEA how SO MANY THINGS we have in modern days was LITERALLY made at the expense of black women. The fact that they skip over this in things like biology classes and stuff like that is disgusting.

This is just

apalling

But we are the savages?!

Notes: 149218 / 4 months ago from domdabomb (originally from the-sweetest-thingx)

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Notes: 335 / 4 months ago from fuckyeahblackcelebrities (originally from fuckyeahblackcelebrities)

Notes: 1801 / 4 months ago from thedailywhat

thedailywhat:

RIP: Don Cornelius, creator and host of the legendary musical variety show Soul Train, was found dead this morning of an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound in his home in Sherman Oaks, California. He was 75.

Introducing many Americans to soul music through his hit TV show which premiered in 1971, Cornelius helped promote the careers of such musical icons as James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Michael Jackson.

He is perhaps best remembered, even among non-viewers, for his signature catchphrase, with which he would end each show: “I’m Don Cornelius, and as always in parting, we wish you love, peace and soul!”

[tmz.]