so what i’m getting from all these asian-black discourse on tumblr is both camps are misinterpreting each other’s words. and i mean BOTH camps (and those in the middle who are either mixed or dark asians are confused as fuck; hell, i’m confused as fuck for being brown and not (east/light) asian enough; and i’m confused as fuck for being lumped with east asians who have a completely different experience from brown latinos and brown filipinos; and i’m confused as fuck with people who immediately presume that black desis can’t be black just because they’re desis, and the same with people who assume a black islander can’t be asian).
ps: i’m sick of academic-based discourse on ACTUAL asian-black relations… just saying. let’s be real here. no more of that ~this scholar said so~ bull shit please? let’s talk about real experience and accept the fact that the white man fucked us all in the head for centuries, that we don’t know our identities anymore, that and we end up fighting because of how the white man labeled and continues to label us POCs. ok?
EDIT: while i’m at it, can we all please learn to differentiate privilege from oppression of POCs? please? pretty please? okay.
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The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth—the atoms that make up the human body—are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core, under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them, went unstable in their later years. They collapsed and then exploded, scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy—guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems, stars with orbiting planets. And those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky, and I know that yes, we are part of this universe. We are in this universe. But perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up. Many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big. But I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life—you want to feel connected. You want to feel relevant. You want to feel like a participant in the goings-on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Video by Max Shlickenmeyer.
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Politic Of Survival
I will always trust someone talking/acting their lived experience over someone without that experience theorizing about it.
Listen.
- Frederic Chopin - Nocturne in B-flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1
- Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, Adagio (K.488)
- Frederic Chopin - Etude in E Major, Op. 10 No. 3
- Amadeus Mozart - Fantasia No. 3 in D Minor (K.397)
- Joseph Haydn - Sonata No. 59 in E-flat Major, Adagio e Cantabile (Hob. XVI:49)
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