Hello I'm Amra Fleurs, I'm an aspiring writer and I'm 19 this year. I reblog a variety of stuff, but in short I'm very culturally diverse in interests, and I love pastels, the color pink especially, and aesthetics.
the funniest part of the buzzfeed thing was the “how did watermelon become black people’s thing lol!” because that stereotype was literally created by whites after slavery ended because black people were finding ways to support themselves and one of the prominent ways was selling watermelon. So the watermelon became a sign of freedom and hope and in order to crush and humiliate the black people selling/eating/growing the watermelon, whites flipped it and turned into a representation of black people’s perceived laziness, childishness, uncleanliness and so forth. but yeah lol! that’s how it became a “black person thing”
That’s a part of it but it also derived from the fact that watermelon was seen as a poor man’s feast. Slave owners would feed watermelon to their slaves because it was cheap, and easy to grow, it was the same type of food they would feed to their pigs.
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When an Alabama overseer cut open watermelons for the slaves under his watch, he expected the children to run to get their slice. One boy, Henry Barnes, refused to run, and once he did get his piece he would run off to the slave quarters to eat out of the white people’s sight. His mother would then whip him, he remembered, “fo’ being so stubborn.” The whites wanted Barnes to play the part of the watermelon-craving, juice-dribbling pickaninny. His refusal undermined the tenuous relationship between master and slave.”
Alva Braziel was shot 10 times and killed in Huston. This seems to me like a fucking dream that another black man was shot 10 fucking times and not even given a chance to see another day. smh
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It’s been ten years since Takei Emi won the “All Japan National Beauty Contest” (Zen Nihon Kokuminteki Bishoujo Contest) in 2006. (The interview was done in 2016.) Popular actress Takei Emi walks dramatically in the middle of drama series, films and other entertainment scenes. She reveals her feelings towards her past and present self. The movie “Yokai Watch The Movie: Sora Tobu Kujira to Daburu Sekai no Daiboken da Nyan” is a hybrid of both animation and live-action.
STRANGE FEELINGS. I THOUGHT I WOULD BE A MONSTER. (laughs)
What did you first think about appearing in the live-action version of the movie “Yokai Watch”?
It was a strange feeling. I thought I would be a monster however, I was relieved to know that I will play the live-action role in this part anime and part live-action work. I think this is something new.
Translator’s note: The interview is very long so I hope you’ll read until the end!
Margot was apart of the first black ballroom team, Norton and Margot. These two specialized in the waltz and other classic dancers, that very blacks danced. They were the most classiest of glamourous of any dance team. They faced a lot of discrimination and racism for not being the stereotypical type of dancers they were expected to be because of their race, but they danced all over the world and were masters of the waltz, bringing smiles to many faces with their serene, divine dancing. A book was wriitten on Margot and her partner Harold Norton on their career, called Waltzing In The Dark.
Born in the South of the US on a cotton plantation and raised in Harlem, the self professed sex kitten was one of the most distinctive entertainers in the history of cabaret, stage and film. Born on January 17 1927 , Eartha Kitt was raised by a woman called Anna Mae, who she believed was her mother. The singer later said her father was the son of a plantation owner and had been conceived by rape. She was named Eartha after a year’s good crop. She lived in poverty until her mother met a new husband who rejected Kitt because she was a mixed race child. Described by Orson Welles as the most exciting women in the world when she played Helen of Troy in Dr Faustus, Kitt’s most famous part came as the exotic feline, Catwoman in the Batman television series from 1967-8. Originally, Kitt began her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company and made her film debut with them in Casbahin 1948. A talented singer with a raspy voice enriched with sultry tones, her hits included songs such as I Want to Be Evil, Just an Old-Fashioned Girl, C’est si bon and Santa Baby which was released in 1953. She possessed a strong, independent personality which matched her growling vibrato voice that lingered around the theatre long after she had finished singing. Her fierce personality erupted at the height of her fame at a White House luncheon party given by Lady Bird Johnson, the president’s wife, in 1968. Kitt was asked by Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War and erupted into a doomed speech. Kitt replied: “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kid’s rebel and take pot”. She was promptly blacklisted and effectively forced to work abroad, particularly Europe.
