The institution of marriage is not under attack as a result of the President’s words. Marriage was under attack years ago by men who viewed women as property and children as trophies of sexual prowess. Marriage is under attack by low wages, high incarceration, unfair tax policy, unemployment, and lack of education. Marriage is under attack by clergy who proclaim monogamy yet think nothing of stepping outside the bonds of marriage to have multiple affairs with “preaching groupies.

Rev. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ (via touchoftea)

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Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain’t through learning- because that ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in hisself ‘cause the world done whipped him so! When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Mama, “A Raisin in the Sun” (via 11nmurray)

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Willy T Ribbs, the first black man to drive an F1 car - he tested for Brabham in 1986 but didn’t get the seat. Boo you, teamboss Bernie.

greenliketheskyf1pics:

Willy T Ribbs, the first black man to drive an F1 car - he tested for Brabham in 1986 but didn’t get the seat. Boo you, teamboss Bernie.

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Why Gay Is Not the New Black

2. The very real hardships endured by many gays and lesbians cannot fairly be compared with the monstrous suffering endured by African Americans. Conservative gay journalist Charles Winecoff wrote, “Newsflash: blacks in America didn’t start…

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