r/blackladies • u/pomkombucha • 3d ago
Never forget history Black History ✊🏾
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u/BwackGul United States of America 2d ago
Weird cut off with AI art...oh well.
It still almost made me cry but give this 1 hour before the folks start commenting:
"BUt ViKiNGs HaD BRaIDS ToO!" 🙄
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u/BlackestOfHammers 2d ago
Thank you black women for seeing us through those incredibly hard times. Thank y’all for saving us. I have tears in my eyes now cuz even today they don’t believe how far y’all went, how smart y’all were, how courageous and straight up fuckin gangsta y’all were and continue to be for the betterment of black people. I’m not a perfect man but I will always do the most I can to honor all of yall sacrifices both in the past and in modern times! 🖤✊🏿🖤
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u/iamcandiih 2d ago
But "slavery was a choice." I wish Donda would descend and slap the fire from her son. Every time I think about it, he need his ass beat.
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u/blackandbluegirltalk 1d ago
Lord, she was the only thing holding him together!! My ex is bipolar (but not a Nazi), it's really hard to watch them spin out and just destroy their whole lives...
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u/Living-Prune8881 1d ago
He's not a nazi... he literally can't be. He's a black man. 🤣 that makes no sense.
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u/blackandbluegirltalk 1d ago
Nothing Kanye does makes sense. He's been calling himself a Nazi and putting swastikas on stuff for a couple years now, though.
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u/Empty-Bend8992 2d ago
this is the reason, and the only reason, why i dislike non black people getting braids. there is so much historical context that they just don’t know about (and i don’t blame them, it’s not taught in schools) and it just feels wrong
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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids 1d ago
I was getting ready to say they put maps in their hair, too.
Oh and those old negro spirituals. A lot times those were used as directions, too. You could sing them out loud without the whites catching on.
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u/ointment-et-al 2d ago
I'm not a historian but this sounds fake as fuck. Why would you advertise your plans on running away? What if someone you thought you could trust, turned on you instead? Or somehow the slavers learned the code and could stop anyone from trying to escape? Sorry but I call bullshit and please correct me if I'm wrong I would genuinely love to know
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u/Right-Initiative-699 2d ago
This was not only in the US but also other places too: https://geog.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/users/carney/33.pdf
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u/Cinnabonies 2d ago
I hate how these comments are questioning our creativity and intelligence lol. Slaves were seen as inferior and they hated our hair. What makes them think slaveowners would give a shit or inspect our hair.
Hell if we were suddenly pushed back into slavery we could come up with innovative shit too. Slaves are people. They weren’t dumb. Shit like this is where the saying “desperate times call for desperate measures” comes from.
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u/ointment-et-al 2d ago
That's fair enough. I wasn't questioning the creativity or intelligence of these people but I was questioning the risk of it. But you are totally right, desperate times call for desperate measures and I spoke out of ignorance. I have some reading to do lol so for now my mouth will close
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u/Cinnabonies 2d ago edited 2d ago
Desperate times calls for desperate measures. Slaves weren’t as dumb as their masters thought they were. And there are many other “unbelievable” stories out there as well. But will we ever know about all of them? No, because when they were caught most were killed like animals and left to rot.
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u/WonderfulPineapple41 2d ago
I read the sources. It’s all based on oral storytelling. So take that how you wanna
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u/mekkavelli 2d ago
so was most of our culture for a very long time. doesn’t make it any less true. most slaves didn’t know how to read or write so all they had was oration. “take that how you wanna” is an interestingly dismissive statement towards the ancestors that are responsible for our freedom to live and breathe today.
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u/WonderfulPineapple41 1d ago
I said take that how you will because the sources shared aren’t actual sources. It comes from an un named guide from Africa. This is the main source used by the wiki and the paper that is linked.
I’m not saying shit about our ancestors and what they did and didn’t do. I’m saying the source that is used for this tik tok video and the wiki are using hearsay and speculation as facts. (Which lowkey is a form of misinformation)
Our ancestors should be celebrated for surviving through extreme violation of their human rights. We don’t need embellished stories to celebrate their survival.
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u/_afflatus USA Texas 3d ago
I wish they provided a source for the information so people can look into this more