never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,
you are invisible.
— my color is, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)
When a child is raped, we obviously don’t ask, “Well, what was the child wearing?” Similarly, when a grown women is raped, we should not ask what she was wearing. It is completely irrelevant. Rape is rape, regardless of age or attire.
![blackgirlsrpretty2:
eternallybeautifullyblack:
fyeahkerrywashington:
Kerry performs the 1851 speech by the famous abolitionist, Sojourner Truth, as part of a reading from A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
Watch the full performance [x]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l51vabPJXq1qc1ts1o1_250.jpg)
