If I Had A Nickel For Every Time I Voted For The Potential First Female President Over Trump And Trump

So kids, remember I said a while ago I would do a small Giveaway? This is just a very smol giveaway to begin with :P Since I am unable to draw due to my broken Tablet I’ll try to make you happy with this.

 Super quick:

✧˖°Prizes°˖✧

1x DRAMAtical Murder Data xx Transitory (60x85 cm \ 24x34 inch) Silk Print Poster

1x A4 Poster Aoba/Noiz by the lovely EroPinku

✧˖°Rules°˖✧

You must be following me

If the winner is one of the 731 Followers who have been following me before this giveaway, I’ll send you something extra

You can like and reblog as many times as you like (just please be considerate of you followers ^^)

I’ll ship anywhere in the world

Winner will be drawn by a random number generator

No giveaway blogs

✧˖°Other things°˖✧

*Winner must be confortable with giving me their shipping adress *Ask box must be open *Winner needs to get back to me within 48 hours or I’ll choose another winner

THIS GIVEAWAY ENDS 29 FEBRUARY 2016

not gonna deny this, just gonna say it’s a shame that people with “black” skin are still getting sh*t on by what probably feels at times like the whole rest of the world, so to all the people who deny this or think we’re blowing things out of proportion: SQUARE UP BUTTERCUP!

Descendants of black slaves owned by Native Americans are being denied their rights...

“It’s about color, and when it comes down to it, they don’t want the black people to have anything” - Opal Jackson, Freedmen descendant

A little discussed past

Every summer at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the Cherokee Indians sponsor their Trail of Tears pageant. The story of how the US government robbed the five tribes of their homelands in the south and moved them by force to Oklaholma. They don’t tell of the thousands of black slaves the tribes brought with them.

A history of slave ownership and African-Natives

Most of the ‘Five Civilized Tribes’ were slave holding nations.

Slavery was introduced by white slave owners into the upper echelons of Native nations. Most full-blooded Natives weren’t slave owners, rather the ‘mixed-bloods’, the people who lived like white planters, were. Masters frequently raped their female slaves. Those slaves had children who would go on to be known as the Freedmen.

After the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, a treaty was signed with the federal government in 1866. In this agreement, four of five tribes guaranteed full tribal citizenship for former slaves.

The treaty clearly says that former slaves ‘shall have all the rights of Natives’.

Despite this, the Freedmen are still fighting for their rights to this day.

Current struggles of the Freedmen

“We are still being treated the way that they was treating us back then. This is something that needs to come to an end” - Sylvia Davis, Seminole Freedmen.

Sylvia is proud of her Native heritage and sits on the Seminole tribal council. Despite this, she has encountered constant racism and hostility.

In tribal meeting, Sylvia says “I had a tribal member sit across from me using the word ‘nigger’ and then the Chief of the Seminole Nation, standing at the podium, with a smile on his face. I do have a name. My momma didn’t name me no ‘nigger’. My name is Sylvia and you can address me by that name”.

Theola Jones is a “proud member of the Seminole Nation”. Her two sons were recruited and accepted by the Haskell Indian Nations University because of their talents in football and basketball and their Seminole heritage but were denied access to the library and infirmary because they have black ancestry.

Despite being awarded “all the rights of Natives” in 1866, Freedmen continue to struggle for their rights and recognition.

Many are now being denied tribal citizenship, especially by the Cherokee Nation, and are purposefully excluded from any of the benefits, opportunities and revenue that are extended to all other recognised tribal citizens.

There are roughly 30,000 Cherokee Freedmen descendants today.

“When you know what you really are and you haven’t been embraced or acknowledged, it’s horrible’ - Kenneth Payton, Freedmen descendent

The removal of rights after 117 years of citizenship

From 1866 Freedmen were generally considered to be full tribal citizens. In the late 1970s federal services and benefits such as free health care were awarded to federally recognized tribes.

As members of the Cherokee Nation, federal benefits and services were also provided to the Cherokee Freedmen.

Efforts to block the Freedmen descendants from the tribe began in 1983, after over a century of recognition. The Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation issued an executive order stating that all Cherokee Nation citizens must have a “Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood” card in order to vote and be recognised.

The One-Drop Rule

The CDIB cards were made to be based on a specific federal census taken between 1902 and 1906. The problem is, this census was conducted under the ‘one drop’ rule.

They would simply look at the people being registered, and if they seemed like they had any black blood whatsoever they were classified as being strictly of African descent, even though they were socially, culturally and genetically Native.

Everyone else was put on a ‘blood roll’ where their quantum, or amount of native blood compared to white blood, was recorded.

It should be noted that like many people, the Cherokee Chief at the time was one-eight native and seven-eights white, yet on this treaty he would be regarded as a full Native with all the rights that the status brings with it.

This meant that no Freedman could possibly be allowed citizenship, even if they could document their heritage, and led to the completed the disfranchisement of the Cherokee Freedmen descendants, which was the intention.

Despite numerous court cases and appeals, this remains the case to this day.

Rebloging because this is awesome, nothing else need be said.

Coping Skills Toolbox

Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

Of fucking course

What sick bastard doesn’t

Reblog if school has ever made you;

• have an anxious/ a panic attack • cancel out basic needs to do work (showering, eating, etc) • feel depressed • feel isolated/ ignored • feel like education is a burden • stressed to the point of tears

(doesnt have to be all)

im trying to prove a point to my friend who disagrees with it all

This was awesome when I first saw it, it’s only gotten better

So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

May that kriffing bastard son of a womp rat never get laid.

I hate Palpatine. He bad

Reblog if you hate Palpatine.

not fully switching but fading around the edges in the middle of a conversation and suddenly gaining an accent that only one of you uses and not noticing until your told

man. you know what I really wanna do? make a comedy play/tv show script about being in a system. because let’s be honest, it’s not a dangerous thing, dramatic yes, confusing yes, but not dangerous to people outside of your system. BUT IT CAN BE HILARIOUS JUST IMAGINE

“Wait, WHAT DO YOU MEAN (bilingual alter) WON’T WAKE UP WE HAVE A TEST TODAY!!!!!”

“…who put the body on a roof again?”

“uh…”

“GODDAMMIT (teenage alter) WHAT DID WE TELL YOU”

“…no, no (little), go to bed, it’s past your–No you can’t stay up the body is doing adult stuff– JUST GO TO BED!”

“questions we ask the host: what’s for dinner? what’s this word? who’s this? how do we talk to this person? what’s the equasion for this? things we ask (older alter): where’s the host?”

“okay, careful, careful, careful…AND WE’VE OFFICIALLY GOTTEN OUT OF BED, GOOD WORK PEOPLE, I’M PROUD OF YOU!”

“why is everyone asleep it’s literally 7pm?”

“why is everyone awake it’s literally 3am?”

“can everybody shut up I’m trying to front”

“CAN EVERYBODY SHUT UP THIS IS IMPORTANT”

arguments about what to do

including over what we eat

arguments over going to friends’ houses

feel free to add some system friends…

look at this cutie!

Please take good care of them!

HMMMMMMMMMMM......looks like this needs to get signal boosted a lot more

Jury nullification. Pass it on.