geminiloveca:

hardcore-as-peaches:

writersblockstanfever:

runstrongadventurelong:

just-yasmeen:

Earlier my husband and I were driving around looking for Pokemon and we found ourselves in a nice neighborhood surrounding a lake and we could see there was a ton of really good Pokemon close by the water. So I ask him if he wants to get out and walk around and he’s like ‘uuh I don’t think so.’ And he points to this lady just standing by her mailbox staring at us with literal sparks coming out of her eyes. And that’s when I realize that my black husband is too worried that walking around in a white neighborhood looking for Pokemon might cost him his life. And if you’re a white person and don’t think that something is wrong with that then something is wrong with you. Also if you have any black children in your family please talk to them and make sure they’re safe when playing this game. It’s scary out there.

My heart just broke. My stomach just dropped.
I hate this. All of it.

this is a reality that should NOT be

I literally had to school my parents on why using ‘sambo’ as a nickname is racist. I can’t even with people right now.

This is such bullshit. Walking around in public should not be a privilege. it just shouldn’t…

And while not black, my younger son is mixed-race (Latino and white) and inherited his dad’s darker coloring. He’s also almost 6'3". So when he goes pokehunting alone, he’s all too aware that he could look “suspicious”. He wears big, bright-colored headphones and a comic book t-shirt, and he dances or sings off-key to anime theme music. He smiles at everyone and stops to pet cats. He wears a Pokeball necklace and he never goes pokehunting at night - not alone.

Because he knows at his size, with his coloring, he could look “dangerous” and “threatening” and that he has to go out of his way to look as friendly and innocuous as possible.