“Shoutout to my blerds, they represent the realness”
-Childish Gambino, Bonfire
Blerds = black nerds, a term first used by the character Turk (a black doctor) in the NBC/ABC sitcom Scrubs
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Please do not forget Trayvon Martin. His killer, George Zimmerman, still has not been arrested.
What you can do: Call, fax, or email the District Attorney’s office, Sanford Police, and political representatives to ask them why Trayvon Martin’s killer has not been arrested.
1. State Attorney’s Office - Sanford
Attn: Florida District Attorney Norman Wolfinger
State Attorney’s Office
Criminal Justice Center
101 Bush Boulevard
PO Box 8006
Sanford, Florida 32772-8006
Telephone: (407) 665-60002. Sanford Police Department
Sanford Police Department, Attn: Police Chief Bill Lee, 815 West 13th Street, Sanford, FL 32771
Telephone: (407) 688-5070
3. Florida Governor
Office of Governor Rick Scott, State of Florida, The Capitol, 400 S. Monroe St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
Governor’s office Telephone: (850) 488-7146
4. Florida legislators
http://www.flsenate.gov/senators/find
(a) The Florida state senator for Sanford, Florida is David Simmons.
David Simmons, 251 Maitland Avenue, Suite 304,Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
Telephone: (407) 262-7578(b) The Florida state representative for Sanford, Florida is Jason Brodheur.
Jason Brodheur, District Office, 114 West First Street, Suite 208, Sanford, FL 32771-1273
Telephone: (407) 302-4800
(c) The US representative for Sanford, Florida is Corrine Brown.
Representative Corrine Brown, 2336 Rayburn HOB, Washington, D.C. 20515
Telephone: (202) 225-0123, Fax: (202) 225-2256
(d) The US senators for Florida are Marc Rubio and Bill Nelson.
Senator Marc Rubio, 317 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington DC, 20510
Telephone: (202) 224-3041
Senator Bill Nelson, 716 Senate Hart Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
Telephone: (202) 224-5274
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Natural hair trend by vogue.it
It is uplifting then to see the newest pack of Black models storming the catwalks in full embrace of their natural hairstyles, from cropped Afros, flat tops, to buzzed scalps—and in turn being embraced by the industry that has typically approached Black hair with skepticism and harsh critique.
Read more at http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-black/black-beauty/2012/03/natural-hair-trend
“The indigenous peoples of the Congo are all black in color,some more so,some less so. Many are to be seen who are the color of chestnut and some tend to be more olive-colored. BUT THE ONE WHO IS OF THE DEEPEST BLACK IN COLOR IS HELD BY THEM TO BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL…There are some children who although their parents are black, are born white skinned…And these are regarded by the Congolese as monsters…Given the fact that a black skin is so highly regarded among them,we Europeans appear ugly in their eyes… But they do not want us to call them Negroes but Blacks (Prietos); amongst them only slaves are called Negroes and thus amongst them it is the same things to say negro as to say slave.” - Antonio de Teruel in Narrative Description of…the Kingdom of the Congo (1663-1664) THIS WAS STATED IN THE 1600S BY EUROPEANS VISITING THE CONGO… DO BLACK PEOPLE STILL VIEW THE DARKEST OF SKIN AS BEAUTIFUL?
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