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gwydionmisha · 3 months
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sorynwrites · 1 month
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I try so hard to be a good daughter. But how do I reconcile my anger and guilt? who am I angry at? what am I guilty of? Whenever I look at you I think of what you could've been, had it not been for me. PhDs, family, mother tongues splitting wide smiles. a wild life led to wrinkled skin and weary eyes from days under the sun or some rich man's heel, so these small hands can hold yours tighter. There is so much anger in us, but I will bear it for your sacrifice, for how could any burden be heavier than the ones you carried on your back, in your womb, when we were too young to understand the weight of your love? But now I see it balanced precariously on a scale, and I pray every day that your sacrifices, anger, and exhaustion do not outweigh it. Please love me, despite everything. And how hard it is to bear; Every time your bitterness makes me remind myself why I love you, I think I love you a little less. I hate that in the moments between all the things we do not say, and the ones we hear instead, you make me forget your love. I hate that you make me forget my dreams, and my vow to give it all up, that everything I am is yours, just so I can see you happy. 
Oh.
Maybe, I'm just guilty of being you. 
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xibalbaa · 1 year
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Chang, Victoria. (2021). Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief. Milkweed Editions.
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nyx-82194 · 1 year
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ausetkmt · 7 months
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https://x.com/TajMarie17/status/1701713731757994180?s=20
I pray that we see some development(s) within the reparations space within the next year or so, so our so-called Black Media outlets can stop promoting scam artists like Akon for clicks and views.
@blackenterprise
, do better.
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With a net worth estimated at $60 million, Akon knows all the tricks to acquire wealth. What’s his secret? It’s to “stay stingy.”
The Grammy-winning singer was a guest on Logan Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast, where he shared his personal secret to financial longevity. According to the Senegalese musician and entrepreneur, frugality is key.
“Listen, you want to stay rich? Stay stingy,” Akon said. “I’m the stingiest muthafu*ka on the planet.”
The “Locked Up” singer went on to explain why, unlike his peers, he avoids traveling by way of private jet and opts for a commercial flight like the rest of us common folks.
“Any person of my caliber is not flying commercial. These dudes is flying jets all day,” Akon said. “I attempted to own a jet. That sh*t lasted six months. I sold that muthafu*ka so fast. You have no idea [of the upkeep costs]. I promise you.”
Instead, Akon says, renting a jet works, and you can always negotiate a lower rate.
“Buy some hours and use it only when necessary. And most of the time, use it as a way of negotiation. Let that be a part of your strategy to the money. But whatever you do, do not own a jet,” he advised.
“Bro, owning a jet is spending at least $2-3million a year just on upkeep. You spend more on the maintenance than the actual jet costs.”
The interview took place one month after Akon admitted to wearing fake designer clothes during his appearance on “Drink Champs.” Indeed, fans took notice of the “Drio” shirt he’d been wearing.
While hanging out with French Montana shortly after his “Drio” made waves, Akon credited his fake Christian Dior drip to supporting his local Africans.
“The Drio came from one of my Africans,” Akon told French. “I’m always supporting my Africans. We go hard for each other. I knew that sh*t was gon’ raise engagement. It only take one person to notice, and it’s gon’ go crazy on the internet and it did exactly what we wanted it to do.”
Akon took to the comments section to further laugh at his fake designer togs while shouting out the Senegalese community in Harlem.
“Promised my Africans I was going to represent for them with that DRIO,” he wrote. “Kept my word. Shouts to lil Senegal in Harlem. Walla Bok!!!!!”
RELATED CONTENT: Akon Still Believes In Akon City
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tearsofrefugees · 1 year
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mkcherrio · 1 year
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Maybe my mother will understand that smacking the shit out of me won't make me better. It won't make me perfect. It won't make me everything she wanted when she had me. It'll just make me hate myself more than I already do.
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epsilontauri · 2 years
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i‘m kinda surprised that i wasn’t able to find any active reddits or forums about russian parents? especially as an immigrant/ refugee child.
i‘m pretty sure i‘m not the only one who suffers under their russian parents, not only with the ongoing invasion of ukraine but also with identity, lifestyle or career choices.
my parents are pretty toxic and a lot of this toxicity has it roots in the russian culture, and was reinforced by the xenophobic motivated behaviour of a majority of swiss people and systematic discrimination of foreigners in switzerland.
sure, there are memes and tiktoks and whatsoever of kids making fun of their russian parents with the heavy accent and cold and standoffish behaviour but where are the platforms where we discuss the fucked up shit that they pulled?
like, i just got a passive aggressive voicemail from my mother because i didn’t congratulate our relatives on victory day and missed the phone calls the last few days. us celebrating victory day died down the past years until now— it was no big deal if i called grandma a week later to wish her a happy victory day or whatever, reciting a standard congratulations text that i know by heart now because i never cared about this. don’t other people with russian parents experience this?
all my interactions with my parents are somewhat guilt driven or fawning so i can avoid a major conflict or to keep them from crossing my boundaries (like my father who kept coming into my apartment when i was at work to put meat in my fridge, despite me being vegetarian for over 10 years. i took the spare key from them after this repeated and he didn’t listen to my protests).
or my family is fucked up beyond my wildest imagination and i can’t find anything relatable from others because other russian parents are actually decent people.
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head-post · 29 days
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Frontex flaws risk making the EU “complicit” in migrant deaths, watchdog warns
The EU risks becoming “complicit” in migrant deaths because of failings in Frontex’s search and rescue operations, European ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has said.
Last July, the European Union watchdog, which looks into alleged mismanagement by EU bodies, launched an independent investigation into the actions of Frontex, the bloc’s border agency, after hundreds of people died in the wreck of the Adriana ship off the coast of Greece the previous month.
The enquiry was published yesterday, saying Frontex’s role in search and rescue operations showed that current rules prevented the agency from fulfilling its obligations to protect fundamental rights and was too reliant on member states to act when boats carrying migrants were in distress.
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noplacetohidethis · 2 months
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Don't get me wrong, I like my life, and I am proud of my accomplishments. But sometimes I feel so fucking out of place, and everything seems wrong, like I got lost in a life that wasn't supposed to be mine.
Then I start to wonder if I wouldn't feel like this if, 20 years ago, my parents didn't make the decision to move out of Venezuela, splitting my childhood in half. Would I have stayed on my rightful path? Would I feel whole? Maybe I would feel like I have a place to return to.
Then I remember the suffering that everyone who stayed had to endure in this last decade, and I feel lucky I got spared.
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talks about how when you speak two languages you feel like you speak NO language because I'm not fluent enough in korean to communicate without weird pauses but also i have an accent in english that i HATE SO MUCH and sometimes i mispronounce words??
I've dont have a home country because i'm australian, born and raised, and yet australia will never fully accept me because of the way I speak my O's and U's and the way my eyes are slanted.
Too foreign to be korean, and yet too korean to be australian. where do i belong? Society casts me out into the grey area and puts up steel bars to keep me out.
My immigrant curse is that I am always destined to be an outcast. I would carve out bloody flesh with rusted knives and rearrange my bones a million times to become one of them, but I'm too much for Korea and their rigid cultural rules, and too rigid for Australia and it's golden freedom.
I mispronouce a word, two words, my whole sentance is wrong to their ears, and they laugh at me, looking at me like I am 2 rather than 18. Like I am below them and their blue-blonde-white grace.
I look at fair skinned women and men. They pronounce everything perfectly. They re-enforce my prison bars, and I stay in my place. my "place". what is my place? what is my place as an immigrant-not-korean-not-australian monstosity? I have no culture because I have no home.
I wish I was white.
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gaymayonnaise · 5 months
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going back home and seeing the chipped corner of the desk and the pink hairband around the curtain and the stain in the carpet and the uneven white paint on the door and the uncomfortably empty room and the absence of a child it raised and the presence of the person who left it
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randomthoughtslvl1 · 5 months
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I can’t quit
I can’t be quiet
I can’t speak the truth
For their is no truth left to give
I talk too much
I type wordy sentences
My eyes are common brown
I am yet another immigrants child
I do not belong here
Not do I belong anywhere else
I am a lost child
Born in one country yet belonging to neither
My soul is not split
For they have no place to call home
I tried really I did
I tried
I tried
I tried
But it will NEVER be enough for you
And even more frightening
It will never be enough for me
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gwydionmisha · 6 months
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one for the immigrant children in us
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userjoel · 1 year
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