Dear Internet,
Today, I was assaulted at work. Knowing that the police wouldn’t do anything, my boss and I decided not to call them. If you live in New Orleans or are from here, you’d get it. If not…then you’ll never get it unless you live here for an extended period of time. It is a horrible feeling to feel like you’re completely powerless when someone puts their hands on you in a violent way and you live in a city where the police force routinely takes 1-3 hours to show up to the scene of a crime (even serious things, like car accidents, it happened to me, it’s happened to my friends, I’ve heard so many anecdotes), and when they finally do show up, they don’t give a fuck. Nobody gets in trouble. Nothing.
Serve and protect my ass. If you want to just get away with whatever you want, move to New Orleans. I’ve never loved and hated a place so much in my life.
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Black people from #Somalia in the zoo of Basel, 1930
Black people – and sometimes American natives – were brought since the 16th century by the explorers from the new continents to Europe where they belonged, together with exotic creatures, monkeys, lamas, parrots, to the spectacles of princely courts.
The 1870s onwards when, with the emancipation of the bourgeoise, museums of natural history and zoos were opened across Europe as intellectual heirs of the princely cabinets de curiosités,it was considered self-evident that the presentation of exotic fauna also includes black people.
At the turn of the century already the zoos in fifteen European cities – including London, Berlin, Basel, Antwerp, and even the Russian Warsaw – offered this attraction.
The inhabitants of the African colonies were first exposed in cages, and later in “ethnographic villages” where whole families lived their “traditional form of life” before the eyes of white visitors.
(via Poemas del río Wang: Black people in the zoo)
And this, dear friends, is part of the reason why I HATE the word exotic being used to describe human beings.
NOT to mention the posters made-[french ones here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lthjw89bwJ1qahzs6o1_500.jpg)
