Random thoughts that don’t fit in a tweet, about whatever I find the time to capture with words or images.Tumblr (3.0; @kengibbsjr)http://kengibbsjr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzb06l3SYP1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Think I need to read the instructions for this new filter (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/17518436117http://kengibbsjr.com/post/17518436117Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:35:08 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz41lnB2yU1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Prior to Alvin Riley’s Heritage Ball at FSC, only time I got suited up was for funerals & Easter Sunday. All these years later, I finally understand what he was doing for us all. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/17307105693http://kengibbsjr.com/post/17307105693Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:22:34 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxx6nuRxBy1r1cuhyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>When I first went to my mother’s home town in South Carolina, not far from Monk’s Corner, one of my cousins rode up on us with a dirt bike and no shoes. It was probably about 50 years after this, and lets just say that the biggest difference between what I saw then and in this pic is probably pigment in the clothing.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://darkjez.tumblr.com/post/17218505149/blackhistoryalbum-home-sweet-home-1936-on">darkjez</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blackhistoryalbum.tumblr.com/post/15983691461/home-sweet-home-1936-on-flickr-african">blackhistoryalbum</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackheritage/6711739617/" title="Home Sweet Home | 1936">Home Sweet Home | 1936</a> on Flickr.</p> <p>African American sharecropper family outside of their house, Scott, MS. Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Life Photo Archives © Time Inc.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>________</strong></p> <p><strong>I’d like to highlight how recent that date is: <em>1936, people. </em></strong></p> <p>This is why when people are all like “<em>OMFG SLAVERY WAS LIKE HUNDREDZ OF YRS AGO! WHY ARE BLACK PPL STILL WHINING ABOUT IT?!” </em>my blood actually boils. What people do not <strike>want to</strike> undertand is that after emancipation most blacks were immediately reconscripted into a new form of enslavement where they were tied to plantations (often the same plantations they or their recent ancestors worked as slaves) as “sharecroppers” (i.e. peonage wage labor). Former slaves were kept in perpetual debt by white land owners who charged exorbitant interest rates on monetary loans (for seeds/farm equipment etc.) & claimed large portions of black farmers’ crops as a fee for the use of their land. So basically the master/slave relationships was reinscribed & blacks remained tied to the land. </p> </blockquote>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/17221645842http://kengibbsjr.com/post/17221645842Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:23:34 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lysu6cc0lc1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a></p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/16959876698http://kengibbsjr.com/post/16959876698Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:08:36 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyl02h9iyr1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Getting ganked by the Baby Gang (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/16722294781http://kengibbsjr.com/post/16722294781Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:35:04 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyadk8VM3I1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’ve been watching ever GOP debate waiting to see this happen! #LoopLove (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/16394202247http://kengibbsjr.com/post/16394202247Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:52:56 -0500looplove<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly8n9m3q2V1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>We made the same face when the Ravens missed the field goal (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/16338670058http://kengibbsjr.com/post/16338670058Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:27:22 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxx6rgUa5L1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Looking like we practicing for Vegas lol (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15983823402http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15983823402Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:57:15 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtq2eJMHz1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>KG 1, 2 & 3 … (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15869624654http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15869624654Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:03:49 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxpr5kltkv1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Black Cowboy Meets Juan Valdez (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15751531020http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15751531020Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:36:55 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxpihchwko1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Crew in Cabo (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15740869325http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15740869325Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:29:35 -0500<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ylPUzxpIBe0" width="560"></iframe> If you haven’t seen this, you’re definitely a bit behind.</p> <p>Franchesca Ramsey isn’t the first one to do a parody of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-yLGIH7W9Y&feature=related">Shit Girls Say video by Kyle Humphrey & Graydon Sheppard</a>, but hers is by far the only one that matches it in quality.  And that, IMO is why the video was watched over 5M times in less than 2 weeks & been invited to appear on TV shows, quickly outpacing all of the other parodies.</p> <p>She says so herself:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://loop21.com/entertainment/franchesca-ramsey-talks-her-sht-white-girls-say-black-girls-video">when I came up with this idea, I really needed someone to be my cameraman and he has a beautiful camera, a $1,500 lens; he just has great equipment. The parodies of the original that are the best ones look good. I don’t want it to just be funny. I want it to look good. So he was like, we can do that! (Laughs)</a></p> </blockquote>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15728481565http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15728481565Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:48:00 -0500shit white girls say to black girlsblack media<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxhr7p7Jg11qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>So far, all cichlids survived the move & are loving the new spot (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15517020528http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15517020528Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:57:25 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx9fhcINUM1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Stylin in the new year … (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15283981615http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15283981615Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:03:11 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx9fdzfFP91qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>@Rolandmartin stays tweeting! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15283901758http://kengibbsjr.com/post/15283901758Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:01:11 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwtirsDWkz1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hope Santa didn’t peel any caps in the process of getting these! lol (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/14812763826http://kengibbsjr.com/post/14812763826Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:52:39 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwrza9D6Es1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Moms & I, kickin it at south of the border (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/14775482947http://kengibbsjr.com/post/14775482947Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:54:08 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwrpm7IkDv1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Merry Christmas from the next generation of young Gibbs! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/14768807349http://kengibbsjr.com/post/14768807349Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:25:18 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwmeevXsnH1qzkupgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dinosaurs gotta take baths too! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/14627677826http://kengibbsjr.com/post/14627677826Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:35:18 -0500<p>Today I saw what had to have been he 50th response to the Forbes article that started this hash tag, and I had to wonder why. At what point does all the response get as ineffective as the article itself. Do people think Marks or the audience he wrote the post for are reading these responses? Is it some warped sense of duty that’s got every minority or white liberal with access to a keyboard & the web thinking they’ve got to be on record as having fired a shot in this battle? Or is it just pageview hungry editors cashing in on a hot topic before it gets cold?</p> <p>Me thinks it must be the latter.</p>http://kengibbsjr.com/post/14275897404http://kengibbsjr.com/post/14275897404Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:28:05 -0500