An Open Letter to Tumblr’s Staff Part 2

***See Carrie set it off in Part 1*** First and foremost I wanna say I fucks with Tumblr heavy. I roll with the Tumblr community so much more than other social media cliq. When I’m on Tumblr, I am off the grid from all the over saturated wack shit on facebook. At this point my dashboard is basically an internet embassy giving me online immunity from lame status updates and people I don’t want talking to me asking me about my life. I fucking go hard in the defense for you guys man. When my roommate saw me on Tumblr and was saying, “I don’t get it. Are you just staring at pictures all day?” I gave him a 40 minute power point presentation on why he should be on your site. Another friend who shall remain nameless (Ken) compared you to dubstep, I took offense for you. I said, “No! Tumblr is not dubstep! Tumblr is 90’s hip-hop at its best.” You know why I say that? Because…

Wait, let me correct myself, Tumblr over everything. You guys are a safe haven for nerds and nerds of color especially. I made good friends with two highly talented people (Carrie & Christian) just by reblogging pictures of Ororo Munroe (Storm to yall). Considering how much I hate people that’s amazing. Considering these are two people of color that fux with anime, comics, movies and obscure references 3% of the human population would get? I mean seriously,  Where else can I respond to posts discussing feminism not segregating women of color from being labeled as feminist because that in and of itself is …

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