Proximity to whiteness is a privilege. #comics

“When Black Friday comes I’ll collect everything I’m owed And before my friends find out I’ll be on the road…” #comics #blackfriday

“Everyone I know Everywhere I go People need some reason to believe I don’t know about anyone but me If it takes all night That’d be alright If I can get you to smile before I leave…” #comics #turkeytrot #colonization #genocide #runningonempty

“Try (Try), try (Try), try (Try) Just a little bit harder…” #comics #try #adoptee #adoption #benice

“Got a feeling inside (Can’t explain) It’s a certain kind (Can’t explain) I feel hot and cold (Can’t explain) Yeah, down in my soul, yeah (Can’t explain)…” #comics #adoption #adoptee #cantexplain #whereareyoufrom

“What you think, ah! What you feel, now What you know, ah! To be real!” #comics #real #struggles #adoption #adoptee

“You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun…” #comics #time

“Money, it’s a crime Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie Money, so they say Is the root of all evil today…” #comics #money #economic #psychological

“I don’t know why you want to tell me When I’m right or when I’m wrong It’s the same thing, in your mind, the only time I’m right is when I, when I play along…” #comics #makesnosenseatall #hüskerdü

“Old days Good times I remember Fun days Filled with simple pleasures Drive-in movies Comic books and blue jeans Howdy doody Baseball cards and birthdays…” #comics #olddays #privilege

The comic reads differently with playground noise. #comics #playground #kids #youngchildren

“See Me Feel Me Touch Me Heal Me…” #comics #seen #heard #race #nothingtohide

“Are you lost or incomplete? Do you feel like a puzzle? You can’t find your missing piece Tell me how you feel? Well, I feel like they’re talking in a language I don’t speak And they’re talking it to me…” #comics #talk #talktoomuch #talkaboutrace

“There are times we disagree We agree more than we don’t We won’t always see eye to eye But we will more than we won’t We got friendship The kind that last a lifetime Through all the hardship You know, you’re a friend of mine…” #comics #friendship #black #growingupblack

“God, I feel like hell tonight And tears of rage I cannot lie…” #comics #asian #veryasian

“You know I’ve always been a dreamer (spent my life running round) And it’s so hard to change Can’t seem to settle down But the dreams I’ve seen lately Keep on turning out and burning out and turning out the same So put me on a highway Show me a sign Take it to the limit One more time…” #comics

“These eyes Cry every night For you…” #comics #theseeyes

“To workers, I’m just another drone To Ma Bell, I’m just another phone I’m just another statistic on a sheet To teachers, I’m just another child To IRS, I’m another file I’m just another consensus on the street…” #comics #whatami #feellikeanumber

“Baby, I see this world has made you sad Some people can be bad The things they do, the things they say But baby, I’ll wipe away those bitter tears I’ll chase away those restless fears That turn your blue skies into gray Why worry…” #comics #whyworry #tooasian #toowhite

“Why in the world would anybody put chains on me, yeah? I’ve paid my dues to make it Everybody wants me to be What they want me to be I’m not happy when I try to fake it, no, ooh That’s why I’m easy (yeah) I’m easy like Sunday morning…” #comics #easy #racialinsult

Bus ride conversations. #comics #choices

“Wanna move into a fool’s gold room With my pulse on the animal jewels Of the rules that you choose to use to get loose With the luminous moves Bored of these limits, let me get, let me get it like Wow It’s like right now It’s like wow…” #comics #wow #namaste

“And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They’re quite aware of what they’re going through Ch-ch-changes…” #comics #change #diggy #names

A special kind of awkward. 😂 #comics #awkward #names

“Guess who just got back today Them wild-eyed boys that had been away Haven’t changed, had much to say But man, I still think them cats are crazy…” #comics #welcomeback #irony #whitewash

“Trouble Oh, trouble can’t you see You’re eating my heart away And there’s nothing much left of me…” #comics #goodtrouble #immigrantlife #pronunuciation

“It’s the sound of the rain coming down when you fall asleep It’s a call from a friend that you love, but never get to see All the time you can waste tryna chase what you’ll never need Always comes back around to simple things…” #comics #simplethings #names #pronunciation

“You fill up my senses Like a night in a forest Like the mountains in springtime Like a walk in the rain Like a storm in the desert Like a sleepy blue ocean You fill up my senses Come fill me again…” #comics #anniessong #pronunciation #names

“They got little hands And little eyes And they walk around Tellin’ great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty little feet Well, I don’t want no short people Don’t want no short people ‘Round here…” #comics #latebloomer #shortpeople

“There are people in your life Who’ve come and gone They let you down You know they hurt your pride You better put it all behind you, baby ‘Cause life goes on You keep carryin’ that anger It’ll eat you up inside, baby…” #comics #heartofthematter #growingupblack

“I’m a late bloomer (ooh-ooh-ooh) I’m a late bloomer (ooh-ooh-ooh) This is surely true (ooh-ooh-ooh) It doesn’t matter when you bloom It matters that you do (ooh-ooh-ooh) (Ooh-ooh-ooh)…” #comics #latebloomer

“Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will live as one…” #comics #imagine #blackandwhite

“Why do you build me up (Build me up) Buttercup, baby Just to let me down? (Let me down) And mess me around And then, worst of all (Worst of all) You never call, baby When you say you will (Say you will) But I love you still…” #comics #selfcare #karaoke

“Who knows what tomorrow brings In a world few hearts survive All I know is the way I feel When it’s real, I keep it alive The road is long There are mountains in our way But we climb a step every day…” #comics #love #upwherewebelong

“Well, they tell me of a pie up in the sky Waiting for me when I die But between the day you’re born and when you die They never seem to hear even your cry…” #comic #hardertheycome #pickingafight

“They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there You’ll either be a union man Or a thug for J. H. Blair…” #comic #sides #whichside #experiences #adoptee #adoption

😬 #comics #korean #awkward

“When we first met I must admit I fell for you right from the start Now when we meet all kinds of things it seems upset the apple cart Ouch!” #comics #ouch #korean #least #kpop

“Shoes on, get up in the morn’ Cup of milk, let’s rock and roll (uh-huh, whoo) King Kong, kick the drum Rolling on like a rolling stone…” #comics #kpop #korean #bys #kdig

“Come on, although you try to discredit You’ll still never edit The needle, I’ll thread it Radically poetic…” #comics #wakeup #hardtohandle #korea

“So many people have come and gone Their faces fade as the years go by Yet I still recall as I wander on As clear as the sun in the summer sky…” #comics #morethanafeeling #moving #korea #acceptance

“Look at the ivy on the old clinging wall Look at the flowers and the green grass so tall It’s not a matter of when push comes to shove It’s just a hour on the wings of a dove It’s just warm love…” #comics #adoption #adoptee #home #yearning

“Just a small town girl Livin’ in a lonely world She took the midnight train going anywhere…” #comics #journey #adoption #adoptee

“Settle down, it’ll all be clear Don’t pay no mind to the demons They fill you with fear The trouble, it might drag you down If you get lost, you can always be found Just know you’re not alone ‘Cause I’m gonna make this place your home…” #comics #home

“Home is where I want to be Pick me up and turn me round I feel numb, born with a weak heart I guess I must be having fun…” #comics #home

“Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air I never thought I could feel so free Flyin’ away on a wing and a prayer Who could it be? Believe it or not it’s just me…” #comics #protest #protecttranslives

“There’s battle lines being drawn Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong Young people speaking their minds Are getting so much resistance from behind…” #comics #forwhatitsworth #resistance #protest #rights

“So true funny how it seems Always in time, but never in line for dreams…” #comics #true #immigrantlife

“Who’s watching? Tell me, who’s watching? Who’s watching me?” #comics #ice #immigrantstories

NEWS BREAK! #comics #military #taco