I accidentally stumbled upon an Ethiopian radio station the one night I was driving home from work. I was cruising through stations while driving and just stopped at one because it was in a language I had never ever heard before, but I kept listening because it was freaking beautiful.
Turns out it was Amharic. I had never heard Amharic spoken before, but it might be the most beautiful language I have ever heard, so I just kept listening until it faded out to static.
Anyway, when I got home, I looked up the station [KETO-FM], and it is owned by and serves African immigrants & refugees.. mostly from Ethiopia. They have a website & a gofundme. Their gofundme is severely under goal.
Apparently, they are Colorado’s first and only radio station serving African immigrants in the state, soooo donate if you can!
OOOOH THIS STATION I’D HEARD IT AGES AGO I’D ALWAYS WONDERED. They’re great, doing a real service and also have amazing music.
Now that’s how you ally. That’s putting it on the line and showing solidarity. That’s how you use your white privilege for good.
”It’s nice to go out and march, we can do that. It’s nice to wear black at the Golden Globes, but what are you doing behind closed doors?” - Jada Pinkett Smith
It’s easily one of the cleanest examples of intersectional feminism I’ve seen in a minute. It’s the polar opposite of white feminism, where white women are concerned primarily with the wellbeing and advancement of other white women. If more white men and women stood up and demanded basic fairness instead of just talking about it—and not just in Hollywood—we might really begin to impact racism and close the pay gap that always gets inflicted upon black people in most careers.
