February 2012
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the...
baddominicana:
thatmuchlove:
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
ai-yo:
jumpstart-therevolution:
theafrosistuh:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester...
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Prejudice: [PoC calls white person a cracker].
Racism: Two centuries of PoC being stolen from their homelands, driven out of their native lands, tricked, raped, infected with disease, and otherwise downtrodden so as to remove them from any chance of being the dominant race.
Prejudice: [PoC gives a white person a nickname playing on the fact that they're white].
Racism: PoC must, from the moment they realize a baby is on the way, worry about whether giving a child a name reflecting their heritage will affect their chances at a good life in the future. Hint: it will.
Not racism: Calling out that slavery lasted for two centuries, and civil rights did not happen for PoC until the 20th Century (you know, the century which only ended TWELVE YEARS AGO).
Racism: We should not talk about it, because it makes [non-PoC] feel bad.
Not racism: A non-PoC actor can get pretty much any role s/he wnats.
Racism: ... including roles that were originally written as PoC. PoC actors must settle for roles making them servants, sassy women, jive turkey men, criminals, drug addicts, or abused downtrodden prostitutes, the better to reinforce the negative mental image of PoC in the minds of the zeitgeist, and hold up the excuse that "they bring it on themselves".
Not Racism: Flattering pictures of people used to represent them on the web.
Racism: Flattering pictures of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachman. But the most unflattering pic available of Michelle Obama is used for the same article.
Not Racism: Articles about women's features.
Racism: Article purporting to have scientific "proof" that Black women are uglier than women of any other race.
Not Racism: America is where everyone is supposed to have equal chance.
Racism: Equal chance? Freed slaves were lucky if they got 40 Acres and a Mule, after working for free for generations for people who are now wealthy and offered no other reparations.
Not Racism: Irish History Month, Italian History Month, French History Month, German History Month, etc. All of which would, technically, qualify, btw, as White History Months.
Racism: It's not Cameroon History Month, Nigerian History Month, Egyptian History Month, Zimbabwean History Month, Zaire History Month, Somalian History Month, etc. It's BLACK History Month. Doesn't matter what country in Africa you come from. If you're Black you just all get lumped in together.
Not Racism: PoC describe their experiences.
Racism: Non-PoC interrupt, derail, silence, mock, deride, or cite "oversensitivity" because it makes them feel uncomfortable to know that PoC have endured this, and to have to acknowledge their privilege -- and their responsibility to do something about it if they really are as anti-racist as they profess.
...add your own examples.
Caboodle Ranch: Cute sanctuary is more like a...
vegansaurus:
I wrote about the Caboodle Ranch before because it looked like a wonderful place. Thanks to Peta, I now know differently; Caboodle Ranch is really another sad hoarding situation. You can see in the video below that many cats were found in just shocking condition. Don’t watch the video if you are scared, it’s pretty sad.
[Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com]
The cats...
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The psychological poverty trap →
liquidiousfleshbag:
unknowablewoman:
Shafir has proved that anyone faced with adverse conditions will consistently make bad economic decisions. An experiment he conducted with Mullainathan and Zhao placed financially-savvy Princeton students from prominent families under the stressful and rushed conditions that poor people face every day. They were given questions to answer in a series of...
“But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat...”
– Kate Harding (via rhiannon-random)
another example of thin privilege, your body type doesn’t carry these negative synonyms
(via fatcatsandcurls)
Sorry, but grabbing on your legs and looking...
greengrey:
boehnertroll:
Sorry, but slut-shaming isn’t cool and being a jerk about your opinions isn’t “classy” at all.
Who cares about “class”? Are you a member of the royal family?
I don’t want no part of yo tight ass country club, ya freak bitch.
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VA protestors say no to 'state-sponsored rape' in... →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
hsanytrid:
thesexuneducated:
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
The Guardian looks at the growing protests concerning legislature that would force those seeking abortions in Virginia to undergo a painful vaginal-uterine probing (internal ultrasound) before being allowed the termination procedure.
Even England is honing in on the disgusting Virginia legislature.
All this...
The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy... →
drinkthe-koolaid:
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t actually believe this, but they know it is the only answer that won’t get them in trouble.) They’ll...
heygirlheyyyyy replied to your photo: Husband bought the beast a fancy new collar. It’s…
where can one find these? i have a barfing kitty that needs to calm the fuck down.
You know, the beast has always had vomiting problems too. I never thought about the collar working on that! I’ll keep an eye out to see if it helps with that too. We got it for her on Friday and she usually gets...
fuckyealiz asked: oh god, the picture of the tick made me laugh really hard and then i felt really bad
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In case you didn't get the memo...
fuckyealiz:
pussyp0wer:
lucy-flawless:
carsonxvx:
If you claim to be Straight Edge or ‘drug free’ and abuse your body with prescription medication, for headaches, stomach pains, anything, you are lying to yourself and devaluing the true meaning of Straight Edge. Keep that impure, industrialized, fabricated, shit, out of your body. You fake edge, drug abuser. Your dependency on medication...
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neutralangel replied to your post: neutralangel replied to…
I sleep on top of all the dogs I selfishly enslave.
See! Nobody keeps pets because they actually care about the animals or want to help them! The internet was right you totally ARE using them!
I’ll have to tell these guys that we can’t feed them anymore either.
Obviously we were only doing that to fatten them up...
10 Conversations On Racism I’m Sick Of Having With... →
janedoe225:
This has been touched on before, but as sure as the sun will rise, whenever POCs are sharing their views or experiences on being on the receiving end bigotry and denigration, too often the default white response is something shallow and patronizing along the lines of, “Racism is just bad. Racism is so stupid.” Really? Thank you Mr.-States-The-Obvious. Do you have any idea how ...
neutralangel replied to your post: lambandserpent replied to your post: Nb4r, I…
I’m sure if I let Dexter go he would totally survive. Even though he shakes after twenty minutes of being outside in the cold and will sit next to me and bat at my foot until I feed him.
I don’t see the problem with letting a pure bred dog who has no ounce of “wild/native” anything left in...
lambandserpent replied to your post: Nb4r, I really hate the obviously new vegans who…
Exactly. It seriously pisses me off that some super xtreeeme! vegans think it would be a great idea to simply abandon every domestic animal in the wild. That would be horrendously cruel. The person I think you are talking about won’t listen to logic.
Exactly! It’s so fucking cruel. Little Boy knows...
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Nb4r, I really hate the obviously new vegans who want to prove how hardcore they are. It’s awesome to be enthusiastic in what you believe in. But if you’re completely fucking ridiculous no ones going to want to listen to what you have to say, no matter how good your cause is. Especially if you’re nasty about it and even more so if your point is completely fucking illogical....
Get your pet fixed for free at the SPCA this...
vegansaurus:
That’s right, FREE! But only during February. You may recall we broached this subject earlier this month, as Chan Marshall (Cat Power), Katherine Heigl, Rachael Ray, and Vegansaurus are all advocates of getting your pet FIXED! There are too many unwanted animals that end up in shelters everyday. Listen to PETA Chan.
Jennifer Scarlett, D.V.M. and co-president of the SF SPCA, says,...
Owning pets isn't vegan.
unknowablewoman:
brosephstalin:
oligarchies:
houseofangryhippies:
carsonxvx:
If you own pets, you are not vegan. You are an animal abuser and a prison guard. You don’t know if your pet wants to be owned or not. You never gave them an option to begin with.
You are an idiot and you have no understanding of what veganism means.
giving a loving, caring home to an animal rather than...
“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
omgthis
(via youarenotyou)
wanting to “improve the image” by never mentioning POCs oh my god are you serious I would have PUNCHED HER
(via...