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→ 15 Jan 13 at 10 pm }
→ 15 Jan 13 at 10 pm }
The color we believe ancient Egyptians were in a society that tells us only white people can be innovative vs. the actual color of ancient Egyptians
(Source: pedazitosfightsback, via marfmellow)
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→ 29 Dec 12 at 12 am }
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Remember this next time you walk up to
the ticket window of your local movie
theater with $10 in your hand.
The Media (accidentally?) missed this one!
Please read this: The troops overseas would
like you to send it to everybody you know.
Subject: Denzel Washington and Brooks
Army Medical Center.
Don’t know whether you heard about this but
Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brooks Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, (BAMC) the other day. This
is where soldiers who have been evacuated
from Germany come to be hospitalized in
the United States , especially burn victims.
There are some buildings there called
Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a hotel
where soldiers’ families can stay, for little
or no charge, while their soldier is in the hospital. BAMC has quite a few of
these houses on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled most of the time.
While Denzel Washington was visiting
BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of
the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one
of them would cost to build. He took his checkbook out and wrote a check for the
full amount right there on the spot.
The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear
this story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it warmed
their hearts to hear it.
The question is - why do:
Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan,
Paris Hilton,
Tom Cruise
and other Hollywood fluff
make front page news with their ridiculous antics, and Denzel Washington’s Patriotism doesn’t even make page 3 in the Metro
section of any newspaper except the
local newspaper in San Antonio !?
(via me-amas-mas)
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→ 26 Dec 12 at 9 pm }
→ 26 Dec 12 at 9 pm }
I really liked the way Rachel Maddow explained her support for affirmative action, and I thought it might be useful for some people. (Full Video)
Has anyone noticed who’s allowed to be sensitive and offended? Those who are marginalized and/or institutionally oppressed are told that they are being too sensitive while at the same time they are told to be sensitive to the needs and feelings of their oppressors and those who are apathetic to the problems they face.
(via blacktemple)
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→ 12 Nov 12 at 6 pm }
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Most people don’t realize this but we still have a draft in America, only we’ve rigged it that the children of the rich, elite or political class don’t have to worry about dodging the draft.
We draft kids into the military based on economics. We have an …
Gather round, little saltines.
You not being able to say it is exactly the reason we say it. Because we took something that represents everything you ever took from us and turned it into something we have and you don’t. We say it because we are the only people who know what it means and how it feels and because it is something, the one thing, that includes us and excludes you.
You find it offensive?
We don’t care.
It makes you uncomfortable?
We don’t care.
We have no right?
Nigga we got the only right.
You are a person, and we are a people. A people who can take whatever you throw at us and make it something you want back.
Nigga you jealous.
(via niggaimdeadass)
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→ 10 Oct 12 at 6 pm }
→ 10 Oct 12 at 6 pm }
DID HE REALLY SAY “GOT SOME BLING BLING HERE TOO”
OMG
(Source: sandandglass, via newtzealand)
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→ 31 Aug 12 at 2 pm }
→ 31 Aug 12 at 2 pm }
Debunking Paul Ryan’s most outrageous claim from last night
“We have to kill them to ensure that they won’t suffer for very long”
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→ 24 Aug 12 at 12 pm }
→ 24 Aug 12 at 12 pm }
The Distribution of Grants and Scholarships by Race
i am so sick of white people coming to me talking about “affirmative action” and how there aren’t any scholarships for white kids. let me get my fucking violin out
(via esaedders)
These statistics speak of “merit-based scholarships”, as in: based on how said scholar performs. Is it not possible that maybe, just maybe, white students in general tend to get better grades? Or would the be a “racist” assumption to make?
(via mrjerome)
even if this assumption was true (which is based in racist attitudes of Black achievement and also ignore the entire white supremacist basis of the styles of learnings and its institutions in the U.S.) there are still completely institutional reasons for why this would be true. children of color face unequal opportunity to quality education from k through 12 regularly. they face poverty, community violence, food shortages and hunger all at higher rates than white children. they receive less government funds in the form of head start for children with special needs or who live with disabilities and are of color. children of color are consistently taught by people who don’t identify with them or affirm their identity. we are forced to go with learning styles that do not fit our intuitive true ways of thinking. and then we deal with this like the school to prison pipeline, abuse from racist teachers, proof that AP and honor students of color don’t get the recognition they deserve or boosted into better classes as frequently as whites, bullying that happens more frequently to poor, queer and/or trans* students of color. and thennnnn… the fact that school districts are arranged by property taxes and white wealth is now 22 times greather than Black wealth and that homeownership would clearly be less in those communities without access to wealth. and that homeownership is part of what it takes to get better grades because steadier environment, less moving and more likely access to community resources one might not be able to afford. there are a lot of reasons why white students would achieve in school at higher levels than students of color. but those reasons rarely have anything to do with white people as a race and rather the white supremacist society we live in that gives them an advantage in everything and then claims them superior to everyone. these children of color who are failing and dropping out or going to jail right from school aren’t doing so because they are Black or Latin@ and it runs in their blood and as a race we are pathalogically criminal and less than whites (this is the assumption for why whites are better at everything). they are doing so because this society is stacked completely against them from day one and surviving sometimes doesn’t even include getting a high school diploma never mind having the grades to get merit based scholarships to institutions that still benefit whites more because they get paid more than all people of color for the same degrees anyways.
(via strugglingtobeheard)
(via super1eklectic)
"Caucasian students receive more than three-quarters (76%) of all institutional merit-based scholarship and grant funding, even though they represent less than two-thirds (62%) of the student population.
Caucasian students are 40% more likely to win private scholarships than minority students. These statistics demonstrate that, as a whole, private sector scholarship programs tend to perpetuate historical inequities in the distribution of scholarships according to race."
White logic:
we gave you medical advances. Thank us for ransacking and mass murdering you.
Fact:
ancient egyptians were doing root canals back then. We would have figured it out. We did before you.
White logic:
you were filthy before we taught you to be clean.
Fact:
white people aint learn to bathe regularly til poc contact. We brushed our teeth, made soap and bathed daily for centuries before you and france still stinks.
White logic:
you are savages.
Fact:
white people have killed and shitted on hundreds of millions of poc the world over and show no signs of stopping. No one else has as bloody a record. You win top savage.
White logic:
you are more violent and dangerous than us peaceloving white folk
Fact:
see above. Also you commit most crimes and are more likely to do illegal shit statistically. You just never pay for it.
White logic:
its over. Get over it.
Fact:
we continue to die and be shitted on at your hands at mass level. You just never give a fuck.
