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animal-e: PLEASE HELP US!!!!!! REBLOG THIS!!!!

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:39:35 -0400

PLEASE HELP US!!!!!! REBLOG THIS!!!!

"Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:36:53 -0400

““Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.””

- Louis C.K. (via 30thcenturyboy)

Sylvester Magee, the (probable) last American born into slavery died in 1971.

The last living child of former American slaves, Mississippi Winn, died in 2010.

Slavery in the territory that is now the United States lasted more than 330 years. We will be 330 years removed from slavery in the year 2195.

(via fishingboatproceeds)

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:35:16 -0400

"In the final analysis, the term “Judeo-Christian” is nothing less than a blatant coup d’état, a..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:22:55 -0400

“In the final analysis, the term “Judeo-Christian” is nothing
less than a blatant coup d’état, a forced misappropriation onto
the face of a new religion of what rightfully belongs to a much
older one. The term “Judeo-Christian” is therefore not only an
oxymoron, it is outright sacrilegious, a dishonor to the millions
of Jews who were tortured or killed for their refusal to convert
to Christianity, and, by association, wrongfully links the Jewish
people and its ancient scriptures as accomplices to centuries of
Christian slaughter and oppression of other indigenous peoples
as well via Christianity’s sorely misguided and misapplied
interpretation of the “Old Testament.””

- Gershon Winkler, The Judeo-Christian Fiction (2008) Lulu Press. (via here-lies-andalusia)

Exactly.

(via thearcanetheory)

I will reblog to remember!

(via theprophetlilith)

"don’t come follow a woman of color writer here on tumblr, and assume everything she writes or..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:20:36 -0400

“don’t come follow a woman of color writer
here
on tumblr,
and
assume everything she writes
or
how she dresses her space
is going to make you comfortable.
isnt going to pierce your skin,
and
make your stomach fire.
then flood her inbox with messages of how she is hurting you.
how she is filling up your dash with love notes from people you don’t care about.
i find that wildly presumptious
and
frankly stupid.”

- think, before you follow, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)

vasundharaa: This is a resource post for all the Good White...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:18:46 -0400

vasundharaa:

This is a resource post for all the Good White Person™s out there. You know, the ones who say things like “It’s not my fault I’m white! Don’t generalize white people!”, or “I’m appreciating your culture! You should be proud!”, or “Why do you hate all white people, look I’m a special snowflake who’s not racist give me an award for meeting the minimum requirements for being a decent human being”.

Well, if you are actually interested in understanding racism and how it ties into cultural appropriation, please read instead of endlessly badgering PoCs on tumblr with your cliched, unoriginal arguments and repeating the same questions over and over.

On White Privilege
aka don’t blame me just because I’m white:

It’s Not My Fault I Was Born White: Basics of White Privilege x

Racial Divide x

Endless Examples of White Privilege x

You Cannot Know What It’s Like To Be A Racial Minority x

Intersectional Feminism x

White Privilege Does Not Mean White People Have Perfect Lives x

White Privilege and White Supremacy: A Presentation x

You Will Never Experience Racism x

Understanding White Privilege x

White Privilege and Double Standards x

Systematic White Ignorance x

The Invisibility of White Privilege x

The Luxury of White Privilege x

White Privilege: The Harry Potter Analogy x

Privilege Denial Bingo x

Privilege and Cost x

Check Your Privilege 101 x

Whiteness x

Whiteness is Not A Culture x

White Privilege and Racism x

Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk About Race x

When White Anti Racists Talk About ~Their Struggle~ x

White Privilege As A System x

On Reverse Racism
aka you are being racist against white people:

Are White People Racially Oppressed x

White People, the new Racial Minority x

People Don’t Value Pale Skin!! x

There Is No Such Thing As Reverse Racism x

Racism vs. Not Racism x

But White People Are Discriminated Against In Foreign Countries x

The Myth of Reverse Racism: Why Cracker is Not N**** x

Satire: A Step Wise Guide on Being Reverse Racist x

Racism Against White People vs. Racism Against POCs x

On Cultural Appropriation
aka I’m just appreciating your culture:

The Basics x

Identifying Appropriation x

But When We Wear It … x

Why Can’t I Wear It (Hipster Headdresses) x

Not Yours x

If You Take The Bindi x

White People Do It Better x

Multiculturalism and Appropriation x

Cultural Appropriation and Portrayals In Print Media x

Diminishing the Cultural Significance of the Bindi x

The Cultural Appropriation Bingo x

Why We’re Fed Up of Your Responses x

Identities Are Not Costumes x

Hinduism And Appropriation x

Religion and Privilege x

Bindis Are Cool x

Exotic India x

What’s Wrong With Cultural Appropriation x

Racism, Bindis and Ganesh Tattoos x

BUT YOU’RE SPEAKING ENGLISH! x

Cultural Appropriation Trolls x

Guide to Being An Appropriating Douchefuck x

New Age ~Culture Mixing~ x

In case you’re tired of the prose, here’s poetry x

Why You Shouldn’t Wear A Bindi x

Appropriating and Sharing x

Our Culture is A Punchline Until It’s a Trend x

Homage Or Insult x

Tattoos and Appropriation x

Bollywood is Not Synonymous With Indian x

College Party Costumes and Stereotypes x

Dotheads x

Bindis and Racist Humour x

Hindu Iconography x

Misuse of Hindu Iconography x

Your Appreciation Doesn’t Help Us x

Assorted Vials of White Tears and Miscellaneous Antidotes
aka I can’t change that I’m white/not all whites are racist/we are all humans:

Unoriginal Arguments Refuted x

Quick Checklist: You Might Be Racist If x

Your Opinion Isn’t Necessary x

I’m Not Responsible For My Ancestors x

The Kumbayah Myth x

Proud to Be White x

Good White Person x

We Don’t Hate White People x

Brutality of Colonialism And Why You Can’t Tell Us To Forget the Past x

People Who Claim Not To See Race Are More Likely to Be Racist x

All Races are Beautiful Said the White Girl x

Race Blindness Is A Luxury x

Well, You’re Racist For Calling Me Racist x

I’ve Read About Its Significance, I Know What It Means

Angry Because Someone Called You Racist x

We’re Not All Like That x

People Only Care About This Trivial Shit On The Internet x

I Can’t Apologize for Being Born White, It’s Not My Fault x

Why Can’t You Tell Me What I’m Doing Wrong x

It’s Easy to Be Color Blind When You’re White x

A Diagrammatic Guide To White Tears x

Conversations I’m Sick Of Having With White People x

Why Do You Hate White People x

I’m Trying To Be Cultured x

Sisyphean Conundrum x

What is Your Problem x

We Are All Human, We All Bleed Red x

It’s Just A Bindi x

How Not To Respond To Accusations of Racism x

I’m Italian And 0.009% Native American x

What White People Think Racism Means: A Venn Diagram x

White Guilt x

White Pride!!!111!!! x

I Like *Insert Foreign Country* I Want To Live There x

You Have So Much Hate, Fighting Fire With Fire Won’t Help x

BooHoo, Don’t Call Me Racist x

Not Everything Ended With Your Ancestors x

The Racist Reaction x

I Don’t See Why That Is Racist x

Crummy Apologies x

Okay. I agree. I’ve been socially conditioned not to notice racism and recognize my privilege. What can I do?

Listen x

A Step Wise Guide x

I don’t care about this bullshit; you’re making a big deal out of nothing, go home and delete your blog:

The Clueless White Person Bus x

Teacher in MI Cuts Little Girls Natural Hair Off, Throws Away In Front Of Her

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:17:27 -0400

Teacher in MI Cuts Little Girls Natural Hair Off, Throws Away In Front Of Her:

blackfoxx:

searchingforknowledge:

racismschool:

This teacher needs to be terminated immediately….at LEAST.

This bitch needs physical violence. LOTS OF IT.

but notice how they humanize the teacher by constantly calling her frustrated. Notice how they put her frustration on the same level as the violence enacted upon this little girl. Lets talk about how deeply an act of violence it is to cut off and throw away a little black girl’s hair to the laughter of the classroom. Or about how the teacher shows the little girl that her mother has no power and cant do anything to protect her by asking “What are you going to tell your mother?” And about how cutting her hair was just as much a message to her mother for sending her child to school with a hairstyle that she deems disruptive and frustrating. And how as a teacher, if you dont have constructive ways of discipline that dont involve terrorizing children then you are unfit for the job. but o she is frustrated and is receiving a small fine as opposed to being fired. Lets talk about what would happen if you terrorized and cut some white child’s hair in a school district with some means, whose parents have a higher property tax….

I would like to volunteer my services right now to watch this child’s mother’s back to make sure no one interferes with her opening a very large can of whoop ass on this teacher.

Storm calling Cyclops out = awesome sauce

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:13:40 -0400

Storm calling Cyclops out = awesome sauce

Popular Seattle Teacher Forced Out for Teaching Kids About Racism

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:03:13 -0400

theuppitynegras:

socialismartnature:

The battle at Seattle’s Center School raises the question—how should schools teach students about tolerance and discrimination?

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wooowww. so how come a teacher leading an anti-racist discussion should have to warn parents beforehand that white children may find the conversation “distressing,” yet teachers talking about slavery, christopher columbus, andrew jackson, the mexican-american war, etc, in the usual apologetic or glorified manner, don’t have to warn parents beforehand that children of color may find the conversation very distressing???

radicallydisabled: ungyo: (x) Saw the video floating around so...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:01:44 -0400

radicallydisabled:

ungyo:

(x)

Saw the video floating around so I gif’d it for anyone who doesn’t wanna actually watch it haha.

Boom.

"A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:00:24 -0400

“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that’s considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.”

- Patricia Hill Collins (via sadbrownprincess)

I HATE the concept of community service that high schools and colleges use. For this exact reason. Real activism and service (that is primarily done by the oppressed out of necessity or in support of their own community) is never counted.

(via daniellemertina)

PoC, “third-world”/Global South people and poor people DON’T exist just so some pretentious little white/Western bourgeois fuck can improve their resume and boost their white savior ego. (via the-uncensored-she)

TransCanada Caught Training Police to Treat Peaceful Protestors as “Terrorists” -- TarSandsBlockade.org

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:29:56 -0400

TransCanada Caught Training Police to Treat Peaceful Protestors as “Terrorists” -- TarSandsBlockade.org:

thepeoplesrecord:

June 12th, 2013 — In the midst of recent national controversy surrounding government surveillance of the public, a recent Freedom of Information Act request to the Nebraska State Patrol has exposed evidence that TransCanada provided trainings to federal agents and local Nebraska police to suppress nonviolent activists protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline by arresting them on “anti-terrorism statutes.” The presentation slides, obtained by grassroots landowner advocacy group Bold Nebraska, target Tar Sands Blockade activists by name.

“This is clear evidence of the collusion between TransCanada and the federal government assisting local police to unlawfully monitor and harass political protestors,” said Lauren Regan, legal coordinator for Tar Sands Blockade and executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center. “These documents expose the truth that the government is giving the nod to unlawful corporate spying. By slinging false allegations against peaceful activists in this presentation, TransCanada puts them at risk of unwarranted prosecution.”

Although TransCanada’s presentation to authorities contains information about property destruction, sabotage, and booby traps, police in Texas and Oklahoma have never alleged, accused, or charged Tar Sands Blockade activists of any such behaviors. Since August 2012, Tar Sands Blockade has carried out dozens of successful nonviolent direct actions to physically halt construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas and Oklahoma. All of these acts, as well as every pipeline protest in Nebraska, have maintained strict commitments to nonviolence.

“Try as TransCanada might to slander Tar Sands Blockade and our growing grassroots movement, we know who the real criminals are.” said Ron Seifert, a spokesperson with Tar Sands Blockade who was pictured in the slideshow. “The real criminals are those profiting from this deadly tar sands pipeline by endangering families living along the route and pumping illegal levels of air toxins into fence-line communities.”

“If anything, this shows the effectiveness of campaigns to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and fossil fuel extraction as a whole,” said Scott Parkin, an organizer with Rising Tide North America and a non-violence trainer also pictured in the slideshow. “We’ve been fighting coal, oil and natural gas for a long time using these time-honored tactics and strategies. We’ll continue to use them precisely because they have been so effective in making change throughout American history.”

Grassroots resistance to Keystone XL is growing in Texas and Oklahoma where TransCanada is currently digging up freshly laid sections of the pipeline that failed integrity inspections. The East Texas Observer reports that at least 70 “anomalies,” including dents and shoddy welds in the pipe, were identified in a 60 mile span, and in some areas these imperfections occur at a rate of three per mile.

“A discovery like this presentation reveals that TransCanada has no problem lying to authorities and intentionally misleading the public in pursuit of its own private gain,” says Seifert. “If TransCanada officials cannot be trusted to tell the truth about the peaceful nature of Keystone XL protestors, why should we believe they’ve told the truth about the integrity of their pipeline and the real threats it poses to the hundreds of rivers and creeks that it crosses?”

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Submitted by http://songofdork.tumblr.com/

Just saw this on TarSand’s Blockade & Rising Tide FB Pages!

Be sure to click on the ridiculous “WHO ARE THE PROTESTERS?” slides being presented to police.

Pick Up

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:58:45 -0400

Make up the rules
as you go
no ref
no clock
no coach
just half a dozen friends
wasting an hour
or three
in the park

Hold on so very tight
to these wistful summer hours
burn them
brand them
into your young brain

For they do not last
and they do not come easy
as precious as diamond
as fragile as a dandelion
and as ready
to blow away on the wind

Playing Musical Chairs With Our MoralsEnglish: Playing musical...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:59:01 -0400

Playing Musical Chairs With Our Morals

English: Playing musical chairs at the Our Community Place Lawn Jam in Harrisonburg, Virginia on…

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Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:49:41 -0400

thecottonproject: open letter to all of my friends ‘sbeen a...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:23:56 -0400

thecottonproject:

open letter to all of my friends

‘sbeen a long shitty week

doctorwho: silentpunk: disney-overdose: sarapsys: posting...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:22:32 -0400

doctorwho:

silentpunk:

disney-overdose:

sarapsys:

posting without a source is unfortunately pretty common, but it doesn’t have to be. with a few minutes of hunting, you can make sure the artists you like get credit for their work! :) hope this is helpful.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS

READ THROUGH THIS TUMBLRERS!

This is important information to anyone wishing to get reblogged by the Doctor Who Tumblr. We spend hours, each day, combing Doctor Who-related tags

This is kind of important

veggiecoldcuts: themasterslover: dramallamapie: fieto: histor...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:34:28 -0400

veggiecoldcuts:

themasterslover:

dramallamapie:

fieto:

historyandlions:

There you go, all the anons who tell people to go and kill themselves. It’s pretty easy to find out your identity.

Reblog. Reblog. Spread this.

for everyone having a stupid anon annoying them this could be a life-saver

BAM.

"When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional,..."

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:36:19 -0400

“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty. The world teaches you that the way you exist in it is disgusting — you watch boys cringe backward in your dorm room when you talk about your period, blue water pretending to be blood in a maxi pad commercial. It is little things, and it is constant. In a food court in a mall, after you go to the gynecologist for the first time, you and your friend talk about how much it hurts, and over her shoulder you watch two boys your age turn to look at you and wrinkle their noses: the reality of your life is impolite to talk about. The world says that you don’t have a right to the space you occupy, any place with men in it is not yours, you and your body exist only as far as what men want to do with it. At fifteen, you find fifteen-year-old boys you have never met somehow believe you should bend your body to their will. At almost thirty, you find fifteen-year-old boys you have never met still somehow believe you should bend your body to their will. They are children. They are children.”

- Stevie Nicks (via ceedling)

Pay No Attention To The Men Behind The CurtainsKeywords:...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:19:43 -0400

Pay No Attention To The Men Behind The Curtains

Keywords: Supernumerary rainbow, rainbow, airy arc (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sometimes I feel like…

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