September 2011
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“As many as 15 percent of freshmen at America’s top schools are white students...”
– Ten myths about affirmative action (via linzyxxxxx)
well well well look at that.
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OH HEY
OH HEY COLLEGE REPUBLICANS/YAF
OH HEY WOULD YA LOOK AT THIS
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weird boys from nepal and the 18th brumaire
weexist-weresist:
i havent studied for any of my tests today but 3 hrs is enough so i am going to write this instead.
a lot of my thoughts lately have been coming down to the ideas that spivak asserts in subaltern through her analysis of marx’s 18th brumaire of louis bonaparte and something that dennis porter talks about in his orientalism and its problems. to put it very simply, it is the...
“Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks...”
– Bell Hooks, Feminism is for Everybody, page 1 (via bearbearpdx)
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EXISTENTIAL ANGST GAME STRESSFUL: kairia: “Why do... →
kairia:
“Why do you attack innocent children,” a failed suicide bomber in Pakistan was asked in an interview last year. “Who says children are innocent?” he replied. American drones hovering over Pakistan’s northern areas are programmed to work with the same logic: guilty until proven dead.
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“Remember: if the sun sets, millions of stars cannot take its place.”
– Faiez Al-Samaak.
He was a friend of my father’s. I don’t know much about him, just what my dad has told me. They went to school together in Iraq. My dad had a notebook that he got everyone to write in at the end of the school year. This is what Faiez wrote. I really liked it.
During the American...
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I Can't Deal With This Troy Davis Thing
fyeahlilbitoeverything:
I…I just hate the world so hard sometimes. Despite the doubt and the witnesses who recanted, this man is gonna die, and nobody in a position of power is doing anything to stop it.
When people try and fucking tell me race doesn’t matter or that we live in a post-racial society? I want them to fucking remember this. I want them to remember this poor black man who is about...
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“So what are the things that we look for? What are the features of African...”
– African-American English: From The Hood to the Amen Corner Geneva Smitherman (via howtobenoladarling)
and this is a good example as to why dominicans need to stop being ashamed of our spanish too. our spanish has roots as deep as we do. we do not speak white spanish because we’re pretty fucking far...
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“10. Even if you set aside the issue of Davis’s innocence or guilt, the manner of...”
– Troy Davis: 10 reasons why he should not be executed
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What you can do to resist Troy Davis' execution in...
jalwhite:
VIA Amnesty International
We are going into a difficult day. The state of Georgia is about to do something horrific. It is prepared to kill a person who may well be innocent. However, we have not been sitting quietly by here in Atlanta and everywhere worldwide.
The state of Georgia has proven our point: the death penalty is too great a power to give to the government. Human...
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futuristic lover: Tomorrow, Georgia Murders Troy... →
anarchyagogo:
Tomorrow, Georgia Murders Troy Davis
Folks, please take a few minutes to flood the District Attorney’s office with your disapproval of their death warrant.
District Attorney’s Office Chatham County Courthouse 133 Montgomery St. Suite 600 (Corner of Montgomery and…
”If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling...
- B. Lester
Lynching Remixed: The Execution of Troy Davis →
crunkfeministcollective:
On Wednesday, the state of Georgia will execute Troy Davis for the 1989 murder of police office Mark MacPhail. Since Davis was convicted in 1991, 7 of the prosecution’s 9 witnesses have recanted their statements, and have repeatedly given testimony to courts and to the media that their testimony was coerced. Additional witnesses have come forward implicating Sylvester...
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Why Asian Americans Are Not Your "Model Minority"
asianamericanactivism:
Because 14% of Asian Americans live in poverty.
Because we still face blockades and discrimination in the job market, a.k.a. the “bamboo ceiling.”
Because America still looks at us like we’re “perpetual foreigners.”
Because America still looks at us like we we’re the “yellow peril.”
Because Asian American men are emasculated.
Because Asian American womyn are...
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“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger...”
– Anthony Bourdain, in a great non-food moment (via americathon)
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"Back in the day," you couldn't find our newly... →
colorblinding:
“Back in the day,” as my sons would say, the term Asian and Pacific Islander American was born of the need to define ourselves rather than let others do it for us. Much like in the African American political movement where Negro became Black and Black became African American; Oriental became Asian and Asian became Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) and all are subject to...
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personal interjection
weexist-weresist:
Today is about focusing on the discursive space that is enabled through a clear cut tragedy in the consciousness of the American body politic. Everything you bring into the conversation is acceptable as long as its not dismissive of the complexity of the situation.
Your anger over today is acceptable as long as its not racist and your grief is acceptable as long as its not...
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“I’ll gladly leave it to others to evaluate the effect of the anniversary on the...”
– Luntz’s tired 9/11 talking points (via ryking)
“As a Muslim, I’m sick of people asking me how I feel about 9/11. What do you...”
– Aman Ali (via faineemae)
lol that last line
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Pakistan flood-hit districts declared 'calamity... →
Officials say that at least five million people have been affected by floods across the country, with thousands forced to vacate their homes.
Thousands of rice, cotton and sugar cane crops have been destroyed. Heavy rainfall is continuing on Tuesday.
The worst of the flooding has hit the interior of Sindh.
The provincial government says that the districts of Nawabshah - the home of...
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Breaking: Massive floods wipe out 9,000 villages... →
mariumarrr:
akio:
Sindh floods: Zardari appeals to the UN for assistance
Ya Allah :( give Pakistan a break
China: Account for Forcibly Returned Uighurs →
gardant:
“Uighurs disappear into a black hole after being deported to China,” said Bill Frelick, Refugee Program director at Human Rights Watch. “We want to know what happens to them once they are in the hands of the Chinese authorities.
The latest forced returns of Uighurs are part of a pattern that includes Kazakhstan’s deportation of Ershidin Israil in May and Cambodia’s forced return...
“Nickleback is planning on releasing another album. Should I ask white people to...”
– Aman Ali
On why Muslims shouldn’t apologize for 9/11
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lollll
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Yes, actually.
White people
I hold you personally responsible for this atrocity.
Apologize to me now, or I’ll summon Kali to destroy you all.
If you’re Canadian, you need to...
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Once more with feeling: NEWSFLASH: Non-colored...
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colorblinding:
I want to talk about being Asian American in America. I want to talk about what it is like to be denied the legitimacy of color by other folks of color and to be denied the legitimacy of humanity because we are not white. I want to talk about how being Asian American in America means to be, in the eyes of anyone who is not Asian American, not at all American,...
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funwithsatan:
Her family hired me as a maid for 12 years, but then she stole my life and made it a Disney movie | Mail Online
stefi-leekx:
As she turned the pages she came to believe that the story at the heart of the book – an unlikely friendship between a white girl and a black maid – was her own. Her life, she believes, has been stolen, without acknowledgment or payment.
Holy shit, as...
"APPARENTLY PEOPLE ONLY LIKE YOU WHEN YOU'RE PC"
eaudedaddyissues:
if you say this i am pretty sure i never want to associate with you ever
PC is this buzzword used to invalidate and silence and derail any argument about oppression ever
it makes social justice out to be some wacky fad that all the cool kids are into, and you’re being rebellious by not falling into the peer pressure or whatever
when actually it is the opposite, fucking no...
“But one of the most persistent traits of the Western white man has always been...”
– Amiri Baraka (formerly known as LeRoi Jones), in his book Blues People (via solitudinous)
WHITE PEOPLE LOL
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some disjointed thoughts about college and...
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youarenotyou:
Seeing as how it’s the beginning of a new semester, I’ve spent a lot of time in the past week hearing professors talk about their classroom policies and, specifically, the obligation of all students with disabilities to 1) register with campus DS (disability services), and 2) talk with the teacher at the end of class about the accommodations they require. Simply...
A lawsuit between two aviation companies... →
wombatfractal:
wilwheaton:
The program involved the illegal transport of thousands of terrorism suspects to secret CIA prisons in foreign nations and then to countries where suspects could be tortured. It is basically “kidnapping” followed by “torture” but the CIA did it so no one went to jail for it.
We learn that one the planes used to transport a suspect (Abu Omar, captured in Italy and...
we're both asian, it's cool, but not really
He: I mean, white guys totally dig Asian girls. Like, not to be sexist or anything but I know this guy and he had this Vietnamese girlfriend and
He: It's like, Asian girls do this thing where they like to do this thing
He: Like, no offense, but that's why I could never date Asian girls. You all have this scary look, like the death glare.
Me: Like, no offense, but I could never date Asian guys. Because all they do is complain about Asian girls!!
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