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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Random Thoughts By Bassey...: Rambling: 11:08 →
basseyworld:
I slept fitfully last night. There was a wave of anxiety rolling from heart to belly and back.
This will be a mess of unprocessed thoughts. This will not be poetry or prose. This will be a cleansing. A brain dump. A place to put all this “stuff” that I don’t understand.
11:08
I shouldn’t know…
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“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s...”
– Albert Camus, Reflections on the Guillotine (via nezua)
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10 Things Anyone Can Do To Help Exonerate Innocent... →
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#WeAreTroyDavis + #GwendolynBrooks
Strange Fruit is playing somewhere. But when I think of lynchings, I still turn to this magnificent work of genius poem by on the murder of Emmett Till. ”Lord, I’m tired of Jim Crow.” ~ @profmbkelley:
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon (1960)
From the first it had been like a Ballad. It had the beat inevitable. It had...
On POTUS Silence (A Civics Lesson) #TroyDavis from...
The basics (a civics lesson from @MsCarmalita (a paraphrase but in quotes out of respect for her brilliance):
SCOTUS can review for violations of the constitution:
This means separation of power ( b.k.a. is Congress/POTUS overstepping their bounds with legislation?)
Statutory interpretation (b.k.a. what does the 14th amendment really mean?)
Constitutional violations (did state action/a...
Zora Walker: If You Need Help with #TroyDavis...... →
blkgirlblogging:
theycallmezorawalker:
…and understanding why this is a lynching and why saying that is not hyperbole, hit your Google Books dougie: Alexander, Michelle. The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press, 2010. [Amazon will let you read the first chapter of this via their online Kindle…
i would add Southern Horrors by Ida B. Wells.
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If You Need Help with #TroyDavis... (#Reads)
…and understanding why this is a lynching and why saying that is not hyperbole, hit your Google Books dougie: Alexander, Michelle. The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press, 2010. [Amazon will let you read the first chapter of this via their online Kindle application for free. Start here if you go nowhere else]
Butler, Anne, and C. Murray Henderson....
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“This case has attracted worldwide attention, but it is, in essence, no different...”
– - New York Times (via newwavefeminism)
Death penalty connected to a history of lynching →
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“Respect her. She cleans your home and is probably the only one doing it, so show...”
– How Not To Treat Your Latina Maid by Marlen Castañeda | NewsTaco http://bit.ly/pRUUoB
Not In Our Name: Georgia Must Not Execute Troy... →
Breaking: Troy Davis denied clemency →
One last way to take action to save Troy Davis’ life is to sign this petition from Amnesty International to Chatham County District Attorney, Larry Chisolm, who has the power to withdraw the death warrant and support clemency. Or contact the DA’s office directly at: Telephone: 912-652-7308 Fax: 912-652-7328. Also, call Judge Penny Freesemann at Telephone: 912-652-7252 who has to accept the DA’s...
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Soy Dulce de Leche: alexandraerin: Rafiki’s Cove:... →
alexandraerin:
Rafiki’s Cove: Why the hatred?
rafiki-town:
I feel like deleting my Tumblr. This is ridiculous. I’ve been in many debates before, but I’ve never been so personally executed for my opinion. I didn’t insult anyone, and these people don’t know me…so why do they feel a burning desire to spew venom in my direction? I am all about loving even…
Hi.
Let’s talk, you and me.
I...
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Bienvenidos a Mi Mundo de Colores ;]: Who Is... →
yordymaravilla:
Yesterday, an interesting thing happened to me. I was told I am not Black. The kicker for me was when my friend stated that the island of Puerto Rico was not a part of the African Diaspora. I wanted to go back to the old skool playground days and yell: “You said what about my momma?!” But…
Everything. @BiancaLaureano @aliciasanchez
single mother povery in the US increases, u don't...
hermanaresist:
The recently-released Census data on poverty paints a bleak picture for single mother families, according to a new report from Legal Momentum.
The report, Single Mother Poverty in the United States in 2010, finds that the poverty rate for single mother families reached 42.2 percent in 2010 — up from 38.5 percent in 2009. As Legal Momentum noted in a previous report, the ...
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Your Vision Breathes Life Into My Soul: So This Is... →
hueymcfly:
I heard the word nigger the other day.
I go to college in Maine, Brunswick to be exact. One of the northernmost places in the country. 99% white or something like that.
It’s late thursday night. My homie Tyrelle had just gotten off of work and we were looking for something to do for the first…
School is back & so are the race incidents on college campuses across the country.
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From: The Girl from Trails End
As the months rolled by, it began to dawn on people that November 28 was one event—an extreme and extremely ugly one—in a series of statutory rapes. But many were waiting for evidence of physical force, of men with weapons, a girl restrained and hollering for help. And when none came, they found it harder to find fault with the men and boys. Oh, it was legally wrong, they got that. But morally...
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Diabetes Kills Every 7 Seconds: Among Latinos,...
hispanictips:
Quicklink: www.hispanictips.com/?p=151766 Permalink: http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/09/13/diabetes-kills-every-7-seconds-among-latinos-puerto-ricans-are-the-group-with-the-highest-incidence-of-diabetes-13-8-mexican-americans-13-3-and-cubans-central-americans-and-south-americans-7-6/ Collected from: latino.foxnews.com Filed Under: , Essentials, Health Tagged: , diabetes Curation...
The Being Afro Latino Project
isnobueno:
lati-negros:
Are you interesting in being a contributor to the Being Afro Latino Project? We are looking for intelligent and willing volunteers to post various pictures and articles on the Latineg@s Tumblr account as well at the @BeingAfroLatino Twitter account.
If you are interested leave us an inbox message stating why you think you would be a great asset to the team!
Back up,...
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“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose...”
– Toni Morrison (via black-culture)
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“The more homophobic we are as a people, the further removed we are from any kind...”
– Cheryl Clarke “The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community” (1983)
This essay was phenomenal. She gives a very severe verbal lashing to heterosexual black “intellectuals and politicos” as she refers to them as who she claims are perpetuating most of the homophobia present within our...
Relevant.
wateroftheclearestblue:
I am pretty aware of the things that my country has done to others. I do not need someone to tell me that the USA has done some fucked up things. I know full well about Allende and Pinochet, Grenada, the mujaheddin and the Taliban, the Saudi built and America sponsored centers of conservative Islam that were later linked to ‘terrorist groups.’ I know about the sanctions...
support accessible healing, creative, and...
thelivingroomproject:
dear family, friends and comrades, as many of you know our dear friend, micah aka “hobbes” frazier, has been on an incredibly transformative journey toward expanding his consulting practice, and building a somatic healing and doula practice. now micah is looking for a live/work space where he can create the “living room project”, an accessible healing, creative, and...
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Esoterica: My rights as a transman are being... →
theycallmezorawalker:
agodamongmen:
I started this semester off by emailing each of my instructors stating:
“My name is Brian A. and I am in your class. My legal name is (insert name), but I go by Brian, I also use male pronouns. This is the only name that I go by and will not respond to anything else. Thank you…
Teachers—we need to do better. We need to Do Better. Period.
Huge thanks...
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Esoterica: My rights as a transman are being... →
agodamongmen:
I started this semester off by emailing each of my instructors stating:
“My name is Brian A. and I am in your class. My legal name is (insert name), but I go by Brian, I also use male pronouns. This is the only name that I go by and will not respond to anything else. Thank you…
Teachers—we need to do better. We need to Do Better. Period.
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Misguided Help: A Critical Examination of "The... →
Misguided Help is a website dedicated to a critical look at#TheHelp via @MotherJustice
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“And let me here promptly make a request: read as little as possible of...”
– Letters to a Young Poet. Rilke. p. 23 