Had the pleasure of a brief meeting with Lorenzo today which absolutely lifted my spirits. Just wanted to say thanks to him!
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• Simple Things •
When someone turns the tables and takes care of me I can’t handle it. I don’t know how to not take care of you.
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1 Black stardom is rough, dude…I always say Tom Hanks is an amazing actor and Denzel Washington is a god to his people. If you’re a black ballerina, you represent the race, and you have responsibilities that go beyond your art. How dare you just be excellent?… D’Angelo. Chris Tucker. Dave Chappelle. Lauryn Hill. They all hang out on the same island. The island of What Do We Do with All This Talent? It frustrates me.
Chris Rock
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For women, getting angry is socially unacceptable, even when the anger is over violence, discrimination, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. Anger is unacceptable because angry women are women in touch with their passion and power, especially in relation to men, which threatens the entire patriarchal order. It’s unacceptable because it forces men to confront the reality of male privilege and women’s oppression and their involvement in it, even if only as passive beneficiaries. Women’s anger challenges men to acknowledge attempts to trivialize oppression with “I was only kidding.” And women’s anger is unacceptable to men who look to women to take care of them, to prop up their need to feel in control, and to support them in their competition with other men. When women are less than gracious and good-humored about their own oppression, men often feel uncomfortable, embarrassed, at a loss, and therefore vulnerable.
Allan G. Johnson [via]
(via pushinghoopswithsticks)
Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers. Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall. Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement. Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter.
It’s Official; George W Bush is a War Criminal via Foreign Policy Journal.
Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia. The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finally. Now treat him like it.
(via mehreenkasana)
I killed my facebook page years ago because time clicking around is just dead time. Your brain isn’t resting and it isn’t doing. I think people have to get their heads around this thing. All this unmitigated input is hurting folks.
(Source: dontstaylong, via pushinghoopswithsticks)
@ThoroughDairy & Me
Which is more oppressive?
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Niqabis (Beatriz Pitarch), Nicole “Coco” Marrow (unknown), Niqabi (unknown)
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I believe in the right to dress however one chooses, regardless of which woman you most closely relate. I do not believe in being forced to wear anything, excepting the ordinance against public nudity. The pressure to wear revealing clothing in America is a more uncomfortable oppression to me because it is swept under the rug. It is not something to be combatted because we live in a “free country”, which in some ways has come to mean free of moral integrity. I don’t mind seeing women dressed as pictured above, but I cannot accept the styling as normative in our society. It’s selfish to be so self-absorbed that you define your life by your appearance. We focus too much on looks and not enough on mental development.
The niqab and burka in the Middle East are a different issue. When worn out of choice there is nothing wrong with it. I could wear a maxi, sun hat, and scarf around my face everyday and I doubt I would get enraged remarks, probably just curious glances. When women are pressured into wearing niqab (or burka, hijab, and etcetera) it becomes a different issue. A woman (or man) should not have her religion defined and interpreted for her. As much as each religion is something practiced by hundreds of thousands of people, each person should have a reason for believing in what they believe, and I hope he or she has become acquainted first-hand with the texts to be trusted in and has decided what each guideline really means.
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1I never really went out when I was younger. I always thought to myself, if I spend from the time they leave for the club until the time they get back working on my craft, then I’ll have everybody beat by probably 3-fold. Now I have to go out to politic.
Brandon Hariston (paraphrased) on Hollywood.
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