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Mr. E laid his head on my chest about an hour ago, and I immediately had severe chest pains, like something tearing or breaking on my sternum. My chest is still sore when I move or take deep breaths. Is this something I should be concerned about?
Reblogged from cgdageek
I know ya’ll aint surprised Black people are being blamed for Amendment One. White GLBT like White Feminists never vary from the script. NEVER.
You can show them stats and pie charts and bar graphs until you’re blue in the face but it won’t change the fact that they have no interest in people of color that doesn’t directly affect them.
They don’t see us as people, never have. They see us as tools. And you can’t expect people whose sole purpose in life is to assimilate into the establishment to eventually recognize our humanity and stop treating us as perpetual commodities.
They don’t believe in justice. They believe in subjugation.
I really don’t understand this narrative that black folks are the reason laws against gay marriage are passing. It doesn’t make any mathematical sense. Even if 100% of all black people in NC or CA turned out and voted for Prop 1 - and Prop 8 - there simply aren’t enough black people in those states to account for the passage.
It’s seriously just counting.
Reblogged from stfuhypocrisy
So then, what the hell happened on Cinco de Mayo? Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “The fifth of May”) is actually the date celebrating the very regional and very minuscule, Mexican holiday of the state of Puebla called El Día de la Batalla de Puebla (The Day of the Battle of Puebla). And what happened on this day? In 1862 the Mexican army were able to resist an invasion by the French army, which don’t get me wrong, was totally unlikely and bad-ass, but also not considered a huge deal in Mexico’s history, compared to other events in the country’s extent and fascinating past. This holiday is also not considered a huge event in México, and is only celebrated on a minor scale in the Mexican state of Puebla.
There you have it. That’s what happened in Mexico on that May of 1862, and what happens now in Mexico to remember that day. And by the way, many historians believe that if Mexican troops hadn’t stopped the French troops in Mexico that day, they would have later attacked American soil. So, hmmmm. Think that over. This is how American thanks Mexico for that day. They sell imported Coronas and on a holiday they assigned to us and they don’t even bother to tell you what actually happened on that day.
Cheers, America. Everything is about you.
Well tactically, it’s a much more important holiday to the US than to Mexico, because Mexico actually lost the war to France and had a head of state forcibly installed by the French government. But after this battle, France was forced to withdraw funding from the Confederacy, and also couldn’t move into the US to help the South fight.
And while I totally agree that more Americans need to be aware of it, we actually DID pay back Mexico…you know, by helping to overthrow Maximillian I. We weren’t always total jerks to our allies.
TL;DR: It’s really more of an American holiday than a Mexican one - thanks for having our backs, Mexico!
(Source: political-linguaphile)
Trying The Victim: The Relentless Smearing of Trayvon Martin
Reblogged from iuwaehfoaiuwhefoiaulfjqn
“He had a gun, and Trayvon had Skittles”
That has been the running line from this tragic story of Trayvon Martin, the 17yr old high school student from Florida whose life was taken too soon at the hands of 26yr old George Zimmerman. What was the reason behind Zimmerman’s act of murder against this young man? “Someone that looks suspicious in my neighborhood”, Zimmerman told the 911 operator when he dialed in that night. Even though the 911 operated urged Zimmerman not to approach Trayvon Martin, he did anyhow. And now Trayvon Martin is no longer on this Earth.
The troubling thing about this case is that George Zimmerman hasn’t been charged in the death of Trayvon Martin. He was released from custody that same night, as Trayvon’s body was cold in the morgue. The police have failed to give Travon’s family any details surrounding his murder, and refuse to give them access to the 911 call - they have been left unresolved, not being able to bury the confusion along with their son or explain to his younger brother why Trayvon was killled after making a trip to the corner store to pick him up some Skittles.
I repeat his name, because we need to seek justice for Trayvon Martin. This is unacceptable. Can we even consider for one moment that if this was the other way around, if it was George Zimmerman with snacks & Trayvon with a gun that we’d be having this discussion? Would Trayvon had even been allowed to return to his home? Absolutely not.
This young man’s life was cut short - because of George Zimmerman’s reckless behavior, because he suffered from the syndrome of white privilege. And Trayvon Martin was killed because he was a young African-American male in an mostly-White gated community, where his father lived. There is no other explanation for this crime. A crime is what it is, and it’s a crime that George Zimmerman needs to be charged with.
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I think that the sheriff of this town who thought it was acceptable to let an unprovoked murderer with a history of violence walk the streets after shooting an unarmed teenager should lose his job and be taken to court as well. This is all so disgusting. I am ashamed of my race and my country today.
So I’m using Google Analytics on Lawsonry, and I can see that this blog is one of the top referrals for the site. I can also see that you awesome readers stay on the site more than 4 times as long as the average reader, and have a much lower bounce rate.
Kudos to all of you for being such awesome readers and website browsers. I am so proud. :’)
(This post has nothing to do with sexism, so feel free to skip ;D)
Reblogged from badcgijosh
Best part:
I’ll close this essay with a poem that truly does fit, for all of you that don’t believe this will affect you. I’m changing it a bit to better fit the subject matter of this essay/rant/plea:
First they came for the downloaders,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a downloader.Then they came for the youtubers,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a youtuber.Then they came for the bloggers,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a blogger.
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a social networker.Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.Thank you for your time. Goodnight, my fellow tumblrers. I hope to continue seeing you for a long time to come…If not, it was an honor blogging with you all. And ask yourself this: If they come for you, how will you feel knowing you could have helped to prevent this if you’d just spoken up in the first place?
Jesus christ I can’t stop laughing
Yes, internet censorship is bad. No, it is not akin to watching as your friends and neighbors are taken from their homes and shipped off to die en masse. Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
