The Roaring Twenties

I seriously…dated a guy like this. For years…

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:12:23 -0400

I seriously…dated a guy like this. For years…

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Fri, 17 May 2013 01:09:44 -0400

kiaromilaro: Gosh, I love this song. sing with meeee

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:06:46 -0400

kiaromilaro:

Gosh, I love this song.

sing with meeee

wishin maybe you was… its sad now that I know how messed...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:05:00 -0400

wishin maybe you was…

its sad now that I know how messed up he is…

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Mon, 06 May 2013 01:01:21 -0400

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Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:08:48 -0400

alexandraerin: penguinlaura: alexandraerin: penguinlaura: dar...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:57:39 -0400

alexandraerin:

penguinlaura:

alexandraerin:

penguinlaura:

darkcoolie:

#NeverForget

One of these things is exploited unlike the others. Slavery has become more than a dark point in history and has become about personal gain and getting what they want because of the suffering of their past family members, some of the people exploiting it not even connected to slavery. We should never forget that happened, but it should be treated with respect, not like a cheap excuse.

You’re the one treating it as a cheap excuse, when you dismiss it. You think it’s possible to run a country based on 450 years of racialized slavery, then as soon as slavery is technically no longer legal, that it’s over? That it’s effects aren’t going to continue to linger?

The “exploitation” is using slave labor—literal honest to gosh slave labor—to build a country into one of the most wealthy and powerful nations on earth, while excluding the people who created that wealth from sharing in it, or political power, or education, and then acting like changing the subject is the same thing as fixing the problem.

No. The exploitation comes from people today thinking that because their ancestors suffered from slavery, that they are entitled to money from the government and special treatment. We should never forget the pain that slavery brought to people, and we should hate that our forefathers thought of this as a good way to build a society, but expecting benefits from a life you never lead is wrong and a cheap way to get out of what you can do and simply don’t choose to.

The amount of poisonous racist B.S. in our society that makes a young person like you believe all that is just one more reason why slavery is still a big deal and one more example of how its effects resonate today.

Do you know who the number one recipient of welfare is? WHITE PEOPLE.

You know who gets the most affirmative action? WHITE PEOPLE. (Women, specifically.)

You know who gets the most scholarships? WHITE PEOPLE.

You know who gets hired the most often and paid the most, regardless of education and things like criminal records? WHITE PEOPLE. Men more than women, hence affirmative action, but white women still have it better in this sphere than Black men.

We, you and me, we reap the most benefits of the social safety nets. We are the ones who are most likely to get unearned benefits, to be given the benefit of the doubt, to get consideration we haven’t earned. The whole system is slanted to give it to us, while begrudging every cent and crumb and scrap of help that Black people manage to earn for themselves, because we just know they haven’t actually done anything to deserve it.

This myth you’ve swallowed, these racist images of “welfare queens” and “lazy people who would rather live off benefits than work”, those exist to reinforce the system of white supremacy that replaced slavery, and also to keep the class system in place by making sure lower classes of white folks are always suspicious of the people below us instead of the ones above us.

Do you know what those benefits actually amount to? You can’t live on them. Welfare isn’t a cushy life. Nobody chooses it.

But there aren’t enough jobs to go around because of economic mismanagement and corporate greed, and the jobs that are available go to the people with the most social connections, the people with the best school transcripts, the people who know someone in HR or who look like what the interviewer thinks of as a “professional” or “nice, decent, ordinary person”… all things that skew heavily towards whiteness.

This is systemic racism, and you’re participating in it.

I am watching New York Yankees “go...

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:23:07 -0400

I am watching New York Yankees

“go Yankees!”

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I am watching NFL on CBS “Watching...

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:55:46 -0400

I am watching NFL on CBS

“Watching Baltimore v. Philly, aka—-LET ‘EM FIGHT! lol”

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hahahaha! this is my life

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 04:18:29 -0400

hahahaha! this is my life

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Sun, 16 Sep 2012 04:16:30 -0400

"Assuming you still have a job, and assuming said job takes place in an office building – please stop..."

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:40:25 -0400

“Assuming you still have a job, and assuming said job takes place in an office building – please stop eating microwaveable oatmeal at your desk every morning. It’s hard enough watching someone make breakfast at the office, but the fact that it’s oatmeal somehow makes it worse. You already have to eat lunch here, you’re actually going to deprive yourself of the few moments of peace breakfast affords you by heating up a packet of oatmeal in a ceramic mug? You don’t even put it in a bowl! It’s the same mug you use for your coffee. I can see you giving up on joy before my very eyes.”

- And then I looked down at the oatmeal in my over-sized ceramic mug (but I put a banana and SunButter in it!) and I wept. (via ramou)

I am watching MSNBC Special Coverage: Coverage of the...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:44:07 -0400

I am watching MSNBC Special Coverage: Coverage of the Democratic National Convention

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I am watching America’s Choice 2012: The...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:42:49 -0400

I am watching America’s Choice 2012: The Democratic National Convention

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Fruity Rumpus Asshole Factory: I'm just saying

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:28:11 -0400

Fruity Rumpus Asshole Factory: I'm just saying:

erinmallory:

My SVU marathons would be a lot better than “The Up All Night Marathon” or “Killer Blondes.”

Some ideas include:

“Douchey Spoiled Brats Are the Perps”

“Hey! Maybe the Guest Star Did It!”

“Mariska’s Hair is Always Amazing”

“More Like UN-Stabler, Am I Right?”

“Teens Are the…

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Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:32:25 -0400

thinkinwata: A note from Tupac Shakur’s prom date. ‘96 “I had...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:07:42 -0400

thinkinwata:

A note from Tupac Shakur’s prom date. ‘96

“I had wrote a letter saying how much I loved his music to his fan club. At the end I made a joke saying that if he ever read this letter to please take me to my prom since my boyfriend had just broken up with me. About a month later there was a knock at my door and it was him! He was by himself. No reporters no homies just 2pac Shakur at my doorstep. He came in and talked to me and my mom and my brother for about fifteen minutes and asked me if I had gotten a dress yet. I said no and he said he would take care of it and gave me $1500 in all hundred dollar bills and told me to get something pretty. Prom day came and he called and said to be ready. A limo showed up with 2pac in it and went straight to my prom. Everyone was going crazy taking pictures but we hung out there for about thirty minutes. We danced to about five songs then he said he had business to take care of kissed me on the cheek and left. I think the world lost a great person when 2pac was killed and I will always remember his kindness.”

dream hampton: Detox Stages

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:04:27 -0400

dream hampton: Detox Stages:

dreamhampton1:

Stage 1 (Day1-2)

On the first day of fasting, the blood sugar level drops below 70mg/dl. To restore the blood to the normal glucose level, liver glycogen is converted to glucose and released into the blood. This reserve is enough for a half day. The body then reduces the basal metabolic rate…

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