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Teacher in MI Cuts Little Girls Natural Hair Off, Throws Away In Front Of Her

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:03:04 -0400

Teacher in MI Cuts Little Girls Natural Hair Off, Throws Away In Front Of Her:

blackfoxx:

searchingforknowledge:

racismschool:

This teacher needs to be terminated immediately….at LEAST.

This bitch needs physical violence. LOTS OF IT.

but notice how they humanize the teacher by constantly calling her frustrated. Notice how they put her frustration on the same level as the violence enacted upon this little girl. Lets talk about how deeply an act of violence it is to cut off and throw away a little black girl’s hair to the laughter of the classroom. Or about how the teacher shows the little girl that her mother has no power and cant do anything to protect her by asking “What are you going to tell your mother?” And about how cutting her hair was just as much a message to her mother for sending her child to school with a hairstyle that she deems disruptive and frustrating. And how as a teacher, if you dont have constructive ways of discipline that dont involve terrorizing children then you are unfit for the job. but o she is frustrated and is receiving a small fine as opposed to being fired. Lets talk about what would happen if you terrorized and cut some white child’s hair in a school district with some means, whose parents have a higher property tax….

last-minute edit: I am uneasy with the ‘discipline’ thing. A lot of people need to fidget to focus in school, or to cope with stressors like strobing fluorescent lights, some weird gasoline smell, etc.

"Colonialism is when bees bust their asses to make honey but all the bottles look like bears!"

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:47:42 -0400

“Colonialism is when bees bust their asses to make honey but all the bottles look like bears!”

- Kim Crosby’s Facebook page(which quoted me yesterday!)

Holy shit, best quote fucking ever, holy shit.

(via gadaboutgreen)

"People don’t wanna be compared to the teenage girl; the teenage girl is hated, teenage girls hate..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:47:34 -0400

“People don’t wanna be compared to the teenage girl; the teenage girl is hated, teenage girls hate themselves. If you listen to a certain kind of music, or if you express your emotions in a certain kind of way, if you self harm, you write diaries, all those kind of activities are sort of laughed at and ridiculed because they’re associated with being a teenage girl. Even just things like being cripplingly self conscious or overly concerned with our appearance, that’s considered like a teenage girl thing and therefore its ridiculous, it’s stupid, it’s not relevant or legitimate, and you know, what we needed at that age was legitimisation and respect and support but all we got was dismissal and “oh you’re such a teenage girl.””

- Feminism, Education, and the plight of the teenage girl (via electric-wish)

Popular Seattle Teacher Forced Out for Teaching Kids About Racism

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:26:33 -0400

theuppitynegras:

socialismartnature:

The battle at Seattle’s Center School raises the question—how should schools teach students about tolerance and discrimination?

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wooowww. so how come a teacher leading an anti-racist discussion should have to warn parents beforehand that white children may find the conversation “distressing,” yet teachers talking about slavery, christopher columbus, andrew jackson, the mexican-american war, etc, in the usual apologetic or glorified manner, don’t have to warn parents beforehand that children of color may find the conversation very distressing???

radicallydisabled: ungyo: (x) Saw the video floating around so...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:23:49 -0400

radicallydisabled:

ungyo:

(x)

Saw the video floating around so I gif’d it for anyone who doesn’t wanna actually watch it haha.

Boom.

shadow-sass: infinitryproductions: thirstingaintdead: Lady gaga “speaks out” against...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:16 -0400

shadow-sass:

infinitryproductions:

thirstingaintdead:

Lady gaga “speaks out” against bullying

Macklemore “speaks out” against homophobia

Kanye “goes on a rant” about racism.

Kanye “goes on a rant” about George Bush.

Coded language don’t really be coded tho.

Nicki Minaj “goes on a rant” about sexism.

Oop oop oopity oop did someone drop a bunch of truth over here?

thesmithian: …up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:50:33 -0400

thesmithian:

…up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and poor public services took to the streets. Protesters in Rio de Janeiro burned cars and looted buildings as police attempted to disperse them with teargas and rubber bullets. Aerial images showed thousands of people attempting to storm the congress building in Brasilia. The rallies…are some of the biggest ever seen in the country…

more.

sisterofthewolves: Elk chasing wolf by John Dykstra

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:46:11 -0400

sisterofthewolves:

Elk chasing wolf by John Dykstra

estellecampanella: i really like media that portrays women who can fuck your shit up but don’t have...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:43:51 -0400

estellecampanella:

i really like media that portrays women who can fuck your shit up but don’t have to have masculine qualities to do it

feministdisney: thisiswhiteprivilege: bougieblack: think-progr...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:42:34 -0400

feministdisney:

thisiswhiteprivilege:

bougieblack:

think-progress:

Susan B. Anthony, badass.

Lest we forget Susan B. Anthony sought voting rights for women because she was offended that black men were allowed to vote and she wasn’t, even though, as she said, their brains weren’t capable of understanding politics. Susan B. Anthony, racist.

White privilege is Susan B. Anthony being an American hero. White privilege not understand why black folks should be skeptical of mainstream feminism when this white supremacist is one of the most seminal figures in the feminist movements.

good note about how we frame history as often being from a white lens, not just a male lens.

Photo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:58:21 -0400

think-progress: Alberta, Canada: “Every plant and tree died.”

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:30 -0400

think-progress:

Alberta, Canada: “Every plant and tree died.”

This is the End and the endless jokes about rape

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:57:53 -0400

crackopenfemur-suckoutmarrow:

diaphenia:

Let’s talk about This is the End.

It’s celebrity rpf (Apocalypse AU) and whatever, the beginning of the movie is sort of fun, with a lot of cameos and celebrities running around partying.

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tl;dr version: Ton of rape jokes, Emma Watson made so uncomfortable during filming that she walked off set and was subsequently mocked for it, and everything we know about Seth Rogen’s ‘comedy’ is confirmed.

anoncentral: The American Justice System - zoom pic > read...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:24:48 -0400

anoncentral:

The American Justice System - zoom pic > read it > share it everywhere you can.

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:22:27 -0400

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’:

thegoddamazon:

saandusti:

canadian-communist:

Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is?

Most people haven’t heard of him.

But you should have. When you see his face or hear his name you should get as sick in your stomach as when you read about Mussolini or Hitler or see one of their pictures. You see, he killed over 10 million people in the Congo.

His name is King Leopold II of Belgium.

He “owned” the Congo during his reign as the constitutional monarch of Belgium. After several failed colonial attempts in Asia and Africa, he settled on the Congo. He “bought” it and enslaved its people, turning the entire country into his own personal slave plantation. He disguised his “business transactions” as philanthropic and scientific efforts under the banner of the “International African Society”. He used their enslaved labor to extract Congolese resources and services. His reign was enforced through work camps, body mutilations, executions, torture, and his private army.

Most of us – I don’t yet know an approximate percentage but I fear its extremely high – aren’t taught about him in school. We don’t hear about him in the media. He’s not part of the widely repeated narrative of oppression (which includes things like the Holocaust during World War II). He’s part of a long history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery and genocide in Africa that would clash with the social construction of the white supremacist narrative in our schools. It doesn’t fit neatly into a capitalist curriculum. Its bad to “say racist things” (sometimes), but quite fine not to talk about genocides in Africa perpetrated by European capitalist monarchs.

Mark Twain wrote a satire about Leopold called “King Leopold’s soliloquy; a defense of his Congo rule“, where he mocked the King’s defense of his reign of terror, largely through Leopold’s own words. Its 49 pages long. Mark Twain is a popular author for American public schools. But like most political authors, we will often read some of their least political writings or read them without learning why the author wrote them (Orwell’s Animal Farm for example serves to re-inforce American anti-Socialist propaganda, but Orwell was an anti-capitalist revolutionary of a different kind – this is never pointed out). We can read about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but King Leopold’s Soliloquy isn’t on the reading list. This isn’t by accident. Reading lists are created by boards of education in order to prepare students to follow orders and endure boredom well. From the point of view of the Education Department, Africans have no history.

When we learn about Africa, we learn about a caricaturized Egypt, about the HIV epidemic (but never its causes), about the surface level effects of the slave trade, and maybe about South African Apartheid (which of course now is long, long over). We also see lots of pictures of starving children on Christian Ministry commercials, we see safaris on animal shows, and we see pictures of deserts in films and movies. But we don’t learn about the Great African War or Leopold’s Reign of Terror during the Congolese Genocide. Nor do we learn about what the United States has done in Iraq and Afghanistan, potentially killing in upwards of 5-7 million people from bombs, sanctions, disease and starvation. Body counts are important. And we don’t count Afghans, Iraqis, or Congolese.

There’s a Wikipedia page called “Genocides in History”. The Congolese Genocide isn’t included. The Congo is mentioned though. What’s now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo is listed in reference to the Second Congo War (also called Africa’s World War and the Great War of Africa), where both sides of the multinational conflict hunted down Bambenga and ate them. Cannibalism and slavery are horrendous evils which must be entered into history and talked about for sure, but I couldn’t help thinking who’s interests were served when the only mention of the Congo on the page was in reference to multi-national incidents where a tiny minority of people were eating each other (completely devoid of the conditions which created the conflict no less). Stories which support the white supremacist narrative about the subhumanness of people in Africa are allowed to be entered into the records of history. The white guy who turned the Congo into his own personal part-plantation, part-concentration camp, part-Christian ministry and killed 10 to 15 million Conglese people in the process doesn’t make the cut.

You see, when you kill ten million Africans, you aren’t called ‘Hitler’. That is, your name doesn’t come to symbolize the living incarnation of evil. Your name and your picture doesn’t produce fear, hatred, and sorrow. Your victims aren’t talked about and your name isn’t remembered.

Leopold was just one part of thousands of things that helped construct white supremacy as both an ideological narrative and material reality. Of course I don’t want to pretend that in the Congo he was the source of all evil. He had generals, and foot soldiers, and managers who did his bidding and enforced his laws. It was a system. But this doesn’t negate the need to talk about the individuals who are symbolic of the system. But we don’t even get that. And since it isn’t talked about, what capitalism did to Africa, all the privileges that rich white people gained from the Congolese genocide are hidden. The victims of imperialism are made, like they usually are, invisible.

Fun fact, it doesn’t stop there. After King Leopold II relinquished his personal control of the Congo Free State in 1908 it became the Belgian Congo under Belgian control, and they allowed scientists to use the Congolese population as forced test subjects for a (failed) Polio vaccine that may have contributed to the introduction of a mutated strain of SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) into the African population in the mid-20th Century. This was because the Polio virus was cultured in the livers of apes, and when they produced it in Africa they used local chimps, where SIV had been present for thousands of years.

My aunt told me about this. She’s from Congo. They learn about him in their schools there…but only skirted over not in detail.

vandalisticvillain: captain-of-the-booty: glameater: Please...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:04:08 -0400

vandalisticvillain:

captain-of-the-booty:

glameater:

Please guys, help us spreading this message!

OKAY AS SOMEONE WHO IS FROM RIO DE JANEIRO, PLEASE SPREAD THIS AROUND

Signal boosting more. My own hometown is Sao Paulo and this shit is happening there. Hope everyone there is okay.

youaintpunk: The riots also offered a glimpse into how...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:13:55 -0400

youaintpunk:

The riots also offered a glimpse into how photographs can be used out of context:

‘Sir: In last week’s article about the poll-tax riot in Trafalgar Square (‘THE MOB’S BRIEF RULE’, 7 April) there is a large photograph labelled ‘A West End shopper argues with a protester’. The woman in the photograph is me, and I thought you might like to know the true story behind the picture.

I was on my way to the theatre, with my husband. As we walked down Regent Street at about 6.30pm, the windows were intact and there was a large, cheerful, noisy group of poll-tax protesters walking up from Piccadilly Circus. We saw ordinary uniformed police walking alongside, on the pavement, keeping a low profile. The atmosphere was changed dramatically in moments when a fast-walking, threatening group of riot-squad police appeared.

We walked on to the top of Haymarket, where the atmosphere was more tense and more protesters were streaming up Haymarket from the Trafalgar Square end. Suddenly a group of mounted police charged at full gallop into the rear of the group of protesters, scattering them, passers-by and us and creating panic. People screamed and some fell. Next to me and my husband another group of riot-squad appeared, in a most intimidating manner.

The next thing that happened is what horrified me most. Four of the riot-squad police grabbed a young girl of 18 or 19 for no reason and forced her in a brutal manner on to the crowd-control railings, with her throat across the top of the railings. Her young male companion was frantically trying to reach her and was being held back by one riot-squad policeman. In your photograph I was urging the boy to calm down or he might be arrested; he was telling me that the person being held down across the railings was his girlfriend.

My husband remonstrated with the riot-squad policeman holding the boy, and I shouted at the four riot-squad men to let the girl go as they were obviously hurting her. To my surprise, they did let her go – it was almost as if they did not know what they were doing.

The riot-squad policemen involved in this incident were not wearing any form of identification. Their epaulettes were unbuttoned and flapping loose; I lifted them on two men and neither had any numbers on. There was a sergeant with them, who was numbered and my husband asked why his men wore no identifying numbers. The sergeant replied that it did not matter as he knew who the men were. We are a middle-aged suburban couple who now feel more intimidated by the Metropolitan police than by a mob. If we feel so angry, how on earth did the young hot-heads at the rally feel?’

Mrs R.A. Sare, Northwood, Middlessex Source

Above the law: America's worst charities

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:06:22 -0400

Above the law: America's worst charities :

They say they are helping dying children and others in need, but thousands of charities actually spend billions helping marketing executives get rich.

http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/

important

girljanitor: electricalice: mrsbeefheart: I fukin love 14th century art art because everyone...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:00:44 -0400

girljanitor:

electricalice:

mrsbeefheart:

I fukin love 14th century art art because everyone looks so shady and suspicious of ppl around them its AMAZING

or just like they know something u dont and oh my gdfuck i cant

I believe the highest point is reached in Simone Martini’s Annunciation

and the look of absolute hatred Mary and Gabriel exchange.

THIS IS THE BEST POST

shickalenia: dduane: thesuitsofwoah: that’s almost too...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:59:53 -0400

shickalenia:

dduane:

thesuitsofwoah:

that’s almost too cruel
almost

I had to do this once with Privateer II: The Darkening. It gained a bit when he said “I bet you didn’t play it through, I bet somebody just told you how…” and I was able to smile gently and say “God, possibly, since I wrote the game.” And plainly the Deity was with me that day, as I happened to be carrying docs from my UK agent (who’d done the deal) that showed not only that I was the writer, but the five-figure sum I had been paid. …It was a happy day for me. Not so much for him. I’d never had a referent for the word “slink” for a full grown male before. As in “slink away in utter dejection.” I smiled for at least three days without stopping. And am smiling now… I had completely forgotten about this.

Reblogging because “I beat the game” is fantastic, but “I wrote the damn thing” is even better.