November 2012
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August 2012
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July 2012
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When I read Angry Asian Man
fuckyeahaapi:
——- truth.
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newwavefeminism:
Everyone: why is she with him if he treats her so wrong and/or is so abusive? She needs to leave, or her daughter is going to grow up getting mistreated because of her.
No One: why does he mistreat the two women in his life that should mean the most to him? He needs to either get his act together or let his wife and/or children move on and heal
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“There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that [America is] the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita,...
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“…One thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be a feminist, they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in your beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all the answers, and this is not true and actually, recognizing all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I understood that feminism...
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June 2012
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“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. For example, I am black. I know that. I also know that while I am black I am a human being. Therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people don’t know that. Every time I tried to go into a public place they stopped me. So some boys had to write a bill to tell that...
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Here is the following document that contains a... →
dreaminginspanish:
baysian: oh yes. reblogging for anyone who might need/knows someone who could use these resources!
Courtesy of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund).
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Conversations with Four-Year-Olds #2
Me: Do you need help opening the gate?
Cate, age 4: No, I got it.
(spends half-a-minute trying to get the key out of the lock)
Me: Are you sure? I can help.
Cate: No, I got it.
(finally frees the key from the keyhole)
Cate: I figured what I needed to do to get the key out.
Me: Oh yeah? What's that?
Cate: Struggle.
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www.YoIsThisRacist.com
The site that answers your questions w/ a side of humor.
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Burn to Cinders
thepostgrad:
Caring for myself Is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation. And that itself… …is political. Warfare.
WARFARE
How did you know Audre That my brothers and sisters Would be in trenches, in foxholes PRAYING to see the next day. Caught in a hellfire Of titanium tipped tribulations And .50 caliber concerns?!
Redraping the world in radical cloth, All of my friends ...
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May 2012
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Whitewashin’ and Racebendin’ by ~EmpressFunk (via Racebent Disney)
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“Self-Help for Fellow Refugees,” by Li-Young Lee
carables:
If your name suggests a country where bells might have been used for entertainment
or to announce the entrances and exits of the seasons or the birthdays of gods and demons,
it’s probably best to dress in plain clothes when you arrive in the United States, and try not to talk too loud.
If you happen to have watched armed men beat and drag your father out the front door of your house...
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” —Confucius
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“That’s the logic that’s going through the minds of many Asian Americans these days as they grapple with this question: Should race-neutral policies replace affirmative action? More than anything else, it’s the single biggest threat to the notion of an Asian American community. And it’s brought out the opportunists who want to use Asian Americans to break up the...
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“Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act.” —Albert Einstein
April 2012
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“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to say you’re not a racist; not being racist — or a sexist or a homophobe — is a constant, arduous process of unlearning, of being uncomfortable, of eating crow and being humbled and re-evaluating. It’s probably hard to start that process if you’ve been told that every thought you have is golden and should be given...
“I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called Alpine, New Jersey. Live in Alpine, New Jersey, right? My house costs millions of dollars. In my neighborhood, there are four black people. Hundreds of houses, four black people. Who are these black people? Well, there’s me, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z and Eddie Murphy. Only black people in the whole neighborhood. So let’s...
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“How often does the response, ‘But it will destroy family values,’ really mean, ‘But it will destroy patriarchy’?” —The Sociological Cinema
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