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People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of influence than ever before — are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as “racially charged” even in those cases when it would be more honest to say “racist”; we agree that there is rampant misogyny, but misogynists are nowhere to be found; homophobia is a problem but no one is homophobic. One cumulative effect of this policed language is that when someone dares to point out something as obvious as white privilege, it is seen as unduly provocative. Marginalized voices in America have fewer and fewer avenues to speak plainly about what they suffer; the effect of this enforced civility is that those voices are falsified or blocked entirely from the discourse.
Excerpt from Teju Cole’s essay “The White Savior Industrial Complex”.
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Posted on May 25, 2012 via Here be dragons. with 3,763 notes
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An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness, it means they have fundamentally misunderstood privilege. Privilege does not mean you live in a world where people are nice to you and never insult you. It means you live in a world in which you, and people like you, are given systematic advantages over other people. Being marginalised does not mean people are always nasty to you, it means you live in a world in which many aspects of the cultural, social and economic systems are stacked against people like you. Some very privileged people have had awful experiences in life, but it does not erase their privilege.
Posted on May 8, 2012 via Hip Hop Cheerleader with 425 notes
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Can we just take a moment to realize how this child is acting more maturely than half the population of the earth? Kay. That will be all.
I fucking love this with all my heart, why can’t everyone be this accepting?
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Posted on May 7, 2012 via - with 201,021 notes
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
i was so hell bent on getting a physical copy of one of his books that i didn’t even bother to google an online version. here is one!
fyi: one of the many “banned books” b/c of sb1070 in arizona
buying this book made me SO happy, but having an e-copy don’t hurt either.
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Posted on May 6, 2012 via i am a person! with 276 notes
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Good Times Gone And You Missed Them
What’s Gone Wrong In Your System
Things They Bounce Just Like A Spalding
What’d You Think? Did You Miss Your Calling?
It’s So Free This Kind Of Feeling
It’s Like Life It’s So Appealing
When You’ve Got So Much To Say
It’s Called Gratitude, And That’s Right
Good Times Gone But You Feed It
Hate’s Grown Strong You Feel You Need It
Just One Thing Do You Know
What You Think? That The World Owes You?
What’s Gonna Set You Free
Look Inside And You’ll See
When You’ve Got So Much To Say
It’s Called Gratitude, And That’s RightSource: Spotify
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STFU AND LISTEN, WHITE PEOPLE: This, children, is a racist.
Being black in America: call white people your oppressors, proceed to commit crimes against them, and take entitlements in the form of their tax dollars.
Let’s start by debunking this, shall we?
Crimes are usually white on white- white people commit…
Posted on May 5, 2012 via PaperInsert with 19 notes
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alexandraerinr: Gathering evidence.
I’m preparing to write a letter to the editors of Baltimore OUTloud, regarding their choice to give Cathy “Bug” Brennan a platform. I know that Ms. Brennan digs up the old/government names of trans* people and uses them in conversations. Does anyone have any links to instances of her engaging in…
Posted on May 1, 2012 via alexandraerinr with 26 notes
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This mockumentary is a spoof on how absurd some of these anthropological accounts can be, and how a deep, masculine voice can give authority to profound bullshit.
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Posted on April 26, 2012 via Daniel Miranda with 21 notes
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I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She replied that she was hoping to go to Zimbabwe, and felt that she could help women there by advising them how to organize. The Black women in the audience gasped in astonishment. Here was someone scarcely past girlhood, who had just started university and had never fought a war in her life. She was planning to go to Africa to teach female veterans of a liberation struggle how to organize! This is the kind of arrogant, if not absurd attitude we encounter repeatedly. It makes one think: Better the distant armchair anthropologists than these ‘sisters’.
Posted on April 26, 2012 via new wave feminism with 3,836 notes
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AK Press } 2012 Catalog
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French Stewart sings
➢ ➣ Randy Newman’s Life Has Been Good To Me
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http://rotarymagazine.co.uk/
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It’s okay to reinforce stereotypes for minorities. But it’s wrong to generalize all whites as racist…
Posted on April 13, 2012 via Reverse Racism with 12 notes
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dead dog fred: “What’s Genocide?” by Carlos Andres Romez
their high school principal
told me I couldn’t teach
poetry with profanity
so I asked my students,
“Raise your hand if you’ve heard of the Holocaust.”
in unison, their arms rose up like poisonous gas
then straightened out like an SS infantry
“Okay. Please put your hands down.
Now raise…Posted on April 3, 2012 via dead dog fred with 3,296 notes
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