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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:47:51 +0200

monalisamilk5: a. to harbor a myriad of ideas without taking them as your own. b. in total darkness...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:31:00 +0200

a. to harbor a myriad of ideas without taking them as your own.
b. in total darkness or in a very large room, very quietly; a shiny place.

c. every number is a thing and every thing is a number.

d. you are zero all the time .

"Whites are about 78% of the American public. According to Gallup, about 19% of whites were opposed..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:30:43 +0200

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Whites are about 78% of the American public. According to Gallup, about 19% of whites were opposed to interracial marriage in 2007. That’s a pretty small minority of whites, but in total number, that’s something like 49 million people. There are only 69 million or so non-white people living in the U.S. That means that the number of whites who oppose interracial marriage is greater than all of any one U.S. racial minority group. Why are they so afraid?

I believe what whites have to fear is white people.

When white supremacy was challenged by the racial justice movements of the 1950s and ’60s, white elites pivoted from overt racism and co-opted the language and symbols, but not the substance, of racial justice. By doing so, they were able to position themselves as champions of a new colorblind code of civility that reduces structural racial injustice to an attitudinal problem. This enabled them to block attempts to reorganize unjust power relations while deflecting responsibility for continuing injustice on overt racists who were cast as ignorant, immoral, and backward.

This move caused whiteness to fracture. The dominant faction of elites adopted a strategy of coded messaging and avoidance of obvious racial conflict, while using overt racists as a foil against which to position themselves as racial egalitarians. When whites are exposed as racists, their anger is in part a reaction to the fear that they will be cast out of the dominant faction of whites and marginalized along with old fashioned racists like the KKK.

If you buy that, what we are up against, at least in part, is a factional fight among whites over how best to maintain supremacy. And for people of color to concede to that by avoiding direct attacks on racism is like cutting off our noses to spite our faces.

”

- —Scot Nakagawa, “Why ‘Racist’ Is Such A Powerful Word,” RaceFiles 10/18/12 (via pourlapaix)

Why intersectionality is a vital tool. This factional fight is a classist one, there is a reason the stereotypes of Southerners & Appalachians are perpetuated.

(via freemasonic-yowl)

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:28:45 +0200

my head feels so heavy and everyone should go fuck themselves you’re not doing anything but...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:59:49 +0200

my head feels so heavy and everyone should go fuck themselves you’re not doing anything but making me more confused and full of feelings

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:48:41 +0200

Ko Nakano aesthetic goals

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:48:31 +0200

Ko Nakano

aesthetic goals

supermarketqueen: Eleanor Antin: Domestic Peace (detail),...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:46:00 +0200

supermarketqueen:

Eleanor Antin: Domestic Peace (detail), 1971-72

Katsura Funakoshi

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:44:17 +0200

Katsura Funakoshi

omyt: Just a toile, don’t be harsh on my toile

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:34:49 +0200

omyt:

Just a toile, don’t be harsh on my toile

occupygezipics: Riot police use tear gas to disperse a crowd...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:56:07 +0200

occupygezipics:

Riot police use tear gas to disperse a crowd during an anti-government protest in Istanbul, on June 1, 2013. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)

occupygezipics: A man draws a picture of M. K. Ataturk on the...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:18:07 +0200

occupygezipics:

A man draws a picture of M. K. Ataturk on the wall.

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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:17:53 +0200

occupygezipics: A pool of blood from a young man said to be hit...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:39:00 +0200

occupygezipics:

A pool of blood from a young man said to be hit in the head with a bullet at Kizilay Square

jennilee: francis north

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 04:44:01 +0200

jennilee:

francis north

deprincessed: Xiao Wen Ju wears Givenchy Haute Couture F/W 2011...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 02:10:53 +0200

deprincessed:

Xiao Wen Ju wears Givenchy Haute Couture F/W 2011 in ‘Magical Thinking’ shot by Tim Walker for W March 2012 - scanned from Tim Walker: Storyteller

"Dear Prime Minister, You have done a great favour to us today, of which you are not aware. I’ve seen..."

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 02:10:12 +0200

““Dear Prime Minister, You have done a great favour to us today, of which you are not aware. I’ve seen a Galatasaray (football team) fan picking up a Fenerbahçe (another football team) fan off of the street who fell against the police, to whom you have ordered to kill. I’ve seen students sharing their water and bread with each other; Kurds and Turks walking hand in hand. I’ve seen women, whom you call whores, coming out of the brothel to give lemons and water to those who were injured. I’ve seen people, whom you call transvestites, opening their hotel rooms for refuge; I’ve seen lawyers and doctors sharing their phones, medical students responding in emergencies. I’ve seen elderly ladies giving out clothes soaked in vinegar. I’ve seen shopkeepers sharing their wireless network passwords, hotel owners taking injured in to their lobbies. I’ve seen a bus driver blocking the road to prevent the panzer from entering. I’ve seen pharmacists opening their shops at night. And rest assured, tonight our eyes were filled with tears not because of the teargas you ordered to be fired but because of pride.””

- Open letter from the Turkish citizens to the prime minister.

Thousands of people are protesting against the government right now because of the violence and injustice they’ve been subjected to when they were peacefully protesting against government’s decision to cut down the trees and demolish a park.

Please share and let the world know that these people will not stand this torment and injustice anymore. They are chanting “We’ll have revolution!” and “Government resign!” and courageously resisting the police against the tear gas and physical brutality.

(via careful-sweetheart)

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Fri, 31 May 2013 16:11:44 +0200

pales: writing like this does not make your shitty sentence into a bukowski poem

Fri, 31 May 2013 16:10:51 +0200

pales:

writing like

this

does not

make your shitty sentence

into a bukowski

poem

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Fri, 31 May 2013 02:15:01 +0200