May 2012
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April 2012
9 posts
“Disliking hip-hop doesn’t make you a racist any more than liking hip-hop makes...”
– Jack Hamilton, “America Is Dying Slowly: Talking About Hip-Hop After Trayvon Martin” (Good)
March 2012
6 posts
“People of color, women, and gays—who now have greater access to the centers of...”
– Teju Cole, The Atlantic
Click through and read this whole thing. Cole is probably the only person writing about Kony right now and saying something that isn’t lazy and recycled.
(via drinkyourjuice)
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KONY 2012: Causing more harm than good. →
coketalk:
Read this. Amber Ha just fucking nails it.
Dear Coquette: On joseph kony's fame. →
dearcoquette:
What’s your take on the Make Joseph Kony Famous movement?
It’s an interesting experiment in charity-based international justice. It’s also well timed. The movement has the potential for success, but only during the current administration, and only in this election year.
It comes down to…
February 2012
1 post
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January 2012
2 posts
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December 2011
1 post
November 2011
5 posts
What if there was
drinkyourjuice:
an R&B priest who went by Ginuflekt and he recreated D’Angelo’s “How Does It Feel” video as part of some Christinaity rebrand?
Like, just a really sexy, muscly dude singing while he’s covered in baby oil and then they pan out and he’s actually Jesus on the cross and you have to think about your boner.
This woman gets me.
“President Obama’s plan for job creation has absolutely nothing to do with the...”
– Michele Bachmann
Like, I know it’s funny to make fun of these people because they’re so audaciously, genuinely incompetent (and who doesn’t like bullying stupid people with huge egos?), but holy shit, this is the woman politician getting the most attention in the country right now. Can we take a...
October 2011
10 posts
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lolwut: OWS kind of racist? Yeah, I think I'm... →
Greg articulated what I’ve been contemplating…
gregtron:
Inspired mainly by this post, which I recommend reading. Thanks Admiral for reblogging it, and complex-brown for the original content.
I was running through my sort-of terrible memory a while back, trying to remember seeing any people of color in the OWS coverage I’d watched so far. And not…
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September 2011
4 posts
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BECAUSE OF THE REASONS: If we argued the way white... →
velocicrafter:
submitted by ChasingDevon:
“I really hate white people, but only sometimes and only the really bad intentionally racist ones, which not all white people are. When I go into a store, the white security guards follow me around because I am black, but let’s not forget that…
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August 2011
3 posts
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July 2011
3 posts
This Mah Boyyy →
June 2011
3 posts
x 1 million
May 2011
3 posts
Biggest Loss of 2011 →
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