i think the thing with microaggressions
is that they are like water
slowly and inexorably
eroding
your confidence
sense of self
you
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MY NIECE JAEDYN AMARI EMERSON OF BRANDEIS HIGH SCHOOL IN SAN ANTONIO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE LAST NIGHT. SHE IS 15 AND WAS LAST SEEN WEARING SHORTS AND A TUBE TOP. HER AUNT TALKED TO HER AT 5 30 THIS MORNING. PLEASE CALL MY MOTHER, HER GRANDMOTHER, CHERYL EMERSON AT 210 445-6120 IF YOU SEE OR SPEAK TO HER.
Oh, jesus. Please keep your eyes peeled, South and Central Texas.
Signal boost.
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yea that’s what happens to white people with dreads
the amount of white people I offended with this joke is almost as funny as this joke
I don’t like when people say stuff like this
white people can get dreads if they want
sure, it’s gross, but don’t bash people for trying to be like you. That’s all I’m saying.
hm, thought yall would’ve been too busy crying with the white people with dreads on fry street.
yea that’s what happens to white people with dreads
the amount of white people I offended with this joke is almost as funny as this joke
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current photos of actual 40 year olds
that melanin #bless
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NEW! Please reblog this tiny sweetie so we can get him medical attention!
Mr. Hopalong Cassidy is a 4 week old Siamese kitten who was rescued from the parking lot of San Bernardino City Animal Control, where a nice woman and her son said they found him on their porch that morning. He would have been euthanized immediately, as he bowel problems, is missing most of his tail and has Manx Syndrome. He requires a surgery to remove the part of his tail that did grow, as it currently blocks his bottom and makes going potty difficult. He also needs to be treated for a minor eye infection and placed on a special diet. Please help Cassidy’s rescuers with his vetting by sharing and donating to him! Thank you :) http://fundapetmiracle.com/projects/mr-hopalong-cassidy1/643
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White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but they’re fine with wearing headdresses from cultures they know and care nothing about.
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HRH Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini and HRH Princess Phumelele Dlamini, a party six persons accompanied by HE Njabuliso B. Gwebu, Ambassador to Taiwan of the Kingdom of Swaziland visited the National Central Library.
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White Men, Everyone Else: Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News
Media Matters spent the month of April reviewing evening guests on cable news. The results, unfortunately, don’t surprise: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC “overwhelmingly host male and white guests.”
Read through for the details as the watchdog group breaks down the numbers for each network. We learn, for instance, that “Out of 1,677 total guests, CNN had the largest proportion of men — 76 percent — during the month of April;” and “Fox News had the largest proportion of white guests — 83 percent.”
Hat tip to Chris Hayes, whose show is the most diverse in cable evening news. And getting there isn’t very difficult. “We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more,’” Hayes told Ann Friedman at the Columbia Journalism Review back in March. “Really, that was it.”
Images: Diversity On Evening Cable News, via Media Matters. Select to embiggen.
and at the end of the day, native people and other genders still don’t exist.
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Harper government withheld documents in indigenous human-rights case
The Harper government withheld tens of thousands of documents that it was obligated to disclose as part of a human-rights case in which it is accused of discriminating against indigenous children. Now, it is using its failure to hand over the files to try to get the proceedings put on hold.
The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 2007 saying it is wrong for the federal government to pay 22 per cent less for child welfare on reserves than the provinces pay for non-aboriginal welfare services.
Despite many attempts by the government to have the case dismissed, the hearings before the tribunal finally began in February of this year.
But, next Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers will ask for an adjournment of many months while they gather more than 50,000 documents that were required to have already been handed over to the Caring Society’s lawyers under the human-rights commission rules.
Hey so when the federal government got caught illegally hiding 50,000 documents which it was required to turn over for what could potentially be a very large and expensive human rights case, they responded by insisting that they needed the whole proceeding adjourned for months while they collected all those documents.
That’s it. That’s exactly what happened. That’s just how things are now.
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