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Wonder Woman, Saudi-Style
So even a “Wonder Woman” in Saudi Arabia is so cowed that she dare not take that rag off her head…
“I’m a feminist! That is, if you say I can be one.”
Because, you know, feminism is all about women symbolically taking rags off their head to fit into a Western, patriarchal idea of what a woman should look like.
You’re doing feminism wrong.
Because women can not be empowered or feminists while at the same time still honoring their religion.
Rapid City, South Dakota – A member and resident of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota came home from a 14-day stay in the hospital to find he had been horribly mutilated. Three Ks can be easily seen carved or burned into his abdomen in the shocking photograph taken the day after he came home.
Vernon Traversie, who is completely blind, said his nightmare began when he had a heart attack while at the Heart Doctors office in Rapid City last August. He said they immediately sent him a few blocks away to Rapid City Regional Hospital for emergency surgery….read the rest: LAKOTA MAN ACCUSES HOSPITAL OF HEALTHCARE HATE CRIME, By Evelyn Red Lodge
Please read and reblog.
This is so awful it hurts.
I have no words.
YOU GUYS THIS IS THE AREA I COME FROM.
This hopefully explains a lot of the angry that I have.
Waiting for some creatively inspired headdress wearers to honor this indian man by activism on his behalf.
In the meantime, the rest of us can get busy on this.
Feminist Frequency on race and casting for The Hunger Games
Can I say I love that this woman actually acknowledges stuff like this in her videos?
There’s another thing I have noticed in the past couple of weeks, w/r/t Trayvon Martin, the flap about Rue in The Hunger Games (I can’t even with that ridiculousness — ” ‘I can’t’ - Tumblr”) and now this. Racists legitimately think that being called “racist” is an insult on par with an actual racial slur. It’s gotten to the point where I wouldn’t be surprised if a literal white supremacist was like, “fuck off, I’m not RACIST, just because I hate other races. How narrow-minded can you be?”
(Also, and this could be a much longer post but: let’s agree to strike the phrase “I’m not racist” from our collective vocabulary. Even if you are a white person who is aware, sympathetic and, in every way, doing the absolute best you can with regard to understanding race, none of us are exempt from or live outside of the history of institutionalized racism. Rejecting “I’m not racist” as a phrase doesn’t mean embracing the inverse statement “I am racist” — it means acknowledging that empathy and alterity can only go so far. We cannot change the world we were raised in and the hundreds of years that came before us. Even the smartest, most noble-hearted people didn’t grow up in a vacuum.
And the best we can do is still not nearly enough, and it’s not virtuous or praiseworthy because: wanting accolades for trying not to be a racist fuckface is sort of like a parent wanting accolades because she didn’t kill her child. Congratulations on fulfilling the most basic social responsibility. The verbal construction of “I’m not racist” is how/why people who don’t actively despise POC feel totally just in bringing in Trayvon Martin’s supposed marijuana use — a teenager who smokes pot! Imagine that! — as “evidence” that he was not a perfect innocent, as though such a thing even exists anywhere, even though it’s totally irrelevant to the events leading up to his murder. (White) people use “I’m not racist” as a trump card and it’s stupid and it’s like saying “I exist outside of history.” You don’t. I don’t. Try harder.)
In this video at 34:25 , Rick Santorum called Barack Obama the N word.
If you still support his ass, I’m going to pray for you or something.
holy SHIT
oh man
oh man he had better crash and burn so hard for this
if he does it will be amazing to watch
if he doesn’t all hope for humanity is lost
“…the white people don’t seem very happy for them.”
PS: Those are seriously, like, for real, shots from an actual Santorum ad.
Enrique Avila, 14, and 16-year-old brother Mario say school authorities in Gaston County forced them to sign contracts identifying themselves as gang members. (EFE)
North Carolina School District Allegedly Forced Latinos into Saying They Belong to Gangs
Gastonia, North Carolina – The U.S. Education Department is investigating a school district in North Carolina for allegedly forcing Hispanic students to sign contracts admitting that they belong to gangs. At least three Hispanic families confirmed that the local school authorities had accused their kids of being gang members. Enrique Avila, while a sixth-grader at Bessemer City Middle School, was suspended for 10 days for wearing a rosary that his mother gave him. Evidently, rosaries are identifying symbols used by certain local gangs. His brother Mario, then in 10th grade, was also accused by school authorities of having links with the 18 Street gang, and they forced him to sign a contract admitting he was a gangmember. Enrique, now 14, recalled that school authorities said that he had to sign or “we’re going to deport your mom or dad.” Read more
They basically made these boys sign their death sentences…
ugh my state.
Racists are angry that the Hunger Games had Black people in it
(trigger warning for racist bullshit)
(spoiler alerts if you haven’t read/seen The Hunger Games)
A new Tumblr, Hunger Games Tweets, is collecting snippets from people who are angry that Rue is Black. And Cinna. And Thresh. They’re angry that these characters, whom they cared about and cried over, are portrayed by Black actors.
Rue and Thresh were Black in the book. And Cinna’s race was never described. It’s bad enough that they picked a blonde, blue-eyed actress to play olive-skinned black-haired Katniss (and specifically requested “whites only” at the casting call), but ignorant dipshits are angry that ANY character is Black.
I don’t even have a joke to make about this. These people disgust me.
-Jess
bolded is the root of the reason i had a problem with Katniss’s casting
also “call me racist” nah i’m not gonna stop there i’m going to call you a horrible shitstain that doesn’t deserve to exist WOW i’m glad you hate yourself you deserve all the hate.
End discrimination, for Shaima Alawadi
‘Shaima Alawadi was beaten to death due to the fact she was a Muslim’
Her attacker left two notes saying “Go back to your own country”’
‘Why would someone kill an innocent housewife?’
‘When will news stations show a Muslim woman being attacked by an American instead of a Muslim attacking an American?’
‘This barely made it to local news’
‘I’m sitting here scared’
‘How many Troy Davises and Trayvon Martins and Shaima Alawadis will it take for you to understand the racism and hate crimes and violence exists in this country where people think there’s so much justice here’
‘There’s more crimes being committed by people in suits than people in hoodies and hijabs’
‘And to muslims: when will we put our differences aside and come together for this family? Because we lost a sister today’
‘Where is her movement’
