Omg. White koolaid in action, jfc I didn’t even notice that. That is so fucked up,
Holy shit.
jesus fuck
damn
welp
ouch
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Goddammit, these abs are wonderful. Time to really kick my abs into overdrive, they’re lagging behind my other body parts. #TimeToPutinThatWork #fitness
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Day 2 of White History Month: The Founders of the United States
The “Founding Fathers” of the United States are often touted to be the most respectable individuals in the history of the United States. They are said to represent liberty, justice, and freedom. In reality, their purported respect for liberty and freedom did not extend to Black or Native American people, nor to women. The enslavement of Black people was justified by the founders through the use of natural law - this same justification was used to justify the subjugation of Native Americans and women.
Most of the founders were slaveholders and supported slavery and slaveholding as an institution. At the constitutional convention in 1787, at least 40% of the men there were slaveholders. George Washington, for example, lent money to French slaveholders to quash rebellions in Haiti. He earned much of his wealth through the enslavement of Black Americans and theft of land owned by Native Americans.
Thomas Jefferson enslaved hundreds of Black Americans during his lifetime, including his own son, Eston Hemmings (who was not freed until his death). He harshly punished fugitive slaves. When he said “all men were created equal” he was only referring to white men.. In his book, Notes on the State of Virginia, he argued that Black people were naturally inferior. Jefferson was largely responsible for the draft of the Declaration of Independence where he accused the British King of violating the life and liberty of colonists and even of slavery. Even though he occasionally made statements on the harshness of slavery, he supported sending Black people to Africa were they to ever be emancipated.
Benjamin Franklin argued that mixed race Americans were both inferior and degrading to a “lovely” whiteness. Franklin was a slaveholder who later became an abolitionist, yet not for moral reasons. Franklin later opposed it because of the negative affect on the whiteness of the population (despite the fact that most mixed race children were fathered by white men).
Historians may present slavery as a nonissue early in the founding of the United States, but as far back as the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the issue was important. Northern states were moving away from an economy benefiting from slavery and thus some of them began to hold abolitionist sentiments. However, the influence of Southern slaveholders would continue to influence discussions on commerce and taxation, among other things. George Mason, himself a slaveholder, noted the wretchedness of slaveowners saying that “every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant”. He did not, however, note the suffering and extreme oppression suffered by the enslaved Black Americans. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts was one of three men who refused to sign the constitution in part because of its allowance of slavery - but only because he felt reliance on slavery made the nation vulnerable.
The founding fathers were only looking out for the best interests of white men.
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Atheists always wanna talk about religions with human sacrifice,
Okay.
What say you of science based on infecting black people w deadly diseases and splicing and dicing woc’s bodies in cold blood? How is that not human sacrifice?
Crickets.
Thats…
Yeah. I really don’t understand the analogy that was being made. If anything, maybe it shows that one doesn’t always need religion to do bad things, but the Tuskegee experiments and forced sterilization of WoC weren’t carried out in the name of Atheism or something. O_o
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Greek Police Arrests And Beat Tourists Mistaken For Immigrants
Greek police have stepped up efforts to catch illegal immigrants in recent months, launching a new operation to check the papers of people who look foreign. But tourists have also been picked up in the sweeps - and at least two have been badly beaten.
When Korean backpacker Hyun Young Jung was stopped by a tall scruffy looking man speaking Greek on the street in central Athens he thought it might be some kind of scam, so he dismissed the man politely and continued on his way.
A few moments later he was stopped again, this time by a man in uniform who asked for his documents. But as a hardened traveller he was cautious.
Greece was the 16th stop in his two-year-long round-the-world trip and he’d often been warned about people dressing in fake uniforms to extract money from backpackers, so while he handed over his passport he also asked the man to show him his police ID.
Instead, Jung says, he received a punch in the face.
Within seconds, the uniformed man and his plainclothes partner - the man who had first approached Jung - had him down on the ground and were kicking him, according to the Korean.
In shock, Jung was by now convinced he was being mugged by criminals and began shouting for help from passers-by.
It was only when he was handcuffed and dragged 500m (500 yards) up the road to the nearest police station that he realised he was actually under arrest.
Jung says that outside the station the uniformed officer, without any kind of warning, turned on him again, hitting him in the face.
Inside the police station, Jung says he was attacked a third time in the stairwell where there were no people or cameras.
Jung was held with a number of migrants from Africa and Asia who had also been rounded up as part of the police’s anti-immigration operation Xenios Zeus - named, strangely, after the ancient Greek god of hospitality.
It is thought that up to 95% of undocumented migrants entering the European Union arrive via Greece, and because border controls make it hard to continue into the rest of Europe many end up stuck in the country.
According to some estimates, immigrants could now make up as much as 10% of the population.
But while more than 60,000 people have been detained on the streets of Athens since it was launched in August 2012, there have been fewer than 4,200 arrests.
And some visitors to Greece have been detained despite having shown police their passports.
Last summer, a Nigerian-born American, Christian Ukwuorji, visited Greece on a family holiday with his wife and three children.
When police stopped him in central Athens he showed them his US passport, but they handcuffed him anyway and took him to the central police station.
They gave no reason for holding him, but after a few hours in custody Ukwuorji says he was so badly beaten that he passed out. He woke up in hospital.
“I went there to spend my money but they stopped me just because of my colour,” he says. “They are racist.”
This is disgraceful. And to think I wanted to see Greece at some point in life…fuck all that now, I LIKE my life :S
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-folks talking ‘burying the ratchet’ first need to have an understanding of the etymology of the world as it has evolved over the years.
-im from the south. ratchet was a word that first described a behavior. much like getting ‘turnt up’ like my cali folks.
-the…
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Bruce Lee generally being better than you, me and everyone we know.
What in the blue fuck?!
….Bruce, you tha man. *Bows* *curtsies*
RIP <3
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Only recently did I learn of the longstanding feud between Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino. This was a result of internet research I did after seeing a preview for Tarantino’s new movie Django Unchained, and after a dear friend sent me a link to Lee’s refusal…
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Finished The Hunger Games on break at work, had a pretty clear image of Katniss in my head! quick cool-down before bed, trying to get more oomph in character designs
wowowow
yes perfect
Actually olive-skinned and dark-haired? Actually sharp and underfed-looking? Grim, blank stare of closeted emotion?
Wow, accurate Katniss is accurate.
Oh my! This is pretty damn cool.
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