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kpete
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kpete's Journal
November 1, 2015
Here is a group picture of all republican presidents who reduced the deficit over the past 50 years:
November 1, 2015
What I give a damn about is trying to get those of you not born in our skin to try to imagine what it is like. We all know about the deaths of black youngstersthey are in the news each week. I really need to talk about just what it is like to be born with black skin in the U.S. of A. in the midst of all this. I need for you to listen, absorb the message (or try to), and then join us in taking action against racism.
Don't just talk at me about income inequality. I get it. I'll fight for us to have economic equity. However, there is no bottle of whiteout that will miraculously make me look like you and erase my visible difference. No green is going to wipe away the original sin you've cast us in. We'll still be black.
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Life, for us, is an alphabet soup.
We've got a bunch of acronyms for various activities that black Americans and other people of color can't engage in without being targeted by police, store employees, security guards, someone's neighbor, or people with phone apps designed to report "sketchy behavior." Some of them are:
MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/01/1438645/-Just-being-black-is-a-crime?detail=hide
"Just 'being' black is a crime."
Let's make this clear: I don't give a damn what that girl was doing in class. I don't care if she was talking on her phone, I don't care if she refused to be sent out of class and stayed in her seat.
I.Don't.Give.A.Damn.
What I give a damn about is trying to get those of you not born in our skin to try to imagine what it is like. We all know about the deaths of black youngstersthey are in the news each week. I really need to talk about just what it is like to be born with black skin in the U.S. of A. in the midst of all this. I need for you to listen, absorb the message (or try to), and then join us in taking action against racism.
Don't just talk at me about income inequality. I get it. I'll fight for us to have economic equity. However, there is no bottle of whiteout that will miraculously make me look like you and erase my visible difference. No green is going to wipe away the original sin you've cast us in. We'll still be black.
............
Life, for us, is an alphabet soup.
We've got a bunch of acronyms for various activities that black Americans and other people of color can't engage in without being targeted by police, store employees, security guards, someone's neighbor, or people with phone apps designed to report "sketchy behavior." Some of them are:
DWBDriving while black
SWBShopping while black (which also stands for swimming while black)
WWB Walking while black
JWBJogging while black
LWBLaughing while black
PWBPraying while black
WOYDWBWalking out your door while black, which segues into:
TWBTrespassing while black (even when the trespassing is in your own apartment building
BWBBreathing while black, since Eric Garner and Anthony Baez couldn't breathe in chokeholds.
MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/01/1438645/-Just-being-black-is-a-crime?detail=hide
November 1, 2015
http://www.one.org/us/2015/07/06/books-not-bullets-a-birthday-request-from-malala/
If the whole world stopped spending money on the military for JUST 8 days:
http://www.one.org/us/2015/07/06/books-not-bullets-a-birthday-request-from-malala/
November 1, 2015
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Yes, there is more:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/10/31/jeb-bush-gets-schooled-for-saying-psych-majors-will-all-work-at-chick-fil-a-images/
Jeb Bush Gets SCHOOLED For Saying ‘Psych Majors Will All Work At Chick-fil-A’
Heres what he said at a South Carolina town hall, attended by Senator Tim Scott and Rep. Trey Gowdy:
Universities ought to have skin in the game. When a student shows up, they ought to say Hey, that psych major deal, that philosophy major thing, thats great, its important to have liberal arts but realize, youre going to be working a Chick-fil-A.'
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my personal favorite:
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Yes, there is more:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/10/31/jeb-bush-gets-schooled-for-saying-psych-majors-will-all-work-at-chick-fil-a-images/
November 1, 2015
GOP: If we can't win, we won't play.
November 1, 2015
Fox News Alert
November 1, 2015
Feliz dia de los muertos
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