| — | eBarbara McGillivray, Tjupan Aboriginal, the chair of the Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages and Culture (via selchieproductions) |
So with President Obama’s position on marriage equality finally evolving, we’re into the latest round of people saying “Gay is the new Black,” which is the latest round of someone comparing bigotry against themselves to Blackness because the fact is that how we treat Blacks in white supremacist society is thede factoacme against which other oppressions are measured. (If you doubt this, show me the people talking about their oppression and saying they’re the new Jews, the new Women, the new Gays, etc.)
In Houston maybe someone said Mexicans were the new [Blacks]
In LA maybe someone said Chicanos were the new [Blacks]
In Frisco maybe someone said Orientals were the new [Blacks]
Maybe in Philadelphia and North Carolina they decided they didn’t need no new [Blacks]— Gil Scott Heron, Jose Campos Torres
The day will come when Mr. Heron’s lyrics from 40 years ago aren’t relevant to the present, but it is not today. Here’s some reality:
Ain’t no new Black, racists ain’t done with the old Black.
Homophobia ain’t no new anything, homophobia’s been around a good long while.
Neither’s replacing the other, as any LGBT of Color can tell you.
Intersectionality: it’s a thing.
Activists protest outside the BBC headquarters in Belfast in response to the lack of coverage on Palestinian hunger strikers (credit).
or Roma either—since he was the guy who called for “internment camps” for us…
aw, well, this is a damned disapointment….
SoleRebels employs around 100 workers. They pay three times the typical wage in Ethiopia. The company covers healthcare costs and sends the workers’ kids to school.
The young Ethiopian woman who founded SoleRebels, Bethlehem Tilahun and I discussed TOMS.
“If you give a kid shoes,” she told me, “they wear out or they grow out of them, and then what do they have? If you give the kid’s parents a job, the whole family will always have shoes.”
Yes, someone giving you a pair of shoes would sure be nice if you didn’t have a pair. But a job that allows parents to send their kids to school could change your family tree forever.
Let’s say that every worker at SoleRebels has five kids (the fertility rate of Ethiopia). The workers send all five kids to school and since they have an education they don’t grow up to be shoemakers. They do something that pays better and they send their five kids to school. A job, a good job, has an exponential impact. Within a few generations the 100 jobs at SoleRebels have impacted tens of thousands of people. Within six generations, the jobs have impacted millions. Now imagine if SoleRebels sold as many shoes as TOMS. This isn’t just life-changing stuff, this is possibly country-changing, poverty-fighting stuff.
This is what our teacher taught us on the last day of French class. Did I mention she’s awesome?
j’ai oublier connasse XD
I like how there is one simple word for ‘one who likes to be fucked in the ass’
Well, I do believe in English if you’re insulting someone for enjoying being “fucked in the ass” you just call them a fag.
This is being described as “violent” and an “assault.” Seriously.
wtf?
an attack? that bitch has never seen violence in her fucking life.
I might lose a few followers, but I have been stewing over this for the past couple of days.
Religious: God made man and woman. Simple.
Atheist/Evolutionist: Two sexes in all animals and humans. We evolved this way. If being gay was natural, only one sex would be needed and we would be able to reproduce with the same sex. Natural selection would have killed off one sex or the other. Therefore, homosexuality is not logical.
Logic. It maketh sense.
Religious: God didn’t make computers, get off the internet.
Atheist/Evolutionist: Everything that exists in nature is by definition natural. Homosexuality exists in nature (which humans and human behaviour are part of) and therefore is natural. Further, what is “natural” is not always “superior”…. but if you think it is: Computers are not naturally occuring, get off the internet.
Logic. Your post lacks it.
Protest in support of more than 2,000 Prisoner on hunger strike, in front of Ofer prison [May, 1, 2012].
(photos by Bahaa Nasser , Fadi Arouri, Hudaifa Srour and Wafa )
- Today is the 16th day of Palestinian prisoners’ mass hunger strike
- BilalDiab and ThaerHalahleh are on their 65th day of hunger strike
- Hassan Safadi is on day 59 of hunger strike and OmarAbuShalal is on day 57 of hunger strike .
