something hard but important and something cute

Aug 14, 2014 21:02

(I believe in balancing the hard stuff with the fluff, myself.)

Things to Stop Being Distracted by When a Black Person Gets Murdered by the Police

This essay is so, so important, dear readers. I was looking for a particularly choice passage to excerpt, but, really, you really should read the whole thing. Mainstream media is not good at covering race relations in the US; in fact they are very, very bad at it. Check this out instead.

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And then your something cute, for after: a clip from the last 40 seconds of the film Guardians of the Galaxy. All you need to know is that it is of a tiny potted tree-person, and that tiny potted tree-person is dancing to Michael Jackson. It's very happy, all around.

race relations, on privilege; power; and pushing back, war, geekdom pwns

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