This is the transcript of a radio conversation between a US naval ship and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland ( Read more... )

colorism: preference for light skin, and european features such as aquiline noses, thin lips, and "good hair." result: women who try whitening creams on their skin, women who straighten their "kinky" hair, and asian women who get their eyes "fixed," etc.

I HAVE BEEN JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND SCREAMING FOR THE PAST TWENTY MINTUES BECAUSE OMFG HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CHOSE ME TO BE THEIR PAID EVERETT INTERNSHIP IN NEW YORK FOR THE FUCKING SUMMER!!!!

THATS RIGHT!!!!

IM GOING TO BE PAID TO BE IN NEW YORK THIS SUMMER!!!!

NEW YORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PAID!!! WITH HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH!!!!!!!!!

I AM SO EXCITED I ( Read more... )

i thought this website was cool, if you dont already know about it since i am generally way behind in technology land.
magical music land

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why, oh why livejournal are you so disgusting?

Gunshot in the dark-
shoot the silence down.

I'm reading up for my paper on de-segregation/integration and just read in "Failures of Integration" that Oregon entered the Union with a specific clause allowing the exclusion of all black people from the entire state. This law was repealed only in 1926! Racial steering (real estate agents show black customers houses in black-dominated ( Read more... )

Truth is a powerful thing, because it is the only fact that can lead you down the right track, anything else will send you scuttling down the wrong one. So, you see, there is a power in something that could send you going the right way, instead of the fool going the wrong route ( Read more... )

The moon followed me the whole way home last night, two long lines of sweeping clouds underneath racing me to a ghost town of deserted streets littered with paper fliers for events long past, and trash now swept aside by today's rain. Brandon and Becca invited me to Corum's house once I rolled on in, to pet the friendly and lovable bundle of black ( Read more... )