I was just looking at the reading drive prizes and seeing the standards and remembering when they first came out going “Well, that’s an intresting slogan, Fire and Blood.”
I was reading the first chapter of GoT online and kept asking (Victory, I think) questions like “Will this make sense?”
Oddly enough I still don’t have a standard.
I will be deleting this blog due to lack of time, desire, and peroxide hair products…
NOOOO -Ah, the date!
To begin:
This is not a Dany-hating post. I don’t hate Dany in anyway. I think she’s an incredibly interesting character to read about, and she was my favorite character in the series for the first four books. This post is simply about who I think should be…
Do you ever have those celebrities you’d like to follow on Twitter.
But you’re too lazy to go look them up and do so.
Yeah.
Where can I find some teeny House shields? Specifically a Slytherin one?
…You are an idiot if you believe that encountering a Person of Color and being cordial/friendly/friends with them automatically cancels out your racist statements and/or thoughts. First of all, when you live in a society that includes PoC, unless you are a hermit who lives in a secret cabin or cardboard box in the woods, you will typically encounter people of different races. Now you have to consider where you fall on the spectrum of racism. Don’t get me wrong, being White does not automatically make you a racist, but for the sake of this post, if you are about to use the phrase, “I’m not racist, my [insert title i.e. friend, boyfriend, neighbor, coworker] is [Person of Color],” then you are probably a racist. I know that your White outrage is probably bubbling in your bosom, but I will kindly ask you to sit down and listen. I’m only trying to enlighten you (which really and truly isn’t my fucking job, but I’m feeling kindly today).
Now let’s go back to the spectrum of racism! If you are racist, chances are that you fall within one of three categories:
- Category 1- Features the obvious racists like the friendly neighborhood Klans person (or pretty much any group of White folk who actively gather either in person or in online forums to discuss how much they hate Colored People). Members of this group may not hesitate to kill/maim a PoC if they think they can get away with it.
- Category 2- Features those who don’t appear to be racist through their average day to day behavior, but who will launch into a diatribe about how PoC are taking over America once there are no PoC in sight (or if they are kind of wasted ala Mel Gibson) or forbid/heavily discourage their children from dating PoC.
- Category 3 Now Category 3 is the most dangerous group,in my opinion, because it features White folk who would swear on the lives of everyone in our solar system that they aren’t racist. These are the sort of people who willfully ignore the existence of racism and say shit like, “Racism doesn’t exist in the U.S. anymore” or “I don’t see color.” **cough, BULLSHIT, cough**
Unless you are completely blind, you see color. I could stare at the grass all day and attempt to convince myself that it isn’t actually green, but that would make me an idiot. People would probably laugh me out of the room (or send me to a hospital) if I suddenly proclaimed that, “I don’t see color, the grass is clear!” Now when talking to PoC and claiming that you don’t see their color, you might think you are coming off as being all deep and philosophical, but in reality you are showing how your white privilege has dulled your senses. Being racist is easy in our culture because it is the insidious status quo. It doesn’t occur to people that racism doesn’t just come in the form of people in white hoods setting fire to crosses. It comes in the denial of its existence. If a Person of Color calls you/something that you said racist and you think that responding that you having a relationship/friendship/acquaintanceship/whatever-ship with a Person of Color cancels out the racist statement then, I have to break it to you, YOU ARE A RACIST. And if, for a moment, you stop crying your White Tears about how hurt you are that someone called you a racist and face the truth of the situation, you might be able to actually change this facet of yourself (if you truly want to, that is).
In conclusion, I know that I can’t save people from their own stupidity, but I hope that you can use the information that I’ve provided to save yourselves.
I hope it stays around, the pilot was pretty funny
Oh it’s out? Let me check Hulu…
“It is often difficult for me to go into the young adult section of a book store. It should be easy. I have about 2 million books for young people in print.
But I know before I turn up the aisle what I will find — shelves of books about young people who look nothing like the ones I write about. The kids on the covers will have great adventures, solve mysteries, wrestle with bullying or save the world again. But these books do not, and cannot tell the full story of America and what all of her children are capable of accomplishing. For this to happen, we need more books about African-American youth and other kids of color…”
Not only in books but in television and movies too. It’s because of this that as a four year old (I don’t remember this but my mother told me about it), that I said I wanted to be white because according to all the media and entertainment I had been fed only white kids got to go on adventures and do fun and exciting things.
And I think it’s funny how if you look at one of the first comments basically saying “race shouldn’t matter as long as it’s a good story” which in a perfect world would be true; but that’s easy to say if you’re white and are the standard demographic who gets catered to with almost every story out there (in the US). But I’ve talked about this too much so I’ll stop and let you read the article for yourself.
This is so important. This is a feeling I don’t ever want my daughter to feel and it needs to change pronto. Who’s with me?
*raises Word Processor*
That reminds me, I came across the first Volume of The Walking Dead today in Walmart. It was pretty interesting, but the government’s directions about evacuation were just….
Apparently the show is hit and miss.
You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You and the stranger both like my little pony.
Stranger: Hey. BRONY OR PEGASISTER?
You: Pegasister.
Stranger: Kewl. I be a brony. Who is best pony?
You: Twilight! It would be Vinyl Scratch if she…had lines.
Stranger: Vinyl Scratch needs lines. Mine is Applejack. How old might you be?
You: 19 (But I can’t wait for the toy in the fall!)
Stranger: The Vinyl Scratch toy? I knowwwww. Im 17.
Stranger: Who is your favorite antagonist from the show? Mine is Flim.
You: Definitely Discord. He was a riot!
Stranger: Discord was amazing.
You: Apparently John DeLancie is voice another character too
Stranger: I hope so.
Stranger: Where are you from?
You: I was born in Texas, but I’ve moved all over the country. I’m in Florida now.
Stranger: Im in Oklahoma. What is your name, oh wonderful person?
You: My given name is fairly dull, so I’d go by Supernova
Stranger: Why is it dull, lets hear it? Mine is Mitchell.
You: Well, Morgan isn’t particularly dull, just incredibly unisex.
Stranger: Its cute. I like cute names.
Stranger: Just saying.
You: Well thank you! Mitchell was my best friend’s name in middle school
Stranger: Cool. Anyway, what color/length is your hair?
You: It’s black in some light, brown in others and neck length.
Stranger: I like girls with that length of hair, not hitting on you.
Stranger: Im blonde, halfway down my neck.
Stranger: Um… race?
You: …Well, I’m hesitant to say. But I’m black.
Stranger: Its cool. I dont hate black people.
Stranger: O
Stranger: Or anyone, really. Im white.
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
…I don’t hate white people, you didn’t have to leave.
I never find the crazies on Omegle. I always find the nicest people.
- random blog reblogged you
- your favorite blog reblogged random blog
- so close
The idea that Rick Santorum was EVER going to answer this question honestly is BEYOND laughable and I can’t believe anyone ever expected that he would. The New Racism is to deny racism exists.
What an amazing world that we live in where the only explanation he feels he has to give is “that’s ridiculous”.
Really. Amazing. Post-racial Amurikkka.
“Oh, come on!” Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley told Raw Story when asked for comment. “Give me a break. That’s unbelievable. What does it say about those that are running with this story that that’s where their mind goes. You know, I’m not going to dignify that with [a response].”
Wow so they aren’t even trying to pretend he said something else. They know it’s indefensible so they’re just pretending it never happened at all. SURPRISE.
-Jess
He called him part of the N-Word. He would have probably continued in the privacy of his home. If it was anything else, why would he have stopped in the middle?
