Monthly Archives: June 2015
11 Ways White America Avoids Taking Responsibility for its Racism
“white fragility” http://bit.ly/1dW6Z84
Republican State Representative Will Introduce Bill To Remove Confederate Flag From South…
The Charleston Shooter’s Terrifying Manifesto Has Been Discovered — Here Are the Shocking Excerpts
this isn’t crazy. it’s culture. http://bit.ly/1LaauVL
Jaws 40th Anniversary Tribute
WTF: Obama Hanging With Comedian Marc Maron In His Garage [Photos]
How Pope Francis just destroyed the GOP’s religious con artists
“We are not God. The earth was here before us and it has been given to us. This allows us to respond to the charge that Judaeo-Christian thinking, on the basis of the Genesis account which grants man “dominion” over the earth (cf. Gen 1:28), has encouraged the unbridled exploitation of nature by painting him as domineering and destructive by nature. This is not a correct interpretation of the Bible as understood by the Church.” -Pope Frankie http://bit.ly/1TCn83o
Drugs, Gangs, and Harvard Applications: ‘Dope’ Is a High-School Comedy on Steroids
It’s not about mental illness: The big lie that always follows mass shootings by white males
““The real issue is mental illness” is a goddamn cop-out. I almost never hear it from actual mental health professionals, or advocates working in the mental health sphere, or anyone who actually has any kind of informed opinion on mental health or serious policy proposals for how to improve our treatment of the mentally ill in this country.” …. or when the subject isn’t white. http://bit.ly/1ev7EhE
Take Down the Confederate Flag—Now
“Moral cowardice requires choice and action. It demands that its adherents repeatedly look away, that they favor the fanciful over the plain, myth over history, the dream over the real. Here is another choice.
Take down the flag. Take it down now.
Put it in a museum. Inscribe beneath it the years 1861-2015. Move forward. Abandon this charlatanism. Drive out this cult of death and chains. Save your lovely souls. Move forward. Do it now.” http://theatln.tc/1GwHynC