Honoring this hero today
hm i wonder why the media’s ignoring him…:/
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WHOA WHOA WHOA HANG ON JUST A GODDAMN MINUTE. YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THIS STORY HAS A YOUNG, BLACK HERO, BUT THE MEDIA WOULD STILL RATHER GLORIFY A WHITE MURDERER THAN ACKNOWLEDGE A BLACK MAN WHO SAVED LIVES? WTF? WTF? WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO?
Jarrell Brooks. Remember the name. Honor the badass.
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Meet Irena Sendler (1910-2008)She was a 98 year-old Polish woman at her time of death. During World War II, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She dedicated herself to smuggling Jewish children out. Infants were carried in the bottom of the tool box she used and older children in a burlap sack she had in the back of her truck.
She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children during this time
She eventually was caught and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families but most had been killed. She then helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.
In 2007, Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected.
Al Gore won for presenting a slide show on Global Warming.
That’s our society for you.
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On a regular basis I am attacked with false comments about the idea of “Black on Black Crime.” It’s here on Tumblr, the “NEWS,” the comment section of…well, everything. Two days ago I saw a comment that read “The greatest enemy of the Black man is the Black man.” The best part? This was written in the comment section of a story about some racist guy posting racist anti-Obama signs.
None the less, I decided to end this mirage once and for all. As usual, I will provide the readily available links for those that are to lazy to do their own homework. Yes, I am talking to you Mr & Mrs. Racist who speaks without knowledge. Let’s get started, shall we?
Are Black people killing off other Black people? Yep, we sure are. Only problem is, so are white people. 1980-2008 Homicide Stats (Pg 13).
Who’s Killing Who:
- 84% of white homicide victims were killed by white people
- 93% of Black homicide victims were killed by Black people
Those numbers are pretty darned close, don’t ya think? Now before you do something silly like try to point out that Black people are doing it more, let me point out that these are the percentages of total crimes committed by race on race homicide. What does this have to do with anything? Well, white homicide accounts for over 50% of all homicides over this survey period. Still confused? Okay, there are far more white people being killed. Although the white on white homicide percentage is slightly lower, the actual number of murders is much, much higher. This makes sense of course since white people make up a larger percentage of America, right? Wrong. You have to take two things into account, one- the number of white people being murdered is almost three times that of Black people. When you look at 84% of that number, you’ll see that although the percentage of Black on Black homicide is slightly higher, white on white homicide numerically is more than double that of all Black homicides, not just Black on Black but all of it put together. Two- The fact that there are more white people shouldn’t really be taken into account here. At least not for those that love to point to “Black on Black” crime as proof that Black people are animals. The fact is, even if America were 99% white, if there was a race that were truly superior, the crime rate would be low no matter how many there were, right?
Let’s keep it moving. Now, we look at crimes of violence (Table 42).
Total Number of Victims:
- White- 2,788,600
- Black- 570,550
There are those pesky numbers again. Those who may still be confused about my above statements might be able to see more clearly in this section.
Crimes of violence:
- White on white- 67.4%
- Black on Black- 64.7%
Interesting huh? I’ll take this opportunity to fully explain what I was saying above. We see here that once again, the percentages are fairly close. However, let’s look at how this percentage breaks down numerically.
The Breakdown-White People:
- Total number of white victims = 2,788,600.
- Total percentage of white on white violent crime = 67.4%
- Total number of white on white violent crime victims = 1,879,516.4
The Breakdown-Black People:
- Total number of Black victims = 570,550
- Total percentage of Black on Black crime = 64.7%
- Total number of Black on Black crime victims = 369,145.85
Let’s break this down a little further:
- There are approximately 225,720,713 white people in America
- There are approximately 40,755,128 Black people in America
- That breaks down to 1 in every 120.095 white people has committed a violent crime against another white person. While 1 in every 110.403 Black people has committed a violent crime against another Black person.
The really interesting thing is that in the same table that provided this information, you can also see the full breakdown of other crimes. Interesting fact- white on white violent crime heavily outweighs Black on Black violent crime. While Black on Black robbery and petty thievery far outweighs white on white robbery and petty thievery.
So tell me, why are Black people continuously being portrayed as violent animals?
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker Responds to a Question about the NJ Marriage Equality Referendum
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but yet we allow it to happen in states across the country.
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On June 11th 1963, Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline and He then ignited a match, and set himself on fire. Đức burned to death in a matter of minutes, and he was immortalized in a famous photograph taken by a reporter who was in Vietnam in order to photograph the war. All those who saw this spectacle were taken by the fact that Duc did not make a sound while burning to death. Đức was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm’s administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion.
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Afghanistan: A Gathering Menace
Embedded Insight from Neil Shea for American Scholar »
Spend time around soldiers and you realize a lot of this is part of the game, part of being a young man in war. Still, I sensed more anger and hatred than I had encountered before. Givens spun at its center like a black hole. He was in his mid-20s, charismatic and quick, a combat veteran. He threw down declarations like a hip-hop star—respect yourself and no one else; fuck bitches, get money—and the younger infantrymen revered him. Even officers appeared to defer to his humor, efficiency, and rage.
Platoons are often structured like high school cliques, and Givens stood at the apex of his, setting the tone and example. A list of characteristics scrolled through my mind as I listened to the men, traits I probably learned from episodes of Law & Order, or Lord of the Flies. Pop-culture sociopathy. Sexualized aggression. The displays of wolves.
“This is where I come to do fucked-up things,” Givens said. “So I don’t do them at home.”… In speech we give ideas life. I felt I was watching some of the men unravel toward serious crimes, if, in fact, they had not already committed them elsewhere in Afghanistan or Iraq. Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built by the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrongs. Some men in Destroyer platoon had been drifting that way for a long time. >continue<
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image: based on U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombersWhat the fuck.
I feel sick.
Does war fuck you up so much that it’s impossible to just do your job and not be a monster?
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Some information regarding to the health and well being Aboriginal Australians.
Because some douche in the tags seems well convinced that the community is “thriving”
I was talking to an otherwise magnificent person the other day until I found out they were deniers. How is Holocaust denial considered bizarre here when half the population denies the Indigenous people are disadvantaged?
Wish I could shove this into so many people’s faces URGH
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This day in history:
In the hours following the assassination of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, mass killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus begin within the country led by members of the Rwandan military and extremist Hutu militias, marking the first day of the Rwandan Genocide.
Over the next 100 days an estimated 800,000 people would be killed.
April 7, 1994 - 18 years ago today.
How about we add that the original ethnic conflicts between the Hutu and Tutsi stems from the Belgians’ need to divide and conquer during the time of colonization?
When I first found out that genocides were not a thing of the past, I was so surprised somehow. And, the sad thing is, I most probably don’t even know most that are going on in the world. But that which I do know makes me feel so fearful for those living within these areas of conflicts, as the death tolls are always so high. I can barely read accounts of such things in articles, they are beyond my imagination horrific. To remember that it’s all happening even today, it’s beyond my comprehension at times.
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Japan’s first robot buddy cop movie, a silent film released in 1919, was shown only once, to an assembly of wealthy land owners in Tokyo. When the film ended, the audience demand for affordable giant robots to work their fields and control the peasants was so insistent, emperor Hirohito had the only copy of the film impounded and destroyed to prevent the idea from capturing the public’s imagination.
Today, this photo is all that remains of the film’s existence. Even the title of the movie has been lost to history.
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The Black Death Plague Doctor:
A plague doctor was a special medical physician who saw those who had the Bubonic Plague. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some doctors wore a beak-like mask which was filled with aromatic items. The masks were designed to protect them from putrid air, which (according to the miasmatic theory of disease) was seen as the cause of infection. The protective suit consisted of a heavy fabric overcoat that was waxed. A wooden cane pointer was used to help examine the patient without touching.
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