Wonderful & Amazing on one level. Travesty on another.

gurl imma have to call you back

When I was alive, this was enforced by the lash. It was not a sport. I prefer the sport. America is a better and more loving place than it was 160 years hence, friends.

—D.N.

(via alonewiththewayitwas)

auntada:

beautone:

Octavia E. Butler at age three with her mother in Los Angeles (1951)

Wow!

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich throws the gauntlet down yet again on the 1%ers out there. The current mythology and meme has the average American—especially white people suffused with confusion and cognitive dissonace about the American Dream, their waning power and the typical scapegoats—acting like rape and abuse victims who’ve been conditioned to blame themselves for what’s been done…

—CAC 

timekiller-s:

So why do politicians seem convinced that the American people want austerity? A fascinating new working paper published this week by two political science graduate students may offer an answer: Politicians tend to vastly overestimate just how conservative their constituents really are. The paper, co-authored by Christopher Skovron of the University of Michigan and David Broockman of the University of California Berkeley, finds that conservative politicians in particular are terrible at gauging the political views of their constituents. For example, they tend to underestimate support for policies like universal health care and same-sex marriage by as much as 20 percentage points. Liberal politicians underestimate support for those policies, too, but not by nearly as much.

The authors report this especially stunning distillation of their findings: “Nearly half of sitting conservative officeholders appear to believe that they represent a district that is more conservative on these issues than the most conservative legislative district in the entire country.”

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If you are a parent, please check this out…

lunar-garbage:

#ufogang

I did not die at Harpers Ferry for this. I lament the paucity of proud and industrious persons of color, persons who call themselves black or African American in this new century, when compared to the legions of niggers…

—D.N.

(via elpresidentefatnigga-deactivate)

David Mamet becomes a right wing nut. Daughter on Girls on “HBO” says its because “he’s always written about what’s worst in people. And he’s rich.” #mamet #hbo #teaparty #republicans #culture #playrights

auntada:

Rally at the Arkansas state capitol, protesting the admission of the “Little Rock Nine” to Central High School

August 20, 1959

John T. Bledsoe, photographer

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress

Children and grandchildren of these same people seem to be on the wrong side of side so much these days. Why is that?

Shawty Lo canceled by Oxygen (out-garbages TLC & MTV, Bravo) #bammas #Oxygen #stereotypes #television #MTV #BADGIRLSCLUB #culture