the third time I’ve broken my hip this week
YOLO
haha so me :P
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Causes of World War I
- Austria: Oi Serbia one of your lot killed our heir to the throne, now we gonna declare war on yo ass.
- Serbia: Bitch please if you lay a finger on my my huge mate Russia will fuck you up.
- Russia: Austria, get the fuck off Serbia. Now.
- Germany: Who the fuck you think you are Russia, starting on Austria like that, huh?
- France: Ooh a fight! Germany, you motherless fuck, if you attack Russia we're going to have to fuck you up big time.
- Germany: Fuck you France, we're going to invade you but to get there we'll go through Belgium 'cos it's a neutral country and no-one will care, certainly not the British, lol
- Britain: Germany, you get the fuck outta Belgium. Right. Now!
- Germany: Make me bitches
Imagine if we’re all still on Tumblr in our sixties.
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.
Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall (via cafefinina)
I will never, ever be an Arsenal fan, but I will always love Thierry Henry because he handled the whole fiasco that led up to this ad with such grace and class that I have yet to see anyone else emulate (and also explains the reason why I can never be supportive of anyone who defends Aragones).
I keep seeing racist bullshit on my dash and it makes me sad and angry. And the one thing that calms me down is this old ad. It reminds me of the two things I should do when faced with any situation that belittles, demeans, or vilifies anyone because of the color of their skin, what they look like, what language they speak, what deity they pray to, or what place they call home: Stand up, Speak up. And you should, too.
Israel cites a poem in which the Nobel Prize-winning author described the Jewish state as a threat to world peace.
Israel has declared Nobel Prize-winning German author Guenter Grass “persona non grata” over a poem that deeply criticises the Jewish state and suggests it is as much a danger as Iran.
In a poem called “What Must Be Said” published last Wednesday, Grass, 84, criticised what he described as Western hypocrisy over Israel’s nuclear programme and labeled the country a threat to “already fragile world peace” over its belligerent stance on Iran.
On Sunday, Israel’s interior minister, Eli Yishai, announced that Grass would be barred from Israel for his attempt “to fan the flames of hate against the state of Israel and the Israeli people”.
The poem sparked outrage in Israel, with officials from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on down criticising Grass.
Netanyahu on Thursday called Grass’s poem “shameful”, while his Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused the author of anti-Semitism.
“If Gunter wants to continue disseminating his distorted and mendacious works I advise him to do it from Iran where he will find a supportive audience,” Yishai said on Sunday.
Iran’s deputy culture minister Javad Shamaqdari on Saturday praised Grass’s poem, saying “it warns beautifully.”
You can read a translation of Guenter Grass’ poem “What Must Be Said” here.
“Back during slavery, when Black people like me talked to the slaves, they didn’t kill ‘em, they sent some old house Negro along behind him to undo what he said. You have to read the history of slavery to understand this. There were two kinds of Negroes. There was that old house Negro and the…
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It’s no accident that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X have been set up as dueling dichotomies, because if MLK scared white people, if he got other Blacks to shame whites into admitting, “okay, maybe we were kinda sorta wrong”, then Malcolm X was terrifying. Here he was saying, “I’m going to give you a chance to do this Martin’s way. I’m going to give you a chance to do what you know is right, but know that we are not asking to be removed from second-tier citizenship, we are demanding it. We are demanding equal treatment. We are demanding that we be given all the rights promised to everyone in this country, and if you do not comply, well, essentially, we’re gonna set this motherfucking place on fire.”
And I cannot fault him for that.
It always kills me, that when I hear white people talk about Malcolm, they think he should have come bearing doves, waving white flags, with a peace symbol pinned to his lapel. But why? It is the height of fucking arrogance to think that a people who have been beaten, shamed, degraded, enslaved, given vastly fewer opportunities, hanged from trees, prevented from voting, and told that this was the lot of their race, should ask for rights. Should come timidly to beseech those in power for just treatment.
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in addition to which, asking doesn’t work.
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Exactly. The only way whiteness will understand is through action. There is a reason why black people who actively advocated doing for themselves were vilified in history books in comparison to the non-violent and “peaceful” protesters.
Notice how white folks ALWAYS wanna quote Martin Luther King’s speech about “content of character.” I don’t see their asses EVER bringing up how he LAMBASTS WHITENESS ON A REGULAR. The selective memory is astounding.
Make no mistake: Malcolm X had it right, and that’s what scared the piss out of white folks: the notion that black people weren’t going to take their bullshit anymore.
White folks wouldn’t be so scared of the black people “doing things in reverse” if they ass didn’t deserve it….
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
W]hen you first name becomes “nigger,” your middle name becomes “boy” (however old you are), and your wife and mother are never given the respected title “Mrs.”; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro… when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness” - then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
and a bit of June Jordan:
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. ~June Jordan
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