Flawless human beings: Kal Penn
“The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.”
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we accept ideas and quotes and concepts as absolute pillars of society
but dont immediately acknowledge they were created by people…
thousands of years ago yes, but they were human beings just like us
egyptian culture…latin…greek philosophy…the fucking wheel….
when was the last time you really fathomed that all these things that make up our societal fabric developed through human communication and innovation. its amazing to think about…these things arent just school subjects.
whos to say that someone walking this earth today can’t have the same impact
there are people with immense intelligence but rarely does anyone think that longterm. in the year 3000 they’ll have to look back at us.
what will they see?
closet-racists like to claim that they’d be totally fine and dandy with traditionally white characters being portrayed by actors of color whilst they’re casually dismissing the prevalence of white-washing in hollywood. hate to break it to you, but that is NOT the typical response that actors of color receive, and if you can’t acknowledge that, then you’re only adding to the problem.
remember that time hunger games fans flipped their shit because rue, who IS actually black in the books, was rightfully cast as black in the film? apparently their rose-colored white-is-default glasses made their eyes gloss over that tidbit of info. (let’s not even get wholeheartedly into the fact that katniss was described as having olive skin and jet black hair but her casting call specifically asked for only white actresses…because non-whites could never be expected to have dark hair and tan skin amirite?!)
remember that time people actually boycotted thor because idris elba was in it? http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/12/16/racists-thor-idris-ebla-racism/
remember that time donald glover got hoards of letters calling him the n-word because there were rumors about him possibly being the new spiderman? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgko-xReFSs
or that time the film adaptation of avatar: the last airbender (a show with OBVIOUS asian inspiration) was almost an entirely caucasian cast except for the “bad guy”, who, in the cartoon is actually light-skinned? http://io9.com/5111680/avatar-casting-makes-fans-see-white
or remember that time all those fans said it was wrong to have angel coulby play the role of gwen in merlin because it wasn’t era-appropriate. because, ya know, being era-appropriate in a made-up story about magic is srs bsns.
so that’s why i don’t give a shit if you think i’m “overreacting” about jj abrams having a white actor play khan noonien singh. i’m not that surprised by it, since actors of color are routinely dismissed, but i still reserve the right to be pissed.
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(Source: wayblackwhen, via theuppitynegras)
Ben Sargent editorial cartoon
who gives a damn what voters want…
Well, Lets pass the offering bowl around Black tumblr for poor Whites…
So, we can raise a collective fuck.
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"Mr. Obama has a firm grasp of the climate issue, and no one doubts that he cares about it. But as is often the case with this president, the question is whether he will exhibit a sense of urgency to match his intellectual understanding."
— New York Times editorial board. (via poptech)
do people not realize that comparing skin bleaching to tanning products is ridiculous as fuck?
like one of the reasons ‘tanning’ became a thing was because it was a sign of wealth, it meant you could afford to go on vacations and such, so how is that the same thing as women with…
"The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave."
— Assata Shakur: An Autobiography (via theuncolonizedmind)
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" When grassroots Black activists speak honestly about racism at colleges across this country, we are not met with open arms by administrators and faculty. And most certainly our calendars are not full for the rest of the year let alone for the next three to five. When we speak, we are often met by the deaf ear of white denial. When Tim Wise speaks, he gets applause, standing ovations, awards and proclamations. The fact that schools can’t “hear” us when I and other people of color speak but will search out and roll out the red carpet for Wise is a statement to a kind of racism that doesn’t get discussed much – if at all – in our work. Despite all of the white anti-racist presentations given over the years at colleges and universities across the country, institutional racism at these schools remains intact. All the while, activists of color continue to be muffled and marginalized. Even in the ghetto of race discourse we remain tenants and never owners of an analysis that is ours to begin with. "
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Word to the Wise: Unpacking the White Privilege of Tim Wise
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