jayzunchrist420:

coffeeslot:

sinkingshits:

skyghe:

thinksquad:

More and more children being arrested for trivial things…

#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.

#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.

#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket. The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.

#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.

#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up. Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested and sent to court.

#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk.

#7 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.

#8 One student down in Texas was reportedly arrested by police for throwing paper airplanes in class.

#9 A 17-year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school. It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples. So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this? The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.

#10 In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.

#11 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.

#12 Back in 2009, an 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.

#13 A police officer in San Mateo, California blasted a 7-year-old special education student in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.

#14 In America today, even 5-year-old children are treated brutally by police. The following is from a recent article that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California a while back….

“Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old”.

#15 At one school in Connecticut, a 17-year-old boy was thrown to the floor and tasered five times because he was yelling at a cafeteria worker.

#16 A teenager in suburban Dallas was forced to take on a part-time job after being ticketed for using foul language in one high school classroom. The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.

#17 A few months ago, police were called out when a little girl kissed a little boy during a physical education class at an elementary school down in Florida.

#18 A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area.

#19 In Massachusetts, police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl.

HERE ARE THE LINKS FOR THOSE WHO FEEL THIS PAGE MADE ALL THIS UP:

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/texas-student-sarah-bustamantes-12-arrested-for-spraying-perfume/13250/

http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=15077292

Check out this video on YouTube:http://youtu.be/wk2b_twCCdw

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world& type=article

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html?hpt=C1

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/feb/11/port-st-lucie-schools-confines-6-year-old-with/

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world& type=article

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29/nc-high-school-senior-suspended-charged-possesion-small-knife-lunchbox/#

http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2009/june09/zero-tolerance-states.html

http://m.tauntongazette.com/wkdTGazette/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Mateo-pays-family-of-boy-pepper-sprayed-by-cop-2384518.php

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/cops-called-for-school-kiss-657831

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/27/hercules-family-battles-playground-sex-assault-claim-against-6-year-old/

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/02/charlton-library-sends-police-to-collect-overdue-books-from-5-year-old/

Conditioning your children.

You guys in the US have some huge problems. I really wish you good luck that you can reverse this tendency. Do something for the kids.

Dear USA, you’re nation is a basket case. Please seek professional help immediately.

I am not ok with this. My 7 Year old daughter is in school.

And the criminalization of youth of color is OBSCENELY worse too. Like let’s not lose the racism in this issue. 

latinosexuality:

A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in the United States, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

opening line to this story is shit we’ve known, as colonized ppl, those working to decolonize and resist have known for generations!!!

” Becoming an American can be bad for your health.”

clearly they mean a US American as “American” includes North, Central and South America.

callingoutbigotry:

blackinasia:

blindjewwanderinginthedesert:

(Image Description: a blind black woman and a blind Klansman walking across a crosswalk. The original tumblr post’s author supplies the title of Love is Blind”.)

xomadamecupcake:

bankuei:

Let’s talk about The Kumbayah Myth.

In the Kumbayah Myth, racism will just stop if everyone just started acting nice to each other, and the only reason we still have racism is that people are silly.

Part of the Kumbayah Myth is the erasure of history, violence and power.  In this falsehood, either no one is really at fault, or, actually, EVERYONE is at fault, so everyone is equally bad.   This actually exists only to make white people feel better and never have to change their behaviors.

Go look at Without Sanctuary and maybe read up on The Reconstruction and come back and tell me it’s all equal and IF ONLY Black people were nicer shit would have been different.

Now, let’s talk about this picture I linked.  It says, “Love is Blind” and has a blind black woman and a blind Klansman walking across the street holding hands….

Well, even the symbolism fails, because:

a) The black woman is basically minding her own business

b) The blind Klansman DRESSED UP AS A KLANSMAN- even blind he still HATES PEOPLE.

c) AND WE’VE JUST EQUATED A BLACK WOMAN, by nature of simply BEING A BLACK WOMAN as equivalent to a murderous terrorist.

Oh.  Ok.  If only those damn Black women would stop being so Black, the KKK wouldn’t HAVE to lynch, murder and burn them in self defense. 

You know, tit for tat, right?

But let’s keep going- the only reason, at least, we’d see this picture working is because HE DOESN’T KNOW SHE’S BLACK.  Otherwise, he’d push her into traffic and claim, “I’m blind! I didn’t know what was happening!”

What the world needs is not more hugs.  It needs you white people to stop killing people of color.  It needs for you to stop defending murderers.  It needs for you to stop equating dark skin as violent threat, and therefore, justifiable homicide in self defense.   It needs for you to recognize that YOU, collectively, pull this shit, and no, it is not “equal”, there is no “reverse racism”.

Love is not blind.  Hate is blind- it refuses to see what it does, it demands no one speak of it or say a thing.  And it kills and conveniently forgets a moment later.

Then demands hugs and holding hands and singing kumbayah, and wonders why everyone is so mean to it.

This argument is like, legit going on in my Facebook right now. ALL OF THIS. JUST ALL OF IT. 

All of the above commentary, plus a little extra. In addition to everything said above, which I support the sentiment of entirely, this picture and the above commentary really bother me on a whole host of levels because of the way they use visual disability. The original poster (bankuei) states that the image depicts ““Love is Blind” and has a blind black woman and a blind Klansman walking across the street holding hands.” 

Why does this bother me? Well, let’s start with four general reasons. These reason can also be read as a general commentary about ableist language and how incredibly damaging it really is even when it gets used by others in the battle against other ‘isms’. I would like to believe that there was no malicious, no ableist intent, on the part of the original tumblr post’s author (bankuei), but ableism is still ableism even without intent and it is just as damaging. 

First complaint. This language is really ableist. LOVE is not BLIND. Seriously, an emotion does not have a physical disability. Please stop using my disability as a synonym for “lack of prejudice/discrimination”. The blind face a ton of prejudice and discrimination and guess what, just because you are blind does not mean you completely miss prejudice or racism or any other ‘ism’ when it occurs. Enough said. Please stop using ableist language. It’s not symbolism or an analogy  It is ableist. 

Second complaint.  She doesn’t know he is a Klansman because she is blind? Both the author and the individual who made the image fall victim to this type of logic. If you think race (in the case of the woman) or a radical, oppressive political identity (in the case of the member of the KKK) are something a blind person misses because they are blind, you do not understand visual disability at all. Seriously, the ways these identities have been worked into language, the ways we interact with each other, the ways we navigate the world, etc. are incredibly nuanced and complicated. You do not need to be able to physically see them to know they exist. This complaint is especially true if you consider the original post’s comment about “love” and the implied relationship. Sight is not the only way a person would be able to understand someone else’s identity or proclivity to be an oppressive, violent scumbag and this is especially true as relationships form across time. Completely ignoring how blind individuals can and do navigate the world, the author takes their ableism in their analysis a step further; “The blind Klansman DRESSED UP AS A KLANSMAN- even blind he still HATES PEOPLE.” WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!?!?!?! Please stop privileging sight as a key component of navigating identity, identification, and the world as a whole. 

Third complaint. The creator of this image is ableist. The two figures are depicted on a crosswalk in front of a red car about to finish crossing the intersection (upper right of the image) and about to pass behind a gray car that has just finished crossing through the intersection and is now beyond the cross walk (bottom left of the image). Hmmm…so is that red car running a red light? Highly unlikely considering the gray car just made it through the intersection itself. Maybe they both ran the light. Or maybe the two caricatures just walked out into oncoming traffic without waiting for a red light. Yeah, hahahahaha. Super funny. Another really good one because hey, blind people cannot cross the street! Hahahaha, no wait, that’s messed up. Please stop depicting images of blind individuals not being able to carry out basic mobility tasks (and yes, this is another really common theme). 

Fourth complaint. Not only is the language and the imagery itself ableist, but the author uses this ableism as a means to another end: addressing racism. The original post states that if the KKK member knew his companion was Black, ”he’d push her into traffic and claim, “I’m blind! I didn’t know what was happening!”” Yeah, because someone who is blind cannot possibly know there is traffic there unless they can see it clearly! I mean hey, they already just walked into oncoming traffic, right?. Ha, great joke; I am rolling on the floor laughing. In an attempt to address that this Klansman is a scumbag and is obviously racist, you just made another ‘blind joke’.But using ableism as a tool against racism doesn’t stop there. It gets taken a step further when the author claims that LOVE isn’t BLIND, HATE is BLIND. Really? That’s the conclusion? I am pretty confident that hate itself does not have a visual disability. In an attempt to address one ‘ism’, you just used another and threw another community under the bus (so to speak). Please do not use ableist language in an attempt to illustrate why this image is racist as all hell. 

In conclusion:

Dear World,

Please do not use ableism in your social justice battles.   I wholeheartedly support the sentiment in the original post. The author is right on in many ways. But horribly wrong in others. Let’s not push each other’s heads under water in our own attempts to not drown under oppression. Thank you for listening. 

This additional commentary from blindjewwanderringinthedesert is so very important. We can not use and perpetuate another form of oppression (here- ableism) to address another (here- racism). Thanks so much for adding on and clarifying this, as it is so important and is a point that many people in the SJ community (myself included) can be so prone to miss. 

Reblogging for commentary

super-saiyan-sonic:

thisiswhiteprivilege:

White privilege is the fantasy genre, especially concerning western children’s literature.

White privilege is authors like Tamora Pierce, Madeline L’Engle, Eva Ibbotson, Lloyd Alexander, C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Edward Eager, Christopher Paolini, J.R.R….

So this reverse discrimination thing is really starting to irritate me. This is a really narrow way of looking at people in general, and also I’m not a fan of accusing some of my favorite authors of being racist. I mean, I’m pretty sure that the authors of these stories did not sit down and think “OK, I have a great story here but LET’S MAKE SURE THAT THERE AREN’T ANY COLORED FOLKS ANYWHERE BECAUSE YEAH GO WHITE PEEPS” because that is utterly rediculous. Most of these people would probably write in a fashion where the main character(s) is(are) really relatable to the authors. Therefore, it’s just a natural sense of “this person is like me, therefore it is much easier to write for them.” Imagine that you woke up one morning and your skin was suddenly neon green. You could no longer relate to yourself, and it would make life very awkward. Authors do not want to write awkward stories; they want to write fluid stories that make sense, and if consciously making their main character(s) less relatable makes the story more awkward to write, then they just won’t do it most of the time. Not out of spite or hatred or white priveledge, but for the sake of saving time and energy and writing something that they feel is relatable.

And for the record, if you actually read Christopher Paolini’s books you would know that Nasuada is very important female character who not only has black skin but multiple chapters written in her perspective. She becomes a queen. White priveledge my ass.

No. It is racism. I can only speak for the Hobbit and Harry Potter, but NO. Those 2 works ARE racist. Yes, they are really wonderful and amazing in their own ways. They brought a lot of joy to kids’ lives. And I, myself am a fan. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of being problematic or blatantly excluding entire communities. They’re still doing awesome stuff while doing the exclusion. They don’t have people of color in them who serve as the main protagonists. And no white person has to be obnoxious to be racist. JK and JRR couldn’t be bothered to have characters of color in the main centered plot. And being able to relate to ONLY white people is racist in itself. IT’s also a byproduct of systemic racism. JK and JRR aren’t wizards and hobbits respectfully but they had no trouble creating characters that AREN’T like them in that respect. But they supposedly had trouble creating characters of color b/c they couldn’t relate? That’s racism. And they couldn’t be bothered to oh, I don’t know, do research. JRR certainly went to the ends of the earth to learn Philology/ different languages and different mythologies (of which he would rip off names and story patterns). But he couldn’t be bothered to include people of color? JK blatantly references various oppressive periods in time through various wizarding/pure blood/muggle imagery. (KKK/ culture appropriation/holocaust/etc.). And she STILL couldn’t put people of color in the main story narratives. And yes-there ARE poc-but you could seriously erase them from the story and you would lose NOTHING beyond some token characters and one partial love interest. 

brashblacknonbeliever:

Why isn’t New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting a ‘national tragedy’?

cs-k:

stfuconservatives:

“So I shouldn’t be surprised that the Mother’s Day Parade shooting has largely been forgotten. On Sunday, shots were fired into a crowd during a parade in the New Orleans 7th ward. Police said they saw three suspects running from the scene.

This is the largest mass shooting in the United States where the shooters were still at large after the crime was committed. Think about that for a minute. From Columbine to Virginia Tech to Fort Hill to Aurora, all the shooters were either killed or apprehended on site. But the person or people responsible for shooting 19 Americans are still free.”

One of the people who got shot was an antiviolence blogger. Somehow we aren’t seeing massive solidarity for New Orleans or the entire city going on police lockdown to find the perpetrators. Two reasons: 1) This mostly affected Black people, and we all know how much the media and the police give any fucks about Black people in New Orleans; 2) This was a gun crime, so we can’t criticize it because GUNS ARE FREEDOM!

Wait what…? I hadn’t even heard about this! The fuck.

Yeah-I’ve ONLY heard about this jUST yesterday on NPR radio, but it was only on a listing. No “BREAKING NEWS!” on this horrific atrocity. 

heartheraindrops-fall:

Forever reblog.

wretchedoftheearth:

philoquality:

While adoption certainly is a great option for some people with unwanted pregnancies, it is not the only option and is not always the best option for everyone.

Adoption means you are still pregnant for 9 months.

Adoption means you still have to pay all those medical bills and make all those doctor’s appointments and take off from work.

Adoption means you still need to buy maternity clothes (and new clothes after, because you might not fit into your old clothes for a while).

Adoption means altering your body forever.

Adoption means you still need to be careful of what you put into your body for 9 months (as in, no drinking, smoking, etc.)

Adoption means no roller coasters or other fun things.

Adoption makes travelling more difficult for 9 months.

Adoption means taking time to look through profiles of potential couples, meet with them, read over agreements, and make sure you are giving your baby to good people.

Adoption means people knowing you are pregnant, and having opinions about it, and about what you should do, and who should or shouldn’t adopt your child, and “why don’t you just keep it! It’s my grandchild!”

Adoption is NOT a simple solution to the pro life pro choice debate, and is NOT a simple solution to an unwanted pregnancy.

Ever.

Adoption means putting yourself at risk of health problems or even death - even in the US where the mortality rate is on average 12.7 deaths per 100,000 live births and 34.8 deaths per 100,000 live births for Black women (and the UN thinks these numbers could be 200% higher).

Adoption also means that more children will be put into a horrible foster care system where certain children are less likely to get adopted (particularly Black babies).

into-icy-blues:

theshatteredhearts:

alljustthesame:

Macklemore speaks the fucking truth.

People don’t realize how much of a genius Macklemore really is. The only song they know is Thrift Shop, when there are so many more wonderful songs. He raps about the problems of the world. And that is what makes him an inspiring person.

You know who else rapped about problems of the world? The Black Americans that invented the damn genre and faced actual injustice on a social, economic, and political level. But no one seems to want to make GIF sets of the original inspiring people when we have Macklemore around. T_T

Sorry can you tell that I’ve heard one too many Macklemore fans shouting praise for how “groundbreaking” he is in the past few weeks? Groundbreaking my ass.

sugahwaatah:

tooyoungforthelivingdead:

thisweekinpoliceviolence:

tipsforradicals:

SCOTLAND Yard is experiencing a “white backlash” from its own officers who are furious at the time “wasted” on diversity issues, a shocking internal Met Police report has found.

A worrying complacency about race has seeped into all echelons of the Metropolitan Police, the report says, adding that the lessons from the Macpherson inquiry into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993 risk being forgotten.

The Met’s Diversity Heath Check report found many officers believe “white, heterosexual males were being passed over for promotion” and that there is a “growing antagonism towards diversity” in the force.

In terrifying and unsurprising news…

“Growing antagonism towards diversity” is a truly remarkable rebranding of “racism.”  

ahaha, yes!

The UK everyone. white het men are being passed up for promotion but the police is mostly white het men.

timseriladashmimeni:

oliveseraphim:

callingoutbigotry:

nappyminds:

poonraider:

tiffanymicah:

bl4ckhippie:

vivalavintagee:

What exactly does “normal” to dark skin mean? So dark skin isn’t normal? Dove is fucked up.

What the hell

yeah my friend showed me this and what can i do

2013, every body.

Ok. I’m convinced that bottles of DOVE LOTION and it’s distributors are racist fucks.

plus dove sells skin-lightening products in a lot of countries

Dove are also owned the same company who owns lynx
 (google ‘the lynx effect’ for your daily dose of misogyny) Dove are evil fucks

but guuuuuuuys ~*~real beauty campaign~*~!!!!!!!

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

Source

Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

thepeoplesrecord:

Navajo Nation battles uranium corporations, nuclear industry
May 10, 2013

Since European settlers first arrived on this continent, they set out to accumulate as much wealth and land as humanly possible. Their reign of terror on the indigenous populations —destructive of land, culture and entire communities—was the basis for immense fortunes that spurred the global economy and advancing capitalism.

This struggle, now over 500 years in the making, is ongoing on many fronts, including the Navajo Nation’s current battle over U.S. companies’ uranium extraction.

In early 2013, uranium companies approached the Navajo Nation in hopes they will allow them to renew mining operations on their land. These companies claim that they have developed newer and safer methods for extracting uranium, after decades of environmental destruction and abuse led the Navajo Nation to officially ban their mining.

This decades-long battle for environmental justice is part and parcel of the struggles for workers’ rights and Native self-determination, and against the forces of militarism and capitalism.

Exploitation of Navajo lands

The Navajo Nation sits on 27,425 square miles in the four corners area of the southwestern United States. The area holds a vast amount of uranium ore and thus has become a center in the struggle over nuclear energy and weaponry.

Since the end of World War II, and the onset of the so-called Cold War, the U.S. government began mining uranium domestically in order to not rely on foreign supplies. Uranium is one of the most common naturally occurring radioactive metals on the planet, and was understood as essential for the development of nuclear weapons and technology.

Due to the unique geology and consistent climate of the Southwest, mining companies saw the Navajo reservation as the most profitable site to open mining operations in the 1940s. In 1948, the United States Atomic Energy Commission declared it would be the sole purchaser of all uranium mined in the country, initiating a mining boom of private companies and contractors who knew they had a guaranteed buyer.

Of the thousands of uranium mines, 92% were located in the Colorado Plateau on which the Navajo Nation is located. Between 1944 and 1986 approximately 4 million tons of uranium ore was mined from Navajo Tribal land.

In the early days of mining, Navajo people flocked to the low-wage work given the scarcity of jobs around the reservation. The Navajo workers dealt with racist bosses and coworkers while going into the most dangerous and undesirable jobs at lesser pay. Nonetheless, after Navajo Code Talkers’ had famously contributed to U.S. forces in World War II, many Navajo workers believed they had a patriotic duty and responsibility to the United States.

Mineworkers were also lied to about the dangers of Radon poisoning.

Full article

sanjireed:

arashinoatoniji:

senjougahara:

bommiesbread:

sentimentalsaturdays:

Okay. Let me clear the fuck out of this shit, because it is REALLY pissing me off.

Psy was an extremely well-known, well-respected musician WELL before Gangnam Style was even fucking thought of. He’s one of the senior musicians of Korea and he gets a lot of respect for his fearless stages and the way he writes songs to say whatever the hell he wants and believes, regardless of the Korean public’s extremely judgmental eye. I’m so sick of the way he’s being treated all around the world ever since Gangnam Style went viral, he’s just being called here and there to do the dance and whatever and then being sent off like he’s just a comedy dud. When he came on Ellen, she didn’t even bother fucking introducing him, he had to interrupt and ask to introduce himself. He came out on stage and she literally just asked him to teach the dance before he even said anything. Like that is so flat out disrespectful are you kidding me.

Point being, before you ignorant ass little fucks decided he was the new laughingstock of the world and decided all on your own that he was just some annoying, talentless little comedy figure, get your fucking facts straight. Learn some respect, especially to the people that deserve/have already earned it.

SOMEONE FINALLY UNDERSTANDS PREACH IT

Not to mention how skewed this dumbass headline is. Yeah, let’s focus on the fact that a native Korean doesn’t know what herpes is rather than the fact that when it was explained to him, he took it like a champ. “He said I’m like the herpes… that keeps coming back. I think it’s really cool. Thank you.” That was Psy’s response to this incredibly rude shit BJA said. Let’s completely disregard the fact that he even knows enough English from studying in the US for some years to come on these shows and take this shitty treatment with such a good attitude. Psy is a satirist. Gangnam Style was satirical. But he has to come on these shows that only care about his funny faces, funny dances and funny personality and he can’t do anything about it.

Nobody takes him seriously just because he’s not singing in English, because it’s so easy to strip what they know him for of its significance and just look at the fat guy shaking his hips and think that’s all that matters. Nobody takes him seriously because they don’t “get it,” and they don’t want to try to get it, either. And it pisses me off.

Yes! I always get pissed off the media when they bash Psy. They seriously need to get rid of their stereotype for Asians and need to go back to kindergarten and learn about respecting others.

I Personally think this dude is the cancer of music along with countless others in the music industry totally cheap,tasteless,and unskilled so called “Music” but thats just what i think.

Way to completely disregard the points made above you. Way to demean a guy who gets treated like shit by fellow white audiences/media. It’s funny cause we white people have this shitty habit of shitting on poc who create awesome stuff we don’t understand. And then a couple of years down the line, we steal that said thing and then pretend we created it. And I’m willing to wager what’s considered “valid” or “good” music is controlled by the white supremacist, classist, white-controlled media and white-controlled music industry. 

Yep. And you can bet fellow white people would throw a fit if a hipster “ironically” wore a military medal. Fellow white people would throw a fit and there would be a national outcry.

satanic2chainz:

native-detroiter:

culturenautique:

native-detroiter:

htsm:

bornabitch-allthedaysandnights:

notyour-babygirl:

If white people can’t do yoga, then you can’t fucking play hockey. Or ride horses. Or play soccer. Or football. Or lacrosse (Canadians only sorry). Or play golf. Or any one of the many physical activities that were a large part of a white culture before globalization. Oh wait, you can globalize…

Except that the reason those European things are so ‘popular’ is those hundreds of years of colonialism/imperialism and forced assimilation, while those non-Western trend becoming popular are a result of … . uhhhh … oh right … colonialism/imperialism it’s dynamics.

You racism apologists love to completely ignore historical context. It’s like all of you were born yesterday!

Did she really use lacrosse as an example? Or by “Canadians only”, did you mean members of the First Nations?

And I hope you don’t think your European borderlines meant anything to the Native Americans from present-day Maine through New Jersey and Oklahoma? Not to mention versions played in Central America?

I grew up and still live in a place where this sport is played, for the most part, ONLY by upper-middle class white kids. And I’m tired of white people assuming that just because they have become the predominant users of some (most) things, they see no issue commandeering the history of it.

^^this. and didnt black nova scotians create ice hockey?

Good article on the origination of hockey by indigenous people of North American and major contributions of African-Canadian to today’s hockey.

“Our knowledge of the roots of Canadian hockey have been based almost solely on the historical records maintained by early White historians. Because of this, the misconception that hockey is a White man’s invention has persisted. We know today, such an assumption could not be further from historical fact. The roots of early Canadian hockey originate with the North American Indians. The roots of modern Canadian hockey originate, in large part, from the influence of an even more surprising source, that of early African-Canadian hockey. For it was Black hockey players in the later half of the nineteenth century whose style of play and innovations helped shape the sport, effectively changing the game of hockey forever.”

reblogging for more info

lol he thinks white people invented horseback riding