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Painted this wall sized (and a lil extra on the neighboring walls) Starry Night for my darling baby nephew Jude with @b.ceramic over a long weekend! 👶🏻🌌🌟

Snowy day with no power in Big Bear! Finishing one project and on to a commission. #prrreaow #illustration #watercolor #ballpoint #cat #flowercrown #nebula #artwork

#ballpoint #nebula #illustration #cat #watercolor #flowercrown #artwork #prrreaow

Snowy day with no power in Big Bear! Finishing one project and on to a commission. #prrreaow #illustration #watercolor #ballpoint #cat #flowercrown #nebula #artwork

#ballpoint #nebula #illustration #cat #watercolor #flowercrown #artwork #prrreaow

Doodley-doo cat with flowers on its head. #whynot ?

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Painting a dog up in Big Bear. Thanks for the candid shot @b.ceramic

thatadult

Why do black people straighten their hair if non-black people can't get corn row/ box braid/ whatever you consider a "black" hairstyle

why do white people always try to make this non-point false equivalence when they know these are two completely different realities that don’t compare on any plane whatsoever

white people not only make black people hate their hair at an individual emotional level but literally at a systemic level in which black people are and have been for the last century unable to get jobs, attend colleges, enlist in the armed forces, etc. because of the treatment of their natural hair. there literally is nothing white people have to compare…

white people are not getting box braids because they feel pressured to, or out of fear that they won’t have access to a job or anything, but instead because they know it’s an “edgy black people thing” that they’re doing to be counter culture and subversive. there is literally no pressure on earth for anyone INCLUDING BLACK PEOPLE to worship or utilize Black hairstyles or Black hair in its natural state and you fucking know it. It’s literally the complete opposite for white hair. grow up

white people are not gelling down baby hairs for social mobility or financial security or comfort or assimilation.

why do black women feel the need to wear weave?

History Lesson: History Lesson : Why Women Of Color In The 1800s Were Banned From Wearing Their Hair Out In Public

BGLH writes:

“Did you know that in late 18th century Louisiana, black and multiracial women were ordered to cover their hair in public?”

Ciara’s “Inelegant” New Hairstyle And The Politics Of Black Hair

Man Sues Railroad After Co-Worker Cuts His Dreadlocks

Faith Christian Academy: Confront guilty students for bullying; not fault victims for wearing their hair in its natural state

A 7-year-old Tulsa girl was sent home form her elementary school because her dreadlocks were too much of a distraction, Fox 23 News Tulsa reports.

Ohio School Apologizes; Lifts Ban on Afro Puffs and Braids

visual-volume forced to cut locs

Milwaukee teacher cuts off little girl’s natural hair as punishment, throws it away in front of her

credit to black—lamb

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12 year old Vanessa VanDyke is being threatened with expulsion from Faith Christian Academy in Orlando unless she cuts her natural hair.

Read the ads

“MEN WHO GO PLACES” “WAS IT HER RESUME OR HER RELAXER?” white people don’t have ads telling them “you will not be successful in life unless you have cornrows and box braids with gelled down baby hairs” because that isn’t the case. address this in the context of reality, maybe???

Also white people don’t own the claims to straight hair. Even though they have tried to and force people into assimilation, through creating and reinforcing hegemonic beauty ideals and standards that play into laws and social interactions. it’s not theirs! Anyone can grow straight hair, the shit is not theirs!

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10-year-old Newark boy was chased by the police and had guns drawn on him. Fortunately,he came home safe , but frightened to death and told his mother a story about his interaction with the police. In fact, he couldn’t even talk, he just cried, because he never experienced something like that and he knows for sure what happens with little black kids, who interact with the police, like Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice…

Police needs to be held accountable for doing this to a kid.

For more like this go to BlackMattersUs

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mypubliclands

Happy anniversary to the Wilderness Act! On September 3, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed this landmark conservation legislation. The BLM has stewardship responsibilities for 223 Wilderness Areas with over 8.7 million acres in 10 Western States. These areas are protected in their undeveloped state and offer outstanding recreation opportunities for visitors willing to experience nature on its own terms. BLM managed wilderness areas include vast southwestern deserts, red-rock canyons, rugged Pacific coastline and alpine peaks.

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amprog

The value of the minimum wage is LOWER than it was in the 1960’s.

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Remember this next time someone tries to say those pushing for a higher minimum wage are “whiny” or “entitled”.

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cost of living goes up…. while wages literally go down.

awgrey-blog

Mind-bogglingly insane.

liberalbutnotpartisan

If you argue against raising the minimum wage, you are literally arguing that some workers do not deserve to live out of poverty, despite having jobs.

No other way around it.

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And if that’s your argument, don’t you ever dare say a word about people needing to work harder.

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I always love people who argue that if minimum wage goes up, the cost of commodities will go up in order to offset the extra cost incurred by companies, and people will lose their jobs.

Because first of all, the cost of commodities has increased over the years whether the minimum wage went up or not. Inflation is a thing whether people earn more or not.

Second of all, how are you going to tell me that these million and billion dollar companies can’t afford to pay their employees? A company that can’t pay one of its costs is by definition a failing company.

And even if they did have to raise prices, do you really think it’ll be by more than a couple cents per product? Are you so cheap you’d rather save a penny than give someone a living wage?