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This story is inspired and dedicated to all great african-descendant men that had a positive economical, political and spiritual impact around them, like Nelson Mandela, like Aimé Césaire, like Thomas Sankara, like Abdourahmane Cissé.

observando

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

Shaun Hick (via observando)

me: I have a mental disorder and need to be kinder to and more patient with myself

also me: get your shit together you lazy pos

definegodliness

Dysthymia

I know I fucked up, and that I owe the entire universe an apology.

It must have smiled when our souls first met, we were destined to be the greatest love poem in its entire anthology.

But that’s all in the past, it just wasn’t meant to be (or maybe it was, but that doesn’t matter, really), the only thing left now, is to get down on both of my knees and beg,

please,

if there are times that she thinks of me, let her remember the man, and not the disease.

#to almost every single friend

thequotejournals

Every poem is about you. Even the ones about other people, they’re for your eyes only. Everyone else who reads this is just a stranger looking through the window at us. It always comes back to you. It will always come back to you.

Clementine von Radics (via wordsnquotes)

animatedtext

greeneuphorias

Shahem

@pettyblackboy

by @greeneuphorias

todayinhistory

February 19th 1942: Japanese internment begins

On this day in 1942, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 which allowed the military to relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps. A climate of paranoia descended on the US following the attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan, which prompted the US to join the Second World War. Americans of Japanese ancestry became targets for persecution, as there were fears that they would collude with Japan and pose a national security threat. This came to a head with FDR’s executive order, which led to 120,000 Japanese-Americans being rounded up and held in camps. The constitutionality of the controversial measure was upheld by the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944). Interned Americans suffered great material and personal hardship, with most people losing their property and some losing their lives to illness or the violence of camp sentries. The victims of internment and their families eventually received an official government apology in 1988 and reparations began in the 1990s. This dark episode of American history is often forgotten in the narrative of US involvement in the Second World War, but Japanese internment poses a stark reminder of the dangers of paranoia and scapegoating.

oldloves

Carly Simon & James Taylor on their honeymoon, 1972

soundsof71

James Taylor & Carly Simon, 1972, by Peter Simon

edwardspoonhands

I'm sure by this point you've seen the clip of Nazi Richard Spencer getting decked in the face. As funny as that was, I've been curious: what's your stance on violent protests in general and punching Nazis in particular?

I don’t know…I really enjoyed watching Richard Spencer getting punched in the face. I don’t think I would personally punch him in the face…and I’m not sure I think he /should have/ been punched in the face. But I liked it anyway.

For me, it comes down to whether getting punched in the face was bad for Richard Spencer’s ideas. Part of me worries that it will only serve to radicalize more people. Another part of me thinks that tolerance of Spencer’s intolerance would only let White Supremacy get stronger.

And then other part of me is like, “Look…there are laws…and punching people is against the laws.” But, interestingly, that voice is the quietest of the bunch…

As for violent protests…in general they don’t hurt the people who have created the problems, so while I can understand them, I think they’re bad. Like, if you trash a Starbucks, it doesn’t hurt the Starbucks corporation (which is actually a pretty good corporation, providing training and educational assistance for workers). It mostly hurts the workers who lose wages, and the people who like to go to Starbucks, and the neighborhood that will be less likely to have sustainable businesses rent retail locations.

Punching a Nazi is different from that…because he’s the only one getting hurt…and he’s a literal Nazi.

Richard Spencer really sucks. I am very mad at him. But I honestly don’t know if assaulting him is a net positive or negative. And I think it’s OK not to know.