Little One

My sister calls me "little one". I'm a recent graduate from Penn State and a lover of all things cozy and sarcastic. FTK, Always.

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thought maybe this was too good to be real BUT IT’S REAL

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by inslee

[did-you-know]

In 1931, female professional pitcher Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, back to back, in just 7 pitches. Ruth was furious, yelled at the umpire, kicked the dirt, threw his bat, told a newspaper that women are ‘too delicate for baseball,’ and Mitchell’s contract was voided. By 1952, the MLB had officially banned all women from the game. Source

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In 1958, Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving of Central Point, Virginia decided to get married. To do so, they had to leave the state and have their wedding in Washington, D.C., because Mildred was black and Richard was white, and Reconstruction Era Black Codes made interracial marriage illegal in their state. On returning home, the couple were arrested, leading to a legal battle, Loving v. Virginia,  and the Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage throughout the country. The new film Loving, explores this pivotal moment in American racial history. Fresh Air commentator Mat Johnson has seen the film and shares his personal connection to the landmark case: 

“The movie Loving reminds us of this by giving us an intimate portrayal of a quiet couple who find themselves in the eye of history’s storm. The thunder of American racial anxiety rumbling, threatening, in the distance.”

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In honor of national dog day, here’s a vid of my sister’s dog Buddy struggling to get inside. Hahahaha.

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buddy does not know

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This is the greatest video on tumblr

[actionjacksonlovesbbq]

the end is really good

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[sosuperawesome]

Rings from the MelanieCaseyJewelry Etsy shop

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She Came Prepared The Daily Politics presenter was chatting to Charlotte and Henrietta about banning unhealthy food in schools.

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She came for him

[blackfemalescientist]

How does it feel to have a five year old pull out receipts on you!

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by Nina Stajner

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#sapphire & #diamond #halo #engagement #ring with round cut #slot-to-fit #wedding #ring #brighton #jewellery #jewellers (at RING jewellers)

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Beneath the folds of their Victorian dresses, the jujutsuffragettes concealed wooden clubs—preparation for hand-to-hand combat with the London police.

I had no idea this was a thing.

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Autobiography of a fugitive negro : his anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada & England (1855) by Samuel Ringgold Ward [Free Full Text as a PDF or Flipbook]

Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-1866) was a journalist, abolitionist, lecturer, and contemporary of Frederick Douglass. Born the son of American slaves who escaped to New Jersey in 1820 when he was three years old, Ward and his family settled soon thereafter in New York City where Ward was educated at The African Free School, an institution founded by the New York Manumission Society in1787 to provide education to children of slaves and freemen. In 1839, he joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and soon thereafter the new Anti-Slavery Society of Canada. In April 1853 the Canadian society sent Ward to England to seek funds to help the fugitive slaves then pouring into western Canada. He wrote his Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro while living in England. (Dictionary of Canadian Biography).

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"Why Do I Get Blamed For Things My Grandparents Did?"

“There is a difference between being "to blame” for something and being “responsible” for it.

It’s easy to see the difference in some situations (i.e., you’re not to blame for the snow, but you are responsible for shoveling your driveway), but not in others. For instance, if you tell one of my fellow white people that we’re responsible for helping fix social justice issues, they’ll say, “But I’ve never discriminated against anyone!” And they’ll mean it.

This is confusing because, as kids, we were taught that you clean up your own messes, and it’s easy to accidentally expand that to: “You only clean up your own messes.” It then becomes natural to say things such as “Why are you talking to me about racism when I’ve never owned slaves?” or “Why are you yammering endlessly about sexism when every day at school I get laughed at, while cheerleaders are worshiped as idols?”

Now, we circle back to the idea I introduced at the start – you, hypothetical white male reader, didn’t own slaves or systematically shut black people out of the economy for 150 years after. But, you are part of a greater whole, and, thus, you reaped some of the benefits. In theory, we should all have learned this in history class – not just that slavery happened, but that we were all born at a certain level because we were boosted there by a complicated set of systems developed to reserve the best jobs, schools, neighborhoods, and social systems for people who look like us…“

- David Wong

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source: The Independent Journal, July 13, 1785.

[depressionarmy]

Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart

William C. Hannon (via depressionarmy)