Irrational Ignorance @blackgingy - Tumblr Blog

I feel like this belongs here.

niggazinmoscow

THIS RIGHT HERE

afronerdism

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

molothoo

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

scretladyspider

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated

dantalaois

odinsblog

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

depsidase

transmechanicus

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

ruinedchildhood

spaghettioverdose-deactivated20

Reblog to save a duck

13faeinapenguinsuit

Quack quack

ijustgotherebro

It’s getting to be that time of year where more people are going outside to parks and stuff so i thought it would a good idea to reblog this again

theofficialvincenzo

Once I was feeding some ducks from a bag of birdseed I brought with me, and this woman next to me looked so confused and asked what I was feeding them

When I said it was birdseed she just went “oh- can they actually eat that? Is that safe?”

I didnt know how to respond like, at all, so I just pointed at the duck and said “bird”

She then had a look on her face like a new groove was just forcibly carved in her brain and said softly “oh my fucking god”

blackgingy

I have a memory of watching an animated show where a man see a duck, so the man walks into a subway (sandwich shop) and ask for a loaf of bread. The sandwich artist ask him what he wants on it and he said he just wants the bread but it was there policy he get something one it, so he just said lettuce. She then puts the sandwich on the counter with a head of lettuce in the middle wrapping it and I think asked him about paying. He mentions its for a duck and she responds by saying "oh ducks eat free"

I then think dude carried the duck with him to like multiple different subways just to get free sandwiches.