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[bmcandrews33-blog]

Hashtag poem

The US is supposed to be about peace But because of whites power we experience different Violence on the streets Racism in the media On Twitter, social media Police with bad judgement Protests from some of our biggest celebrities including LeBron James Murders and violence on the street Lost hope Where is the #love ?

[markgrabon-blog]

“flimsy white fork to snap in half. dispose of me.”

-Choi

[bmcandrews33-blog]

This quote shows how stereotypes really group one race all as one single feature so it's hard for people to be themselves in america when it's really supposed to be the greatest country in the world. Racism isn't gone.

[markgrabon-blog]

“No one should ever be allowed to say ‘there is no history of racial tension here’ because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.”

-John Oliver

[bmcandrews33-blog]

This quote is significant because it significantly says that there has never been a time where racism has been completely been gone. And at the time right now where it should be that everything is getting better it seems that everything is just getting worse right now.

[lapid2-blog]

“We followed you blindly for thousands of years, you’d think the least God could do is show up for New Years Eve 1999″

-”Are You There God? It’s, Jesus” South Park Season 3 Episode 16

[bmcandrews33-blog]

I like this quote because it shows exactly how some people act towards religion. And how extreme some people's expectations are.

[bmcandrews33-blog]

"As we all know if Jesus come out of his house and is not scared by his shadow, it means the next thousand years will be full of peace and love." (Newscaster)

South Park

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"This whole story is so desperately familiar and there are so many unanswered question why an armed officer would shoot and unarmed teenager"

John Oliver Ferguson, Mo and police militarization

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"You can be anything at all in America"

Rihanna American Oxygen

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"Forgive him when his younger lies through his brain even after three times he betrays me"

Lady gaga judas

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"Unlike you and I Jesus knew he'd die some days a headache woke him it lingered nothing terrible"

Flynn Jesus knew

[bmcandrews33-blog]

"You never really speak except for the time she makes her request and later when she tells you smell good and have features more like a white person"

Rankine, from citizen

[bmcandrews33-blog]

"I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you"

Blackness as the second person by Meara Sharma interviews by Claudia Rankine

[bmcandrews33-blog]

"No need. Mass media from Fox News to reality tv on vh1 makes it clear what white people think of us"

Dear white people

[hauser9-blog]

“Drug dealer buy Jordan’s, crackhead buy crack and a white man get paid off of all of that”

-Kanye West, All Falls Down

[bmcandrews33-blog]

This quote is very powerful showing the ever growing stereotypes and how a lot of the world still isn't changing.

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"A little cheaper more digestible. More bite-sized. More thank you come."

Granny choi

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"You think 50 cent reads? Allen Iverson?"

Ross gay

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"But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem. The prettiest people do the ugliest thing"

Kanye west "it all falls down

[sarah-jillian-blog]

“We can also be sure that when a black life is violently taken and corporate media constructs the death as a story there will be civil rights opportunists soon to follow”

-Richael Faithful 

[bmcandrews33-blog]

Great quote choice. Relevant to today. Media dictates what's going to happen next most of the time.