The Khan's Long Thoughts

I am a Muslim who believes in the Messiah and Love for All, Hatred for None. I like talking about many things but particularly my faith and current events. I have another blog elsewhere but I want to use this to discuss things too long for twitter and too short for a blog post (as I see it). Follow me on twitter: @jedikinghtkhan

[gahdamnpunk]

[thatdiva]

[thatdiva]

Spot the difference.

[imawitchywitch]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[thatdiva]

Or maybe stop blaming minorities for all the shit white people put in place, period.

[thatdiva]

[liberalsarecool]

Reform student loans. Relieve student debt.

[thempress]

People look down on McDonald’s employees but fail to realize that if all these folks left McDonald’s and pursued “better careers”  your ass wouldn’t be able to get a McDouble with an Oreo McFlurry at 3am. 

You can’t demand a service while simultaneously degrading those who provide it for you. 

[bexlogic]

You can’t demand a service while simultaneously degrading those who provide it for you. 

[humansofnewyork]

“I don’t know why my mother hated me.  She had a sickness that you could not see.  But she convinced me that I was sick.  And that everything was because of me.  And that I’m a monster.  She criticized everything.  My way of eating.  My way of speaking.  My way of dressing.  Anything that brought me joy, she would deny me.  If I defended myself, she would hit me.  I was terrified of lunch and dinner because that’s when I had to face her.  I spent my entire childhood alone.  I just played with my cats in the garden.  Or sat on the floor of my bedroom.  I’d try so hard to leave my body because I didn’t want to be on earth.  And that’s when the spirits and fairies would come to me.  Even Mother Mary came to me.  I was never afraid of them.  They’d comfort me.  I remember being seven years old, sitting alone beneath a tree, talking to the fairies.  Another little girl walked up and asked what game I was playing.  That’s when I realized nobody else could see what I was seeing.  And it’s been a very lonely existence since then.” (Paris, France)

[sugarmoonaki]

Never come to me and say Natives aren’t discriminated.

My own family had been discriminated against in the Canadian healthcare system.

I’m so tired.

[notchristianbale]

[humansofnewyork]

“I was only sixteen when I got pregnant.  I was so disappointed in myself.  I thought I’d end up like one of those pregnant teens on Maury.  I did finish high school, I will say that.  But afterwards I had no good options.  My family didn’t have money.  My son’s father wasn’t around.  It was on me to do something.  So I joined the Navy.  I was basically gone for the next six years.  I had to leave my son with my parents.  It was an extremely hard decision.  But anything I did was going to look bad, if I had stayed behind, I would have just been a bum ass ‘project girl’ with a kid.  I had to provide.  And I was still a kid myself, so I needed experience.  When I came home for good, my son was seven years old.  He lives with me now.  We’re working on it.  I’d love for him to be a ‘mama’s boy,’ but in a lot of ways he’s still closer to my parents.  He gives them random hugs and kisses.  I have to ask for mine.  So we’ve still got a ways to go.  But I used the GI Bill to get a bachelor’s degree.  And I’ve got a job where I make real money.  I’m proud of myself.  I work in a place that I never could have imagined when I was sixteen.  I have ‘work friends.’  I spend my day with people who are motivated to be better, not just in work, but as people.  I’m doing well.  And considering how I started, that’s an amazing thing.”

[humansofnewyork]

“Ever since I was twelve years old, my mom wanted to bring us to America.  She said we’d be able to reach our goals faster.  At first she came alone.  In Peru she had a nice government job, but here she mopped floors and washed cars.  It took forever to get our papers because she wanted to bring us over legally.  There were so many times she told me to get read, but then it fell through.  I started to think it would never happen.  But then one year ago she called me and said it was time.  I left my whole life behind.  That first winter was so depressing.  I had to break up with my boyfriend. I didn’t know anyone here.  My English was suck.  I had my own bedroom in Peru, but here I had to share a room with three people.  I spent so much time crying.  I watched a lot of anime.  Even my cat wouldn’t play with me because she’s not very friendly.  But finally in March I found a job at a restaurant, and things began to turn around.  My coworkers became like family.  My manager Alizee is the most amazing person I’ve ever met.  And the guys in the kitchen help me with my English.  There’s a gym nearby, and after work I’ve been taking jiu-jitsu classes.  It’s helped me a lot.  There’s one position called guard, and as long as you can keep your guard up, you’ll be alright.  I feel like I’m finally in control.  This morning I paid for a whole semester of classes.  Last year was about surviving.  But this year I have goals.  The first one is to get better at jiu-jitsu.“

[humansofnewyork]

(1/3) “I grew up in segregated Suffolk, Virginia in the 1950’s.  My elementary school had two rooms, two black teachers, and six grades.  I could never go downtown and shop in the stores.  I could never go to the movies.  I could never swim in the local swimming pool.  But we never cared about that stuff because we had a creek behind our house, and we didn’t have money for movies anyway.  My mother never let us accept the fact that we were poor.  There were seven of us, but we always wore shoes, not sneakers.  Mom wasn’t exactly the ‘lovey-dovey’ type.  She never used a switch on us, but she loved to use an example.  Every action in our house had an equal and opposite reaction.  In 1964 the World’s Fair came to town, and my high school band was invited to give a concert for the governor.  My mother gave me money to take my uniform to the cleaners.  But I never did it.  And she never let me go to that concert.  Before she died I drove her to the hospital, and I told her: ‘I’m still mad at you for not letting me go to the World’s Fair.’  She didn’t answer me, but she had this gleam in her eye that said: ‘You learned your lesson.’  And she’s right.  Those examples made me the man I am today.  I’ve literally done everything I wanted to do as a kid.  I may not have been to the World’s Fair, but I’ve been to Ghana.  I’ve been to the Caribbean.  I’ve travelled all over the world.”

[mysharona1987]

[thatdiva]

[thatdivatracy-deactivated201902]

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[thatdiva]

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