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President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a Second Bill of Rights in 1944. It was the right idea then and it’s the right idea NOW. #ThrowbackThursday

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Numbers are simple.

lookatthewords

Can you or shuttersmiley please tell me why there is no such thing as racism against white people?

I have some questions for you, actually.

Are you systemically oppressed?

Do you have a history of genocide, enslavement and oppression which still actively leaks and informs your daily life and opportunities?

Is the worse discrimination you’ve experienced being called a cracker in the 6th grade?

Meanwhile;

Black Detroit woman shot to death while seeking help in white neighborhood after car crash

Deaf Black man is stabbed out of racism when his sign language is mistaken for a gang sign

Anti-Islam posters run free on the train to reinforce racism anti-Islamic sentiments and Islamaphobia

Oops! Chicago police raids the wrong house, holds an 11 month old at gunpoint to raise their hand, kills their dog all because of racism and assuming it was a crackhouse! Oopsies

Let’s take it overseas! Black people in England and Wales are 7 times more likely to be stopped by police than white people. Asian people are twice as likely

People assuming Native american baby names are actually Native and have any meaning to any ethnic group when they don’t

Here’s a whole collection of people saying racist stereotyping homogenizing disgusting stuff about Natives

People protesting (Idle No More) defending Native people’s humanity are attacked with violence

White kids think it’s totally okay and normal to photograph themselves lynching a Black baby doll like an effigy

Member of the most glorified band in the world Paul McCartney made a racist white supremacist song called ‘No Pakistanis’ and everyone still glorifies him as a good person

Racism in actual political campaign in Massachusetts against a Native runner portraying her name and image in a racist stereotypical inappropriate manner

Indian Sikh school students protest for students who are banned from wearing their turbans in public schools in France

Here’s a graph of the statistic that approx every 28 hours an African American is extrajudicially executed in the US

NYPD profiling and targeting LGBT*Q People of Color

Black students (especially boys and children with disabilities) face more and harsher punishments in public schools and are being pushed out of schools into the criminal justice system.

Black male incarceration has jumped 500% from 1986 to 2004

Albany police: SWAT literally uses a poor Black neighborhood to train in because they say it’s ‘realistic’

The audio recording from a young man of color of a NYPD stop and frisking him based solely how he looks calling him a “FUCKING MUTT”

Incarceration rates by ethnicity

All of this fucking cultural appropriation

Whoa, it does not stop

Her Innocent Brother Was Made Into a Bombing Suspec because of racism: Sunil Tripathi’s Sister Speaks

Wall Street Journal refers to a Chinese athlete as being “fueled with rice” even though they don’t title articles like that for white athletes

Black Woman Pretends To Be White And Job Offers Skyrocket

African-American man says NYPD made him rap before freeing him

Barney’s accuses a young Black man of fraud for purchasing a belt with his own money while having the receipt assuming he couldn’t afford it because he was Black

Woman Says She Called 911 for an Ambulance for Her Fiancé, Cops Came and Shot Him Instead

A Black man holding a wallet is more likely to be shot by the police than a White man holding a gun.

ESPN makes a racist mockery of Native americans on national TV on purpose. I don’t see any consequences for their actions

A healthy, 43-year-old Black Brooklyn father died of a heart attack when police wrongfully burst into his home at 5 AM without a warrant to look for a cellphone

Students of color At University of Texas Attacked By An Epidemic Of ‘Bleach Bombs’

Racism Linked to Adult-Onset Asthma in Black Women

Black firefighter waves to white police man and is handcuffed and on the ground

Most of Onondaga County is disputed land, which legally belongs to the Onondaga Nation. It has been held illegally by New York State for hundreds of years, despite the Treaty of Fort Stanwix which means that the Onondaga Nation is the legal owner. Racists respond with “they didn’t work for this land it’s mine” illogically

Grand Jury Decides Not to Charge Officer Who Fatally Shot Unarmed Youth in Bronx

Oprah is told she can’t afford to shop in a store based on how she looks

Disparities in the workforce exist as Black women and Latino men work more than white women and white men but the racial wage gap still exists

Black police chief stopped and frisked by police officers

Florida police shoot unarmed Black man outside of his own house

Every 28 hours a Black unarmed man is murdered by a vigalante, remember?

We still don’t have justice for Vincent Chin while Asian Americans still face racism and violence

Oakland: Study finds racial bias in boys’ arrests targeting guess who? Black young men, of course!

How is it that 58% of prisoners are Black and Latino if 70% of crime committed here is done by white people?

Forty Percent of White Americans Are Lying About Their ‘Black Friend’

From Mosques to Soccer Leagues: Inside the NYPDâs Secret Spy Unit Targeting Muslims, Activists

When whites were presented with an argument against the death penalty or three strikes that emphasized the racial bias of the policy, they became more (not less) supportive of capital punishment and three strikes laws.

Who’s surprised that people were racist and needed an explanation of how not to homogenize and trivialize culture on Dia de los Muertos?

African-Americans More Likely To Receive Lower-Quality Kidneys, Study Finds

Islamophobia towards (obviously innocent) paying customer: Garland restaurant contaminated her drink, Muslim woman says

Famous actor Brandon T. Jackson is called racial slurs on his flight and told “I don’t care if you’re Obama’s son” then questioned by the police and restricted from flying and left alone to look for a hotel himself for being the victim of racism on US Airways

Rob Brown, famous star of Treme is racially profiled and arrested at Macy’s for purchasing a watch with his own money and his own credit card and accused of fraud

Kayla Philips tries to purchase a bag at Barney’s and is also accused of fraud at Barney’s because they didn’t believe she could afford it

White people literally cannot emphasize with Black people’s pain and thus they are given less pain medication and little to no sympathy in painful situations.

Racism against White people does not exist. Me calling you a cracker might hurt your feelings but it could never oppress you. Was never used to oppress you. Your history is being Oppressor, not the oppressed.

Meanwhile you calling me a racial slur only enforces the engraved white is right superiority that is literally seeped in everything, from beauty standards to a human value and innocence. All around the world.

You have a million and one links provided for you. Now go learn.

kristinakolbert

remember when the dixie chicks said that they were ashamed that baby bush was from texas and of the iraq war? and the outcry was insane in america that they had people burn their dixie chicks cd’s and boycott their music. not giving them air play. fast forward to today and we got people like ted nugent and others saying worse about obama. not even a blink. how come nobody talks about that?

irrationalliberal1

#truth

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How to Pull an All-Nighter Effectively and Still Do Well on Your Exam

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azspot

Most of you probably think that the $15 minimum wage in Seattle is an insane departure from rational policy that puts our economy at great risk. But in Seattle, our current minimum wage of $9.32 is already nearly 30 percent higher than the federal minimum wage. And has it ruined our economy yet? Well, trickle-downers, look at the data here: The two cities in the nation with the highest rate of job growth by small businesses are San Francisco and Seattle. Guess which cities have the highest minimum wage? San Francisco and Seattle. The fastest-growing big city in America? Seattle. Fifteen dollars isn’t a risky untried policy for us. It’s doubling down on the strategy that’s already allowing our city to kick your city’s ass.

Nick Hanauer (via azspot)

justinspoliticalcorner

When Sen. Ted Cruz told the conservative pastors gathered at the Family Research Council’s Watchmen on the Wall conference yesterday that “the Senate Democrats are going to be voting on a constitutional amendment to repeal the First Amendment,” he was met with an audible gasp. He earned more gasps when he warned that this amendment would suppress the political speech rights of the “citizenry” and “muzzle” pastors in their pulpits.

We were surprised too. That would be news!

But then it became clear what he was talking about: Senate leadership is planning to hold a vote on a constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision and rulings in related campaign finance cases such as this year’s McCutcheon case, which have steadily eliminated the limits on election spending by corporations and wealthy individuals.

The amendment, written by Sen. Tom Udall, would give the federal government and states the “power to regulate the raising and spending of money and in kind equivalents” in elections, as it was allowed to do before the Supreme Court started dismantling campaign finance regulations.

In other words, the amendment would allow Congress and state governments to set limits on the amount that corporations and wealthy individuals can spend to support and oppose candidates. So, unless a pastor also runs a super PAC, it would not affect his life all that much, much less “muzzle” him. But Cruz, employing the Religious Right’s persecution rhetoric, claims that “41 Democrats have signed on to repealing the First Amendment” because “they don’t like it when the citizenry in their community has the temerity to criticize what they’ve done” and “they don’t like it when pastors in their community stand up and speak the truth.”

h/t: Miranda Blue at RWW

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guys, please, you dont even understand how emergent the situation is and how much of help these people need. these have been worst floodings in 100 of years here, on balkan. please, try to at least reblog this - someone could help. people are in danger. people are suffering. damage cant even be put in words. not only bosnia and serbia but also north-east of croatia are under water and many villages are cut off the rest of the world. theres no electricity and have been a few death cases confirmed. flood destroyed everything people had - homes, fields, absolutely everything. please, try to donate, try to help.

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attndotcom

Truth.

belcanta

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.

attentiondeficitaptitude-deacti

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.

The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.

But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

nikkidubs-deactivated20150519

"BUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?" screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. "You libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!" "But where will people get the incentive to work?!" Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. She’d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. "You think people should get paid for nothing? I work hard for my money!”

"But who will serve me?" grumbled Marty McMoneybags. "Who will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stress—because I do have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich is stressful—on them?” He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. “Lord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that I’m rich??”

belcanta

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

doomhamster

The thing is, while I’m sure you could scrape up a few people who’d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. “Hmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48k… enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.” Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with one’s time. (Speaking as someone who’s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for one’s survival.)

And with this system, part-time jobs and “non-skilled” jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!

Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldn’t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job weren’t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they weren’t being treated with dignity.

And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.

Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldn’t afford to move out.

And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? They’d be spending it. They’d be getting all the stuff they can’t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.

The unemployed and/or disabled wouldn’t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people aren’t getting money they don’t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And I’m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?

TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.