#anecodotes

[queer-reader-07]

i keep religionposting on main and for that i am minimally sorry but if you want a mildly fun anecdote, when i was a sixth grader in catholic school there was a kid in my class who kept asking our teacher why dinosaurs weren't in the bible (his family wasn't religious) and i think he expected her to give some roundabout avoidant non answer. but because my sixth grade religion teacher was an icon and a proper catholic who taught the only version of the old testament i ever knew, she was like "because this isn't a history book or a biology book. it's a collection of stories to teach us about the Lord. and He and the people telling these stories didn't need dinosaurs to do the teaching." and ngl i think about that constantly especially when biblical literalists and/or creationists start making the internet rounds again.

[biblioklept]

William Carlos Williams' anecdote on meeting T.S. Eliot / by Allen Ginsberg / as told to Bockris-Wylie

William Carlos Williams’ anecdote on meeting T.S. Eliot / by Allen Ginsberg / as told to Bockris-Wylie

W.C. Williams anecdote meeting T.S. Eliot by Allen Ginsberg as told to Bockris-Wylie Note: This isn’t an article deliberately written nor an interview untouched. It’s conversation transcribed, edited punctuated and condensed by interviewers. The words are mine but the style of transcription – timing, context, punctuation, tone – is mostly by Bockris–Wiley handiwork. Allen Ginsberg 6 February…

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[keoncarter-k-blog]

[’White Explanation’]

“This is not a 'white explanation' [how racist and dismissive to use such a term], this is just truth. The vast majority of black people do not have anything to feel 'unsafe' about here in the United States. Involving the police or interracial crime are actually a tiny minority [less than 10%] committed against black people. I’ll go ahead and break down that 10% to tell you even a tiny minority of that percentage is homicide by police. That's just the honest truth based on facts, not feelings or emotions or assumptions. 

What sources? I suggest you read something other than propaganda on liberal sites [hold on now I am liberal but I’m not so far deep in that I can’t tell my side is also biased]. After Donald Trump posted an inaccurate infographic by numbers only, liberal sites are beginning to show all of the statistics. It’s not just what they want their faithful readers to know. 

[‘Black Explanation’]

 Based on what I see on the news, as a black person I feel unsafe. ... “I have lived in the U.S. all of my life, never felt unsafe. I have other black relatives, the vast majority that have lived here and have never felt unsafe. They know of other black relatives and black friends that have never felt unsafe. I'm sure those friends know of their relatives and black friends that have never felt unsafe. Do you know the issue with anecdotal evidence? You have a story but so do I and many others that counter with yours.”