#cracking the codes

[bostonpoetryslam]

“One day coming from school, cops stop boy. Cops do not love boy. Tell boy so. Call him stupid. Bad, stupid. Ugly. Brown, black, black, brown, ugly. Call him stupid, bad. Ugly. TV tells boy what cops say true.”

Tonight’s Cantab feature is Oakland native and Northampton Poetry Slam coach Jelal Huyler! Here he performs “Boy Blue” for the film Cracking the Codes.

[mega-waffle-lord]

Since Jack is the Pumpkin King and he gets together with Sally that makes her a Queen and The Nightmare before Christmas was made by Disney/Tim Burton that makes Sally the first Queen in Disney. (as The nightmare before christmas came out in 1993 and Frozen came out in 2013)

[citizenshipandsocialjustice]

[imaginarymonsters7]

The smallest action can influence so many lives in such a profound way.

Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy, A Trip to the Grocery Store. 

Using and recognising one's privilege in a situation to empower the disadvantaged is a hell of a gift.

[tallariawalker]

Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy "A Trip to the Grocery Store"

FILM AVAILABLE HERE: http://crackingthecodes.org. In this story from Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity, a film from World Trust, author and e...

So I read Tyler Oakleys "Privilege" post:

http://tyleroakley.com/post/67498897389/on-privilege-more-so-okay-i-dont-really

and I got curious and watched this video. 

I know that different situations requires different kind of approaches, and even different kind of people, but it's just sad that people should have to be treated differently because of a thing such as their skin color.

I could understand if this (black in this case) person had a history of doing stupid things, but not that the person has a history of doing stupid things because they're  black. 

I thought we were beginning to move past this.

[veritas-aequitas-zeke]

One Easy Thing All White People

Could Do That Would Make

The World A Better Place

  Ted Nugent needs to see this video!

[barbarismvideos]

This Looks Great (Part 1) !