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Larimar Lounge with the homies, some near others never far

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My opinion on the short film by Ezra Miller and Sol Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V30Somb7Hv8

^^ This is the link to the short film "The Truth, According To Darren Wilson"

It’s clear to me that a lot of people are jumping on the hate-wagon without context, information, or reason. (As per usual on the internet)

I’ve seen so many contradicting posts on this hellsite that just prove to me that no one has watched the video, nor know anything about the situation. People love an excuse to hate someone, especially if they’re blowing up.

The video is only 4 minutes long. Instead of being a blindly following sheep-- please watch it and form your own opinion. Especially if you’re making a post about it.

1. Being Jewish or nb is not a get out free card for being racist. I’d like to say forefront that I don't think Ezra Miller is racist. However, I'm tired of the excuse for Jewish or queer peoples actions being "He's Jewish so!!!!" or "He's lgbt so!!!" It's not an excuse. There are racist Jewish people, there are racist gay people. Take a seat.

2. That being said, I do think that whenever a Jewish person... Basically breathes, it is taken 300 yards out of proportion. Yes, Ezra did something slightly risky and possibly controversial, but I do think that anti-semitism and possibly transphobia is at play when it comes to the reactions he's received.

3. It's important to note that Miller co-directed with a black BLM activist, Sol Guy-- who lead the project. I can respect that he didn't go into this by himself because that would have been entirely irresponsible. It's a black experience, it's black people who are being killed. If a black person is not involved in the discussion, then what the fuck are you doing.

4. To me, after watching the video, Darren Wilson is being portrayed as a liar. The compilation of his dubious excuses as the eerie music rises, the unnerving sound of the gunshots. The fact that he's REHEARSING all of the lies he's soon to spew. Rehearsing the exact way he’s going to try and make people feel sorry for him with mounds of crocodile tears. The overly dramatic sighs and gasps. The frantic camera work as if he’s desperately trying to find a way to defend himself. It's clear that Sol and Ezra's aim is to make him look like a liar. However, it is a very sensitive topic. The reaction to a video containing the murderer's side to a story is expectedly defensive, even if the murderer is clearly being portrayed in a negative light.

5. This was an attemptedly artsy project but the message was illustrated a little too vaguely.

Ezra Miller does not have any social media whatsoever. However, if he would find a way to come out and say: "Hey, we tried to do something but it didn't work out the way we wanted it to. I shouldn’t have touched on this topic, especially not this way. It was in bad taste, I'm sorry." and just apologize to the black community-- I'd be completely content. This film is not something serious enough to try and destroy a career over.

Who knows, he might have already apologized but nobody knows where the fuck it is. Get some social media, dude.

Note: non-black people should not be involved in this discussion. Sure, there's nothing wrong with having an opinion-- but please remember that it's black people who are being murdered. So in this case, your opinion on whether Ezra deserves forgiveness doesn't really matter. Thanks.

Sorry if this is badly written, I am living on 4 hours of sleep and some chai lattes

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'Northern Touch' at 20: An oral history of the most important rap collaboration in Canadian history

For the 20-year anniversary of its release, the artists and key contributors to the song reflect on its impact, then and now.

The hook lives in our heads still to this day!

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On Ezra Miller's Darren Wilson Scene

Did any of you even watch the Darren Wilson scene Ezra Miller co-directed?? I'm honestly so sick of people spreading around tumblr that Ezra is racist when the facts are that if you watch the scene it's clearly about how Darren Wilson is a liar and the kind of people who support him are assholes participating in a theatrical level of lies and denial. Also, it was co-directed with his friend Sol Guy who is a BLACK MAN. All of you a dragging Ezra's good name through the mud via total falsehoods and everyone on tumblr doing this should be ashamed. My anger is not directed at any /individuals/ but simply the situation at hand where people are jumping to conclusions without knowing the facts. I'm sure that you're not all bad people or anything but please consider the kind of impact you have when you spread and perpetuate these lies. Ezra is not racist, you all need to be stopped. In short, tumblr people need to fact check and also chill.

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Protect Pe'Sla Lakota Sioux Sacred Site

Chase Iron Eyes, Ezra Miller and Sol Guy at Crazy Horse Memorial (Photo Courtesy of Chase Iron Eyes)

(Just wanted to let people know that Ezra Miller and other celebs have been a part of this cause since 2012)

More celebs help tribes' push for sacred SD land

Article and video below

SIOUX FALLS, SD -- More celebrities are backing an online campaign to raise money so that Native American tribes in South Dakota can purchase land they consider sacred. P Diddy and Bette Midler are the latest big names to throw their support behind a fundraising effort to buy nearly 2,000 acres of pristine prairie grass in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Three days after the campaign began, P Diddy tweeted: "Help save the Sioux Nation! Click here," and linked to the website. Midler also lent her voice, tweeting: "Incredible story re the Sioux Sacred Grounds. Donate what you can." More than $18,000 had been raised as of Sunday afternoon -- $6,000 flowed in immediately after P Diddy's tweet. The campaign will last through Nov. 30, when the tribes of the Great Sioux Nation must have $9 million in order to purchase the land. The tribes have raised $7 million so far for the 1,942 acres, which they call Pe' Sla (pay shlaw), or "old baldy." There are Sioux tribes in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska and Canada. The property is important to their creation story, and tribal members have long held ceremonies there. When the land was put up for sale, tribal members worried it would be developed because of its proximity to Mount Rushmore. Landowners Leonard and Margaret Reynolds canceled a public auction of the property earlier this year after tribal members expressed outrage. The Reynolds then accepted the tribes' bid to purchase the land for $9 million if they have the money by Nov. 30.

The couple has repeatedly said they will not speak publicly about the land sale.

P Diddy and Midler join actor Ezra Miller and hip-hop producer Sol Guy showing their support for the cause. Miller, who appears in the recently released movie "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," and Sol Guy flew to South Dakota last month to film a nine-minute documentary-style video about the land that is being used as part of the online campaign. Miller said the three days he spent in South Dakota learning about the land and the Lakota tribes was life-altering.

"From the moment I arrived to the moment I departed, I was struck repeatedly by an unshakable sensation that this land truly carried something unspeakably important," Miller said in an email interview with The Associated Press. "There is a motion and a beauty out there in those hills that words cannot do justice." He said the fact that the Lakota tribes have done Sundance ceremonies on the land for thousands of years is a "magical reality," and that America has erased too much of the land's true history.

Sol Guy, whose TV show "4Real" airing on MTV Canada and the National Geographic Channel has taken celebrities such as Cameron Diaz to Peru and Joaquin Phoenix to the Amazon, said he has been busy sharing the information with his various networks to get the word out and is confident the tribes will be successful in raising all the money. "My first hope is not to demand people to give money," Sol Guy said. "If they can afford it, great. But I think what's more important is that people take it in and learn the history and spread the word and have the conversations about it." Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who started the online campaign and appeared in the video, said he wants the celebrity endorsements to help raise money, but more than anything, he hopes it will widen the network of people who are thinking about the land and what it means for the tribes.

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A short clip from the Amazon basin shot for the series 4Real, featuring the chief Tashka Yawanawa.