Taylor Pugh English 2367

[taylorpugh]

Patriarchy in Superheros

[syerington]

The radio said there is no god.

Ricky Laurentiis “No Ararat” (via syerington)

This was a religion issue because the kid did not know what was right, her own thoughts or the media's.

[aldengardiner]

I tell you it was necessary: violence had to preface such beauty.

-Ricky Laurentiis, “No Ararat”

[evkenn17]

I’ve often heard of the phrase “pain before beauty” which reminds me of this poem. Sometimes suffering for something makes the eventual positive outcome that much more worth it.

[taylorpugh]

The only way that people would care about this part of the country is if there was mass destruction. The more destruction, the more the country is involved.

[kylegater]

America

"America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb"

-Allen Ginsberg

[taylorpugh]

Very controversial in our country. Ginsberg was very outspoken and did not hold his opinions back.

[katiechillinsky]

'If your enemies are hungry, feed them.' But to be perfectly clear, my enemies are not hungry.

-“Arroz Poetica”, Aracelis Girmay

#privileged #notequal #war #enemies

(via katiechillinsky)

Loved this part

(via theoakwa)

I think this quote of the poem shows confidence and superiority. 

[zachrobertson-blog]

"until someone calls time and they’re done, and everything becomes what it was”

-The Court of Forgetting By James Hoch

[syerington]

To me, these lines point out not only the sanctuary of the court, but also the resistance of returning to reality

[trevorhansen412]

"Most white American men are the same color they were then." #racism #hatred #discrimination

“Onlookers with the burning body of Jesse Washington” -Steve Scafidi  (via trevorhansen412)

This just hows how big of a problem racism and discrimination are and how it should be stopped.

(via brittanycastrataro)

I think that racism will never be stopped. There will always be some people who would think that minorities are inferior and don’t deserve respect. Then they will pass on this training to their children, and the next, and the cycle will continue.

(via theoakwa)

I agree, and to add to it I believe racism has evolved into a social and mental abuse due to different forms of racial profiling and discrimination.

(via bronsonstacy16)

I agree. I think that racism will always exist, even if it is unconscious.

[trevorhansen412]

"Most white American men are the same color they were then." #racism #hatred #discrimination

“Onlookers with the burning body of Jesse Washington” -Steve Scafidi  (via trevorhansen412)

This just hows how big of a problem racism and discrimination are and how it should be stopped.

(via brittanycastrataro)

I think that racism will never be stopped. There will always be some people who would think that minorities are inferior and don’t deserve respect. Then they will pass on this training to their children, and the next, and the cycle will continue.

(via theoakwa)

I agree that racism will never be stopped. There will always be a sense of discrimination, either conscious or unconsciously in America

[taylorpugh]

"My God, I whispered. The radio said there is no god"

"No Ararat", Laurentiis

[taylorpugh]

"A dark room, a beard men with beards, who looked like I remember. I remember waking up, somewhere a dog, I remember those days, two others were there, I remember two days laughing"

"seven testimonies (redacted)", Flynn

[taylorpugh]

"They wear ball gowns & suits & rings to talk of war in neat & folded languages that will not stain their formal dinner clothes"

Arroz Poetica", Girmay

[taylorpugh]

"Don't you know the size of your library is in inverse proportion to the size of your penis?...

What you ought to do is put some of your people's streets in that L.L. Bean satchel. "

"

"Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue", Gay

[taylorpugh]

"pulling the slim chain that holds the body of Jesse Washington by the neck up into the chestnut tree"

"Onlookers with the Burning Body of Jesse Washington", Scafidi  

[taylorpugh]

"To the displaced, living in trailers along the coast, beside the highway, in vacant lots and open fields; to everyone who stayed on the Coast,

who came back—or cannot—to the Coast"

"Liturgy to the Mississippi Gulf Coast", Trethaway

[taylorpugh]

"about to buy Head and Shoulders

the white person shampoo, no one knows

who I am"

"What I am", Hayes

[taylorpugh]

Tumblr Hashtag Poem

Martin Luther King Jr. died

#discrimination 

A young black boy gets shot

#racism

A white police officer doesn't get justice

#racism

A little girl gets left out of neighborhood playing

#discrimination

Jim Crow laws in the United States

#segregation

Rosa Parks had to sit in the back of the bus

#segregation

[taylorpugh]

“we were losing our bodies—digitized salt of bytes and speed”

— Dana Levin, “Techno”