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— Hey, hippie girl, you Mexican? On both sides?
— Front & back, I say.
— You sure don’t look Mexican.

A part of me wants to kick their ass. A part of me feels sorry for their stupid ignorant selves. But if you’ve never been farther south than Nuevo Laredo, how the hell would you know what Mexicans are supposed to look like, right?

There are the green-eyed Mexicans. The rich blond Mexicans. The Mexicans w/the faces of Arab sheiks. The Jewish Mexicans. The big-footed-as-a-German Mexicans. The leftover-French Mexicans. The chaparrito compact Mexicans. The Tarahumara tall-as-a-desert-saguaro Mexicans. The Mediterranean Mexicans. The Mexicans w/Tunisian eyebrows. The negrito Mexicans of the double coasts. The Chinese Mexicans. The curly-haired, freckled-faced, red-headed Mexicans. The Lebanese Mexicans. Look, I don’t know what you’re talking about when you say I don’t look Mexican. I am Mexican. Even though I was born on the U.S. side of the border.

Sandra Cisneros “Caramelo” (via honeybrown)

(via hnknta)

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“ too many people think a couple of insults will substitute for argument “I am right,” a statement we all identify with from time to time, becomes “therefore you are stupid for disagreeing.

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Redeeming Faith: White people/atheists go through great lengths to defend Richard...

basednkrumah:

White people/atheists go through great lengths to defend Richard Dawkins blatant racism and islamophobia. New atheists have all the prejudices and all the oppressive qualities that they try to ascribe to religion. These people are clear evidence that you don’t need faith to be sexist, racist, and downright lacking logic that doesn’t serve their circle jerk.

There’s nothing drastically different in the white man’s burden of new atheists and their struggle to rid people of their belief in God(largely brown people) and the white mans burden that used Christianity as its justification.

A world full of atheists won’t rid the world of class, racism, and the worst evils of the world. Science won’t do that either. And as we’ve seen in the past 100 years the secular nation state kills millions without having to use religion to justify it.

I’m tired of Dawkins chauvinism being lauded as progressive.

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Spock: Don’t grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh… Kirk: …the needs of the few. Spock: Or the one. I never took the Kobayashi Maru test, until now. What do you think of my solution? [he kneels] I have been, and always shall be, your friend. [he places his hand on the chamber glass] Live long, and prosper.[Kirk places his hand against the glass as Spock slumps and dies] Kirk: No…

Spock: Don’t grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh…

Kirk: …the needs of the few.

Spock: Or the one. I never took the Kobayashi Maru test, until now. What do you think of my solution? [he kneels] I have been, and always shall be, your friend. [he places his hand on the chamber glass] Live long, and prosper.[Kirk places his hand against the glass as Spock slumps and dies]

Kirk: No…

“ Afrofuturists are a group of people of the African Diaspora whose philosophy is postmodern; yet, their viewpoint is of Afrofuturism which is described as: “a way of looking at the world; it’s a sort of canopy for looking at Black diasporic artistic production. It’s even an epistemology that is really about thinking about the future, thinking about the subject position of Black people and how that’s both alienating and about alienation and because the alien becomes to figure quite centrally in Afrofuturism—the outsider figure. It’s also about aspirations in majornity and having a place in majornity and it’s about speculation and utopia. Part of why it’s Afrofuturism in particular is that part of resilience in Black culture and Black life is about imagining the impossible, imagining a better place, a different world

Alondra Nelson, 2010 (via wakeupblackpower)

(via afrofuturistaffair)

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“ In Arabic, the word for travelling is safar and from the same Arabic root you get the word sifr, meaning an old-fashioned volume of a book or a scroll. The reason they come from the same root is because when you travel, you are unrolling the world beneath your feet.

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₮GÄ: I was too young to follow the early part of Michael Jordan’s career,...

I was too young to follow the early part of Michael Jordan’s career, and as I got older I wished more and more that I could have seen him play while he was still young and trying to find his place in the league. When LeBron started to gain notoriety in high school, I quickly became obsessed and watched every second of him that I could. That being said, I am fully aware and very appreciative of what he has been able to accomplish and what he could still potentially accomplish in the future. So now, after seeing him win his first championship, have one of the best collective years of basketball by anyone ever, and now be apart of one of the longest winning streaks in the league’s history, I feel like I’m the only one who isn’t blown away by all of this. It’s not that I don’t care about what he’s doing, I’m just not surprised in the least. LeBron, in my eyes, has always been capable of this kind of thing. It’s never been a matter of if he could accomplish these things but rather when, and it’s important to realize that what we are seeing is something rarely seen before in any sport, an athlete who is far and away stronger, faster, and more skilled than anyone their size ever. Imagine Bo Jackson if he hadn’t suffered a career ending injury, a living legend with a skill set even greater than the legend surrounding him. Regardless of your feelings for the man, as a fan of the game of basketball it is necessary to take a moment and realize that what you’re seeing LeBron James do now is going to be remembered long after you and I are gone.

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“ The biggest mistake you can make in fashion is imitation. If we keep on like this, fashion will die. There was a time when I used to fall in love on the street every day. I would see someone with such a way about them or such a flawless item that I would have to say, “Stop! Please! That’s perfect.” That never happens anymore. Everything is too similar. Soon it will be only a T-shirt and jeans.

Yohji Yamamoto (via howtodresswell)

(Source: werrottende, via youarewhatisme)

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logicallypositive:

the internet is useful no doubt but like you also can’t ignore the fact that it creates social isolation and effectively individuates the spectacle and whereas before spectacle required at least a mass gathering (like in a movie theater) of people in the same physical location, now the separation occurs through actually concrete, spatial separations (every internet user in their own location) and so if anything its like a passivity amplifier on steroids

(Source: rigatonideology)