Alex
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they used slaves for spare body parts.
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Exploitation of Black bodies assure white people can eat. Literally.
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Teju Cole (via semperes)
I remember when I had to explain to someone that Africa had roads. -_____-
what do they even teach in World Geography these days? everything else other than The Americas, Europe and China is a wasteland? I honestly think so.
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a-giant-slide-or-a-trampoline:
To Everyone Who Is Supporting Obama Because He “Supports” Their Views on Gay Marriage, Abortion, Feminism, Or Other Social Issues,
Are these issues really the biggest thing you should be focusing your vote on as taxes skyrocket, our debt goes through the roof, our economy crumbles, our Medicare system fails, our credit score hurts, and jobs become a dying breed? As Obama promises to make your social dreams about “equality” true, consider this: All the promises he made about “change” and fixing our country four years ago…. has he made good on those promises? Are you wasting your vote on someone who is proven to do anything but change, and leading us into a bigger abyss that is greater than any social issue, an abyss of destruction and ruin for our great nation?
Just something to consider.
Sincerely,
A 17 year old female Conservative who supports gay marriage, is not a heavy handed Bible thumper, and sees The Bigger Picture.
- Under Barack Obama, taxes have hit a 30-year low. Mitt Romney’s tax plan, on the other hand, is expected to raise taxes on middle and lower income voters. The only people who will experience tax cuts under Romney are those with high incomes.
- Did you know that 3/4 of Obama’s deficits are due to tax breaks? Fun fact, when people rage about skyrocketing tax rates. Notably, Romney’s tax plan isn’t expected to reduce deficits, either. For realzies.
- The economy is actually improving. It’s not perfect, but it’s also not crumbling. It’s certainly not an abyss of destruction. Good grief.
- Romney’s plan to repeal the $716 billion in savings achieved by cutting reimbursements to hospitals and insurance companies will actually hasten Medicare’s insolvency by 8 years and increase Medicare co-pays and premiums by over $300 a year for the next 10 years. Let’s not even get started on the plan to turn Medicare into a voucher system for private insurance. All the way around, Romney and Ryan’s plan for Medicare is horrific and will drive up costs on seniors present and future.
- The S&P downgrade was the result of political gridlock and the inability of Congress and Obama to produce legislation that shows significant steps toward reducing the public debt burden. Notably, Romney hasn’t really put forward any plans that resolve the latter issue, either, and if the political gridlock resolves, it’s because the GOP is no longer grandstanding and absolutely refusing to work with Democrats at all on anything.
- Instead of blaming Obama for lack of jobs recovery, maybe we should talk about the fact that Senate Republicans have blocked 19 pieces of job legislation in the last 2 years. And looking at Romney and Obama’s plans for jobs, it’s unlikely that Romney’s jobs plan will produce many or any jobs in the short-term. Obama has been talking about hiring back the 300,000 educators who have lost their jobs in the last 3 years thanks to budget cuts and austerity programs. Considering that loss of public sector jobs is a significant contributing factor in the unemployment rate, it’s worth revisiting how austerity programs actually hurt the economy more than they help. And we could learn a lot from Britain’s experience with austerity measures and a double-dip recession.
The fact that Obama supports equal access to marriage and the social and legal benefits it confers on people, respects women’s bodily autonomy and ability to make private medical decisions without the government’s interference, and women’s right to equal pay is really beside the point. Romney won’t balance the budget, won’t save the economy, won’t improve Medicare or reduce costs for its beneficiaries, and won’t create jobs.
Sincerely,
A grown ass woman who knows how to fact checkSocial issues ARE the big picture when they effect you. It’s easy to brush them off when they don’t, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t really fucking important.
Anyone that says to anyone else don’t worry about not getting your rights right now, wait on that or don’t worry about your rights being eroded, we’ll fix that later is someone I would say is the one who doesn’t have their priorities in order. These ARE serious fucking issues and you can’t keep telling others to wait for a later that’ll never come while you got yours.
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After a recent Romney rally, a woman in the crowd said this to a radio news reporter: “I will not help those people.” She was referring to “welfare” recipients, who, according to Mr. Romney, would no longer be required to work or to look for work to qualify for these public benefits. She uttered the words “those people” with the absolute certainty that she or anyone she cares about would never be one of them. As a social scientist who studies issues directly related to race, I know that in the context of implicit racial bias, she is most likely referring to African Americans, the “racialized other” in her mind, and this is precisely what Mr. Romney and his tea party cohorts want her to do.
Every reputable fact checker, including the New York Times, has said that Romney’s campaign ad about the President’s welfare reform is either grossly distorted or an out-and-out lie. And yet, just yesterday, this ad was aired four times within sixty minutes on one of my local television stations. Romney and his people are keenly aware of the racialized mythology about who gets welfare and why (most welfare recipients are not Black). Heightened reaction to this myth channels cognition away from more fundamental issues like who will pay for tax breaks for the wealthy or who rode shotgun over the bankers who are responsible for the subprime lending crisis or who is sending American jobs overseas to increase profit, shareholder dividends and executive bonuses.
Did Romney play the race card? Yes he did, and he is likely to do it again and again as the election approaches.
” —Todd Rudd, “Did Romney Play The Race Card?,” Race-Talk 8/24/12 (via racialicious)I had my father get sick when I was 22. And I was poor, alright. And my father had an ulcer, and it exploded and you know all these toxins get in your blood. And basically, my father died, whatever, 50 days after his ulcer. So I had a father get sick while I was poor.
My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know… I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘Was I in the right place?’ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man.
People don’t… if the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this motherfucker down!”
” —Chris Rock [video]
Bringing this back, because some people don’t seem to understand that there is a discrepancy in the quality of care among poor, middle-class, and wealthy people, NO MATTER HOW DEBILITATING THEIR RESPECTIVE DISEASES MAY BE.
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Forever reblog.
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Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
I adore sonofbaldwin.
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Sister Joan Chittister, Catholic Nun (via timehasflewn)
holy shit i love this quote
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Paul Ryan (via achans)
Yes. And the leader who failed me was George W. Bush. Lest we forget the president who was at the helm when the economy was driven into the fucking ground. Am I the only one with a memory that goes back further than the last campaign speech I listened to?
Although while we’re talking about people in their 20s, what exactly do Romney and Ryan propose to do about all the 20-somethings out there who have been royally fucked by the recession? Repeal Obamacare, so we no longer have health insurance? Absolutely fucking nothing about the astronomical cost of a college education or the staggering debt people of my generation have taken on to pay for it except cut Pell Grants so it’s even harder for people to pay for school? Cut taxes on the wealthy so they can give themselves pay raises and bonuses, lay off workers, cut pay and benefits, or go offshore when they need to force the appearance of a profit, hide their money in overseas tax shelters, and otherwise horde their wealth because in 30 years, I’ve seen no evidence that tax breaks for the wealthy trickle down…except maybe to their kids? I’m all ears, GOP. What, exactly, are you going to do for us, other than point the finger at the dude who didn’t cause this fucking problem?
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