March 2012
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“Jackie Lee played a helluva tournament, as I can attest to from getting to sit...”
– Patrick Chapin, Starcitygames.com
Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972
Interviewer: a year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela davis: the black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: no but tell me.
Angela davis: first of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: but the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela davis: oh, is that the question you were asking? yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… when I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, form the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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“Who is not conscious? That’s dumb shit! That’s like Neo Soul. What is Neo my...”
– Ab-Soul, in an interview with the Fader
1. i forgot to mention that ab-soul was at the show last week and it was his birthday and we sang to him (i think? am i imagining that? DRUGS, YALL) and he is really the dude who makes “druggys with hoes again” the proto-banger that it is
2. this. this this...
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Dramatic Irony, it'll fuck you every time.
-stranger than fiction
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becoming-wave:
People who refer to my neighbourhood as “sketchy” really grind my nerves.
I have *never* felt threatened here. No one has ever bothered me. I live right next door to a halfway house, and yes, shirtless ranting dude who pees out his window is kind of irritating, but sketchy is a whole nother story.
Sketchy is a code word for fearing the poor, the mentally ill and all them brown...
Reblog if you want anonymous opinions about you.
cornhair:
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MTV has named Danny Brown one of their Sucka Free Certified artists. A group of new artists they will be supporting in the coming year.
Our next trick will be to make Snookie squirt like a dolphin.
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“I’m against very wealthy people attempting to or influencing elections. But as...”
– Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire who, with his wife, has donated $11 million to a pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC. (via officialssay)
“The Porto Ricans (sic) are the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish...”
– Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads
This is an actual quote from a personal letter.
Dr. Rhodes deliberately injected cancer cells into unknowing patients, which resulted in the deaths of at least 13 people. For his achievements Dr. Rhoads was featured on the cover of Time Magazine June 27, 1949.
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basednigel:
scrambing/running/etc. quarterbacks are all lame euphemisms for “black and dumb” cmon ESPN
Relevant, but tebow is the exception…
“well that is that, and this is this.
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My 11th place deck. 636 person tournament. $100. →
if you play urban oriented club music ironically...
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My 11th place deck. 636 person tournament. $100. →
6-0 at scg cincy
Two on camera matches.
Video coverage on starcitygames.com
Me playing magic on camera
walt wakes up
walt: I wonder what sort of day this will be
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lionza:
for me, rape jokes reveal two major things about a person’s character: that they think other people’s trauma is funny and that personal sexual boundaries are of little to no consequence. so when a person tells a rape joke they not only show how fucking scummy their character is, but that even if…
Bias and the death penalty →
As a part of the criminal justice system, death penalty sentencing is also biased. While there are persistent difficulties with finding data related to bias, partly due to the nature of bias and insufficient data collection, there are studies and cases that point to the nearly arbitrary nature of sentencing.
One relevant study, “The Impact of Legally Inappropriate Factors on Death Sentencing...
