Hawaii has the highest rate of homelessness per-capita of any state in the nation
Hawaii Declares State of Emergency Homelessness | Al Jazeera America
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What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Hawaii has the highest rate of homelessness per-capita of any state in the nation
Hawaii Declares State of Emergency Homelessness | Al Jazeera America
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The candidates have been preparing for weeks for the first Democratic debate — and they delivered.
7 memorable Democratic debate moments – CNNPolitics.com
On the subject of #5…
Bernie’s response to the question about whether #BlackLivesMatter or #AllLivesMatter was well answered and an important contrast. It is also a contrast to the G.O.P. but the most important contrast his answer struck was the one between that answer and his previous comments in regard to that particular questions. Let’s not rewrite history, folks.
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MTV News spoke to Robert McCaw, Department Manager of Government Affairs at CAIR, about a controversial new bill proposed in Tennessee that some say is Islamophobic.
Is This New Bill Trying To Stop Tennessee Schools From Teaching About Islam? – MTV
Hmmmm…..
We should ban religious indoctrination in all public schools. No, seriously. We should. No more teaching from a religious bias! Teach the reality and science of climate change instead! Factual information on reproductive health and sex for young people. No more diverting women away from STEM classes because it won’t fit their “future role.” Textbooks and lessons that are 100% honest about our country’s treatment of native peoples and African-Americans before and after slavery. Equal access to information for all!
Taking religion out of it sounds pretty good. I’m guessing that that is not what the good rep has in mind though.
Black women are much more likely to get the wrong treatment for their breast cancer, new research shows.
Black Women More Likely to Get Wrong Breast Cancer Care, Study Confirms – NBC News
This pisses me off so much!!!!!!!!!!!!
Researchers provide the most detailed look yet at why minority women tend to fare worse with breast cancer
=What Race Has to Do With Breast Cancer | TIME
Why the fuck are all of those feminists who want to talk so much about race and what it has to do with feminism not bringing up shit like this? Oh, that’s right because it might actually have an impact on the lives of women. Assholes.
Jerusalem’s mayor calls for Arab neighborhoods to be cordoned.
Palestinians kill 3 Israelis as violence mounts in ‘day of rage’
Um, wait a second, isn’t restricting the movements of Palestinians what started this? So the mayor wants to increase resentment and the ensuing violence? Is it a prerequisite for Israeli politicians to be short-sighted bigots?
But here’s the thing: Sanders has stuck to his script about economic inequality and wealth hoarding in a campaign waged in the wake of a series of rather high-profile deaths of young, unarmed black men. So, for most black voters, the limited value of economic and even history-making political gains in the person of President Obama has never been more clear. Unless some kind of national attention is paid to what is currently a more pressing and existential issue for many African Americans, other gains seem tenuous at best. One cannot vote or grow a bank account if one is dead.
Bernie Sanders’s big black voter problem – The Washington Post
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Dear Author,
I too roll my eyes when I see an article entitled, “Dear White Feminists,” but apparently not for the same reasons as your preachy ass. I don’t roll my eyes because I don’t like to talk about race. Heck, for a white person, I am probably a little too comfortable talking about race for most people’s comfort.
I roll my eyes because feminist never speak in the “we” anymore. They talk in terms of “you.” …And “you” better sign onto their exceedingly better than yours version of being a progressive, a feminist, and a right thinking human being.
You want to know what is wrong with feminists of a particular ethnicity? Ask feminists of another ethnicity. It is both infuriating and disgusting to see yet another article that is all about holier-than-thou preachy division, but please go on. Please, I’m dying to read your detailed and whiny explanations of why you are a better feminist and just generally a better person than I am. Please force feed me your mass generalizations and stereotypes and please, please, please base all of them on a overly simplistic view of race.
Because like you, I am also a 2 year old and I have no empathy for others, no over-riding belief in justice for all, no ability to see or discern subtlety, and absolutely zero awareness of the world outside my tiny little bubble of self congratulation. In fact nothing gives me a righteous sense of self-satisfaction like reading about how another white person stopped being an asshole. Well, except for reading about how, because I am white, I must be as ignorant and obnoxious as the author was before they had this trope enlightenment.
Just because you were a self-absorbed ignorant little cunt-rag at one point in your life doesn’t mean everyone of a similar ethnic background is.
Stop disguising white privilege lectures as feminism and start talking about the shared and nuanced condition of women in our society and in the world as a whole or sit down, put a fucking cork in your bullshit, and shut the fuck up.
Feminism is an actual topic outside how one checks one’s own white privilege. You want to write about race? Fine. Write about race. You want to write about how race impacts the goals of feminism, then actually write about that. I’m all ears. Until then, just admit that you’d prefer to assuage your white guilt by writing bullshit that accomplishes zilch. We are all so fucking proud of you for learning how to tie your shoes, cross the street, and realize that you -as a white person- have many advantages that you shouldn’t assume others possess. Good for fucking you.
You’re not helping, you’re not uniting, you’re not even saying anything new or profound. Step away from the obvious, stop confusing basic human consideration and manners with feminism, and find a another way to sabotage and divert the cause you trite, myopic little girl.
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The group behind the undercover Planned Parenthood videos intends to make abortion illegal, full stop
Planned Parenthood Is Not Harvesting ‘Baby Parts’ | Rolling Stone
No shit and no shit.
So long angel in the centerfold. The magazine says it’s nude images are “passe” when every teenager has access to an Internet rife with pornography.
Playboy Will No Longer Publish Nude Photos: Report – NBC News
Wild. End of an era. At least they will still have articles. (Yes, they do have articles.) I always wanted to be on this list….
Good intentions and deep sympathies cannot counter corrosive doctrines and destructive policy.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Responsibility for Mass Incarceration – The Atlantic
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A Wisconsin mother, imprisoned to protect her fetus, fought back in federal court—and won the first round.
The High Stakes of Wisconsin’s Fetal-Protection Law – The Atlantic
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This woman is doing amazing things for diversity in fashion.
Meet Mariah Idrissi, hijabi fashion model for H&M | Fusion
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The best way to deal with memories is to change them.
This Woman Came Up With The Perfect Way To Hide Your Ex In Facebook Photos
heh
The measure goes into effect, Jan. 1, 2017; it affects four schools still using the “R-word.” They will be allowed to phase out materials such as uniforms because of cost concerns.
Now, this I agree with. Public funds should not be used to celebrate bigotry.
MILFORD — Some parents of children in Milford’s public schools are outraged that the annual Halloween costume parades at the city’s elementary schools have been canceled this year.
Source: Milford Parents Object To End Of School Halloween Parades – Hartford Courant
Somewhere, sometime, cultural sensitivity started to equal stamping out culture. In order to be sensitive to a few the obvious route is to be insensitive to all? WTF? This is not progress people, this is bullshit.
President says of rapper’s 2020 campaign, “Do you really think that this country is going to elect a black guy from the South Side of Chicago with a funny name to be president?”
Watch Barack Obama Give Kanye West Political Advice | Rolling Stone
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Meryl Streep stars as Emmeline Pankhurst in the new film ‘Suffragette’. Here she talks feminism, Hollywood sexism and window-smashing, wearing a t-shirt with a famous line from her character.
Meryl Streep talks ‘Suffragette’, feminism and family
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Feminist protesters lie down on red carpet at premiere of Suffragette – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Nothing like women supporting other women…
Or is that people missing the point?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
‘I’d rather be a rebel than a slave’ is a quote from Emmeline Pankhurst, played by Streep in a new film, but for some the phrase evokes unfortunate associations
Meryl Streep and co-stars attract backlash over Suffragette T-shirt slogan | Film | The Guardian
Let’s just label the experience of white women, in other countries (!!!!) as a trigger warning and be done with it.
Because being divided by race is the goal here, right??????
The cast of upcoming feminist film ‘Suffragette’ is receiving major backlash after posing in t-shirts that many feel are racially tone deaf.
Mmmhmmm.