I’m SO sick of seeing photos and articles about the media bias surrounding the murder of Trayvon Martin. I don’t care about whether Zimmerman looks like a nice guy, or whether Martin looks more mature and capable of defending himself. I care about what happened, and that was somebody actively pursuing and murdering an unarmed teenager. This is an INARGUABLY reprehensible action, so please don’t try to portray a murderer as more sympathetic simply because he’s more clean-cut and wearing a suit.
End rant.
Inland Empire
Just when I thought David Lynch’s movies couldn’t get any stranger…
This is a picture of my best friend and her boyfriend. Normal concert photo, right? Well, look closer in the back where the red circle is. Can you see the face?
This isn’t just some normal chain letter. My friend and her boyfriend died 3 nights after this picture was taken, the police having no idea how they died considering they were both 15 and perfectly healthy.
It turns out a boy died at that venue a few years ago at a concert. He was in the mosh pit and he hit his head and then a few nights later he was found dead in his bedroom from his skull broken and slowly bleeding to death.
If you don’t reblog this within an hour, you’ll hear faint music playing for 3 nights straight. On the 4th night, the boy will come from your closet while you’re getting ready for bed and kill you for not helping us put his soul at rest.
This is not fake. 3 people have already died from not passing this on.
OH MY F’CKING GOD.
Im crying holy fuck
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
im such a pussy lol
im not taking a chance .
Sorry but I don’t wanna die
OMG. ;___;
sorry guys, i don’t take any chances
I’m sorry guys. not taking chances ahkjfg.^^^^
I’m such a pussy. Not taking any chances sorry followers D;
Aghh, hate this kinda stuff. :n
damn whoever created this shit
Sorry to all my followers, I get scared easily..
not talking any chances omg
asdfghjkl . OHMYGOD ;___;
hell to the fucking no ! .__.
I’m sorry.
Sorry…
lol.
holy shit. It’s too fuckin late to be taking chances like this..
This is such bullshit, but it’s scaring me. So I’m going to do it anyway.
…..i don’t see a face
DA FUQ? I’m pretty sure what I heard were my neighbors bells but…FUCK THIS POST.
I’m pretty sure that’s the glare of too soda cans that someone’s holding. But that’s just me.
(Source: fycso)
See this man? This is Arthur Dent.
He’s been threatened to have his house torn down, his best friend was secretly an alien from a planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, his crush ran off with the president of the galaxy, and his home planet was destroyed.
Now he travels through space with his friends and a depressed robot.
He can see any part of the universe he wants.
But what he really wants is a decent cup of tea.
All Arthur wants is a nice cup of tea, but he can’t get one.
Reblog if you cried, reblog so Arthur might have a chance to get a decent cup of tea.
If you scroll past this, you don’t have a heart.
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never entered. It offended her teachers so much that, after harassment from teachers and school administrators at School #3, Miss Williams was forced to leave the school.We at the Frederick Douglass Foundation honored her because her essay actually demonstrates that she understood the autobiography, even though it might seem a bit esoteric to most 13-year olds. In her essay, she quotes part of the scene where Douglass’ slave master catches his wife teaching then slave Frederick to read. During a speech about how he would be useless as a slave if he were able to read, Mr. Auld, the slave master, castigated his wife.Miss Williams quoted Douglass quoting Mr. Auld: “If you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there will be no keeping him. It will forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master.”Miss Williams personalized this to her own situation. She reflected on how the “white teachers” do not have enough control of the classroom to successfully teach the minority students in Rochester. While she herself is more literate than most, due to her own perseverance and diligence, she sees the fact that so many of the other “so-called ‘unteachable’” students aren’t learning to read as a form of modern-day slavery. Their illiteracy holds them back in society.Her call to action was then in her summary: “A grand price was paid in order for us to be where we are today; but in my mind we should be a lot further, so again I encourage the white teachers to instruct and I encourage my people to not just be a student, but become a learner.”This offended her English teacher so much…”Being a Rochester native and somebody who hates racism, I gotta signal boost this. Independent, progressive thinking on the issue of race is being squelched because it makes white teachers and administrators uncomfortable. In 2012 that’s happening. That shit’s got to go, end of discussion.
Absolutely shameful. Please spread the word about this gross injustice
School House Alert: The Vanishing Civil Rights Movement
It’s one of the most significant series of events in U.S. history. But when it comes to teaching the Civil Rights Movement in classrooms, most states fail miserably. This is the conclusion of a recently released Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) study, Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education in the United States 2011.
Among the results found by the group: 35 states received a failing grade, and of those, 16 were found to have no requirements for teaching civil rights history. Only Alabama, New York, and Florida received an A. “For too many students, civil rights education boils down to two people and four words: Rose Parks, Dr. King and ‘I have a dream’…” says Maureen Costello, the direct of SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance. “By having weak or nonexistent standards for history, particularly for the Civil Rights Movement, [states] are saying loud and clear that it isn’t something students should learn.”
In a good civil rights curriculum, elementary school focus should be on developing a student’s racial appreciation and pride. Middle grades should delve into the Civil Rights Movement as a fight for equality and social justice, while high schools should take what has been learned about Black history and apply it to present-day conditions, including discussions about such topics as continued health disparities and the persistent education achievement gap.
How does your state measure up? Search for Civil Rights Education at Splcenter.org.
[Other sources: Ebony magazine]
I guess, living in New York my whole life, I always took my knowledge about the Civil Rights movement for granted. Every year in elementary school, we learned about it. Strange to think that so many people my age have little to no understanding of one of the most important eras in American history..
(Source: isitscary)
