tom hanks
kaysha / 17 / feminism / \m/
[salsa dances away from your shitty opinion]
I.
it’s not you. it’s me. it’s me, and i’m sorry.
5.9.13i’m horny but i’m not
in the mood to pretend
i like myself enough
to get naked in front
of you.
Credit goes to one Jason Taylor for this post on Facebook
Internet rumors have prompted new research into the origins of the Statue of Liberty, American’s 151-foot-tall monument to freedom erected in New York Harbor in 1886.
The traditional view, as taught to American schoolchildren for the past hundred years, holds that Lady Liberty was created to commemorate the friendship forged between the United States and France during the Revolutionary War. By 1903, when the statue was inscribed with Emma Lazarus’s poetic words, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” it had come to symbolize America’s status as a safe haven for refugees and immigrants from every corner of the world.
The rumors, which have circulated in various forms and served as the direct inspiration for National Park Service anthropologist Rebecca Joseph’s decision to revisit the Statue of Liberty’s past, tell quite a different story:
A History Lesson
It is hard to believe that after my many years of schooling secondary and post) the following facts about the Statue of Liberty was never taught. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of people including myself have visited the Statue of Liberty over the years but yet I’m unable to find one person who knows the true history behind the Statue- amazing. Yes,amazing that so much important Black history (such as this) is hidden from us (Black and White). What makes this even worse is the fact that the current twist on history perpetuates and promotes white supremacy at the expense of Black Pride.
During my visit to France I saw the original Statue of Liberty. However there was a difference, the statue in France is Black. The Statue of Liberty was originally a Black woman, but, as memory serves, it was because the model was Black.
In a book called “The Journey of The Songhai People”, according to Dr. Jim Haskins, a member of the National Education Advisory Committee of the Liberty-Ellis Island Committee,professor of English at the University of Florida, and prolific Black author, points out that what stimulated the original idea for that 151 foot statue in the harbor.
He says that what stimulated the idea for the creation of the statue initially was the part that Black soldiers played in the ending of Black African Bondage in the United States. It was created in the mind of the French historian Edourd de Laboulaye, chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society, who, together with sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi,proposed to the French government that the people of France present to the people of the United States through the American Abolitionist Society, the gift of a Statue of Liberty in recognition of the fact that Black soldiers won the Civil War in the United States.
It was widely known then that it was Black soldiers who played the pivotal role in winning the war, and this gift would be a tribute to their prowess. Suzanne Nakasian, director of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island Foundations’ National Ethnic Campaign said that the Black Americans’ direct connection to Lady Liberty is unknown to the majority of Americans,BLACK or WHITE.
When the statue was presented to the U.S. Minister to France in 1884, it is said that he remonstrated that the dominant view of the broken hackles would be offensive to a U.S. South, because since the statue was a reminder of Blacks winning their freedom. It was a reminder to a beaten South of the ones who caused their defeat, their despised former captives.
Documents of Proof:
1.) You may go and see the original model of the Statue of Liberty, with the broken chains at her feet and in her left hand. Go to the Museum of the City of NY, Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street write to Peter Simmons and he can send you some documentation.
2.) Check with the N.Y. Times magazine, part II_May 18, 1986. Read the article by Laboulaye.
3.) The dark original face of the Statue of Liberty can be seen in the N.Y. Post, June 17, 1986, also the Post stated the reason for the broken chains at her feet.
4.) Finally, you may check with the French Mission or the French Embassy at the U.N. or in Washington, D.C. and ask for some original French material on the Statue of Liberty, including the Bartholdi original model.
You can call in September (202) 944-6060 or 6400. Please pass this information along!Oh my god! Im not American but this shocks me. How can this not be known? & why does it not have many reblogs?
SNope
Chelsea Fagan, Some Thoughts on Tumblr
It’s simply a fact that the self-deprecating posts, the ones that glorify depression/mental illness, the ones that revel in the poster’s inability to succeed or progress or attain some nebulous idea of “adulthood,” the ones that go so far as to edge on the outer boundaries of self-hate — these are the ones that are most popular. They fit into a kind of overarching theme of warped, exaggerated, likely insincere humility. “We are all terrible,” [the theme] seems to say, “but at least it means we don’t think we’re better than anyone else.” Rarely do people say, “Maybe there is something that I can change, maybe this has something to do with me, maybe there are ways to make things better.” It’s so much easier to engage in half-hearted acts of self-mockery or complain about all of the things happening in your life than it is to engage in serious moments of introspection to decide the tangible things you can do on a daily basis to improve your station in life, and the station of those around you.
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One thing that is very important to me right now is personal responsibility. I am twenty-four and in the early stages of a life [that consists] of financial independence, career development, travel, and relationships. But only if I am willing to work for and cultivate them every day. I often think of myself at twenty-one, completely rudderless and in self-imposed debt of all kinds, getting arrested for something as idiotic as driving on a suspended license, too embarrassed of my life and wasted potential to really tell anyone about myself, spending months taking buses for almost two hours a day to get to a terrible job. I never want to be that person again.
But what was most significant about that person was that she never took responsibility. She never acknowledged her role in things. She was always eager to pointlessly self-deprecate, [to] say she was incapable of being better, [to] blame everyone around her for her own failures. I find it profoundly depressing that so many intelligent, capable, attractive, inspiring young people write as though they were the younger me,.
We are all capable of so much, and can take so much of our life in our own hands. There is so much about ourselves to love, and embrace, and be proud of — there is no reason to feign insecurity or shift responsibility to the people who will never be anything but indifferent to your success. I recommend that everyone find and follow people who are positive, and challenging themselves, and demanding of the world around them. Because we might find it temporarily satisfying to see someone else complain about their own lives, but it only prevents us from remembering how much we are capable of doing with our own.
Maison Martin Margiela, 1999
Art in the Anchorage 16:
exposing meaning in fashion through presentation
Meanwhile other presenters offered less sensational material. Maison Martin Margiela displayed 18 previous designs—dipped and treated with mold, bacteria, or yeast—set parallel on headless mannequins. Spotlighted in the cavernous space at the Anchorage, the installation recalled a uniquely sited museum-like archeological display. One of the effects of the piece was to raise questions about the choices societies make when preserving and valuing visual culture.
Time uses a picture of a young woman taking a selfie to demonstrate how fucked up our generation is
Why not use a picture of a 50 year old white male banker masturbating with mortgage papers into the mouth of a senator
will reblog this everytime i see it on my dash
1 star review for the book: Possessive Investment In Whiteness
oh my godBrief synopsis: This amazing book explains how white identity is based on a series of state-sanctioned laws and social processes that facilitate the accumulation of wealth, property, and benefits by the white middle class. It provides the material basis for white privilege and identity.
1) In a world where legislated racial discrimination against whites ( particularly white males) exists in the South Africa and Zimbabwe, where white people do not have equal rights to employment, opportunity, advancement, or even to own property - we are expected to buy into the existance of this fantasy realm of “white privilege” the author wishes to portray. As if this were still the 19th century. Sadly, as anyone who is not incredibly sheltered and naïve should know, the 21st century has been characterised by non-white privilege even in so-called white countries. I can’t believe how foolish and naïve most of the other reviews are - this book is dangerous as it distracts from the emerging reality of global black nationalism and white disadvantage.
How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment - NYTimes.com
“…despite complaints about “reverse discrimination,” my research demonstrated that the real complaint is that affirmative action undermines long-established patterns of favoritism.”
(via sociolab)
IDK how to explain to whites, men, etc that ‘privilege’ means an unbalanced advantage. When you are making the playing field more balanced and taking away that headstart, you cant be complaining!!
(via le-kif-kif)