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Thu, 09 May 2013 16:15:57 -0400

thetailoredgentleman: In order to be an educated tailored...

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:44:26 -0400

In order to be an educated tailored gentleman, one must specialize and take pride in being able to properly name articles of clothing, and in this case, hats. Here are some of the most popular hats throughout gentleman history. Be able to distinguish a Pork Pie from a Campaign hat and you’re one step closer to being a tailored gentleman. TTG

inothernews: NOT JUST FOR METEORS Here’s a compilation of...

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:07:54 -0400

inothernews:

NOT JUST FOR METEORS Here’s a compilation of random acts of kindness captured by Russian dashboard cameras. We already know the world is full of good people. It just helps to see it sometimes. (via Mashable)

"If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:10:03 -0400

“If you want to awaken all of humanity,
then awaken all of yourself.”

- Lao Tzu (via lazyyogi)

Outrage As Rep. Gohmert Says Radical Islamists Being Trained To Act Hispanic

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:08:47 -0400

nbclatino:

In the wake of tragedy at the Boston marathon finish line, fear and a rush to classify the nature of the attack have been rampant. But one Texas Republican’s comments have led to outrage and head-scratching after he said that in the wake of the bombing, Americans must remember that radical Islamists are training to “act like Hispanic.”

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knowledge equals black power: E.D. Nixon

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:02:16 -0400

knowledge equals black power: E.D. Nixon:

blackhistoryeveryday:

Everyone knows who Rosa Parks was, but Parks didn’t act alone when she sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. Here’s another key figure.

Edgar Daniel Nixon was born in 1899 in rural Alabama and grew up in Montgomery. For much of his life he worked as a Pullman car…

blackfashion: Jerijah West, 24 (NYC) westampersand.tumblr.com

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:25:14 -0400

blackfashion:

Jerijah West, 24 (NYC)

westampersand.tumblr.com

latenightjimmy: Jimmy and Bill Cosby danced their way into the...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:05:38 -0400

latenightjimmy:

Jimmy and Bill Cosby danced their way into the interview last night

native-detroiter: oliveseraphim: klo-g: bad-dominicana: maria...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:05:25 -0400

native-detroiter:

oliveseraphim:

klo-g:

bad-dominicana:

mariavontraphouse:

deliciouskaek:

velved:

Grillz by Christian Ferretti for Interview Magazine April 2013

yo, fuck Christian Ferretti

wasn’t this considered “ghetto” “tasteless” and “low class” just a season ago? but put it in some white mouths and suddenly it’s fashion?

fuck, we can’t have SHIT

can’t have not a damn thing

Are these things suppose to be grillz?

Like

Look like they had shitty bracelets in their mouf

and they couldnt even do em right. smmfh

About the bolded

I’m pretty sure it’s more like some white dude saw it on a rapper and thought “I’ll be a good fan if I wear those/People will think I’m cool like him”. It’s misguided, but right now (us) white people are obsessed with gold because of Rocky, Kanye and so forth …

I think it’s really inappropriate to dismiss the personal lived experience of PoC like that. There is a LONG history of African American culture being either ridiculed or appropriated by white people in the U.S. and it’s not a form of admiration (that’s an excuse people use for cultural appropriation) it’s yet another way white supremacy forces whiteness upon people of colour; by stripping them of their identities and culture. It’s no accident; it’s racism.

I really need people to stop acting like this is just an isolated incident and it hasn’t happened before (and continues to happen).

nativeamericannews: Why Native American Art Doesn’t Belong in...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:05:04 -0400

nativeamericannews:

Why Native American Art Doesn’t Belong in the American Museum of Natural History

Natural history museums—they are all over the US and abroad too. They house amazing dinosaur fossils, exotic hissing cockroaches, and wondrous planetariums—right next to priceless human-designed art and artifacts created by Native peoples of the Americas.

Read full article here…

Orpheus loves Eurydice. Everyone knows that.

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:04:49 -0400

Orpheus loves Eurydice. Everyone knows that.

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awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Eddie Murphy, Sidney Poitier,...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:04:18 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Eddie Murphy, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, and Richard Pryor

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: The Dalai Lama and Mr. Rogers

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:03:57 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

The Dalai Lama and Mr. Rogers

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Harry Belafonte and Martin...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:03:45 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King Jr.

mokujinn: “Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.” ― Malcolm...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:11:38 -0400

mokujinn:

“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.” ― Malcolm X

"The other question everybody asks is, why doesn’t she just leave? Why didn’t I walk out? I could..."

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:55:30 -0400

“The other question everybody asks is, why doesn’t she just leave? Why didn’t I walk out? I could have left any time. To me, this is the saddest and most painful question that people ask, because we victims know something you usually don’t: It’s incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser. Because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is kill her. Over 70 percent of domestic violence murders happen after the victim has ended the relationship, after she’s gotten out, because then the abuser has nothing left to lose. Other outcomes include long-term stalking, even after the abuser remarries; denial of financial resources; and manipulation of the family court system to terrify the victim and her children, who are regularly forced by family court judges to spend unsupervised time with the man who beat their mother. And still we ask, why doesn’t she just leave?”

- “Why domestic violence victims don’t leave” - Leslie Morgan Steiner (via eaaao)

Read the comments on almost any story about a woman who was attacked/killed by partner, and I 100% guarantee you will see one that implies that the victim is at fault for not leaving or not leaving sooner. DON’T BLAME THE VICTIM.

(via stfuconservatives)

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knowledgeequalsblackpower: siddharthasmama: notesonascandal: r...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:35:38 -0400

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

siddharthasmama:

notesonascandal:

roropcoldchain:

sagittariusthoughts:

Dear White Girls who Like/Date Black men,

That does not give you a license to use the word NIGGA. And for those clown ass dudes that think its cute, you can HAVE them.

Sincerely,

The Black Community

All of them can have each other.

A WHITE WOMAN CAN HAVE YO’ ASS!

you just can’t make this shit up…

Forreal though? Like, do you understand that people White and Black lost their lives over this phrase? And you think it’s cute and funny or something?

Wtf is wrong with you?

bad-dominicana: wi—nk: Boys of the Shan undergo the ritual...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:35:07 -0400

bad-dominicana:

wi—nk:

Boys of the Shan undergo the ritual “Poi Sang Long”, aiming to mimic the young Prince Siddhartha before he became Lord Buddha.

Ken Bamberg