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Fuck No, Dan Savage!: dan savage is the person who founded the It Gets Better campaign, and... →

dan savage is the person who founded the It Gets Better campaign, and is also reknowned for his “Savage Love” advice column that deals with sex, sexuality, love, and whatever other freaky stuff readers write in about

and he’s like, totally all about GSM rights, y’all!

as long as you’re a…

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veebar2:

Black Woman Set On Fire In Louisiana By 3 Neo-Nazis For Wearing Obama Shirt

KNOE 8 News has received confirmation from the Winnsboro Police that they are working with the Franklin Parish Sheriff’s Office investigating a woman allegedly attacked and burned on Sunday night.

According to the Franklin Parish Sheriff’s Office, Sharmeka Moffitt was on a walking trail in a city park when she was attacked. It happened about 8 p.m. Sunday evening.

She was taken to a hospital in Winnsboro and then transported to LSU Hospital in Shreveport.

A friend of the Moffitt family confirmed to us that she is in stable condition but 90% of her body has been burned.

Friends of the family also tell us the KKK was allegedly involved in the attack.

Whoever said we were living in post-racial America lied. We’ll keep you updated more on the victim and this disgusting hate crime.

Read more at http://bossip.com/666686/jesus-take-the-wheel-black-woman-attacked-and-set-on-fire-in-louisiana-by-3-neo-nazis-for-wearing-obama-t-shirt/#Whbzr7dtyB7wIIsl.99

What in the fuck?

prayers and healing for this woman, and i need someone to find the people who declared themselves the law, now!

praying for this poor woman, this is really really sick.

What the hell. This is beyond fucked up.

Wow. Never ceases to amaze me how fucked up this country can be

I can’t even form a statement about this. I’m just… wow.

That picture is terrifying. I hope this woman recovers soon, this is horrible.

wtf? You would swear this was 1950. Just ridiculous.

Thoughts and prayers for this poor woman…………

The fucks who did this… oh my God you can’t call yourselves humans. You just can’t.

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badcgijosh:

I’m just catching up on the news of the shooting in Wisconsin at a Sikh temple and it’s making me uncomfortable to read because of how deliberately ambiguous everyone’s being about what happened

A white guy in his thirties shot 20 people in their place of worship, killing at least six of them

There’s no real repercussions for taking a stand on something and if something is word for word the textbook definition of a hate crime

Then for fuck’s sake, just call it a hate crime

This is terrorism.

(Source: confusedtree, via benewavvy)

things i learned today

yousillyqueer:

Australian indigenous people make up 3% of the total population, but almost 30% of the prison population.

This is the highest indigenous imprisonment rate in the world.

They are being imprisoned faster than South Africans during Apartheid were.

wtf…..

(Source: ileolai, via bmoburns)

#95

thisiswhiteprivilege:

White privilege is being the #1 consumers of welfare, food stamps, general government aid, and illegal drugs, but STILL blaming POC for all of those things as well as incarcerating them at an exponentially higher rate.

(via trainlikeacareer)

I have a question that I legitimately want a truthful answer for, if possible

Here is my question: Am I overlooking something that is obvious to someone with different or less privilege, and as a result am I being racist/ignorant?

And here is the context:

nervousrex:

biteythevillain:

OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD

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"This case has attracted worldwide attention, but it is, in essence, no different from other capital cases. Across the country, the legal process for the death penalty has shown itself to be discriminatory, unjust and incapable of being fixed. Just last week, the Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for Duane Buck, an African-American, hours before he was to die in Texas because a psychologist testified during his sentencing that Mr. Buck’s race increased the chances of future dangerousness. Case after case adds to the many reasons why the death penalty must be abolished."

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- New York Times (via newwavefeminism)

I want to clarify that bit about the Buck case in this quote: his stay was granted because the psychologist’s testimony was so obviously racist. The psychologist argued that it was best to put him to death because black men are more likely to be repeat violent offenders. So they should kill him to prevent him from killing someone else, in a situation that they might not have executed a person of another race. So the stay was granted because that tainted the state’s case in favor of execution. Wanted to make sure that was clear, because I read about it when it happened. Psychology, y’all…what’s that argument about how science is objective?

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