Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
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honestly if ur one of those “i come on the internet to not feel sad so im gonna ignore atrocities committed against black people by white people in power” kinda people im gonna need you to let me know so i can no longer associate myself with you
reminder to white people as a white person myself: mourn for this injustice and fight for what’s right., but don’t make this about yourself. This is not about you.
my thing also is that EVEN IF mike brown was violent towards the cop you are telling me that his police officer was not well trained enough to handle ONE unarmed person without using lethal force. That’s what you are telling me right now.
I am a five-one teenaged girl, which means I am physiologically speaking weaker than an adult man. Even I can handle one unarmed person without using lethal force. This is appalling.
tonight, white privilege means I’m scrolling the Internet while trying not to throw up, and not standing in the doorway of my child’s room sobbing.
okay but like… cops have been indicted for shooting family pets. not to say that’s an okay thing, but this was a human being. this was a kid who had his whole life ahead of him. he was gonna be a freshman in college this year, he was going off to get an education and live a…
pray for the safety of protesters tonight, even if you aren’t a person who prays
Please dont reblog anything that has pictures of mike browns dead body hsi family already asked people not to do that please
dont ignore this please
Remember that he was someone’s child, someone’s friend, someone’s relative. Respect their wishes and support them.
I hope the generations after us look at this moment and go “wow, i’m glad i didn’t live back then” because this is a shameful moment in American history
Can you roll your tongue like this?
If you CAN, then please REBLOG.
This is for serious science! because I have an assignment in my biology class to do a survey on how many people can or cannot roll their tongues.
If you CANNOT roll your tongue like that, then please FAVOURITE this post!
you can de-favourite the post or delete it from your blog in about two weeks if you desire to do so, but I plead you to take part in this survey of serious sience! thank
i tag all my ferguson posts for my mentally ill followers who literally cant take it (look ive been there before okay)
but if youre blocking it because it makes you “”uncomfortable”“” just
its not supposed to be sunshine and rainbows
a black child got killed and his killer is off somewhere getting married and starting his life this is not a comfortable situation
at the LEAST fucking reblog some donation and information posts
losing followers for the ferguson posts is like cleaning out the trash thanks
I wrote this the week after Mike Brown was shot. I naively thought that this case would be different. That Darren Wilson would be punished, at the very least fired or pressured to resign. I thought that public outcry would mean something. I have never been more angry. I have never been more outraged. I wish I could say I were surprised.
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I’m sorry
I can’t imagine how black Americans are feeling right now
I’m sorry. We failed you. Again.
Back when I was in high school, I sat for the pledge to protest the Iraq War. This was in 2002-2003 when people were hyper-patriotic and nationalistic, slightly more than you see today (though still maddening today).
Anyway, I got sent to the principle’s office and so on and…
There’s no such thing as being “neutral” in this situation. If you are not absolutely livid, you are part of the problem.
also reblog if you are Will Shakespeare and therefore are bisexual and support bisexuals
done
Have you ever seen the research capacity of fandom? It’s incredible. Turns out he had Snickers and Hershey’s in the 1940s but he’d be pretty alarmed to find the kind of apples he used to eat are extinct and chickens are now three times as big. Turns out his sex education would be better than the kind in schools now, and that living through the Great Depression might put him into a state of grim nostalgia regarding the failures of the current banking system. Turns out Steve Rogers lived in a queer neighborhood, six blocks from an “artsy queer house,” and he wouldn’t say “under God” during the pledge of allegiance.
oh my god
But anyway, I recently sat down to figure out exactly where Steve’s local gay bars would be, or where the closest ones would be, for purposes of plotting things out, and uh … turns out that Steve Rogers lived in the MIDDLE of the biggest cruising/gay bar/gay hangouts area of Brooklyn. Like, a couple blocks from the St. George Hotel, which was almost entirely gay by the early 40s.
This is actually a really great, fascinating essay (by thingswithwings) on the area and time Steve grew up in. The whole idea that Steve (and Bucky even more) would be completely, totally clueless seems even more ridiculous when you really look at this stuff.
I sometimes have to keep myself from commenting on posts about Steve Rogers and how his life was back in the day. Because WOW some folks don’t know anything about history!
Where are the posts about Steve snarling about Hoovervilles? How are people not taking advantage of how one of the reasons…
i fucking love whenever people are like “how would steve rogers react to the fact that people now curse and talk about sex?”
yo
he grew up as a poor orphan in Brooklyn and joined the fucking army i think he’s got that shit covered
Also, remember that the 1935-40s had BETTER and MORE HONEST sex education than we get now.
In all likelihood what would REALLY shock Steve would be the way that sex ed is taught, not that sex ed is taught.
On a serious note…
Ferguson Municipal Library remains open and ready to welcome the public, including the many children for whom school was cancelled this week. If you are safe and warm where you are, and worried about this little city that is hurting right now, please consider a donation of any size to the library. Link is in upper right corner. Let’s do what we can to spread some joy and support today.
Ferguson Municipal Library
Andrew Garfield thinks it’d be cool if Spider-Man swung a different way. (He also wanted MJ to be played by Michael B. Jordan.)
“He’s so charismatic and talented. It’d be even better—we’d have interracial bisexuality!”
When EW later mentions the idea to Webb, the director says, “Michael B. Jordan, I know.” Oh, so he’s heard this too? “Uh, are you kidding?”
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#here’s a fact: Andrew Garfield can’t shut up about how bad he wants to make out with Michael B. Jordan #and everyone in his life knows it #i bet if you asked emma stone ”so michael b jordan huh?” she would sigh and roll her beautiful eyes #IT’S CONSTANT she would say
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#andrew garfield #michael b jordan #sittin in a tree #k i s s i n g #but like #upside down
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The world would be a better place if we got a movie with a canon queer Spiderman, who has a boyfriend played by Michael B Jordan :D
I need to prove a point to my mom, who thinks teenagers should be focused on scholarships and a…
can straight girls please stop shitting their pants over being mistaken for lesbians or being called lesbians as an insult?
when someone tries to insult you by calling you a lesbian, they’re a homophobe. if you actually find it insulting to be called a lesbian, you’re a homophobe too. this is not a difficult concept to grasp.
same goes for straight boys being called gay.
straight people who think they can use the word ‘faggot’ are probably the same people who don’t know ‘cracker’ doesn’t refer to the food but to the act of cracking a whip
#i actually did not know that #it’s almost as if white society wants to completely erase the fact that white people once were literal slavedrivers #who could have known
self aware white people are beautiful
imagine steve rogers’ face the first time he sees a same-gender couple holding hands in public imagine steve rogers’ face the first time he sees an interracial couple holding hands in public his smile could literally light up the whole universe
He would be SO FRICKING HAPPY
And anyone who thinks he wouldn’t needs to shut the fuck up because they don’t know a damn thing about Captain America <3
