Loretta, the mother of a friend of mine, is battling cancer at the moment - but she is also a HUGE Keith Urban fan. Along with all the support from friends and family, we are trying to get Keith to do a shout out and help keep her spirits high during this difficult time.
If you have a twitter account, please send the video, http://youtu.be/vYuHZzGCWBM, followed by the hashtag #projectloretta to @KeithUrban. It would mean the ABSOLUTE world to her and her family.
The question that is only asked with any conviction when it’s a white guy
He’s posing in front of a swastika and he’s described as a skinhead, but they’re still asking what made him go on a shooting spree against brown people?
White privilege is Joan Rivers writing “North Korea surprised the world by winning a gold medal in weightlifting. Not surprising? The other 5 they won in Synchronized Dog Eating” on Twitter, and having over 400 people retweet it.
Mod note: If Chris Rock tweeted that white people won all their gold medals in Synchronized Oppression and Having Poor Hygiene, there’d be a national outcry.
I’ve never seen a GIF of this.
I was just reading about this during a wiki binge on Olympics incidents and did a little research on it. I never knew how deep the message was that Smith and Carlos were trying to send. Just about everything they wore and how they wore it had symbolism attached to it. (unzipped tracksuits for solidarity with blue collar workers, necklace of beads for lynching victims, etc) Calling it a “black power salute” is really reductive and it’s a shame (and predictable) that if it’s taught at all, that’s what it’s boiled down to.
Another thing I didn’t know: the Australian guy who came in second wore a patch for solidarity with them, he was protesting racist Australian immigration policies. When he passed away, Smith and Carlos were pallbearers at his funeral.
Don’t know what this is referring to? Here you go.
This is really powerful.
(Source: bloggingisnotwriting)
