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ismnotwasm's JournalHere Are Rappers’ 2016 Presidential Endorsements
Since DUers of all persuasions are interesting in Rap music--I had no idea some of y'all were so familier with the genre. Here is a handy slide show on who is endorsing who. This is Internet old, before the first debate. Rapper Mike for instance was a even fan back then, (I think the news is his active support) Snoop Dogg endorsed Hillary back in May--But I digress. Here is a short list -----feel free to use google if you don't recognize some of the names.
http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2015/10/here-are-rappers-2016-presidential-endorsements/
The Gambia bans female genital mutilation
The president, Yahya Jammeh, said last night that the controversial surgical intervention would be outlawed. He said the ban would come into effect immediately, though it was not clear when the government would draft legislation to enforce it.
FGM involves cutting female genitalia – often when girls are young – to remove their labia and clitoris, which often leads to lifelong health complications, including bleeding, infections, vaginal pain and infertility. More than 130 million women worldwide are subjected to the procedure in Africa and the Middle East.
The practice is widespread in many African countries, including the Gambia, where 76% of females have been subjected to it. The age at which FGM takes place in the Gambia is not recorded, but it is reported that the trend of practicing FGM on infant girls is increasing. By the age of 14, 56% of female children in the country have had the procedure.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/24/the-gambia-bans-female-genital-mutilation
Hating Hillary: The One Thing Left and Right Men Can Agree On
(*My note: while this article specifies a gender, Hillary hate is by no means exclusive to men)
“They” is more nebulous, and worse: Hillary-hate is often, but not always, the province of men. It is often, but not exclusively, Republican; conservatives launched The Hillary Project to stop her candidacy back in 2013. (“Hillary Clinton—the name alone strikes dread in the heart of freedom loving Americans.”) And it is often, and unacceptably, embraced by otherwise progressive men, who abandon their principles and their common sense in order to trash her, demonize her, and loudly proclaim to anyone who will listen that they Just Don’t Like Her.
You know Hillary-hate. You’ve seen it before: It’s Tucker Carlson proclaiming that “when she comes on television, I involuntarily cross my legs.” It’s Chris Matthews scolding Clinton, when she criticized Bush’s homeland security spending in 2005, by saying that “you look more witchy when you’re doing it like this.” It is sainted progressive icon Jon Stewart getting huge laughs, off a shot of Clinton smiling politely, with the line “that look is where boners go to die.”
And it goes on, and gets worse, until Hillary is not just portrayed as an ugly, mean old lady these dudes don’t want to fuck, but as an actual monster. Hillary-hate is the fact that, while Clinton was grieving the suicide of her friend Vince Foster, Republicans spread rumors that she had seduced and murdered him. Hillary-hate is Maureen Dowd calling Clinton “Godzilla” and “Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.” Hillary-hate is the not-remotely-subtle implication that Clinton abuses her husband, spread by the New York Post; next to a photo of Clinton with her mouth wide open at a Benghazi hearing, they ran the headline “NO WONDER BILL’S AFRAID.” Hillary-hate is the persistent, bizarre need for major media outlets to go along with Dowd’s calling Clinton the “50-Foot Woman” and to make Clinton look scary by portraying her as superhumanly huge: On the cover of TIME as a rampaging, pantsuited giantess the size of a skyscraper (photographed in the act of stepping on a powerless man, of course) or on the cover of the New York Times Magazine as some sort of Lovecraftian elder God the size of a planet.
http://globalcomment.com/hating-hillary-the-one-thing-left-and-right-men-can-agree-on/
I think I think to start a 12-step program for my fellow white people
1) Admitted to ourselves, and each other that yes we too can be racist and probably are and definetely were at some point in our lives and could not manage our own racism
2) Came to believe that instead of telling AA's and other POC how to think, feel and act, we should instead...listen
3) Made a decision to turn over our defensive knee-jerk reactions and action to the care of educating ourselves about whiteness and what that means
4) Made and searching and fearless moral inventory of our racisms
5) Admitted to our friends, family including AA and POC friends and family the exact nature of our racisms and encouraged dialogue and conversation.
6) Were entirely ready to have all racisms removed from our character
7) Humbly asked POC and other fellow anti-racists to call us out on our racisms to help remove them
8) Made a list of all persons we had harmed by our racism, and became willing to make amends to them ALL.
9) Made direct amends where possible, and where not possible, listened to POC about what would, and would not work in making those amends
10) Continued to take personal inventory of our racisms, and when we are racist, promptly admitted it.
11) Sought through community action and self-reflection to improve our additudes and outlook and race and racisms, making the battle against racism part our daily lives
12) Having had social conscience awakening as a result of these steps, carry the message to fellow white people and practice not being racist in all our affairs.
Do black children's lives matter if nobody writes about them?
Literature’s job is not to protect young people from the ugly world; it is to arm them with a language to describe difficult truths they already know.
“In times of crisis or unrest,” Ferguson municipal public library director Scott Bonner wrote in an email conversation, “everyone, but especially kids, will have questions that tie to identity, empathy, sense of belonging vs exclusion, seeking a role to play, and so forth”. Bonner turned the FMPL into a safe haven during the civil unrest in 2014, earning it a Library of the Year award and international acclaim.
“Books help us know who we are,” he added, “and we must know who we are before we can understand what we must do.”
Besides teaching us who we are, books are where we learn whose lives matter enough to read about: a recent Florida State University study called children’s literature “a dominant blueprint of shared cultural values, meanings and expectations”. Exclusion from this world, the study says, constitutes a kind of “symbolic annihilation”. As suicide rates among black youth skyrocket, and police officers justify killing unarmed children, the annihilation becomes much more than symbolic.
The ongoing crisis of state-sanctioned violence and antiblackness in America is not a new problem, but sustained protests have forced the world take note of it. And while some individual writers have spoken up, the Young Adult industry has had little to say about what the New York Times called “the most formidable protest movement of the 21st century to date”.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/06/do-black-childrens-lives-matter-if-nobody-writes-about-them
Goddamnit
So my grandson's football couch has been caught "in a relationship" a high school girl. They have confiscated phones because how the girls patents found out, was texts left on her phone. Now my daughter tells me this isn't the first time in this particular school district, and school board members have quit over non-action (cover-ups, she calls them)
The story is a little messier than that, I don't have proper details, but it could get even uglier--it's not in the news cycle. My daughter wil probably go to the press, if nothing is done.
Not that it matters, but it's the Quillayute school district--that's right--home of "Twilight"
You NEED to Watch ‘Black Woman Steps Up to Mic’ RIGHT NOW by Clutch
In her poem, which she performed at the this year’s Texas Grand Slam, Sibley takes on the misconceptions and stereotypes about Black women that do little but make us feel under siege.
Sibley powerfully spits:
Well, damn.
“As a black woman with a big name,” Sibley told Fusion she wrote the poem for “people who may have been guilty of not listening to someone based off their initial presentation.”
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2015/10/you-need-to-watch-black-woman-steps-up-to-mic-right-now/
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