You've Met With a Terrible Fate, Haven't You?

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The Little Prince

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the little prince: Goodbye
the flower: ...I have been silly. I ask your forgiveness. Try to be happy...
the little prince: ...
the flower: Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while. That is of no importance. But you--you have been just as foolish as I. Try to be happy...Let the glass globe be. I don't want it any more.
the little prince: But the wind--
the flower: My cold is not so bad as all that...The cool night air will do me good. I am a flower.
the little prince: But the animals--
the flower: Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beautiful. And if not the butterflies--and the caterpillars--who will call upon me? You will be far away...As for the large animals--I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws.

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Anatomy of a Relationship (Luc Moullet, 1976) in stills #10

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Anatomy of a Relationship (Luc Moullet, 1976) in stills #10

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"“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:13:04 -0400

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“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.

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- Assata (via michellehuxtable)

I tell my students this every single semester.

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FBI’s most wanted for terrorism, everyone.

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supersonicelectronic: Lily Padula. Illustrations by Lily...

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:10:55 -0400

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Lily Padula.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 13:14:44 -0400

letloosethekraken: Truer words have never been spoken.

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:11:51 -0400

letloosethekraken:

Truer words have never been spoken.

iheartmyart: David Dupuis, Dreamer I, 2007, color pencil,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:10:52 -0400

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David Dupuis, Dreamer I, 2007, color pencil, graphite and collage on paper, 11 x 15 inches

Blah BLAH Blah: jhameia: TRIGGER WARNING FOR SUICIDEAlso, here’s a link describing...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:36:45 -0400

Blah BLAH Blah: jhameia: TRIGGER WARNING FOR SUICIDEAlso, here’s a link describing...:

jhameia:

TRIGGER WARNING FOR SUICIDE

Also, here’s a link describing what “bedroom tax” is for those of us not in the know: http://www.bromfordgroup.co.uk/welfare-reform/bedroom-tax/

crezias:

Listen, I know tumblr only cares about American news, but this is really fucking tragic, and if this doesn’t get an coverage I will be incredibly angry.

The conservative’s bedroom tax has actually led to a woman taking her own life. Let me repeat that for you; a peice of government legislation had had such a detrimental impact on someone’s life that they wrote letters, packed up their things, and walked into the M4 in front of a lorry. The bedroom tax has only be in place for the last 5 weeks.

For those of you that don’t know, the bedroom tax isn’t technically a tax; if you’re living in a rented property, and have an extra bedroom, you’ll have to pay a certain amount of money back to the government. Children under the age of 12 are expected to share with all their siblings, children under 16 are expected to share with their siblings of the same gender. The government placed no limits on how many children could be expected to share a room. It would have saved the government £490 million a year; the UK loses £5.2 Billion a year in tax evasion alone. [citation]

Stephanie Botrill, from Solihull, had lived in her house for 18 years, and her two children had, relatively recently moved into their own properties, one of them within the last year. She previously paid a rent of £320 a month, and bedroom tax would have meant she paid £400; she was having to starve herself to afford this. Let me reiterate that for you; a woman was having to go without food because of a cruel tory policy. The house the council offered her was nowhere near where she currently lived, and 30 minutes walk from the nearest bus station; she would have been nowhere near her family and friends. To make matters worse, the council said she’d have to pay for any damage to the house, which would have exceeded the £2000 she was given to move house.

Stephanie had been saying since the policy came in how she couldn’t cope. She even went to the GP, but only got sleeping pills. In the end, it all got too much, and she wrote letters to her children, grandson, friends, and neighbors and walked into the M4, dying instantly.

The Sunday People has photos of the letters, but I won’t post them because they broke my heart, but if you want to see them, they’re here

As well as this, her family was struggling to pay for her funeral, so the Sunday People contributed. We live in a country where we can pay £10 million pounds for the funeral of a woman who called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, but someone’s grandmother kills herself because she can’t afford to live in the house she’d lived in for 18 years. I hope everyone feels thoroughly disgusted.

The worst thing is, Stephanie’s story has a more extreme ending, but it’s fairly typical of a bedroom tax victim case. Although the tory’s policies targeted towards those on benefits claim to help to push people into work, and end a ‘something for nothing’ benefits system (and the whole thing reeks of deserving and undeserving poor) this is not the case at all.

Take a guess at what percentage of the people receiving benefit in the UK are unemployed. Guess. I was way, way out. The actual breakdown is this 42.3% elderly, 20.8% low income, 18.4% families, 15.5% sick/disabled, 2.6% unemployed. Only 2.6% of those on benefits in this country are unemployed.

In addition to this, the people most likely to have spare bedrooms are older people, who’s children have left home. They are not people living off the tax payer, whatever that means, they are people who have lived their lives in cheap rental property who’s children have left home, and so rely on their friends, like my Nana does, for company. And David Cameron and his tory cronies want to move these people away from their communities, their friends, the brick and mortar they’ve made their home, because they have the cheek to have a couple of spare bedrooms.

I hope you’re angry, because I’m really fucking angry.

You know who has got spare bedrooms? David Cameron, who got lucky enough to be born to a millionaire and the daughter of a Baronet, and his wife Samantha who’s father is also a Baronet. His personal wealth has been estimated at £30 million, inherited from off-shore tax havens. Like I said earlier, the UK loses £5.2 Billion a year from men like Cameron. To misquote Obama, Cameron’s not the solution, he’s the problem.

Meanwhile, more people like Stephanie Botrill, hounded from the home she’d raised her children in, and the community where all her friends live, will probably walk in front of lorries.

To cut a long story short, if you even think about voting Tory in 2015, I hope you think about Stephanie Botrill, and I hope you never sleep again.

labarricade: time-sponges: You sit at the restaurant with your...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:56:22 -0400

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time-sponges:

You sit at the restaurant with your young son, he says he is hungry. You agree to get him dinner. You open up to the kids menu, your child is far to young for adult food. Chicken nugger stares at you from the page. You don’t understand. Your palms get sweaty and your son complains. He says he is hungry. Your mind strains, searching for an answer in a world of sweer potato and french fried. You try to order the chicken nugger, but you cannot. The words cannot escape your lips. Your son is hungry, he complains. The waitress stares at you, her head a spinning chicken nugger, her arms swinging french fried. Your son cries the tears of a chicken nugger-less child. In your mind you scream. It is raining sweer potato now, you have french fried engraved on your left temple and you do not understand. Your son weeps in the corner, he is starving. Starving for the chicken nugger.

what the fuck did i just read

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exceptdissent: the1janitor: satanic2chainz: basedjaysuave: Th...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:04:27 -0400

exceptdissent:

the1janitor:

satanic2chainz:

basedjaysuave:

The video that no one wants to mention

Such a humble, sensitive dude who literally saved lives and all the media (white corporations) & stupid people can think to do is make a joke out of him. Black men can only be clowns or killers regardless of what we do for other people or for ourselves no matter how selflessly it’s done.

Minstrel. Mandingo. Mule. Mammy. Jezebel.

That’s what we are

”..they keep saying I’m a hero. Let me tell you something. I’m American. I’m a human being. I’m just like you. I work for a living. There was a woman in distress! So why turn your back on that?”

—Charles Ramsey

amazing man.

Andrew Garfield | new photoshoot outtakes by Muir Vidler...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:59:39 -0400

Andrew Garfield | new photoshoot outtakes by Muir Vidler [2012]

"I wait and ache."

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:59:31 -0400

“I wait and ache.”

- Sylvia Plath (via loveyourchaos)

im-a-cyborg-but-its-okay: The Potoo - Either the most...

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:57:24 -0400

im-a-cyborg-but-its-okay:

The Potoo - Either the most unphotogenic or the most ridiculous looking bird in the world