people that play the victim when theyve been absolutely horrible to others make me sooo mad
if you think I won’t wear the same bra for three weeks straight you are dead wrong
some girls change their bras daily?
How often are you supposed to change them? O_o
Wait…you’re supposed to own more than one?
Wait some people only own one bra?
Dude, have you seen how expensive bras are for a comfortable one?
whats a bra
where am i
when you meet a bunch of relatives who claim to remember you
Do the people on here understand that “privilege” is another method of enforcing their own inferiority?
White privilege is the idea that whites are privileged, so “nonwhites” are inferior because they don’t have “privilege.”
Thin privilege is the idea that thinner body types hold superiority over larger body types.
Male privilege is the idea that males hold superiority over women.
And so on and so forth.
Do they realize what they’re doing with this whole “privilege” concept? They’re perpetuating the idea of inherent superiority. They’re saying that X has privilege, so X is superior. Y does not have privilege so Y is inferior.
Why would you do this? Why would you reinforce the idea that a demographic you’re trying to empower is inferior to another? That’s not empowerment at all. It’s counterproductive and, quite frankly, it’s absolute bullshit.
anti-sj and co never take the time to understand what people are actually talking about do they?
“You are privileged” =/= “You are superior”
“You are privileged” = Unfortunately aspects of our identity dictate how we will be received and treated in society. If you have something that is seen as unfavorable and not ‘normal’ in society then there is a major chance that that will be an impeding force in having certain things like your basic rights.
my maths teacher handed these sheets out a few weeks ago and i think she was afraid of being copyrighted or something
but i don’t really think she tried her hardest with the names
So in the city I’ve moved to, there’s a homeless man who sits in this shopping center nearly every day. He’s always holding a sign asking for work, and the way people treat him disgusts me. I know that the topic of homelessness and poverty is one that many people debate, but every time I see this man it breaks my heart. And he’s always kind—he smiles, even at the people who treat him like shit. And every time I’m driving through that part of the shopping center, it’s always when I don’t have any money on me. I told my mom all of this one night and how bad I felt about it; how it made me feel bad that I would drive past this man occasionally and have nothing to give him. So my mom was shopping over there and she called me…she said that she got some change back on a purchase she had to make for our new house, and she said: “Danielle, I drove back and found that homeless man you’re always talking about and gave him the change left after I ran my errands. It wasn’t much, but he looked at me and said—‘Thank you so much, ma’am. God bless you.’”
And basically I cried.
Paula Deen Admits Using The N-Word & Making Racial Jokes In Explosive Deposition
Celebrity chefPaula Deenhas admitted tousing the N-wordand tellinginsensitive racial jokesduring a May 17 deposition that was videotaped — and also confessed to her brother’s cocaine, pornography and alcohol addictions!
Paula, 66, admitted to using the N-word and wanting black waiters to play the role of slaves at awedding partyshe was putting together, a new bombshell report from theNational Enquirer claims.
“The personal disclosures uncovered have stunned Paula’s family and could mark the collapse of her entire empire,” a source told the tabloid.
The Emmy-winning kitchen queen was questioned for three hours because of the $1.2 million 2012 lawsuit in which the former General Manager of their Savannah, Georgia, restaurant, Lisa Jackson, claimed use of the N-word by Paula and sexual harassment and infliction of distress and assault by her brother Bubba Hiers.
When asked by Lisa’s Atlanta-based attorney if she’d ever used the N-word, Paula responded, “Yes, of course,” and gave examples of times she used the offensive term.
In terms oftelling racist jokes, Paula said, “It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.”
And when asked if she wanted black men to play the role of slaves at aweddingshe explained she got the idea from a restaurant her husband and her had dined at saying, “The whole entire waiter staff was middle-aged black men, and they had on beautiful whitejacketswith a black bow tie.
“I mean, it was really impressive. That restaurant represented a certain era in America…after the Civil War, during the Civil War, before the Civil War…It was not only black men, it was black women…I would say they were slaves.”
During the deposition, Bubba also made shocking admissions, including using the N-word in reference toPresident Barack Obama.
“While Paula and Bubba did make some pretty damaging confessions in their depositions, what they admitted to only scratches the surface of what actually goes on in their daily lives,” an insider told theEnquirer.
To find out more about Paula and Bubba’s disturbing deposition, pick up the latest issue of the National Enquirer, on newsstands Thursday.
but is anyone REALLY surprised, tho.
I’m not sure how anyone can see anything here but the face of unadulterated evil
Okay but isn’t the National Enquirer one of those grocery checkout outright lies rags?
[tw: racial slurs, harassment, violence]
HERE IS A LINK TO THE DEPOSITION
HERE ARE SCREENSHOTS:
when is enough enough?
with all the evidence and people still dont want to believe it.of course they don’t. white people like ^^^ just witnessed their goddess bleed. Paula Deen was their last hope for progress away from bland ass food and now that she’s exposed they’re panicking lol they’re in the denial stage. let them mourn.
“maybe if you went to bed earlier you wouldn’t be so tired”
When I was five my cousin said we needed to go to the drug store but I thought it was a place where they sold crack or something so I started crying and saying I don’t want I die and she just looked confused as hell..
id be fuckin dead what the hell do you expect me to do a fuckin backflip
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my cats are mad at each other omfg cant breathe
Young, black and buried in debt: How for-profit colleges prey on African-American ambition
There are a few dictums that have enjoyed pride of place in black American families alongside “Honor your parents” and “Do unto others” since at least Emancipation. One of them is this: The road to freedom passes through the schoolhouse doors.
After all, it was illegal even to teach an enslaved person to read in many states; under Jim Crow, literacy tests were used for decades to deny black voters their rights. So no surprise that from Reconstruction to the first black president, the consensus has been clear. The key to “winning the future,” in one of President Obama’s favorite phrases, is to get educated. “There is no surer path to success in the middle class than a good education,” the president declared in his much-discussed speech on the roots of gun violence in black Chicago.
Rarely has that message resounded so much as now, with nearly one in seven black workers still jobless. Those who’ve found work have moved out of the manufacturing and public sectors, where good jobs were once available without a higher ed degree, and into the low-wage service sector, to which the uncredentialed are now relegated. So while it has become fashionable lately to speculate about middle-class kids abandoning elite colleges for adventures in entrepreneurship, an entirely different trend has been unfolding in black America — people are going back to school in droves.
It’s true at all levels of education. Yes, black college enrollment shot up by nearly 35 percent between 2003 and 2009, nearly twice the rate at which white enrollment increased. But we’re getting all manner of schooling as we seek either an advantage in or refuge from the collapsed job market. As I’ve reported on the twin housing and unemployment crises in black neighborhoods in recent years, I’ve heard the same refrain from struggling strivers up and down the educational ladder: “I’m getting my papers, maybe that’ll help.” GEDs, associates degrees, trade licenses, certifications, you name it, we’re getting it. Hell, I even went and got certified in selling wine; journalism’s a shrinking trade, after all.
But this headlong rush of black Americans to get schooled has also led too many down a depressingly familiar path. As with the mortgage market of the pre-crash era, those who are just entering in the higher ed game have found themselves ripe for the con man’s picking. They’ve landed, disproportionately, at for-profit schools, rather than at far less expensive public community colleges, or at public universities. And that means they’ve found themselves loaded with unimaginable debt, with little to show for it, while a small group of financial players have made a great deal of easy money. Sound familiar? Two points if you hear troublesome echoes of the subprime mortgage crisis.
Between 2004 and 2010, black enrollment in for-profit bachelor’s programs grew by a whopping 264 percent, compared to a 24 percent increase in black enrollment in public four-year programs. The two top producers of black baccalaureates in the class of 2011 were University of Phoenix and Ashford University, both for-profits.
These numbers mirror a simultaneous trend in eroding security among ambitious black Americans with shrinking access to middle-class jobs. It’s true that the country’s middle class is collapsing for everyone, but that trend is most profound among African-Americans. In 2008, as black folks flocked into higher ed, the Economic Policy Institute found that 45 percent of African-Americans born into the middle class were living at or near poverty as adults.
For too many, school has greased the downward slide. Nearly every single graduate of a for-profit school — 96 percent, according to a 2008 Department of Education survey — leaves with debt. The industry ate 25 percent of federal student aid in the 2009–2010 school year. That’s debt its students can’t pay. The loan default rate among for-profit college students is more than double that of their peers in both public and nonprofit private schools, because the degrees and certificates the students are earning are trap doors to more poverty, not springboards to prosperity.
There’s been growing, positive attention to this problem, and the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to rein in the excesses of for-profit schools are arguably among its most progressive policy goals. But few have understood the for-profit education boom as part of the larger economic challenge black America faces today. The black jobs crisis stretches way back to the 2001 recession, from which too many black neighborhoods never recovered. Workers and families have been scrambling ever since, trying to fix themselves such that they fit inside a broken economy. And it is that very effort at self-improvement, that same American spirit of personal re-creation and against-all-odds ambition that has so often led black people into the jaws of the 21st century’s most predatory capitalists. From subprime credit cards through to subprime home loans and now on into subprime education, we’ve reached again and again for the trappings of middle-class life, only to find ourselves slipping further into debt and poverty.
I tried to tell you.
