There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
via Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice – Yahoo! News.
So last night my good friend and falafel consultant Subhan – thats right, of Muslim in America, told me he wanted to paint his snowboard. I also wanted to paint my snowboard, but for a much different reason. Some Muslims opt out of alcoholic indulgences, so the “Smirnoff Ice” edition Nitro, while totally awesome, stands in stark contrast to his particular beliefs. After a few seasons with my trusty Ride Snowboard and with some new bindings in the mail, I was just getting tired of the old look.
via tender indifference: painting snowboards DIY.
Be
By Subhan Tariq
Go ahead,
Be what you want to be
Be the crazy one who stalks everyone on Facebook
Or the creepy one who knows where everyone is at all times
Be the loud one who talks over everyone else
Or the stubborn one who always wants his way
But be yourself and not who everyone else wants you to be
Be the quiet one who sits back and observes
Or the smart one with all the answers
Be the wise one that everyone goes to for advice
Or the friend everyone wants
But be yourself and not who everyone else wants you to be
Be the doctor that parents want for their daughters
Or the lawyer that seek to represent them
Be the leader the community always wanted
Or the child your parents always dreamed of
But be yourself and not who everyone else wants you to be
God said “Be”
and it was
So why are you
Having such a hard time
Being you?
This was written by my niece. I’m a very proud uncle.
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By Hina Jaffer
This is not a poem meant for the purposes of rhyme
I am just a poet writing of the injustices of our time
I am the starved of Somalia
The poor of India
I am the wounded of Syria
Oh Lord, Just free Gaza
Assad’s regime
Much too similar to the conditions of Falastene
You say Israel
With my fists in the air I scream Palestine
CNN and BBC
All tuned in just to see
What the verdict is in the trial of Conrad Murray
Or how NASA plans their next trip to Mars
But what goes unnoticed, is bloody Bashar
Stabbing his sword into innocent souls
This play of his, is getting much too old
We see mankind scatter
Heritages and cultures cluster
But this isn’t about whose flag is raised higher
This is about the innocent lives being robbed from families abroad
Throwing families without their fathers, husbands, or sons out on the road
No, we must come together as mankind
And do what is right
No innocent should be killed
No child should sleep hungry
So the starved girl in Pakistan
The orphan in Kurdistan
The oppressed woman in Gaza
And the widow in Syria
Join hands and chant as one
Free Free Pakistan
Free Free Kurdistan
Free Free Palestine
Free Free Syria
Free Free our beautiful world
Since 1971, there have been more than 40 million arrests for drug-related offenses. Even though blacks and whites have similar levels of drug use, blacks are ten times as likely to be incarcerated for drug crimes.
· “There are more blacks under correctional control today — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.”
· “As of 2004, more African American men were disenfranchised (due to felon disenfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race.”
· In 2005, 4 out of 5 drug arrests were for possession not trafficking, and 80% of the increase in drug arrests in the 1990s was for marijuana.
· There are 50,000 arrests for low-level pot possession a year in New York City, representing one out of every seven cases that turn up in criminal courts. Most of these arrested are black and hispanic men.
via Occupy The Dream: The Mathematics of Racism | Dylan Ratigan.
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