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“There are people on my side who didn’t want to be perceived to be helping something that the president wants to accomplish simply because It’s the president that wants to accomplish it”
-Pat Tunney THISSSS is what #PresidentObama is up against. It DOES NOT matter what he wants to proposes, congress will not let it happen #99problemsbutcongressisallofem…and this is where I genuinely laugh AT the opposing side. You are destroying your country with your ignorant behaviour. You missed the point and are setting back yourselves to spite your faces. Wow. Could not get dumber than that. Stop breeding please.
![Many are questioning whether or not African-American mothers feel as if they have reason to celebrate Mother’s Day this year following information from an infographic created by FinanceOnline.com. Information collected for the infographic, titled “Will Black American Moms Be Celebrating This Mother’s Day?,” suggests that African American mothers have less education, have more uninsured kids, are more prone to divorce, and are more likely to raise their children as a single parent. Information from the infographic was gathered from U.S. Census Bureau and other credible sources. It is believed that Black mothers are faced with compound discrimination: Being African-American and being a woman. The infographic’s introduction states that African-Americans remain disadvantaged in just about every category commonly used to gauge the quality of life.
According to the infographic, under President Obama’s Administration, black mothers are still lagging behind Asians, whites, and Hispanics, more tellingly in median household income and divorce rates. The figures presented in the infographic are not absolute, but they do show an undeniable pattern that suggest more than concludes African-American mothers face more problems than the other racial groups.
More specifically, spending on household food, housing, family vehicle, and entertainment were collated to literally drive home the point where African American mothers may be getting frustrated to raise a better future for their children. While the story the infographic is telling may be unsettling for African-American women, it presents an opportunity to address the social inequities that extend to date.
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Many are questioning whether or not African-American mothers feel as if they have reason to celebrate Mother’s Day this year following information from an infographic created by FinanceOnline.com. Information collected for the infographic, titled “Will Black American Moms Be Celebrating This Mother’s Day?,” suggests that African American mothers have less education, have more uninsured kids, are more prone to divorce, and are more likely to raise their children as a single parent. Information from the infographic was gathered from U.S. Census Bureau and other credible sources. It is believed that Black mothers are faced with compound discrimination: Being African-American and being a woman. The infographic’s introduction states that African-Americans remain disadvantaged in just about every category commonly used to gauge the quality of life.
According to the infographic, under President Obama’s Administration, black mothers are still lagging behind Asians, whites, and Hispanics, more tellingly in median household income and divorce rates. The figures presented in the infographic are not absolute, but they do show an undeniable pattern that suggest more than concludes African-American mothers face more problems than the other racial groups.
More specifically, spending on household food, housing, family vehicle, and entertainment were collated to literally drive home the point where African American mothers may be getting frustrated to raise a better future for their children. While the story the infographic is telling may be unsettling for African-American women, it presents an opportunity to address the social inequities that extend to date.
I know someone personally who also compared a higher minimum wage to a handout. This is a good sign of our times when a living wage is considered a “handout for doing nothing.” - zenodotus5And minimum-wage workers are the hardest workers in America. I’ve worked minimum-wage jobs, and…
The desexualization of women of size, especially those of color, has been a part of American media for a long time. Her body is supposed to represent motherhood, but not sexual femininity, as if those things were not connected. Her size is a sign of her authority, so she is thought to be “masculine.” Though she holds authority, she is not to be seen as competition of the delicate white female. Her bosom is a place to rest not to caress. Her “excess” weight is supposedly an indication of her intelligence, adding a factor of ableism and sanism in the mix.
Curvy WoC are reclaming there bodies. They see neither thinness nor thickness as the definition of femininity or intellgence. Their bodies are rebelion against mainstream white culture. They embrace motherhood without questioning the existence of their sexuality.
Safe abortions have always been available to the rich, Dan. You simply want to deny them to the poor, and if you succeed, poor woman will be forced to get them anyway. They’ll be forced into the alleys with hangers, plungers and vacuum cleaners, risking death or mutilation. But you’d like that, wouldn’t you, Dan? You sadistic, elitist, sexist, racist, anti-humanist pig!Saturday Night Live 3x18
This aired in 1978. Thirty-five years later, it’s still a fucking ~debate.
(via stfuconservatives)
First official trailer for Lee Daniels’ new film, ‘The Butler’ starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams, David Oyelowo, and Colman Domingo.
this was shared by a friend on facebook in reference to the heroic acts of Charles Ramsey and the way he quickly became a meme
Charles Ramsey and the troubling viral trend of the ‘hilarious’ black neighbor
“Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame.Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.”
(via isthiswhereibegin)
Idaho Medical Marijuana Advocates Return From Trip, Find Children Taken By Authorities
(HuffPost) Lindsey Rinehart uses medical marijuana to help treat her multiple sclerosis, and the trio has been publicly involved in Compassionate Idaho, a group seeking to kickstart Idaho’s marijuana reform movement. Many of Idaho’s neighbors have already made strides to loosen marijuana laws, but some Idaho GOP lawmakers have been quick to announce that they’ll resist similar efforts in their state.
Now faced with a decision to continue marijuana treatment or risk losing her children for longer, Rinehart has said she’ll drop pot and turn to the more traditional, “toxic medication” that her doctors offer.
(via thefourtwentytimes)
checkmate beer gut boy
‘bitch i will kill your cracker ass i am angela davis why am i sharing the stage with chu’
LmaoEwww why is this wack ass white boy sitting next ANGELA FUCKING DAVIS?
he shouldn’t be in the same building as her
And white privilege is being able to know nothing about the crimes committed by most of the terrorists listed above — indeed, never to have so much as heard most of their names — let alone to make assumptions about the role that their racial or ethnic identity may have played in their crimes.
White privilege is knowing that if the Boston bomber turns out to be white, we will not be asked to denounce him or her, so as to prove our own loyalties to the common national good. It is knowing that the next time a cop sees one of us standing on the sidewalk cheering on runners in a marathon, that cop will say exactly nothing to us as a result.
White privilege is knowing that if you are a white student from Nebraska — as opposed to, say, a student from Saudi Arabia — that no one, and I mean no one would think it important to detain and question you in the wake of a bombing such as the one at the Boston Marathon.
And white privilege is knowing that if this bomber turns out to be white, the United States government will not bomb whatever corn field or mountain town or stale suburb from which said bomber came, just to ensure that others like him or her don’t get any ideas. And if he turns out to be a member of the Irish Republican Army we won’t bomb Belfast. And if he’s an Italian American Catholic we won’t bomb the Vatican. —— Tim Wise
Boston magazine Facebook:
The May cover of Boston magazine, made of shoes worn in the Boston Marathon.
Innovative design. Timeless message.
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