March 2012
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aquapunk asked: A REALLY BIG PENIS
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shadolith:
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Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972
Interviewer: A year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela Davis: The black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: No but tell me.
Angela Davis: First of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: But the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela Davis: Oh, is that the question you were asking? Yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… When I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, from the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “Can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
February 2012
505 posts
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This Needs To Go Viral →
slumberblues:
crisscrosscutout:
How is this even legal? Suddenly doctors can withhold medical information from patients to prevent an abortion in any case? What about an ectopic pregnancy? And forget prosecution because this bill protects medical personnel from malpractice charges. Even if one is pro-life the idea that any law would prevent a doctor from giving you all of your options is bad....
catbeard:
First thing that came to mind.
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Can we move there, please?
ktshy:
svetlania:
tempestfae:
cyasarah:
copper-clover:
Treehouses. If only we could all live this way.
omg.
Any one of those “there”s would be just fine. Planning on moving soon, anyway. PLEASE?
*fetal position of extreme want*
Could sure use one of these… or ALL of them.
Ooooooo
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“A coalition of human rights and civil liberties experts announced today that...”
– via Sarah Knuckey, adjunct professor of clinical law at NYU (via susie-c)
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Right versus pragmatic →
The Oatmeal’s awesome comic illustrates the problem well: demand is rapidly increasing for accessing movies and TV shows outside of their traditional distribution channels, and rather than addressing this demand, the publishers are making it even harder to get their content legally in these contexts.
This is like trying to solve the paper-towel problem by moving the trash can even further away...
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theoncomingsagan:
hm i’m going to make a butts masterpost
everyone give me a fabulous picture of your butt
He’s watching you coming and going.
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Help Create An 'Innovation Agenda' You Wish... →
In the last few months it’s become clear that it’s no longer acceptable for politicians to “not get” the internet. The internet has become such a key part of our lives that anyone who is trying to regulate it without understanding it doesn’t deserve to be in office. Of course, there are some politicians who really do want to do the right thing, and it’s time...
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Key Techdirt SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA... →
We’ve talked a lot about how copyright law and the DMCA can be abused to take down legitimate, non-infringing content, interfering with one’s free speech rights. And we’re always brushed off by copyright maximalists, who insist that any complaints about taking down legitimate speech are overblown. So isn’t it interesting that we’ve just discovered that our own key...