March 2012
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February 2012
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The Trouble With New York's Teacher Data Dump →
Following a court challenge last year by several media outlets, the New York City Department of Education — which operates the nation’s largest school district — agreed to release individual evaluation rankings for 18,000 of its teachers. The New York Times is publishing its analysis of the data, including the teachers’ names and their school assignments. GothamSchools, an independent online...
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I'd be cool with White History Month as long as...
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The Middle Passage
The Trail of Tears and genocide of Native Americans
Jim Crow
How the prison system is set up to keep black and brown people in a cycle of poverty
Japanese Internment camps
Let’s do it in August. There are no other major holidays so the focus can be all on white people plus it’s nice and warm outside....
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“So, for instance, whites hold over ninety percent of all the management level...”
– Tim Wise, On White Pride and Other Delusions: Reflections on the Rage of the Uninformed (via lyddawiyya)
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“When you have 40 percent of kids being born out of wedlock, and among certain...”
– Mitt Romney, at Wednesday’s CNN debate in Arizona.
Hey, you know what prevents unwanted pregnancy? This.
Love the insinuation that poverty IS child abuse. And the racism. That throwaway remark is quite possibly one of the worst things to come out of last night’s debate.
I could say more, but...
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A Fine Mess: Why I am against Autism Speaks (made... →
goldenheartedrose:
Autism Speaks is probably the most well-known charity out there when it comes to autism. Just because they have the most media coverage and celebrity support does not mean they are a good organization.
Autism Speaks does not have a single autistic member on…
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“It is my opinion that the combat exclusion policy actually increases the risk of...”
– Former Army Sergeant Kayla Williams dropped a lot of wisdom in an NPR interview earlier this week. You should go read/listen to what she had to say. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
“…there are nearly three whites with doctoral degrees for every one behind bars,...”
– -Michael Hames-García, “Which America is Ours?: Martí’s ‘Truth’ and the Foundations of ‘American Literature’” (2003)
so, this is my professor and he is great.
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BYU Students on African Americans
This is sad.
For everyone’s lack of amusement.
So BYU is a bunch of ignorant racists, including the fucking white dude that decided to dress up in blackface like it is nineteen fucking twenty and ask people about BHM.
Why the hell did anyone think this would be MORE effective than just being white and asking...
“Michigan State University surveyed more than 700 employers seeking to hire...”
– Bring Your Parent To Work Day: So-called helicopter parents have hit the workplace, phoning employers to advocate on behalf of their adult children. Human resource managers say more parents are trying to negotiate salary and benefits and are even sitting in on job interviews. (via nprfreshair)
“Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago…60...”
– Rick Santorum, reminiscing about the days when thousands of women died each year in the US from unsafe abortions
Because if we aren’t popping out a baby at least every other year, we might as well die. Right, ladies?
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To Rick:
The majority of the doctors who perform...
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After closing psychiatric hospitals, Michigan... →
harvestheart:
Over the last two decades, changes in state policy and big cuts in funding for community mental health care have pushed hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people into county jails and state prisons.
what is this, the 1800s?
“We too have been seduced by the false assumption that the goal of academic...”
– bell hooks, “on being black at yale: education as the practice of freedom”; Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; (1989); (p. 64-65). (via agradschoolbreakup)
“[TW RAPE]
And if the girl you’ve taken for a drink happens to belong to the...”
– A recent article from UniLad, a decently-sized online lad magazine with a fan base eager to support it. Fuck, that’s terrifying. (via cateematthews)
Oh my God, this is sickening
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The whole Lad culture that this magazine promotes makes me SICK. How they attempt to pass off...