#goals

Representative Carrie Meek, 1980

From the Florida Memory, with the following caption: Representative Carrie Meek’s shirt reads: “A women’s place is in the House and the Senate.” Meek wore this prophetic T-shirt in the Florida House chamber in 1980, where she served from 1978 to 1983. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman elected to the Florida Senate. Meek later served in the United States Congress (1992-2001). Prior to her career in politics, she taught at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.

I wonder what goes through your mind when someone mentions my name to you.

Unknown (via thelovejournals)

School vs. Work [Via @anemonelost]

So, ladyboys all around, right? On taxpayers' dimes, natch. Lemme get this right: If you work really hard and do a great job at leading, helping people, and serving others you get to surround yourself with people who are allowed to break ethics rules set up to keep powerful people in check? Right on. Oh, and that public service shtick isn't really necessary if you have enough money or the right kind of speech writers... By the by, Hillary? Woman up and admit that you lost (whether rightly or not, the rules say you lost) and quit making excuses, it makes us girls look bad.

She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.

Virginia Woolf, The Years (via fyp-psychology)

'Apprentice' producer: Trump made 'despicable' racist comments about blacks and Jews

While tapes allegedly exist of the comments, 'Apprentice' creator Mark Burnett has stated that all the show's tapes are contractually confidential and he will not 'give them up'

On a recent episode of NPR’s podcast “Embedded,” Bill Pruitt, a former producer of Donald Trump’s long-running reality television show, “The Apprentice,” discussed Trump’s behavior, insisting Trump regularly made “unfathomably despicable” racist comments on the set. Pruitt has previously said that there are tapes from the filming of the show in which Trump is caught making racist comments. For the first time he elaborated on the specifics of those comments, saying they were “about African-Americans, Jewish people, all of the above.”

Other former producers and contestants on the show, which Trump hosted for 14 seasons, have echoed the claim. Chris Nee, another former producer, said she regularly heard Trump use the N-word, while Tom Arnold recounted hearing Trump make a slew of racist and derogatory comments, even insulting his own son. Producers, other staff and contestants on the show signed nondisclosure agreements which bar them from discussing what exactly happened on the set and the show’s creator, Mark Burnett, remains a loyal Trump confidant. He has stated multiple times that all the show’s tapes are contractually confidential and he will not “give them up.”