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THESE OPERA SENSEI ILLUSTRATIONS HELLO?!$+($?#?;!!!
Them <333
Frankly, he’s adorable (I can’t wait for the next ep!!!!)
to be clear the first one is the original. i just riffed on it because it’s a powerful message.
For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, "Wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you go forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness"–then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.
Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963.
BLM Protest
Teamster Strike
January 18, 2021. New York
Police made two demonstrations violent by charging, injuring, and arresting people at protests for police accountability and workers striking for a $1/hr pay increase. Over 30 people were arrested at the two actions, double the number of arrests of white supremacists who stormed the Capitol in DC.
The Teamster workers arrested have since all been released and are striking again.
NYPD PBA tweeted this the same day they beat and arrested people demonstrating for Black lives and for higher pay.
Dr. Martin Luther King, jr
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Acrylic on masonite 11"x14"
Dr. Martin Luther King, jr
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Acrylic on masonite 11"x14"
Lala in her school days she was friends with both Balam and kalego but was incredibly shy and their were rumors going round that she was some form of ice queen when she was just shy
Lala amduscia
Finished her i actually love her design now Time for lore her parents are both homosexual and married because her father wanted a child and her mother wanted her family to stop bothering her they have been friends since their school days. After her mother passed away her father became highly overprotective of her but he adores her she’s very good at music and very much enjoys it she was very shy at school. Her mother was known as the pale horse of death and her strength was inherited by her daughter
Posting this here since the fandom seems to be more active then instagram
“I’ve told the kids in the ghettos that violence won’t solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; “Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?” After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government”
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (via deliciouskaek)
waiting to hear what the whites and new blacks have to say about this one
(via pan-tastic)
His dream made Immigrant American Dream possible. #mlk #ihaveadream #50years #marchonwashington (at Washington DC)
Historical Documentaries on SHOWFER.COM
Watch his legendary speech and more on SHOWFER.COM: https://goo.gl/wbQWtp
Books for ourselves
It is important to remember that books are not always about just telling a story. Books can show us how others live--whether they be Stormtroopers, drug addicts, slaves or someone that has another different story from all the ones that are different from us.
Yes, we learn about people from their stories, but it doesn’t have to stop there. In understanding one’s life and one’s struggles--we can choose to act, we can choose to push forward, we can choose to help, we can choose to learn more.
In 15 days it’s Halloween, in 16 days it’s a day of really cheap candy and chocolate, and in 21 days you have the power to vote and make the world how you think it should be. But I hope that’s not your one day of using your voice, your power and the power of listening to someone else’s story. You may not have the best or easiest life, everyone struggles but “a rising tide lifts all boats”--be that tide, raise the condition for everyone
18,262 days later
Today has been a sad week, my heart has just had a constant ache the past few days, it hurts to the point where I can physically feel it pulling me down, holding me back. I am sad, for a feeling that nothing much has happened in the past 50 years, and that we have become more complacent with hatred and prejudice, tolerant and desensitized to injustice
We have seen it all, and are surprised by nothing. You can say you refuse to get used to it or accept it, but eventually, you will as that’s how our brains work. We see something shocking enough, it becomes something we expect and it becomes normal, no matter how terrible it is. It is not a choice. And when that day comes when we all accept, we will officially not be able to create change
Martin Luther King Jr. is known as an advocate for civil rights to bring equality to African Americans, but he was a civil rights advocate for all; regardless of race, gender or economic status he believed that everyone should be given the tools they needed to reach their full potential, especially if they worked for it. While progress continued, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. greatly impacted the rights of all US citizens and unfortunately at 50 years later, I do not think we have recovered. We are still divided by race, religion, gender, poverty, sexual orientation and so many others. We are not a people of a country but individuals of ourselves, disconnected
I have become desensitised by gun violence, it saddens me but it doesn't shock me and that sadness doesn’t last. Like the news stations, and in the offices we hear about it and then move onto traffic, we scroll past it on Twitter, we hear it and move on. It has become a part of my everyday life. The similarities today from 50 years ago of those who are still fighting for equality, for our lives, do not give me hope but dread, for when we become desensitised by injustice to others I know our chance for equality and true prosperity for all will be over.
Let me explain, I knew who Etan Petz is, but I didn’t know who Emmett Till was
Psst, I totally get it, you're by yourself And the last thing you want to do is take a picture But seriously, my little girl loves you She's always singing, "I'm gonna pop some tags" I'm not kidding, my oldest, you even got him to go thrifting And "One Love", oh, my God, that song - brilliant Their aunt is gay, when that song came out My son told his whole class he was actually proud That's so cool, look what you're accomplishing Even an old mom like me likes it cause it's positive You're the only hip-hop that I let my kids listen to Cause you get it, all that negative stuff isn't cool Yeah, like all the guns and the drugs The bitches and the hoes and the gangs and the thugs Even the protest outside - so sad and so dumb If a cop pulls you over, it's your fault if you run Huh?
#OnThisDay, Tuesday, January 15th, 1929: Martin Luther King Jr. was born. He would have been 90. #STEMists know: The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLK #MartinLutherKingJr #education #equality #edchat #STEMEd #makered #NationOfMakers #character #weareteachers #intelligence #3rdgrade #4thgrade #5thgrade #STEMist #charterschool #homeschool #publiceducation #growthmindset #educationmatters #educationispower #lifelonglearner #specialeducation #humanrights #freedom #learnmore #knowledgeispower #studentcentered https://www.instagram.com/p/BstZJsCBd50/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n1ow1k04ls79
They dont tell us this shit in school, it's never talked about- how is this never talked about?? I never knew these quotes, I should've gotten more into the true history of MLK. Lately, so many interesting things about him have came out. White people so scarcely realize our privileges. We don't have to worry about simply getting out of our doors safely. I'm glad I'm learning more about black history, learning things I was never told, learning history that was ignored by society and the school systems. Now, I'm not blaming the school systems for my lack of knowledge. I hope that things really do start to change, that people become more educated on these things and people's ignorant views and opinions change as well.
