autisticpearl:

sorry i was late i can’t conceptualize time

iwriteaboutfeminism:

Moderator: “On a personal front, what racial blind spots do you have?”

Bernie Sanders: “Well, let me just very briefly tell you a story. When I was in one of my first years in Congress, I went to a meeting downtown in Washington DC and I went there with another Congressman, an African American Congressman. And then we kind separated during the meeting and I saw him out later on and he was sitting there waiting, and I said, ‘Well, let’s go out and get a cab. How come you didn’t go out a get a cab?’ And he said, ‘No, I don’t get cabs in Washington DC.’ This was about 20 years ago. Because he was humiliated by the fact that cab drivers would go past him because he was black. I couldn’t believe it.[…] I’ll tell you another story. I was with some young people active in the Black Lives Matter movement. Young lady comes up to me and she says ‘You don’t understand what police do in certain black communities. You don’t understand the degree to which we are terrorized. And I’m not just talking about the terrible shootings that we’ve seen, which have got to end, and we’ve got to hold police officers accountable. I’m talking about everyday activities where police officers are bullying people.’ So, to answer your question…when you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto. You don’t know what it’s like to be poor. You don’t know what it’s like to be hassled when you walk down the street or you get dragged out of a car. And I believe that as a nation in the year 2016, we must be firm in making it clear we will end institutional racism and reform a broken criminal justice system.”

xeppeli:

tunnaa-unnaa:

xeppeli:

xeppeli:

lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

Too bad Lahore pigeons are a domestic breed and don’t appear in the wild at all.
Some equally balanced wild colorations include

Pygmy Falcon

Great Hornbill

Wallcreeper

and

Black-throated Loon

this is a good addition to this post. thank you for this birds educations

chekhovandowl:

maffypop:

katniss-everbeans:

lordbape:

Stop saying Caucasian to mean white lol besides the fact that it’s literally not correct to use them synonymously, it’s 2016. just say white. It’s not offensive, Caucasian is not the “more appropriate ‘pc’ way of saying white” and it’s not what you actually mean to say. Say white in 2016

I’m in a master’s program at an HBCU and SO many people were using Caucasian in place of white in their papers that my policy professor sent out a mass email including a map of the Caucasus region and a full explanation of how to correctly use the term Caucasian.

can someone explain the difference? as a white person I do not ever think about my own race

The term Caucasian comes from the Caucasus mountains!

As you can see, it’s sitting nice and tight between the Black and Caspian sea, and it’s chalk-full of all kinds of countries which contain people that are not the same as European white people, although in some countries they might benefit from passing white. 

Anyway, the people that live here are actually people that have a cultural and ethnic identity - Hellenic, Armenian, Iranian. For example, Ossetian people

Or people from the region of Crimea, which some people might recognize from recent political coverage. 

So, you might be asking “well, why do we say Caucasian when we really mean West-european descendants?”

There’s an answer! This was an old carryover from the taxonomy if the Olden Days when the races were divided into “Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid” races. We have since stepped away from this classification in anthropological studies, but the Caucasian term remains in use for some frustrating reason.

The issue, however, is that it’s simply not logical to use it for yourself unless you are literally a descendant of one of the caucasus peoples. If you’re European, and want to emphasize that point, say European! Heck, you can even say “Nordic” if you are particularly proud of that part of your heritage and you happen to come from a Nordic country, or “Slavic” if you happen to come from a Slavic country. 

suburbiansivan:

Let’s prove my aunt wrong

fancyfade:

fancyfade:

what do you call slang that develops in text speak?

a neololgism!