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nealzonwheelz

Vacation Braids

When white women think it’s “cute” to goto a Caribbean island and get their hair braided to look “cultural”.  You don’t look cultural you look foolish, Caribbean culture is not a vacation hairstyle.  

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wtfwhiteprivilege-blog

lilmissneptune:

Howard University featured in Life Magazine circa 1946.
God knows how much I love this. 

Woman in the 3rd picture is my patronus.

#not white privilege#history#howard#patronus
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mordecai72

Paris Jarreau Grant Age 25, 6’3” ~160-175 lbs (very thin)

He has not physically seen since 6/15, last heard from 6/22/12 in Manhattan in the presence of someone claiming to be Lance Jenkins, coaching him to request his personal identification information. Lance Jenkins may be located in brownsville, Brooklyn (near Dumont and Jerome) or upper west side (columbus ave near south end of the park). Paris has some suffers from bipolar disease with mild brain injury which affects his judgment center and may suffer seizures. It’s highly probable he is a victim of a coercive relationship or scam with ‘Lance Jenkins’ and an unknown female associate. Alone, Paris has been attempting to be a model and often hangs out in Union Square, and likes to frequent The Coffee Shop.

If anyone sees him please call 703-201-6352. Or please ask him directly to call home.

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wtfwhiteprivilege-blog

This is the nephew of a good friend of mine. PLEASE REBLOG!

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canisfamiliaris

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?

The answer is NO.

The “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.”

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alithea

this bullshit fills me with a very specific kind of rage. so, TIME TO DEBUNK!

  1. that meal from mcdonalds takes virtually no time to acquire AND is available almost anywhere.
  2. the second meal? that “salad” is lettuce … with nothing else, not even dressing unless its just olive oil or some milk i guess? gross.
  3. also thats the price of each serving, not an entire loaf of bread, a bottle of olive oil, etc. that stuff adds up which means you have to have a lot of money at one time to buy it all.
  4. that meal probably took an hour and a half to make, which is a long fucking time when you work multiple jobs or are caring for a lot of people or dont have help! seriously, if you are a single parent of three who works, is spending an hour and a half every night preparing a meal a likely option?
  5. same with beans and rice! also, you know whats a fucking bummer? eating beans and rice every night because you are poor. ask any person who has done it and they will tell you (you can start with me).
  6. there is a “nutrition” argument here that lacks a follow up: poor people are more likely to be doing physical labor and need more than 571 calories per meal.
  7. you know who is less likely to know how to bake or prepare a chicken? people without access to the internet, or libraries, or who werent taught how to by their parents because their parents worked all the time. access to healthy foods is a classist issue and classism is cyclical, you fucking morons.
  8. seriously, these sorts of infographics make me want to fucking flip tables. do you know why people don’t eat more fresh fruits and vegetables? because fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive, because they take a long time to prepare, because they dont live near a grocery store that has a decent produce section, because they dont have reliable transportation to get groceries to and from the grocery store, because they dont have the energy to plan all of the shit that is involved in making healthy, intentional, filling, balanced meals. basically: poor people get fucked, and then we get BLAMED for being lazy.
  9. eating “healthy”, aka access to fresh fruits and vegetables, is a privilege, first, foremost, always. so fuck you new york times and your ignorant goddamn infographic.
  10. there are SYSTEMATIC REASONS that we do not have equal access to fresh fruits and vegetables. they are very REAL problems. besides, you know, systematic poverty in america, the total mis-distribution of farm subsidies is a perfect place to start. read about that, then either get bent or start working on the actual problem.
Source: The New York Times
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