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Once upon a time…
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The Voss sandal. @amerykahsmisfit takes our new summer style from the street to the stage.
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I’m not gonna lie. I’m going through it
Questions About Me, tagged by @theshenanigansoftakiyah
Countries I’ve lived in: Nigeria, United States of America
Favorite fandom: None
Languages you speak: English, Spanish, Yoruba (in order of proficiency, the last two being very not proficient
Favorite film of 2016:
Ghostbusters
Last Article You Read:
“We Tried Blue Apron, Hello Fresh and Their 4 Competitors—One Was Clearly the Best” by Sage Lazzaro on Observer.com
Shuffle your music library and put your first three songs here:
When You Tell Me That You Love Me (Diana Ross), One on One (NaS), These Are The Daze (Trick Daddy)
Last thing you bought online:
Criminal Law by Andre Moenssens and various other expensive textbooks
Any phobias or fears?
God
How would your friends describe you?
A hoot and a half, a teddy bear, huge for no reason
How would your enemies describe you?
No weapon formed against me shall prosper
Who would you take a bullet for?
Most people
If you had money to spare, what would you buy first?
Check my Amazon wishlist(s)
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Rest in Peace Alim Rahim
An old childhood friend of mine was brutally murdered this past Mother’s Day in Largo, Maryland. There have been reports that Alim was shot 10 times and twice in the head. Alim and I hadn’t talked much as adults but I was sincerely rooting for him and wishing him the best. We lived completely different lives and we were so different but that time I saw him in Burger King a couple years after high school graduation and we were talking about his music and his goals. He still reminded me of the kid I knew back in elementary school. I always knew Alim had a strong heart and a sharp mind, even back in our High Bridge Elementary School days. I’m probably rambling, I’m sorry. I will hold on to the memories of us riding bikes all day during the summer and playing video games at your house up the street. I’m so sorry a coward has stolen your life from you Alim, please rest in peace and watch over your friends and family.
If anyone knows ANYTHING about this PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE call 1-866-411-8477 (TIPS) You will remain anonymous.
Please boost this, Alim’s friends and family are hurting so much right now.
Hey could you guys please boost this? An old friend has been murdered and we are all praying for justice to be served. Please please please reblog.
PLEASE BOOST THIS.
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I saw this post and was immediately inspired! Had to get this out of my system ASAP!
© J Pawlik
Okay. I want this Link so badly.
It got better
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@theshenanigansoftakiyah @eebro @atribecalledj ... it is @black-zak-attack. Also, I too want this. It’s canon now.
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Jayee’s Graduation
Photos © Usman Suleman
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I keep seeing this picture and people being oh so impressed by it acting like Dubai’s Sheikhs are miracle workers or some shit. And all that skyline does is make me want to throw up. Do you understand how all of this was built?
…and then there is the foreign underclass who built the city, and are trapped here. They are hidden in plain view. You see them everywhere, in dirt-caked blue uniforms, being shouted at by their superiors, like a chain gang – but you are trained not to look. It is like a mantra: the Sheikh built the city. The Sheikh built the city. Workers? What workers?
Sahinal Monir, a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh. “To get you here, they tell you Dubai is heaven. Then you get here and realise it is hell,” he says. Four years ago, an employment agent arrived in Sahinal’s village in Southern Bangladesh. He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could earn 40,000 takka a month (£400) just for working nine-to-five on construction projects. It was a place where they would be given great accommodation, great food, and treated well. All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220,000 takka (£2,300) for the work visa – a fee they’d pay off in the first six months, easy. So Sahinal sold his family land, and took out a loan from the local lender, to head to this paradise.
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport, his passport was taken from him by his construction company. He has not seen it since. He was told brusquely that from now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat – where western tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer, when it hits 55 degrees – for 500 dirhams a month (£90), less than a quarter of the wage he was promised. If you don’t like it, the company told him, go home. “But how can I go home? You have my passport, and I have no money for the ticket,” he said. “Well, then you’d better get to work,” they replied.
He shows me his room. It is a tiny, poky, concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds, where he lives with 11 other men. All his belongings are piled onto his bunk: three shirts, a spare pair of trousers, and a cellphone. The room stinks, because the lavatories in the corner of the camp – holes in the ground – are backed up with excrement and clouds of black flies. There is no air conditioning or fans, so the heat is “unbearable. You cannot sleep. All you do is sweat and scratch all night.” At the height of summer, people sleep on the floor, on the roof, anywhere where they can pray for a moment of breeze.
“There’s a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the construction sites, but they’re not reported. They’re described as ‘accidents’.” Even then, their families aren’t free: they simply inherit the debts. A Human Rights Watch study found there is a “cover-up of the true extent” of deaths from heat exhaustion, overwork and suicide, but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their nationals in 2005 alone. After this figure was leaked, the consulates were told to stop counting.
onenefes
I’ve been waiting for this.
My international relations professor taught me about this. He used to be a lawyer and one of the contractors hired him to make an unconscionable contract which he refused to do after interviewing the workers. It’s terrifying. It’s not just construction jobs either. They’ll trap doctors, lawyers, teachers. Tourists are the only ones relatively safe. The practice has created a modern system of slavery, people sell off their workers to one another, workers who have been cut off from their countries of origin and have their passports withheld by their employers.
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University of Maryland Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering’s 34th Annual Student Recognition and Alumni Banquet
Photos © Usman Suleman & Darryl Felton
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Hi, sorry I never saw your message
It's cool, I sent it at like 4 AM. Feeling better?
Once you get this, list 5 things that make you happy and then put this in the ask of 10 people who reblogged from you last. :) (Also thanks for your sweet big brother messages!!)
My family, my girlfriend, my good looks, my friends, work. No problem, always glad to support.
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This is the last #blackout post I’m making. Thank you so much guys for your support of this fab occasion. Imma still reblog yall though because yall are gorgeous lord have mercy! Stay black!!!
Can't give a brother photo cred? ( ishstudio ) Or tag my beautiful sister and your best friend? ( theshenanigansoftakiyah )
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