Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan - The Abortion Debate (via kny111)
"Who is Mr. Carter or any other foreigner to tell a Hawaiian we cannot use the word haole?” — Professor Haunani-Kay Trask
Rest in power, warrior queen (1949-2021)
More than 1.2 million years ago, an unknown group of human relatives may have created sharp hand axes from volcanic glass in a "stone-tool workshop" in what is now Ethiopia, a new study finds.
This discovery suggests that ancient human relatives may have regularly manufactured stone artifacts in a methodical way more than a half-million years earlier than the previous record, which dates to about 500,000 years ago in France and England.
Because it requires skill and knowledge, stone tool use among early hominins, the group that includes humans and the extinct species more closely related to humans than any other animal, can offer a window into the evolution of the human mind. A key advance in stone tool creation was the emergence of so-called workshops. At these sites, archaeologists can see evidence of hominins methodically and repeatedly crafting stone artifacts.
March 1998
This is the book for those that want to pick it up. Quarter of the way through and it’s destroying the white woman ignorance and frailty charade. Great read so far.
A good read on this is The Half Has Never Been Told, by Edward Baptist.
Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is the black female professor
To all the White women who like to act like they’re not enforcers of White supremacy and also get benefits from said system, here you go.
“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.” — Nina Simone
Dez gets up extra early to cook a morning meal for Toree, just as a small way to show her appreciation! ♥
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is promoting reparations in a bid to curb health and wealth disparities of black New Yorkers — but the effort is being met with accusations that it’s “sowing racial divisiveness,” The Post has learned.
The proposal for federal reparations is spelled out in a bombshell report from the city’s Department of Health and the Federal Reserve Bank entitled “Analyzing the Racial Wealth Gap and Implications for Health Equity.”
“The goal of a [federal] reparations program would be to seek acknowledgment, redress, and closure for America’s complicity in federal, state, and local policies … that have deprived black Americans of equitable access to wealth and wealth-building opportunities,” the report said.
The city’s Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan and his team offered three key recommendations including: a fresh approach to public health policy, how to improve data collections on wealth and health outcomes and getting the community more involved with health care decisions.
But moderate and conservative politicians opposed to reparations accused Adams’ health minions of turning into ideologues and social justice activists instead of doing their jobs.
“Add reparations and sowing racial divisiveness to the list of greatest policy hits by Commissioner Vasan’s and his health department, right alongside the crack pipe vending machine, heroin ‘empowerment’ signs on subways, firing unvaccinated city workers, supporting government drug dens; and banning unvaccinated kids from sports,” fumed Council Republican Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island).
The New York legislature approved a commission to address economic, political and educational disparities by black people in June and follows the lead of California, which became the first state to form a reparations task force in 2020.
New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, the first black person to hold the position, called the legislation “historic.”
Adams has previously expressed support for the commission which is awaiting Hochul’s signature.
“We have consistently brought together experts to discuss a variety of ideas to promote equity in our city and we will continue to do so,” said the Health Department’s spokesman.
“We have an obligation to help New Yorkers lead longer, healthier lives.”
As with most progress in this system, we have to first inspect its ongoing involvement in pro enslavement systems. Not only did the historical ties to the Trans-Atlantic-slave trade leave on going structural residual connections that linger in our society today, it continues to exist in the 13th amendment's clause: slavery illegal unless a crime was found on you. That "unless" aspect made it essentially persist as is under the guise of hyper-criminalization at a system level. This has had adverse, negative effect on everyone including the environment. These are facts that can be proven. Not just social justice counter points. Besides, we are literally (regardless of what we say about it) immersed in politics and social justice through our lived social experiences. Claiming "the social justice advocates are the issue for pointing out what exists" is not helpful and adds to the lack of communal education required to understand these things. We need problack proindigenx reperations and restituion.
So soothing ‘Manta Ray Tech Demo’ PlayStation
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret WorldPeter Wohlleben, (via gatheringbones)
Gary Foley, Aboriginal rights activist, Australia
Cometary Globule L1622 (Subaru-DSS Composite) by Robert Gendler
Bright rimmed globules and their more evolved cousin, the cometary globule, represent fascinating dynamic structures formed by the interplay of cold molecular clouds and hot ionizing stars.
Typically the head of the globule faces a hot O-type star. Intense radiation from the star boils away lower density gas from the head. The evaporated rim of gas becomes ionized by the stars ultraviolet flux forming a bright glowing rim we associate with many of these globules like LDN 1622 (Beverly Lynds’ Dark Nebulae Catalog) .
The Orion superbubble contains dozens of Cometary Globules illuminated by OB stars within the Orion OB1 association. L1622 is superimposed on the northern part of Barnard’s Loop at the northeastern periphery of the Orion B molecular cloud. LDN 1622 is actively forming young stars.The most conspicuous YSO (Young Stellar Object) in LDN 1622 is HBC 515, located at the head of the cometary cloud facing the Orion OB1 association.
A prominent reflection nebula opens toward the southwest. There are also several faint Herbig-Haro objects north and west of HBC 515.
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