Uncommon Sense: 11 TED Talks That Will Change Your Life
John Hunter - The World Peace Game
Marcin Jakubowski - Open Sourced Blueprints for Civilization
Hyenseo Lee - My Escape from North Korea
Simon Sinek - How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Brene Brown - The Power of Vulnerability
Amanda Palmer - The Art of Asking
Derek…
July 20 - July 28, 2013 at Huntington Beach, California
http://www.usopenofsurfing.com/
I’ll see you guys there, it’s gonna be fun!
New favorite meme: Old Economy Steven
Everyone I’d like you to meet my father.
this is accurate lol
Ugh this is absolutely my dad.
fuck the boomers, seriously
Yup.
"I have no real stance on shaving or waxing because, again, it’s none of my business what someone else wants to do with their body. I do, however, have a major problem with some random bro on the internet telling me and other women that we have to engage in a practice that’s both painful and costly (yes, getting waxed costs major $$$) simply because an unshaved vagina makes his boner sad."
-from Why I’m Growing Out My Massive Clown Bush by Madeleine Davies (via twofish)
Anytime someone questions my support for President Obama I’m just going to pull up my Tumblr and show them this.
(Source: overitdotcom)
Medea Benjamin: "I think killing innocent people with drones is rude."
On the Street: UndocuAsians Come Out
Asians are a driving force behind migration to the U.S. and the demographic shifts; 40 percent of all migrants to the U.S. hail from Asia, and 40 percent of Asian Americans were not born in the U.S. What’s more, 1.2 million of the country’s 18 million Asian Americans are undocumented, according to the Asian American Justice Center.
So who are the country’s undocumented Asian American youth? They’re students and granddaughters and big brothers. They’re all over the country. Sitting next to you in class. Riding the bus alongside you. Probably dating your cousins. And if the latest social media campaign from the undocumented youth contingent of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is any indication, they’re a seriously hip crowd committed to social justice.
Raise Our Story, organized by the Asian-American undocumented youth group RAISE and launched this week, will collect and highlight stories of undocumented Asian-American youth to highlight the many faces of immigration. As the immigration reform bill heats up, RAISE youth organized the initiative to make sure that the immigration reform debate includes the stories and voices of Asian immigrants, “who are often overlooked in the narrative surrounding immigration reform,” they said in a statement. But organizers also hope the project empowers the Asian American immigrant community to speak their stories aloud.
Share yours on Facebook, at Twitter via @raiseourstory, and on Tumblr, where you can read the stories of the folks whose photos are included below.
"Most Whites find it easy to ignore residential segregation. I experienced a good example of this inattention when I told a lunch-table’s worth of White colleagues at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences about the linguist John Baugh’s project on “linguistic profiling” (Baugh 2003). Baugh has developed a matched-guise test in which a single speaker uses a “White professional,” a “Latino,” or a “Black” voice in making telephone inquiries about the availability of advertised rentals in the San Francisco Bay area. The “White professional” voice is much more likely to yield an invitation to make an appointment to look at the property, while the other accents are more likely to result in a response that the rental is no longer available. My colleagues, all sophisticated scholars, were genuinely surprised at this result; several mentioned that they had thought that this sort of discrimination had long since disappeared."
-Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism (via wretchedoftheearth)
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This is like when me and my white soon-to-be husband were looking for places. I’d call up and they’d say, “Come on down! Get an application!”. Because I don’t “sound” black.
Then I’d walk in 2 minutes later and they’d be all, “Oh. Sorry, we just rented it.”
Then I’d send him in and he’d get an application.
The best part? Walking back in while he was completing the application. “Oh, they gave you an application? But they told me it was just rented. ODD. THAT. I’m going to report them so let’s just skip this place, m’kay?” The looks on their faces and the pathetic apologies were just too much fun.
Used to deal with the same thing with road trips. Hotels would tell me that there were no vacancies, but my white roommate would go in and get us a room, usually cheaper than advertised.
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I do similar stuff at restauants and other places of business with my white bf. At least it makes it easier to know where not to go!
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Reblogging again for the commentary
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But we’re just supposed to *trust* and think everything is an *isolated* incident.
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Not so sophisticated scholars, were they? I mean this really, really shouldn’t be all that surprising.
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It shouldn’t be surprising, but I guarantee that most white people find it unbelievable
(via wretchedoftheearth)
I’m going to reblog this every time I see it on my dash. My parents pointed out how this phenomenon worked when we were moving to PA (they’d get steered to crummier neighborhoods and have to insist on being shown others). Housing discrimination is still pretty widespread and the gatekeepers? Tend to either intentionally or due to unchecked bias reinforce the status quo.
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It always floors me the things people are surprised at. Meanwhile, every person of color is sitting here like, “Oh. Must be another day that ends in Y, and in other news, water is wet.” Like, really, people are surprised by this, and whenever they show surprise at learning stuff that we go through, I have to poker face, lest I end up giving them the most disbelieving side eye in history because how do you NOT know this? But then, you know. Some people have the privilege of being able to be unaware it because it’s not a problem they have to deal with. :/ (via lori-jaye)
Reblogged again for commentary
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Sounds like my friends when they were looking for a place in Midtown memphis(mostly white liberal middle class area)… they said people would invite them to see the places and then would either suddenly become unavailable or they would just ignore their phone calls.. but the Obama’s said “no more excuses.. work harder”…
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Sort of had this issue with an acquaintance of my boss. The application was approved and all systems were go until the potential tenant (a Black person) faxed in a copy of their picture ID. Suddenly, the landlord didn’t want to rent the home out anymore. A real estate agent on behalf of the client threatened to pursue legal action and the acquaintance asked us for advice.
I read the email and was like, “pbbft, your landlord fucked himself over. what do you want us to say? have fun getting sued, you should’ve known better.”
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Officially in love with sara-huynh
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when my dad was studying in London, he changed his accent from an “Indian” one to a ~classy~ English one. His friend, who was a white Londoner, had a decidedly ~non-classy~ accent. One day my dad’s white friend called for a hotel somewhere and they were “out of rooms” (because accent), but when my dad called later, they had “plenty of rooms” (because accent). THEN they showed up at the place, and everyone assumed the white guy was the ~classy~ guy, until they opened their mouths. and then. lol and then.
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Richard Dawkins is getting owned by PoC and no one seems to care
h8 u forever richard
