May 2013
“Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it....”
– Melissa Harris-Perry and Karen Finney (paraphrased), commenting on a recent New York Times editorial wherein black farmers were all but vilified as ‘lazy takers’ who gamed the system —for winning an historic discrimination lawsuit against the USDA: Pigford v. Glickman (via odinsblog)
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“Black is Black, and Black is Beautiful…”
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“The historian Diodorus from Sicily, second century BC (who is regarded as an...”
– Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (via elainepgh)
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melodiousmemories asked: Hey, just wanted to let you know that story about Ann Coulter is bogus. "The Daily Currant" is a fake news media website. You're usually better about picking reputable sources. There were several things that gave this away. Among others, there are no named sources or video links to back up the story, and a simple googling of Ann Coulter Star Trek pulls up several sites that give the...
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Ann Cunter claims that the new Star Trek Film has... →
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter walked out of a screening of Star Trek: Into Darknesslast night, saying that the science fiction adventure had “too many minorities.” According to witnesses at Regal Cinemas in New York, the controversial author was seen cursing out the screen and exiting about half an hour into the picture. In an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show today Coulter defended...
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FBI surrounds house of Saudi student following... →
elle-nereid: lovenerdeen: Saudi student Talal al Rouki (pictured) was questioned by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker. FBI are vigilant after Boston bombers used a pressure cooker to make an explosive. “‘They asked me about my major, when I arrived in the US and what I do in my spare time’ he told the Saudi newspaper. Officers said that two days earlier that a...
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