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The White Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole [The Atlantic]
If Americans want to care about Africa, maybe they should consider evaluating American foreign policy, which they already play a direct role in through elections, before they impose themselves on Africa itself.
There’s no point in quoting the entire piece, just read it.
I really admire Teju Cole. Somebody needs to keep it real.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m18tt8Bvqd1qzs6yjo1_500.png)
The White Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole [The Atlantic]
If Americans want to care about Africa, maybe they should consider evaluating American foreign policy, which they already play a direct role in through elections, before they impose themselves on Africa itself.
There’s no point in quoting the entire piece, just read it.
I really admire Teju Cole. Somebody needs to keep it real.
“As an Indian immigrant, calling myself a person of color enabled me to identify with African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans.
The new identity freed me from the model-minority slot that I had been given by the media, politicians and by Americans themselves.
To build a multiracial movement, I had to expand my identity in a way that tied me to African Americans’ struggle to access the promise of the American dream, rather than as the ringer that would suppress that struggle.
“People of color” is now commonly used far beyond political circles, as “minority” fades into the category of things that used to be true.
It is past time for the media and the general public to embrace the phrase.”
I’ve often thought that identifying as a person of color, if you’re part of what could be considered a model minority, is a choice; a political choice.
It says a lot about who you choose to stand in solidarity with.
Something to think about, my non-black POC followers.
— Hi-C
good post
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Clips of Prince at a Camden Palace aftershow party
London, UK - 26th July 1988
LOVE.
LOVE.
‘The Second Coming’ was intended to be a documentary & live album from the Controversy tour in ‘81. The tour was professionally filmed, but the project was abandoned.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via theyoungradical)
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Oh look. It’s racism built right into the system, which was of course decided primarily by white people.
Of course, it’s also the mainstream psychiatric opinion that if you don’t trust psychiatry, you’re insane.
Funny how that works!
(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)But when you’re President — as opposed to the head of a private equity firm — your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot. Your job is to think about those workers who get laid off, and how are we paying for their retraining. Your job is to think about how those communities can start creating new clusters so they can attract new businesses. Your job as President is to think about how do we set up an equitable tax system so that everybody’s paying their fair share, that allows us then to invest in science, and technology, and infrastructure, all of which are going to help us grow.
— President Barack Obama, in response to a question about whether Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital is relevant to the 2012 campaign
The real tell? The President also said this about Romney’s Vulture Capitalist record:
“This is not a distraction. This is what this campaign is going to be about.”
And that, my TUMBLRS, is how you play 11 Dimensional Chess.
(via destroythegop)
