So its very important that some questions be answered! I am making this blog post to ask our LGBT activists, organizations and LGBT media to be that loud voice asking several questions of several people.
1. What are State Representative Allen Peake’s views on the legislation? Does he support it? Will he vote for its passage?
2. Will State Representative Allen Peake abstain from voting for this legislation and realize the conflict of interest because his business will be affected by the new law if it passes.
3. IF State representate Allen Peake does support this legislation and votes for its passage, what are the views and what would the course of action be by any of the parent companies that franchise restaurants to Allen Peake’s company, C&P Restaurants.
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Of note in re Netanyahu’s policies: As of right now, there is no civil marriage system in Israel, and there are only 5 integrated, bilingual schools in Israel. One of them is the embattled, world-famous Hand in Hand school.
“Back then, they were called communists, or half-breeds, or outside agitators, sexual and moral degenerates, and worse, they were called every other name than what their parents gave them…”
Barack Obama on Selma
Read a YouTube comment board under a civil-rights-related video, and you’ll see people still flustered by the alleged sexuality of MLK or other marchers. The most authoritarian way to try undermining a social movement and its historical memory is to slut-shame protesters. #Selma50 #OccupyWallStreet
Last night, I learned that the reason why #Alabama’s 1901 constitution is the longest extant constitution in the world is because it has a whopping 856 amendments to limit local rule, preserve white supremacy and solidify the hold of the Jim Crow Democrats. To date, most of these amendments have not been struck down or repealed. It’s a f*cking embarrassment of a document, ya’ll.
I just called Senator McKoon’s office, left my name/work with PFLAG Columbus, GA/opposition to his bill (which goes up for a floor vote in the State Senate today).
All this time, I’ve thought that these sorts of protections for homophobic expression are hypocritical. They’re being passed only – ONLY – because LGBT people are working for civic protections under law.
It reminds me of how Jim Crow laws were passed after slavery ended in order to protect racist ideology and a vengeful social architecture.
For every inch gained by the debased, someone feels “attacked”. For every expansion of the social contract to the unwanted, someone’s morality is offended and needs civic protection. Let’s be more inclusive.
I went to a public school up til 6th grade, and it was often bad (except for when I went to spelling bees). Then I went to a private religious school in Warner Robins from 7th to 12th, and my self-esteem hit rock bottom.
In public school, I often argued with teachers. In private school, the teachers (not all) paddled my ass a lot.
Frankly, in elementary school at Miller, I remember that I most enjoyed my time in Special Ed.
Mom thinks that Special Ed was what the teachers sent students to when they thought something was wrong with us. I didn’t get such a luxury in private school.
‘Big Hero 6’ Director Talks Sequel, Key to Film’s Success
“No sequel will ever get made unless the directors want one and feel strongly that there is a story that needs to be told. No sequel will ever get made unless the directors want one and feel strongly that there is a story that needs to be told.” Hopefully, with all that they had to cut out in order to center the film, Disney Animation will have enough left to be a platform for a sequel. I just wonder what it will be titled.
The colonization counterfactual
An alternative map of Africa to consider, particularly if European colonization/settlement hadn’t happened. #SwordAndSoul
One of the questions I’m often asked by friends who haven’t studied African history is what might have happened to the continent if it hadn’t been colonized. It’s interesting to look at the following map of African politico-tribal units circa 1844 by Swedish artist Nikolaj Cyon in the light of this question:
[click for full size – it’s worth it!]
I haven’t been able to find any firm documentation on the origin of the name Alkebu-lan, although a variety of questionably sourced websites suggest that it’s an Arabic phrase meaning “land of the blacks” – supposedly an original name for Africa. Cyon notes in a presentation that the map represents the culmination of an alternate history where the Black Plague killed significantly more Europeans than was actually the case, presumably reducing the amount of early colonization which would have occurred. Thus, while many of these territorial groupings appear feasible to…
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Within a few minutes of online research, though, I discovered two more photos taken on the same day in 1916 by Harris & Ewing at an Emancipation reunion. As the official White House photographers of the early 1900s and then the nation’s largest photo news service, they rarely snapped shots of African Americans.
But on that sunny fall afternoon, they posed a group of black mostly octogenarians and nonagenarians in front of Cosmopolitan Baptist Temple at Tenth and N Streets, NW.
Now propped on canes and dressed in their finest clothes, these men and women had spent the first four to five decades of their lives in slavery. That the four women in the initial photo all were centenarians—and strong enough and determined enough to stand—made the image all the more remarkable.
via Four Free Women: 1916 Emancipation Reunion « A’Lelia Bundles.
So I pissed off a guy in Morrow, GA under a 13WMAZ.com thread. He messages me to burn in Hell because I don’t believe in Jesus. He wants me to justify his e-thug. Calls me a bitch. I’m laughing at him and calling him a punk. He wants to meet me and tell me what he thinks of me. He blocks my messages. He’s shit at Text English. #DontStartNone, Kenny Evans.
