FUCK THE SYSTEM

"When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:40:40 -0400

“

When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.

Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other.

Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn’t possess,
acts but doesn’t expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.

”

- Lao-tse, Tao Te Ching, Verse 2 (via tao-a-day)

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:39:56 -0400

the-next-emperor: annie: 賭神. God of Gamblers. It was my...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:37:38 -0400

the-next-emperor:

annie:

賭神. God of Gamblers.

It was my favorite movie when I was 8.

123-dive: So true.

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:36:40 -0400

123-dive:

So true.

psych-facts: Find out your Chapman’s Love Language...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:20:26 -0400

psych-facts:

Find out your Chapman’s Love Language Here: http://neurolove.me/post/49816887462/which-love-language-do-you-speak

psych-facts: More here

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:15:59 -0400

psych-facts:

More here

"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:12:12 -0400

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

- Jim Rohn (via erraticintrovert)

rubato: Source: Kim-Ju, Greg M., Wayne Maeda, & Cara...

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:02:57 -0400

rubato:

Source: Kim-Ju, Greg M., Wayne Maeda, & Cara Maffini. 2009. A historical and contemporary overview of Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences: Immigration, racialization, and liminality. Aggression and Violent Behavior 14: 437–444.

Photo

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:25:47 -0400

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:15:31 -0400

“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

- Dalai Lama (via colordesignlife)

ltclaws: kim-jong-chill: In December of 1986, scientists at...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:39:16 -0400

ltclaws:

kim-jong-chill:

In December of 1986, scientists at Chernobyl, searching for nuclear fuel from the destroyed Reactor #4, made a breakthrough.

Deep in the basement of Block 4, an enormous, radioactive mass was discovered. The radiation level on the surface of the mass was 10,000 roentgens per hour. To approach it directly would mean certain death, so a crude, wheeled camera was rigged up to take a look. The mass was two metres across, and several tons. Because of its shape, it was christened “The Elephant’s Foot.”

The mass appeared to be corium - a lava-like molten mixture of portions of nuclear reactor core, formed during a nuclear meltdown. It consists of many things: nuclear fuel, fission products, control rods, structural materials from the affected parts of the reactor, products of their chemical reaction with air, water and steam, and, in case the reactor vessel is breached, molten concrete from the floor of the reactor room. Analysis showed that sand from the reactor area had absorbed the hot nuclear fuel and fused into glass. The discovery of The Elephant’s Foot gave scientists, for the very first time, the idea that an enormous amount of nuclear fuel escaped the reactor in this form.

SCIENCE BONER

"Victims of racism are created in the image of racists. When the victims struggle vigorously to..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:37:30 -0400

“Victims of racism are created in the image of racists. When the victims struggle vigorously to protect themselves from violence of others, they are made to appear in the image of criminals; as the criminal image is projected onto the victim. The recent situation in the Congo is one of the best examples of this. The headlines were used to mislead the public, [to create] wrong images. In the Congo, planes were bombing Congolese villages, yet Americans read that American-trained Anti-Castro Cuban pilots were bombing rebel strongholds. These pilots were actually dropping bombs on villages with women and children. But because the tags ‘American trained’ and ‘Anti-Castro Cubans’ were applied, the bombing was legal. Anyone against Castro is all right. The press gave them a ‘holier than thou’ image. And you let them get away with it because of the labels. The victim is made the criminal. It is really mass murder-murder of women, children, and babies. And mass murder is disguised as a humanitarian project. They fool nobody but the people of America. They don’t fool the people of the world, who see beyond the images.”

- Malcolm X

Taken from “Malcolm X: Speeches at Harvard” (pages 165-166)

"If you speak in an angry way about what has happened to our people and what is happening to our..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:36:38 -0400

“

If you speak in an angry way about what has happened to our people and what is happening to our people, what does he call it? Emotionalism. Pick up on that. Here the man has got a rope around his neck and because he screams, you know, the cracker that’s putting the rope around his neck accuses him of being emotional. You’re supposed to have the rope around your neck and holler politely, you know. You’re supposed to watch your diction, not shout and wake other people up— this is how you’re supposed to holler. You’re supposed to be respectable and responsible when you holler against what they’re doing to you. And you’ve got a lot of Afro-Americans who fall for that. They say, “No, you can’t do it like that, you’ve got to be responsible, you’ve got to be respectable.” And you’ll always be a slave as long as you’re trying to be responsible and respectable in the eyesight of your master; you’ll remain a slave. When you’re in the eyesight of your master, you’ve got to let him know you’re irresponsible and you’ll blow his irresponsible head off.

And again you’ve got another trap that he maneuvers you into. If you begin to talk about what he did to you, he’ll say that’s hate, you’re teaching hate. Pick up on that. He won’t say he didn’t do it, because he can’t. But he’ll accuse you of teaching hate just because you begin to spell out what he did to you. Which is an intellectual trap—because he knows we don’t want to be accused of hate.

And the average Black American who has been real brain-washed, he never wants to be accused of being emotional. Watch them, watch the real bourgeois Black Americans. He never wants to show any sign of emotion. He won’t even tap his feet. You can have some of that real soul music, and he’ll sit there, you know, like it doesn’t move him.

And then you go a step farther, they get you again on this violence. They have another trap wherein they make it look criminal if any of us, who has a rope around his neck or one is being put around his neck—if you do anything to stop the man from putting that rope around your neck, that’s violence. And again this bourgeois Negro, who’s trying to be polite and respectable and all, he never wants to be identified with violence. So he lets them do anything to him, and he sits there submitting to it nonviolently, just so he can keep his image of responsibility. He dies with a responsible image, he dies with a polite image, but he dies. The man who is irresponsible and impolite, he keeps his life. That responsible Negro, he’ll die every day, but if the irresponsible one dies he takes some of those with him who were trying to make him die.

”

- Malcolm X

The traps of racism.

Source: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/malconafamhist.html

(via disciplesofmalcolm)

Photo

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:33:11 -0400

Malcolm X: Panel discussion, WINS Radio, February 18, 1965

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:32:58 -0400

White man: You're doing all you can to encourage it, Malcolm-
Malcolm X: Not encouraging it.
White man: -with your inflammatory and demagogic language-
Malcolm X: No, no, I don't-
White man: Oh yes you do.
Malcolm X: I don't encourage it; but I'm not going to sit here and pretend that it doesn't exist.
Another white man: Don't you incite Malcolm? Don't you incite?
Malcolm X: I don't think so. How are you going to incite people who are living in slums and ghettos? It's the city structure that incites. A city that continues to let people live in rat-nest dens in Harlem and pay higher rent in Harlem than they pay downtown. This is what incites it. Who lets merchants overcharge people for their groceries and their clothing and other commodities in Harlem, while you pay less for it downtown. This is what incites it. A city that will not create some kind of employment for people who are barred from having jobs just because their skin is Black. That's what incites it. Don't ever accuse a Black man for voicing his resentment and dissatisfaction over the criminal condition of his people as being responsible for inciting a situation. You have to indict the society that allows these things to exist.

blackfilm: Deacons for Defense* The words “Black Power” bring...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:31:20 -0400

blackfilm:

Deacons for Defense*

The words “Black Power” bring back memories of names like Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, and Eldridge Cleaver, but in Bogalusa, LA a group of harassed Afro-Americans had decided they’d had enough and took up arms to defend themselves and force the white power structure to listen to them. This took place during “Freedom Summer”, 1964, right after the Civil Rights Act had become law. Fact based movie stars Forest Whitaker and Ossie Davis, the former as the founder of the Deacons of Defense and Justice (DDJ) and the latter as a peaceful minister trying to prevent the unavoidable violence that will follow. The story revolves around the white-controlled factory which provides 70% of the town’s income and employees 40% of its people. Segregation is still clinging on within the factory, with blacks denied the supervisory positions and forced into separate lunchrooms, bathrooms, and drinking fountains. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has its strongest power in this area and, as the DDJ gets armed the KKK brings in more members from throughout the U.S. There will be a war! via

*film in full. fast forward to 9:24.

for more information on the Deacons of Defense

"When you are able to love your enemy, he or she is no longer your enemy. The idea of “enemy”..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:29:44 -0400

“When you are able to love your enemy, he or she is no longer your enemy. The idea of “enemy” vanishes and is replaced by the notion of someone who is suffering and needs your compassion.””

- Thich Nhat Hanh (via quotableq)

"You won’t allow me to go to school. I won’t become a doctor. Remember this: One day you will be..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:22:55 -0400

“You won’t allow me to go to school.
I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:
One day you will be sick.”

- Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl

This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women are using a traditional two line poetry form to express their resistance to male oppression, their feelings about love (considered blasphemous), and their doubts about religion.

(via blua)

Photo

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:22:10 -0400

knowledge equals black power: publicshaming: Jamie Foxx attended the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:20:37 -0400

knowledge equals black power: publicshaming: Jamie Foxx attended the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday...:

publicshaming:

Jamie Foxx attended the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night to accept the 2013 Generation Award. He did so while wearing a shirt that had the phrase “kNOw Justice” above photos of Trayvon Martin and the Newtown kids.

Many intelligent humans would view Jamie Foxx’s shirt as…