grimyboy:

i always get so many compliments on my blue eyes :)

You’ve got to elect gay people so that the young child, and the thousands upon thousands just like him will have hope for a better life. Hope for a better tomorrow. I ask this: that if there be an assassination, I would want five, ten, a hundred, a thousand to rise. If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door. I ask for the movement to continue because it’s not about personal gain, and it’s not about ego, and it’s not about power. It’s about the “us’s” out there. Not just the gays, but the blacks and the Asians and the seniors and the disabled. The “us’s.” Without hope, the “us’s” give up. And I know you can’t live on hope alone. But without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you, and you, you gotta give’ em hope. You gotta give ‘em hope.

-Harvey Milk

lacigreen:

“You Can’t Be a Princess” | Journalists from ABC’s “What Would You Do?” planted hidden cameras in a Halloween store and filmed shoppers’ reactions to a boy who wanted a princess costume and a girl who wanted a Spiderman costume.

we are policed into our respective gender roles at a very, very young age.

ryancassata:

justoneboi:

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thedopepoet:

In Selma, Alabama, a monument to the first leader of the Ku Klux Klan is under construction on public land.

The statue is of Confederate General Nathan Forrest who was the first Grand WIzard of the Klan. He best known for massacring Black Union soldiers at the Civil War battle of Fort Pillow. A group called Friends of Forrest have even been giving the blessing of the Selma City Council to complete the monument. The group is planning to lay concrete for a new foundation, add a new bust of the KKK founder, enclose the monument in a wrought iron gate, and add night lighting.

Selma is home to some of the most important events of the Civil Rights Movement — including “Bloody Sunday,” when 600 activists fighting for African-American voting rights were attacked by state and local police.

SIGN THE PETITION TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING 

http://www.change.org/petitions/selma-city-council-no-more-monuments-to-kkk-hate?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9735&alert_id=pKAYxFWCsP_yQDtwtFimL

siiignal boost

BOOST!!!

It’s sad to see that the South is STILL so behind the times. FUCK HATE. FUCK RACISM. SIGN THE PETITION! 

(It only takes a couple seconds to sign up for change.org so do it!) 

commie-pinko-liberal:

Rachel Maddow reacts to the fact that Romney said Syria is Iran’s route to the sea

221cbakerstreet:

quigonejinn:

bowiecadmium:

ipsadixit:

guineverethecat:

Some ladies are far more articulate than I can be…

since “You go, girl” doesn’t seem appropriate, “You go, Justice Bader Ginsburg”!!!

Bitches get shit done

True Story: Ginsburg and her husband attended law school together.  After their first kid was born, her husband was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and Ginsburg attended class for both of them and took notes.  With a sick husband and a newborn baby, she still made law review.  

True fact: Ginsburg’s opinion in the VMI case is 50 tons of smoking-hot judicial “fuck you, if the standard is equality of opportunity, VMI, you can’t put three adjunct professors in a classroom next to a jungle gym, tell them to teach the ladeez, and then claim that you’re offering female students the same opportunity that you offer male students”.  

True fact: Ginsburg’s beef with Roe v. Wade is that it was insufficiently clear that the decision of whether or not to give birth to a kid is all about the goddamn person who has to give birth.   

True fact: Ginsburg is saucy as fuck, calling Scalia straight-out on his bullshit on the health care law by quoting his very own words back to him. 

True fact:  Ginsburg is a tough old bird who didn’t miss a day on the bench while she was getting chemo for colon cancer, but she is only human, and what Romney will appoint to replace her if he wins the presidency does. not. bear. thinking about. 

hero

thehalloweennegras:

searchingforknowledge:

thewhitemankilledthetruth:

thepeoplesrecord:

Judge rules that millions can sue NYPD over stop-and-frisk
October 23, 2012

A federal judge in New York has given the go ahead for a class action lawsuit to move forward against the city’s police department over allegations that its stop-and-frisk program has continuously allowed officers to discriminate against minorities.

In a ruling made Wednesday by US District Judge Shira Scheindlin, the pending suit against the NYPD, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others was granted class action status.

Authorities seem nonplussed.

When asked for his take on Judge Scheindlin’s decision, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told the New York Times that he had no comment because the litigation was continuing, but offered one quip: “It is what it is.”

Mayor Bloomberg also said he couldn’t comment specifically on the ruling, but, according to the Associated Press, had some words nonetheless.

“Nobody should ask Ray Kelly to apologize – he’s not going to and neither am I – for saving 5,600 lives. And I think it’s fair to say that stop, question and frisk has been an essential part of the NYPD’s work; it’s taken more than 6,000 guns off the streets in the last eight years, and this year we are on pace to have the lowest number of murders in recorded history. … We’re not going to do anything that undermines that trend and threatens public safety,” said the mayor.

For others, however, it doesn’t seem as clear cut; in her ruling, Judge Scheindlin decries, “First, suspicionless stops should never occur.”

The current case began to take hold all the way back in 2008 when attorneys representing four plaintiffs first began seeking class action status. The four original named plaintiffs say that they were wrongfully stopped and frisked based on their race. In only 2011, the NYPD stopped 685,724 New Yorkers, reports the American Civil Liberties Union. In all, 89 percent of those stopped were either black or Latino. Of the nearly 700,000 cases in that year alone, 88 percent of the people stopped were found innocent. Such statistics are largely typical for previous years, although one thing that has changed as time has gone on is the number of pedestrians stopped by law enforcement.

“[T]he policing policies that the city has implemented over the past decade and half have led to a dramatic increase in the number of pedestrian stops, to the point of now reaching almost 600,000 a year,” Judge Scheindlin wrote of the case earlier this year.

Now anyone that feels they have been victimized similarly by the New York Police Department by means of an invasive and unwarranted search since 2005 can add their name to the case.

By way of the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policies, police officers in the Big Apple are allowed to conduct searches of suspicious persons if they have reason to believe that they are committing a crime. Statistics documenting the history of the program reveal, however, that skin color seems to play a pivotal role when the police are left to decide who is frisked and who isn’t.

Judge Scheindlin says it is unlikely that many people will sign on to the case, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t many who would be excluded from doing so. The NYPD has already stopped and frisked more than 200,000 people on the streets of New York in the first three months of 2012 alone; between 2004 and 2009, around 2.8 million similar stops were carried out.

“This case presents an issue of great public concern: the disproportionate number of Blacks and Latinos, as compared to Whites, who become entangled in the criminal justice system,” the judge writes in her ruling. “The specific claims raised in this case are narrower but they are raised in the context of the extensively documented racial disparities in the rates of stops, arrests, convictions, and sentences that continue through the present day.”

Elsewhere in her ruling, Judge Scheindlin says that the NYPD’s arguments in favor of the program appear “cavalier”and display “a deeply troubling apathy towards New Yorkers’ most fundamental constitutional rights.”

In a statement offered to the AP, the law office for the city of New York says, “We respectfully disagree with the decision and are reviewing our legal options.”

Source

In the words of NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, “It is what it is” - Legalized racial profiling.

Can I get a fuck the police? 

FUCK THE POLICE. And I hope they get entirely bankrupted by this lawsuit