February 2012
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mr-sali asked: The only two that mattered were the Best and Supporting Actress. Sadly, the one that was really good lost to the more comedic, "You ate my shit." The sad thing is, The Iron Lady wasn't even that good... It's not one of those iconic roles people will remember Meryl for. It was just her dressed up older, putting on a accent and doing a touch of a pond interpretation of a...
Man, my Oscar Predictions were all off.
geoffsayshi asked: I mean, I knew they were gonna give it to Meryl.
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Viola Lost
tearsofsweetness:
“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think...”
– The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
Anonymous asked: You are fabulous.
everseeking asked: Thanks for the follow. And for your comments on dreads saved me getting involved in that mess and saying the same reasoned things. Having already been reasonable got me a lovely cussing out. Sometimes there isn't enough asprin.
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My final word on the locs appropriation debate (I...
For those just tuning in, some people on this site claim that anybody who is not locking their hair for a religious or cultural reason are appropriating from those who do (others just say white people). Meaning what we do with our hair is offensive, bigoted and racist.
I’ve been doing some soul-searching to figure out why this gotten under my skin. I mean, who the hell are they anyways?...
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Oscar Predictions!
You heard it here first folks. I will use my psychic powers to tell you what will go down in the major categories tonight.
Best Actress: Viola Davis
Best Actor: George Clooney
Best Director: Terrence Malick
Best Cinematography: Tree of Life
Best Picture: The Artist
Now what should happen is:
Best Actress: Viola Davis for a movie that wasn’t The Help. You know… something that...
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racismschool:
anaerb:
lol. i love how none of her points were refuted at all. Just an attack of her character. I guess when you have back-up you REALLY don’t need to have a sustainable argument, just someone in the background saying, “YEAH !”
…but sweet nothing, aren’t YOU just…
This just made me smile. I think that’s my cue too.
escapistsonhigh asked: I agree. I think I'm done too.
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racismschool:
anaerb:
lol. i love how none of her points were refuted at all. Just an attack of her character. I guess when you have back-up you REALLY don’t need to have a sustainable argument, just someone in the background saying, “YEAH !”
…but sweet nothing, aren’t YOU just backing HER up…
So imagined this right?
“yes we know about letting them form naturally
but hey...
escapistsonhigh asked: I think it must be said. Thank you. You give me hope for people who actually fucking think! I may be mis-educated about a lot of things but at least I try to keep an open mind. I can't say the same for a lot of other people and a lot of other crazy shit I've seen today.
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corinspired replied to your post: Last tumblr argument I’m engaging.
Hey should we call non-black dreadlocks hairmats, then? *snicker*
LOL! I just posted about this. I’m baffled by this discussion. Sigh.
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racismschool:
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kosdetermination:
racismschool:
kosdetermination:
Matted hair is not locs? Why do you people who know absolutely nothing about locs keep making yourselves look dumber and dumber? Ever heard of free forming? That’s when you purposefully don’t do shit to your hair aside from washing and moisturizing. It’s…
I love it when I’m...
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racismschool reblogged your post: Last tumblr argument I’m engaging.
You are the OP? Um…you REBLOGGED the END of a conversation and then commented on it. I don’t follow you. How do you…
Oh, so now I’m a cunt? And I’m drunk apparently. Alright tumblr. Y’all funny. Can y’all continue this on another thread? One that I didn’t start so I don’t see my...
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racismschool:
kosdetermination:
Matted hair is not locs? Why do you people who know absolutely nothing about locs keep making yourselves look dumber and dumber? Ever heard of free forming? That’s when you purposefully don’t do shit to your hair aside from washing and moisturizing. It’s…
I love it when I’m the OP, but somehow I came in on the tail-end of the conversation....
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What is this craziness going on in my dashboard...
racismschool:
therhapsodyincidents:
The basic difference is intention and method. Locs are done intentionally and created in a specific manner and like previously explained, require upkeep.
Matted hair is just what happens to your hair when you stop giving a fuck.
They’re completely different.
THIS! Now, if you could just explain to me why people don’t get this. It feels like basic logic...
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racismschool reblogged your link: Racism 101: Are you a Racist?: Last tumblr argument I’m engaging.
From your original post-QUOTE (with marks and everything) “If the argument is that there are spiritual reasons certain…
How about this quote: “And I wasn’t just talking to you hence the ‘y’all.’ There were others on the thread that did say white people shouldn’t...
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“Writing controlled fiction is called ‘plotting’. Buckling your seatbelt and...”
– Stephen King - Salem’s Lot (via omgpirates)
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racismschool:
kosdetermination:
It’s futile. G’night!
So this is one of the people that started crap with me by saying that I “Was blaming white people” for Dreadlock appropriation and even did an entire post about it. Now, she is all of a sudden…can you guess? Yes, that’s right! THE VICTIM! The poor…
I know reading is hard, but can you try putting quotes around things I actually...
Anonymous asked: What is your take on black people who have dreads but have no knowledge or "who don’t understand the origins and deep spirituality" of Rastafarianism? So are you saying that if a non black sees a black person with dreads it is okay to assume that they are Rastafarian?
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anestivega replied to your post: Last tumblr argument I’m engaging.
I completely agree, I side on the idea of it being appropriation, but at the end of the day, you have to pick and choose your battles. We can agree minorities, as a whole, have bigger issues to tackle than how white people want to style their hair.
Thank you! Honestly, I’ve been having a hard time with race rhetoric...
Last tumblr argument I'm engaging.
It’s futile. G’night!
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racismschool:
kosdetermination reblogged your post: absolutely
seriously since you refute me with…think Bob Marley founded Rastafarianism, I’m covered…
“Consider the source” was the most intelligent thing you’ve said all day. I should have just let you sit in your stupid and not engaged at all.
Lol, OK. Good night, darling.
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curlyingenue:
understand the cultural appropriation of dreads, especially the way in which they have negatively affected the Rastafarian’s. White people who don’t understand the origins and deep spirituality. And that limited and negative connotation of dreads used by the media against Rasta’s has made it all…
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About this whole white people with dreads...
I hate arguing on the internet. Mainly because it’s time consuming but mostly because I never feel like I accomplished anything at the end of it.
But this whole white people wearing dreadlocks thing has been coming up on my dashboard for months so I felt compelled to say something. I understand the aversion to it because we’ve all seen the people who wear Bob Marley T-shirts, smoke...
smokingmegaphone asked: according to history, not me. you're the one who can't dig up evidence on white people dreading as a sacred custom. like I said, find me some evidence. and I can't be specific on the hair plaiting because very little is known of it, but I've seen it described as a sort of matted braiding, used by the ancient Celts.
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kosdetermination:
OK, normally I stay away from arguing with the tumblr social justice gang, but there are so many things wrong with this post.
First of all, dreadlocks originated with the Rastafarian movement AND THEN moved to India?? That’s just plain false, backwards and a bit…
Smh.
I can’t even take you seriously since you refute me with a whole lot of nonsense, and not with...
smokingmegaphone asked: just so you know there is absolutely no proof of dreads in western cultures. it is suspected or hypothesized, but most likely what occurred was a different kind of plaiting of the hair. if you want to try and find me proof from a valid source, go ahead. because you won't.
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dingane1:
poemsofthedead replied to your post: but i think making the locs/cultural appropriation discussion an issue of who was first
I agree in terms of “are they from Africa or India or…” BUT I do think it’s quite clear that white folks have no right to them whatsoever & locs have NEVER been a central part of their cultures/spiritual practices, so it’s always appropriation.
OK, normally...
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dumbthingswhitepplsay:
All Asians look like John Cho.
Asians know everything. Seriously, everything. And they can probably fly in secret and they just don’t tell us.
If an Asian person tells you to do something, for the love of god, do it. NEVER cross them.
Black people are all hard. Every one. They’re hard as…