Plaid Ponderings: Thoughts of a Lezz
Mini Brittany and Rainbow Santana gifs are by this lovely.
Moustache Glee gifs are by this genius. .
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the TA for one of my classes friended me on fb
i’m not sure how to feel about this
thinking of getting a tattoo after I finish this bitch of a...
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you guys make me SICK, SICK, SICK.
i loved this scene so so so so much.
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I wake every morning to find that the cats have brought in several flower heads from the garden outside and scattered them throughout the house,...
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If you have or will have student loans, you need to read this.
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As an Anthropology student, I’ve learnt through my field that we have proven that there is no such thing as race.
Show us this “proof”.
Okay. I don’t have the energy for this so I’m just gonna post this to reflect the thoughts in my head:
“New York State Senator Eric Adams and his colleagues honored Trayvon Martin on Monday by wearing hoodies to the March 26, 2012 Senate legislative session in Albany.”
via Colorlines
thechronicwanderer reblogged your photo: Apparently Steve thought it was important to…
What the fuck. I don’t even HAVE a response to this douchbaggery racist bullshit. Why haven’t you removed him yet?
I’m not friends with him in the first place! This all started because the political cartoonist from here posted an accurate cartoon and we both responded.
I can always block him.
But I like calling him out on his racist douchbaggery to the general public.
mrschimpf replied to your post: “We get another white gay couple who have a white daughter.” Brian Stokes Mitchell IS black, how is that a hard concept to grasp?
Not to go far into this, but I DO agree deeply. There’s some kind of hidden shade line that casting directors find acceptable (with those past it pushed to ‘urban’ roles rather than neutral ones), when there should be NO line at all.
My point exactly.
Dear Glee Fandom,
Do you see this man? His name is Wentworth Miller. He also happens to be Black. SURPRISE, MOTHAFUCKAS!!!!!! Yes, I know the blue-ish eyes are throwing you off. The light skin? Yeah, understandable. But please note, Black people range in skintone more than you will ever know. Oh, Naya Rivera? Also Black! AHAHAHHAHAHA
A little… bit of a stretch here? Excuse me if I am being an ignorant fuckass here, but I don’t think having a parent who is one quarter African-American like Miller makes you black. Naya is half Puerto Rican, quarter African and quarter German. Does the quarter German means I can tell she is Caucasian? Because I wouldn’t say that.
Like I said, maybe I am being an ignorant fuck here, but I call those two Beautiful Examples of Multiracial Origin, certainly not black or white. (And specifically, I refer to Naya as latina because that’s how she refers to herself.)His mother is white and his father is black. There is no quarter part at all. Yes he is biracial but half of his make up is black which mean he is black. There is no other way to coat it.
Naya Rivera, one of her parents are white and the other is half black and half latino, which mean she is a black latino. There is no other way to coat it.
And I wish people would stop saying quarter German or quarter Jewish like that explains someone’s white race b/c there are black Jewish people and black Germans out there and stating that their a quarter German is just saying what their nationality/culture is and not what their racial make up is.
So yes you did come across as ignorant fuckass.
Sorry about this ignorant fuckass, Wikipedia must have lied to me:
Miller is of multiracial origin: his father is of African-American, Jamaican, English and German background, and his mother is of French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese ancestry.
Rivera is of half Puerto Rican, quarter African, and quarter German descent.I know this is a touchy subject and stuff, and not to rise any controversy, but I just don’t know how it is possible to take a man with African-American, Jamaican, English, German, French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese blood and say he is black. With so many different origins, that other people should pick one and get it in the front seems a little… weird to me. Unless, of course, he identifies as such, in that case I will call him, or anyone, whatever they feel they are.
Okay. Let me just say this right here.
In the black community, it is so fucking rare to have a visible gay person representing us in the media. Whether it be character or an actual LGBTQ black person, they’re never on my screen.
I got so damn excited when they showed us that picture in season one and Rachel had a gay black man as her father. Because dammit somewhere there is a gay black boy out there who doesn’t have any role models. He doesn’t have anyone on the screen that looks like him. How is he supposed to think that he can have a chance at happiness if there isn’t a single damn example of it on television? The only black gay person I ever knew when I was growing up, was RuPaul. The only reason I even knew of RuPaul is because he was in that movie with Tyra Banks and Lindsey Lohan. And he was in drag in that movie. It’s not that I don’t love me some RuPaul because he is fierce. But it’s the fact that the stereotype that all gay men just like to dress up as women, is getting old.
I’m so disappointed in the way that they selected this character change. I wanted to see a black actor playing a happily married black gay man. A man that had a stable job, a loving husband, and a daughter he loved. A man whose character managed to still be happy in a small fucking town with ignorant people.
But no. We get another white gay couple who have a white daughter.
Maybe I’m over the top with this. But you know what oh well.
This is why I’m pissed off. To Ryan Murphy and other people, maybe it wasn’t a big deal.
But to me, it’s a big fucking deal.
yourface69 replied to your link: Michelle & Jim Bob Duggar Expecting 20th Child
Am I the only one who thinks raising 20 kids borders on abuse? No two people can possibley provide the love and support all those kids who are at different stages need. Child raising isn’t just having money to feed, clothes and educate them.
No! I was totally just thinking this. There’s no way that those kids can all get the attention that they need to emotionally from their parents and from other people outside their homes.
I also have a large problem with the show and this family in general. Because if this weren’t a “happy” white couple with a reality show, there would be no way for them to afford 20 kids. They couldn’t afford 16 when they first got their show. Their pantry was filled for them by donations. But hey, because they’re heavily religious and they’re “good” people they can let it slide.
I bet that if this was a minority couple and they had 20 kids, they would be seen as people looking for donations and attention. They would be seen down upon and would say that they’re trying to freeload off of the government. They would say they need to look at their choices they are making in life and say that they need to use birth control. Child Services would be over at their house all the time. I’ve seen this happen. Single mom who has kids has to go to work to provide for them leaves them alone for a shift, next thing you know she’s being charged with child neglect.
I say all this because I have yet to see TLC or any show go and look at minority families who have a large household or have a large number of children and go and give them a tv show.
Single mom raising 9 kids? Oh, no show for her because she should be married and should’ve been smart about the choices she made in life.
Give me a break.
If you don’t know, Taraji is THE LEAD character on this new show Person of Interest where the pilot episode had the highest test ratings of any drama pilot in 15 years.
Does matter to TV GUIDE though.
On the cover of their latest issue…..all three of her…
of-great-importance replied to your link: Thanks Elle for the reminding us that there’s only six attractive black celebrities out of all 50 states.
WTF?
Not to mention that they don’t have a single black male either.
I might be gay but….Whut?
Protip: Everyone outside of my race looks the same.*
*even members of my own race.hahahhahaha three different shades of vanilla.
This is actually a legitimate phenomenon. I wish I could find the research, but I don’t even know what to search for….anyway, some psychologists studied face recognition and showed that it was harder to tell people of a different race apart. It makes sense if you grow up surrounded by people of the same race.
“Three different flavors of vanilla….”
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[Raquel]Nelson, 30 and African-American, was convicted on the charge this week by six jurors who were not her peers: All were middle-class whites, and none had ever taken a bus in metro Atlanta. In other words, none had ever been in Nelson’s shoes:
They had never taken two buses to go grocery shopping at Wal-Mart with three kids in tow. They had never missed a transfer on the way home that caused them to wait a full hour-and-a-half with tired and hungry kids for the next bus. They had never been let off at a bus stop on a five-lane speedway, with their apartment in sight across the road, and been asked to drag those three little ones an additional half-mile-plus down the road to the nearest traffic signal and back in order to get home at last.
And they had never lost control of an over-eager four-year-old as they waited on a three-foot median for a car to pass. Nor had they watched helplessly as a driver who had had “three or four” beers and two painkillers barreled toward their child.
That’s right: Because Nelson did not lug her exhausted little ones three-tenths of a mile from the bus stop to a traffic signal in order to cross five lanes of traffic, she is guilty of vehicular homicide. Because she did as her fellow bus riders, who crossed at the same time and place, and because she did what pedestrians will do every time – take the shortest reasonable path – she is guilty of vehicular homicide.
The drunk driver has a history of hit and runs. He served six months in jail. Nelson faces three years in jail. Justice?
this is what I’m talking about when I say that mothers get harsher sentences than the person who actually killed the child does.
This is bullshit. I think what upsets me the most is that this man was under the influence. He was drunk and killed a child. And all he got was six fucking months?!
Sign the petition, add a comment, let the people in Georgia know that this is unacceptable.
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I honestly like Tracy Morgan.
I forgave him after his original apology. I knew that this was just a moment of ignorance. He said something ignorant. Learned from it. Apologized. The end. I can’t really ask for more than that.
But what I didn’t really get is the number of black comedians or journalists, who were black, who were jumping up defend him so quickly.
They wanted to to make it seem like it was a racial thing that people were so quick to hate on Morgan. That wasn’t the case at all. Roland Martin was instantly saying that yeah it wasn’t okay to say that, but that people shouldn’t be so offended by what Morgan was saying. The kind of words that Morgan said, shouldn’t have been defended in the least bit.
Of course the people that were defending him were denying their straight privilege to begin with. They tried to make it seem as though threatening gays wasn’t as bad as using racial slurs. Truth of the matter is, they’re both equally horrible things.
If anything I must say that this finally spread some light on the problems that people of color face in their community when it comes to being homosexual.
I guess I can thank them for that.