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agirlcalledchris: lati-negros: writeswrongs: cavetocanvas: G...

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:51:40 -0400

lati-negros:

writeswrongs:

cavetocanvas:

Gordon Parks, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark conducting the Doll Test, Harlem, New York, 1947

In the “doll test,” psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark used four plastic, diaper-clad dolls, identical except for color. They showed the dolls to black children between the ages of three and seven and asked them questions to determine racial perception and preference. Almost all of the children readily identified the race of the dolls. However, when asked which they preferred, the majority selected the white doll and attributed positive characteristics to it. The Clarks also gave the children outline drawings of a boy and girl and asked them to color the figures the same color as themselves. Many of the children with dark complexions colored the figures with a white or yellow crayon. The Clarks concluded that “prejudice, discrimination, and segregation” caused black children to develop a sense of inferiority and self-hatred. This photograph was taken by Gordon Parks for a 1947 issue of Ebony magazine. (via)

You want to know what is exceptionally fucked up?

The same study was replicated in 2008. Dark-skinned children still by far selected the white doll. Repeatedly.

Dr. Kenneth B. Clark - Panamanian

This makes me so sad and angry. If the Black children had more representation in the media, and saw more people who looked like them on TV, in movies, in positions of power, maybe they wouldn’t develop such a sense of inferiority or so readily prefer the lighter-skinned doll.

politics-war: A boy cries as he holds his sister in his lap...

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:45:32 -0400

politics-war:

A boy cries as he holds his sister in his lap after a confrontation between squatters and police.

alibaadi: Turkey. Kurdistan. Dogubayazit. 1993.

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:04:25 -0400

alibaadi:

Turkey. Kurdistan. Dogubayazit. 1993.

call-of-cthulhu: sinidentidades: Australia’s history of...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:00:39 -0400

call-of-cthulhu:

sinidentidades:

Australia’s history of racism towards Aboriginals is absolutely disgusting.

Until the mid-60s, indigenous Australians came under the Flora And Fauna Act, which classified them as animals, not human beings. This also meant that killing an indigenous Australian meant you weren’t killing a human being, but an animal.

To this day, Australia breaks every code of the Geneva Convention when it comes to indigenous Australians and their human rights. The “public housing” that the government has given them are one-bedroom shacks with no running water, no electricity and no gas, that entire families are forced to live in. These shacks are in communities in the outback, as far away from “civilised” society as possible. Out of sight, out of mind.

Indigenous Australians that live in the city are commonly forced to live in very dangerous and derelict areas that the government gives very little funding towards. Redfern in Sydney is a highly indigenous Australian populated suburb that is rife with crime, unemployment and horrendous living conditions. The government does next to nothing to help these people, either.

Whenever riots have broken out as a result of incredibly low morale, the police and the government are very quick to point all the blame at the indigenous Australians and say that they are the cause of their own problems, rather than looking at what the actual cause is.

Unemployment rates amongst indigenous Australians is astronomical. Crime rates are astronomical. Suicide rates are extremely high within the indigenous Australian community. Death from inadequate living conditions and inadequate health care is common. Brutality towards indigenous Australians is common.

The way many indigenous Australians are forced to live is equivalent to that of what one would expect from a third-world country. Indigenous Australians are considered by the UN to be one of the most horrendously marginalised groups in the world.

And how does the government amend all of this? With a national “Sorry Day”, where white people plant a hand in some designated area of soil as a token of their white guilt, and then continue going about their white privileged day.

On top of that, white people here commonly bitch and complain about how “good” indigenous Australians have it and how “thankful” they ought to be to the white man for improving their quality of life. Meanwhile, indigenous Australians have lost almost all sense of identity and culture because of white colonisation.

What is left of Aboriginal identity and culture has been nearly completely destroyed. And most people in this disgustingly privileged country do not give a single god damn fuck.

Australia is a disgusting country when it comes to racism. I am disgusted by my own country.

kateoplis: Today in Iraq: The Valley of Peace cemetery

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:23:27 -0400

kateoplis:

Today in Iraq: The Valley of Peace cemetery

ccomplicate: I reblog this every time I see it on my dash,...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:26:09 -0500

ccomplicate:

I reblog this every time I see it on my dash, every time. You never know when people may need to see this.

I needed this.

ghanaian-and-a-half: yowheresthebathroom: fuckyeahtheiza: blue...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:53:20 -0500

ghanaian-and-a-half:

yowheresthebathroom:

fuckyeahtheiza:

bluesey:

Here is a Georgia State Trooper in riot gear at a KKK protest in a north Georgia city back in the 80s. The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a Klan hood and robe. I have stared at this picture and wondered what must have been going through that Trooper’s mind. Before the Trooper is an innocent child who is being taught to hate him because of the color of his skin. The child doesn’t understand what he is being taught, and at this point he doesn’t seem to care. Like any other child his curiosity takes hold and he wants to explore this new thing that this man is holding probably because he can see his reflection in it and that’s a neat thing and he wants to check it out. In this picture I see innocence mixed with hate, the irony of a black man protecting the right of white people to assemble in protest against him, temperance in the face of ignorance, and hope that racism can be broken because this young boy may remember that a black man smiled at him once and he didn’t seem so bad after all.

always a striking photo.

Goes along with my last post.

Amazining

whitecolonialism: During the Vietnam War the United States used...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 01:21:02 -0500

United States Military helicopter spraying Agent Orange over agricultural land in Vietnam.

An infant with deformed hands in Ho Chi Minh City.

A boy born with protruding eyes and deformed limbs looks outside the window in Tu Du Hospital.

Physically and mentally disabled child lies in a bed.

A child with a severe case of hydrocephalus.

A deformed child walks back to his room after lunch.

A "reference room" filled with jars of deformed, still born fetuses viewable for people visiting the hospital.

whitecolonialism:

During the Vietnam War the United States used a chemical weapon known as Agent Orange, and from 1961 to 1971 the United States released over 20,000,000 US gallons of Agent Orange over agricultural land all throughout Vietnam.

The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that over 400,000 people were killed and 500,000 children were born with defects as a result of Agent Orange. The images above show the impact that this chemical still has on the population of Vietnam.

xeb695: Palestinians protecting a Jewish Synagogue in Beirut...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:50:20 -0500

xeb695:

Palestinians protecting a Jewish Synagogue in Beirut from attacks during the Lebanese Civil War. December, 1975

Until 1982, about 25,000 Jews remained in Lebanon. However in that year, the Israeli Defence Forces attacked Beirut and bombed
the Wadi Jmil synagogue [pictured], nearly destroying it. The siege of Beirut and the widespread destruction of the city by Israeli forces led the majority of Lebanese Jews to flee. Today it is being rebuilt with Lebanese state money for the remaining Jewish community of Lebanon, numbering around 100.

theyoungradical: not help progress your own fucking...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:47:15 -0500

theyoungradical:

not help progress your own fucking ‘careers’.

ain’t much worse than artists who don’t understand this.

nazimsesen: A woman lies next to her dying son, a victim of...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:46:13 -0500

nazimsesen:

A woman lies next to her dying son, a victim of Agent Orange. Agent Orange is an extremely violent chemical used by US troops in Vietnam

"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a..."

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:30:17 -0500

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?”

- Sandi Toksvig (via saintseducinggold) (via stay-human, learninglog) (via thewickedrhyme)

Photo

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:29:14 -0500

mjw91: Shomei Tomatsu, Chewing Gum and Chocolates, Yokosuka,...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:24:56 -0500

mjw91:

Shomei Tomatsu, Chewing Gum and Chocolates, Yokosuka, 1959, Gelatin silver print, 10.75 x 14.5 inches.

2013

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:48:33 -0500

If you reblog this before and/or on February 1st, 2013, I will write your URL down and stick it in a jar or whatever. After February 1st, 2013, I will take the jar of URL’s and I will scatter them around. They may get taped to public bathrooms, they may be thrown into crowds at festivals, or they may get put under napkins at restaurants.

Some one may find your URL, and who knows, they could message you telling you where they found it.

You have until February 1st, 2013 to reblog.

Photo

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:56:49 -0500

gulphstringers: Chechnya 1995

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:11:34 -0500

gulphstringers:

Chechnya 1995

arpeggia: Installations by David DiMichele More posts

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:13:04 -0400

Construction

Glass

Lightrod

Salt and Asphalt

arpeggia:

Installations by David DiMichele

More posts

leaveobashar: The difference between Freedom & Slavery is...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:45:25 -0400

leaveobashar:

The difference between Freedom & Slavery is one thin line.

الفـــرق بيـــن الحـــريـــة والعبـــوديـــة خـــط رفيـــع

Thanks @MalekJandali

iamapatientboy: Savita, a two and a half years-old girl from...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:38:07 -0400

iamapatientboy:

Savita, a two and a half years-old girl from North Bombay, performs for Arab tourists near the Taj-Mahal Hotel. 1992
From the series, “Children of Bombay”
Photo by Dario Mitidieri