Because it implies an even playing field for all of use, regardless of race, gender, religion, class, geography and other things that hugely affect our lives and are often beyond the individual person’s control.
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It’s used especially to dismiss racial disparity and injustices experienced by people because of their race.
It erases real people’s lived experiences, not to mention a great deal of history and social reality.
It only holds true on the surface: we’re all humans, yes. But we don’t all get treated with the dignity white middle-class people tend to associate with humanity.
It doesn’t mean shit when you’re still being profiled as a (potential) criminal for no other reason than the colour of your skin.
It doesn’t mean shit when you’re targeted with racial slurs.
It doesn’t mean shit when you can be murdered, raped, abused and/or exploited with impunity just because you’re not white.
It doesn’t mean shit when you get paid less than white people for doing the same job, if you can even get one.
It doesn’t mean shit when your culture and language are deemed inferior and driven to extinction for not being white or European or Euro-American.
Dismissing racial disparity with “we’re all humans” is not only ignorant of reality; it’s outright RACIST and WHITE SUPREMACIST and deserves to be addressed as such. It only perpetuates the problem by refusing to see one in the first place; hence, it is part of the problem.
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“KONY 2012 is Bullshit”
Peep this.
Damn, y’all… Just listen to this girl.
I love her. Truth to power girl! TRUTH TO POWER!
PLEASE WATCH! PLEASE WATCH! PLEASE WATCH!
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Isis Nyongo is the Vice President and Managing Director of InMobi, the largest independent mobile advertising network in the world.
She joined InMobi in February 2011 to lead business expansion in Africa. With over nine years of business development, marketing and sales experience, Isis is responsible for the overall growth on the continent.
Isis joins InMobi from Google where she led the company’s business development efforts in Africa. She specialized in mobile partnerships and developed Google’s content strategy to bring more African content online. She brings extensive media and tech experience to InMobi and drove the launch of MTV Networks in Africa where she was responsible for commercial relationships including distribution and sales. She developed the marketing strategy for Kenya’s first online recruitment service, MyJobsEye and holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard Business School where she was president of the Africa Business Club. Isis has been named as one of the ‘Top 40 Women under 40’ in Kenya and is frequently featured by the Africa media including, Al Jazeera, BBC, Nation Newspaper, NTV, Standard Newspaper and UP Magazine amongst others.
- Don’t assume those you intend to help even wanted your help.
- You are not there to ‘help’ anyone. Help assumes you are in authority and they depend on you.
- You are there to work with people.
- Those people are not charity cases: they are human beings with feelings history…
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Entertainment Weekly just posted the “first look” of Johnny Depp as Tonto in the new Lone Ranger movie. I’m really at a loss for words right now. I…can’t.
There was a bunch of controversy over the casting of Johnny Depp to begin with—and I was right on board, mad that they hadn’t cast a Native…
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Ugandans haven’t been sitting on their asses doing nothing about Kony and the LRA rebels for the past 20 years. This war has lasted over 2 decades and it’s disrespectful to the countrymen & women who’ve actually been doing something about this war all along, even before this viral campaign, to see comments like,”we should let the Ugandans fight their own battles”…”why did the kids let themselves be abducted?”.
Trust me; if we had the resources that the western world had, we would’ve dealt with this war on our own, we don’t want anymore hidden agenda-attached aid to be held over our heads. We’re happy about the campaign, it’s great exposure, it’s a good cause but i also wanted to pay homage to a strong Ugandan lady who was one of the pioneers of the fight against Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army; Betty Bigombe.
In 1988, President Yoweri Museveni appointed her “Minister of State for Pacification of Northern Uganda, Resident in Gulu,” a post in which she was tasked with convincing the LRA rebels to give up their struggle.Unable to convince any other government members to go with her, including her own aides, Betty Bigombe set off North to hear the Acholi grievances and find a way to bring hope in a hopeless and hurting land. Her journey took her through mined roads, past destroyed military vehicles and deep into the jungles where abducted child soldiers stood guard in the bushes with Ak-47’s. Fearing she would not return alive, she sent letters to her children and the president expressing her last will that her children be given education and care.Following the failure of military efforts to defeat the rebels, Bigombe initiated contact with rebel leader Joseph Kony in June 1993. This began what would be known as the “Bigombe talks”. Read more of Betty Bigombe’s full inspirational story AND watch Betty’s 2008 PBS interview
Amazing and inspirational African woman
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I don’t know. I don’t think it’s a compliment to be told that when I write about racism or sexism that my anger is “cleansing” or that they “like” my anger. I’m even trying to understand why somebody *would* think that’s a compliment.
They like my anger. And I’m thinking to myself, am I supposed…
