Interpretation

What this picture means to me:

“Kneel to below, for the saviour and light is within.”

Obama to Offer Benefits to LGBT Federal Employees?

Source: LA Times

Hmmm, I’m not a political analyst or anything of the such, but what are you trying to say Obama? Only [gay] people in the Fed matter? Or are you trying it out first to see how it will look on the rest of us? Or are you just trying to please gay activists?

Whatever this tactic, I’m not pleased. You’re going to have to go hard or go home. This half-ass shit isn’t working quite well.

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Obama Nominates Sotomayor for Supreme Court

Supreme Court Nominee

President Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, Sotomayor would become the nation’s first Hispanic justice. Speaking at the White House Tuesday, Obama hailed her experience and background.

President Obama: “After completing this exhaustive process, I have decided to nominate an inspiring woman who I believe will make a great justice: Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the great state of New York. Over a distinguished career that spans three decades, Judge Sotomayor has worked at almost every level of our judicial system, providing her with a depth of experience and a breadth of perspective that will be invaluable as a Supreme Court justice.”

The fifty-four-year-old Sotomayor is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents who raised her in a public housing project in the Bronx. If confirmed, she would become the nation’s 111th justice and the third woman to hold a seat on the court. Sotomayor is Obama’s first appointment of a new justice since taking office. The vacancy opened up with Justice David Souter’s pending retirement at the end of the Supreme Court’s term next month.

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Well Delivered Commencement : John Legend

Democracy NOW! provided video from John Legend’s commencement address to his alma mater, University of Pennsylvania. He is a very strong public speaker and has become very active in using his social status as a catalyst for social change. I admire that in artists who don’t lose sight of the cause and get caught up in the mass hoopla.

“From the war in Iraq to credit-default swaps to the internet bubble to the real estate bubble, too often we got caught up in the hype and fail to see the real truth too often, we become apathetic. We see the lies, we see the obfuscation, the deception. And we fail to point it out. Were afraid to rain on the parade, afraid to rock the boat, afraid to pursue the truth.” -John Legend

Watch for yourself.

Part 1

Part 2

“Left Alone” – a Freedom to Marry short

Hey everyone, 

I was inspired by the Freedom to Marry contest to try and reveal the real problems about why the freedom to marry is so important to the equality of us all.  The contest said:

“Grab a camera and make a short video about why marriage matters to you.” 

So, we came up with the idea to have a loved one lost and how blatantly unfair it is because of the beliefs of the “powers that be.” There are more than 1,138 benefits that legally married couples have accessible to them and that those who aren’t legally able to marry. 

It’s not rocket science, injustice is injustice.

This short is an example of just one of the injustices.

 

visit the site Freedom to Marry to learn how you can help to end this injustice.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

l/t

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*Inspired by Felicia Miller & Donna Payne of HRC

**Made possible with Wonderroot

President Obama questioned about Legalization of Marijuana at Online Town Hall

 

 

Do I love ya Mary Jane?

In the first ever online town hall meeting, President Obama was questioned about the economy and if the legalization of marijuana could possibly boost the economy and help us all out. He responded:

 

 

President Obama: “We’re going to have to be patient and persistent about job creation, because I don’t think that we’ve lost all the jobs we’re going to lose in this recession. We’re still going to be in a difficult time for much of this year.”

This question seemed to be one of the most anticipated questions of the meeting and although Obama answered no, he didn’t rule out legalization outright. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, however, later said Obama opposes legalization. 

But that’s just hearsay.

Unnatural Causes: When the Bough Breaks

 

World's Smallest Baby

Tonight I went to a film screening and discussion at the local feminist bookstore, Charis.  The film series, Unnatural Causes, is a seven party documentary that addresses the inequalities of socio-economic status in America that cause inequalities in health. 

 

The rate at which African American children being born prematurely is at an alarming rate that has proven over the past few decades to not show any signs of going away.  The factors of this epidemic have recently been researched in the area of how environmental influences impact the chances of prematurity.  As we all know, being an African American women in America is already a double minority–not countering in the fact of other individual traits that make us unique.  As the vessel for the continuation of our species, it is very disturbing to learn that it is becoming more and more difficult to uphold the lives of my future brothers and sisters. 

The conclusion that is being formed to why African American children are the most likely to be born prematurely is racism.

“Racism is taking a toll on African Americans.”

Whoever suggested that we are in a post-racial society due to the recent election of the first African American president is completely blind to the fact that Blacks live in more poverty, are the least to graduate from high school, have a number of numerous health risks, etctera.  And this observation isn’t new.

When you live in a country where an African American male without a record is less likely to get a job than a white male with a felony, you know that the inequality exists on a much more overt & concise form.  The fact that those who live in impoverished neighborhoods receive the least amount of inadequate health care is not by coincidence. 

 

“When the public education is a system that is based on the value of the property tax, you know that something is wrong” -CDC representative

As an African American woman, I feel like there should be more focus on this issue because if we put this off, there won’t be voice left.  Let’s not act as if the U.S. hasn’t already depleted the natives of this land and had no one to answer to. 

Racism exists on many levels.  We must do each and every thing we can to undertake this unequal perception of human beings based on looks. It begins with you. 

l/t

Unnatural Causes Website

Event Sponsored by Charis

BET headed to Africa = The Buffoonery MUST Stop!

Out of all the channels to showcase African-Americans.  This makes my job just a LITTLE harder. Thanks, Debra Lee.

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Great Minds Think Alike

Amazing.

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

— e e cumming, (10/14/1894 – 9/3/1962)

“Continuing every day to be ourselves in a world that tries its best to make us conform is the hardest battle any of us can fight.”

— liz turner, (8/26/85-

reese pointed this out to me…i was truly blown away.

his quote

my quote