The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a papercut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it.

(Source: nbcparksandrec)

“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.

(Source: nin10dogleftthebuilding)

chigguh:

be a tourist in your own city.
go to the places you’ve always promised to visit,
go to the shops you’ve passed by a hundred times but never entered,
go to a station you’ve never stepped foot on,
go with friends you’ve said “we should hang out sometime”.
make it so that those were not only empty promises.

be a tourist in your own city.

There is evidence from neuroscience; the reptilian part of our brain which sits in the center of our brain, when threatened, shuts down everything else. It shuts down the Pre-frontal Cortex, the parts which learn. It shuts all of that down. Punishments and examinations are seen as threats. We take our children, we make them shut their brains down, and then we say to them, ‘perform’

So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting
for someone to bring you flowers.

silentpea:

Floating Treasure (by uruyuta)

attrip:

スナックの袋を折りたたむ方法（クリップなし） | A!@attrip

metalonmetalblog:

Valente Celle Tomb, 1893, The Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa - Italy

Sculptor: Giulio Monteverde (Bistagno, Alessandria, 1837 - Roma 1917)

The funeral monument called “Eternal Drama” represents a real Dans macabre, the futile attempt of life to escape the inevitable embrace of death. The sculptor Giulio Monteverde underlines, in this sculpture, the contrast between the sensuality of the beautiful young woman who personifies Life (caught in the moment in which , wearied by the vain struggle, she is about to surrender herself to the terrible spectre who has chosen her as his prey) and the rigid impassiveness of Death which seizes her. http://grabschonheiten.diary.ru/p81440998.htm?oam

Artist: RADWIMPS
Album: シュプレヒコール
Track: シュプレヒコール
Plays: 22,368

jules420kickflip:

RADWIMPS // シュプレヒコール

this is an indie rock band from Japan who made their first major debut in 2005. this track is from their EP of the same name(Sprechchor) which was released earlier this month. their style can vary greatly from song to song so they always provide a really interesting listen. wait for the insane jamming that goes on about a minute and half into this track

Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, every story we’re told implores us to wait for it, the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we’re so focused on finding our happy ending we don’t learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don’t, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn’t include a guy, maybe… it’s you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is… just… moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope.

Artist: 베이비 소울(Baby Soul)
Album: 남보다 못한 사이
Track: 남보다 못한 사이(Feat. 휘성)
Plays: 3,861

junh0ng:

남보다 못한 사이 - Baby Soul ft. Wheesung

(Source: dontkyun)