Let me tell you a story. Once at a party, I had all the little girls sitting around me and I was asking them about their favorite parts of all the princess movies. The birthday girl was sitting next to me, and tells me, “Princess, your skin is the same color as mine.” I smile and agree, and try to move the game along, but she interrupts and says, “Your skin is brown and you’re a princess. It’s the same color as mine, but you’re a princess.”
“Well, if my skin is brown and your skin is brown, and I’m a princess, then you must be a princess too.” I tell her. And then I spent the next 10 minutes assuring all the black girls at the party that yes, they have lovely skin and yes, they can be princesses with me.
This happens at most of the parties I go to. I have had my arm stroked, my hair patted, my skin color commented on more times than I can remember. I am not simply hired out to entertain a bunch of cute little girls dressed in poofy skirts who want to play with a big girl in a poofier skirt. I am hired out because I am an affirmation. For these little black girls (and boys! I’ve dazzled a few of them too) Princess Tiana is proof that for once, they can be special BECAUSE of the color of their skin, not IN SPITE OF.
Ulysses refused to take the Platinum Chip package when he saw the player’s name on the list of couriers. Assuming the player character takes the default name (”Courier”) when they wake up at Doc Mitchell’s house, thus implying they can’t remember their name and substitute their profession instead, this would mean Ulysses and Johnson Nash (the dude who runs the courier office) are the only characters who know the Courier’s real name.
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Something they don’t teach you in school about the american revolution
The sudden increase in taxes was completely warranted. The British empire had bailed out the colonies when they were at war with both the natives and the french colonies. War is hella expensive.
Okay this is funny, because Black tumblr was dead pushin everyone and even they mothers to vote for Bernie Sanders! I can’t tell y’all how many posts I came across encouragin people to register to vote and vote for Bernie Sanders!
Bernie Sanders got your vote because he acknowledges that the police brutality in America is extremely critical in today’s society and a reform must be made to change the way the police behave and act towards us, ESPECIALLY TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE.
Bernie Sanders got your vote because he wants public education, including public colleges to be free.
Bernie Sanders got your vote because he wants healthcare for all citizens.
Bernie Sanders got your vote because he marched to MLK the day he made his “I Have A Dream” speech and organized resistance to segregation.
He got your vote because he believes that minimum wages should be higher for everybody, is aware of global warming, AND is aware of economic inequality.
but the MOMENT y’all hear that Bernie Sanders voted for war on Palestine, all of a sudden, you aint supportin’ him?
Like y’all expectin this nigga to be PERFECT!
Y'all was ridin’ his dick from the moment he announced his race to be the next US president, and y'all praised him for every word he said just moments ago!
Now he loses all credibility because of a vote? Y'all fake as fuck. Who you gonna vote for now? Hillary?
SHE AINT NO BETTER THAN YO MAN BERNIE!
WHO ELSE YOU GONNA VOTE FOR?!
People want politicians to be perfect. We need to realize that we will never agree with everything a politician has done in their life.
This is also an over-simplified bit of nonsense that puts Sanders in the same position as every liberal Jew ever: either 100% denounce Israel and all of its people or be seen as an Islamophobic murderer of Palestinian babies.
News flash: It’s more complicated than that. People might be aware of Sanders being asked about his (non-existent) Israeli citizenship in an NPR interview, but they should also pay attention to the rest of the interview where he is openly critical of Israel and supports a two-state solution. He flat out says he doesn’t know how that might happen (because no one does, if we did we’d have done it already), but he doesn’t agree with the actions Netanyahu has been taking.
In contrast, Clinton has strongly supported Netanyahu and is more conservative on every single other issue. You want a pro-Palestinian Democratic candidate? You’re not going to get better than Sanders. Yes, even though he’s Jewish.
It was the entire reason you were even born and you can’t even do it. Your brother may have left and did whatever he did but he was never even supposed to exist. You are an even bigger disappointment than he will ever be.
So I made a dopplefetch for Lapis. I love torturing her.
After a weeks-long
search for the perfect unique, eye-catching
font for his project, my client spotted one he LOVED on some website, and
tried to show me by copying some text and pasting it into our chat window.
Of course, when you
do that, the text loses formatting and reverts to Arial (or whatever the
default chat font is). Despite my repeated attempts to explain this, he
just kept getting irritated and pasting the same thing again.
Eventually I
convinced him to just give me the page’s URL so I could see this font myself.
