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Is white skin really fair skin?
Something as basic as the color of our skin has shaped our lives, opened doors, put us at the head of the line.
Granted us privileges we don’t even realize.
We don’t experience the daily disadvantages - the looks, the fear, the hassles - that thrive in the unspoken world of white entitlement.
And that’s unfair.
Yes.
I got myself a Holga before Burning Man last year so I could do some experimenting on the playa; here are some of my favorite results. I’m glad I waited a while after the Burn to develop these - they bring back a rush of amazing emotions and memories.
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::: Found on theridersandthecreatures :::
I love this, fits right into my personal style.
(Source: billyboyrock)
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Blackwork shoulder by Manuel Winkler, Clockwork Tattoos.
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I suppose you will hesitate to consider yourself a mystic or a revolutionary, but when you have eyes to see and ears to hear you will recognize them in your midst. They are sometimes undeniably evident to the point of irritation, sometimes only partially visible.
You will find them in the eyes of guerillas, young radicals, or women who cary protest signs. You will notice them in the quiet dreamers playing guitar in the corner of a coffeehouse, in the soft voies of monks, in the melancholic smile of students concentrating on their reading. You will see them in the mothers who allow their children to go their own difficult ways, in the fathers who read to their children from a strange book, in the laughter of young girls, in the indignation of young rebels, and in the determination of protestors. You will find them in your own town, in your own family, and even in the strivings of your own heart, because they are in everyone who draws strength from the vision that dawns on the skyline of our lives and leads us all to a new world.
A pretty amazing example of symbiosis. (h/t Andrew Sullivan)
Part 2 of Jane Elliot’s Brown Eye vs. Blue Eye thought experiment.
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Brilliant stuff - a fascinating experiment to give young, white Americans a taste of the every day racism many people of color experience.
(Source: eshusplayground, via mickyalexandria)
