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I hope you're happy.
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I hope you're happy, now that you're choosing this, I really hope you get it and you don't live to regret it. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY IN THE ENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, MY FRIEND! SO IF YOU CARE TO FIND ME, LOOK INTO THE WESTERN SKY AS SOMEONE TOLD ME LATELY, EVERYONE DESERVES A CHANCE TO FLY AND IF I'M FLYING SOLO AT LEAST I'M FLYING FREE TO THOSE WHO'D GROUND ME TAKE A MESSAGE BACK FROM ME TELL THEM HOW I AM DEFYING GRAVITY, I'M FLYING HIGH, DEFYING GRAVITY, AND SOON I'LL MATCH THEM IN RENOWN, AND NOBODY IN ALL OF OZ, NO WIZARD THAT THERE IS OR WAS, IS EVER GONNA BRING ME DOWN! BRING ME DOWN! AW WAH WAH WAH WAH-AAAAAAAAH!
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"Community Works interrupts and heals the far-reaching impact of incarceration and violence by empowering individuals, families and communities. Our work is guided by the principles of restorative justice and a belief in the power of the arts to educate and heal. We work closely with the criminal and juvenile justice systems, the public school system and other community-based organizations providing services in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the state.

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A Bay Area organization. We saw a performance tonight at the Mission Cultural Center done by participants in one of CWW’s many awesome programs called Women Rising/Rising Voices. It was beautiful, empowering, funny, touching, moving, wonderful. These folks are doing some really important work. Thankful to have met them.

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bevin:

Tonight I was hit with a hand full of eggs and huge rock on my back and called “Nigger” by a white guy in the backseat of a dark blue truck as I was riding my bike on Westheimer and Jeanetta. They drove too fast for me to get the license plate number. I had to get a cop to drive me home. This night makes me wonder how blacks did it back in the day, and why the community is looking the way it is now. I am trying not to cry, but I am in physical pain from the rock and not understanding why I deserved this.

uugh

Reblogging because solidarity.

You don’t know me, but I got your back, any day, any hour, any minute. 

I once saw a large truck full of african american males switch lanes, come towards where I was standing on the curb in the rain and purposefully go REALLY fast to hit a large puddle to make it splash me, then saw them roll down the windows and point at me as they laughed. 

I am a single white female. I hate to bring race or anything into this and I am sure white people are just as much as ass holes but racism of any kind HAS GOT TO STOP it’s not okay no matter what race you are to hate on any other races! I have been targeted SO MANY times because I am white and female, mostly by men either white OR black doesn’t matter. 

I remember once I was in a long line at McDonalds, I would have been next to be served when another lane opened up and the clerk motioned to me to step over to be served. I moved, HUGE black guy who just walked in the store (I saw him enter cause of the position of the doors) Tried to shove me away so he could get helped first. I might have made a face but I know I said, “I have been waiting I was next” he said, “I was clearly here first.” I said, “No you just came in I’ve been waiting in that line.” He gets REALLY uppity and starts shouting, “WELL WHEN YOU’RE WHITE YOU’RE RIGHT” and starts throwing this huge fit. 

The cashier (she was black) tells the man that he’s being immature and that she clearly saw I was next and motioned for me to come over, that bringing race into this was not an issue. The guy would just not shut up about me being a white princess and spoiled, when dude I was at the same McDonalds he was in the same bad part of town where I always hung out cause clearly princesses eat at McDonalds in Downtown cleveland. Anyway he had to be removed claiming racial discrimination when even the other people of his race were looking at him like he was a total idiot. 

Like I said this has to stop, so I reblogged to share your story as well. 

You didn’t experience racism.

Prejudice + Power = Racism.

What you experienced was a bunch of guys fucking up your day.

Now that you’ve whined about it and tried to call it “racism,” I’m glad they did.

Wow numberonehoffbunny really needs to get her head out of her ass… she has no clue.

No actually, bookishboi, Racism is defined as: 

Racism (Noun) 

/ˈrāˌsizəm/

  1. The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as…
  2. Prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief.

What she experienced certainly is racism. Power has nothing to do with it. When you factor in power that’s when you get oppression, we’re not talking about oppression. 

In the end regardless of color or creed no one has the right to treat another individual so poorly. It’s outrageous that people are telling one person to get over an incident that happened to her, but are sympathizing with someone else. 

I feel sorry for anyone on the receiving end actions like this. It’s awful.  

welcome to simple bitch hell, population: you

Anyone who says “Power has nothing to do with it.” is someone who should not be listened to.