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Music of My Mind turned 5 today!

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Ben & Jerry gets it.

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what's it like living in America?

Pokémon Go and police brutality

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Martin Buber

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What has allowed you to come here today? Freedom & education. Many don't have those. Education is the light to see the world. Not just to see, to analyze, to recognize and correct the wrongs.

Kailash Satyarthi

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“The concept of the school-to-prison pipeline is something that I think folks struggle to understand sometimes. This is a prime example of how this starts. A minor offense (or in this case, what looks like a misunderstanding) occurs and is responded to by law enforcement instead of a conversation and/or correction. How many white students do you think would be charged for larceny in this situation? This overwhelmingly happens to students of color, particularly boys and young men. This young man may potentially have a criminal record over a $0.65 container of milk. That record could lead to more significant consequences if he had any other legal issues. That record could keep him out of some of our institutions. One little stupid incident and a police officers choice to weird his power this way could potentially forever change the course of this kids life. It's horrifying.”  Martha Compton

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"An Internal Memorandum To All White People, Myself Included" - Liz Prisley

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“Despite the utter absence of us, it’s still an internal revolution to say, 'Wait a minute. We are not only worthy of great art, but the source of.' It takes a lot of work to get there.”

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"A Three Act Play for Finding A Heaven You Don't Deserve" - Will Evans

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“If you know all the languages of the world and you don’t know your mother tongue or that of your culture, that is enslavement.”

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On the cusp of Black History Month and Women's History Month (and my first anniversary in TN), here's an artifact from the 1800s.

General Clinton Fisk advises Black Women in Plain Counsels for Freedmen. He was a progressive thinker, considering his time. Unfortunately, respectability politics haven't evolved in the past 150 years.

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“he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.

in every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered by repeated injury. a prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free. future ages will scarce believe that the hardiness of one man, adventured within the short compass of 12 years only, on so many acts of tyranny without a mask, over a people fostered & fixed in principles of liberty.”

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Proof you can be an abolitionist AND racist

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Thank you, @helloyoucreatives

Harresment in any language is wrong.