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how yall doing, how is dealing with very real angst and pain caused by imaginary characters from fictional stories

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I grew up in a world painted in red and blue lights, lullabies the sound of shouting voices and slamming doors.

I’m acquainted with the idea of excessive force of a justice system gone sour as my brother comes home covered in blood and bruises for being too mouthy. He’s an idiot, but that doesn’t mean he should get his face smashed into concrete or look down the barrels of an excessive amount of police men’s guns.

I remember watching him stuff tissue paper in his nose to stop the bleeding when it was broken yet again, a career criminal; holidays disrupted by bench warrants and police chases.

My stupid brother has made a lifestyle of drunken idiocy and beat downs, and each time he gets up and does it all over again. But the reality is that someone else’s stupid brother doesn’t. Because apparently, being able to get up and live another day is a part of a privilege that has been afforded based on pigmentation, though I thought it was an inalienable right proclaimed in our country’s declaration.

Because an encounter with police isn’t supposed to end in broken bones and bruises and it’s certainly not supposed to be a death sentence, but I can’t help but wonder if I would even have a stupid brother to complain about if his skin held a bit more melanin.

And I can run down a list to see what privilege has afforded that wasn’t earned, and all the excuses of the past die in my throat because the excuses and ignorance are a part of a privilege that few can afford, and my ignorance has a toll, though I’m not the one who is forced to pay it.

I guess they weren’t lying when they said that ignorance is bliss. It’s so much more comfortable to close your eyes and ignore everything that is wrong, But I can’t go back to the days of sugar-coated poison, just bitter enough to believe and sweet enough to hide the reality of what I was swallowing. Reality is that if I’m not a part of the solution, I’m part of the problem.

Do you remember when life was beautiful, and things were simple? Every story wrapped up in a neat bow, happily ever after, good prevails over evil.

Do you remember when mornings were filled with promise? The bright colors of dawn blending together into a Mural of potential, and the unwavering knowledge that everything would be okay.

I don’t feel that anymore, and it’s jarring to realize that so many never felt that at all.

Because he can’t breathe and saying, black lives matter is controversial. Because I see crowds screaming about their “rights” when they are inconvenienced when people are dying due to the color of their skin.

This cannot go on; something has to change.

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Person A: It's unhealthy to eat after 7 pm.

Person B, eating cake at 3 am: Well, fortunately time is an illusion.

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Now that the fandom put Solangelo on the “”“toxic”“” box I think I don’t have any more “”“healthy”“” ships but FierroChase, till Alex be rude once again with Magnus and everybody start to freak out. I am tired of this.

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Things Rick Riordan has included in his books:

1 - POC (Frank Zhang, Hazel Levesque, Piper Mclean, Carter/Sadie Kane, Zia Rashid, Samirah al-Abbas, etc.)

2 - Continued calling out of rape culture & misogyny

3 - Racial profiling and how it affects people

4 - Genderfluid/trans representation

5 - Gay representation

6 - Bi representation

7 - Arguably, pan representation

8 - The way homeless people are treated by society

9 - Religious people that are open-minded and respect others beliefs

10 - Atheists that respect others beliefs and don’t hate on religion for no apparent reason

11 - Said religious people and atheists being friends

12 - Erasure of biracial people and their identity

13 -  Biracial people not always looking like the caramel skin, green eyes etc. stereotype

14 - Cop violence

15 - Deaf representation (Hearthstone)

16 - actual gay couples instead of just token characters?

17 - kids with ADHD

18 - kids with dyslexia 

19 - the continued refusal to accept the “beauty or brains” nonsense

20 - Arguably, he calls out internalized misogyny

21 - the idea that arranged marriages are not always detrimental or unloving

22 - muslim representation

basically you should love rick riordan and read everything that he writes

feel free to add to this list

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Then you’ve learned nothing. - No, I’ve learned everything. And I’ve had to learn it on my own.

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“If Americans know one fact about the legendary African-American contralto Marian Anderson, it’s that she sang in defiance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, in 1939. When the Daughters of the American Revolution denied her request to perform in the D.A.R. Constitution Hall, in Washington, D.C., for racist reasons, Anderson picked up her musical scores and, instead, sang Schubert and African-American spirituals on the steps of the Memorial, to more than seventy-five thousand people. 

But that performance was not Anderson’s first time confronting anti-Black racism in such a spectacular manner that she made international news. Throughout the nineteen-thirties, Anderson stared down opposition in Nazi Germany and Fascist Austria.

In June, 1936, just a few months before the track-and-field athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany, Anderson was scheduled to perform with the conductor Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The menace of Nazi stink bombs at their concerts were reason enough to deter most singers. The death threats that Anderson and Walter received were another matter. But Anderson stood on the main stage of Vienna’s Musikverein concert hall with him anyway, and sang Brahms’s “Alto Rhapsody” to a sold-out house, observed from the shadows by plainclothes detectives. One Viennese music critic stated that the audience had witnessed something bigger than itself—a performance of musical brotherhood despite a rising tide of racial hatred.” 

Read the full piece here

“Marian Anderson, contralto, was denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall by the DAR because of her color. Instead,  and at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold Ickes permitted her to perform at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939.”

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Belgrade

Serbian police forces are beating up innocent citizens.

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jadethirlwall: More uncomfortable conversations. More awareness. More reflection. More learning. More action. More change. Post made by the wonderful @sineadbovell ✨

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I grew up in a world painted in red and blue lights, lullabies the sound of shouting voices and slamming doors.

I’m acquainted with the idea of excessive force of a justice system gone sour as my brother comes home covered in blood and bruises for being too mouthy. He’s an idiot, but that doesn’t mean he should get his face smashed into concrete or look down the barrels of an excessive amount of police men’s guns.

I remember watching him stuff tissue paper in his nose to stop the bleeding when it was broken yet again, a career criminal; holidays disrupted by bench warrants and police chases.

My stupid brother has made a lifestyle of drunken idiocy and beat downs, and each time he gets up and does it all over again. But the reality is that someone else’s stupid brother doesn’t. Because apparently, being able to get up and live another day is a part of a privilege that has been afforded based on pigmentation, though I thought it was an inalienable right proclaimed in our country’s declaration.

Because an encounter with police isn’t supposed to end in broken bones and bruises and it’s certainly not supposed to be a death sentence, but I can’t help but wonder if I would even have a stupid brother to complain about if his skin held a bit more melanin.

And I can run down a list to see what privilege has afforded that wasn’t earned, and all the excuses of the past die in my throat because the excuses and ignorance are a part of a privilege that few can afford, and my ignorance has a toll, though I’m not the one who is forced to pay it.

I guess they weren’t lying when they said that ignorance is bliss. It’s so much more comfortable to close your eyes and ignore everything that is wrong, But I can’t go back to the days of sugar-coated poison, just bitter enough to believe and sweet enough to hide the reality of what I was swallowing. Reality is that if I’m not a part of the solution, I’m part of the problem.

Do you remember when life was beautiful, and things were simple? Every story wrapped up in a neat bow, happily ever after, good prevails over evil.

Do you remember when mornings were filled with promise? The bright colors of dawn blending together into a Mural of potential, and the unwavering knowledge that everything would be okay.

I don’t feel that anymore, and it’s jarring to realize that so many never felt that at all.

Because he can’t breathe and saying, black lives matter is controversial. Because I see crowds screaming about their “rights” when they are inconvenienced when people are dying due to the color of their skin.

This cannot go on; something has to change.

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So, here we go...

Antifa is an acronym for anti-fascism; there is no Antifa organization. It is literally a socio-political ideology against fascism that has increased in response to the increase in visible white supremacist groups. ( Note: I said visible because these groups already existed, the only difference is that the current political climate encourages and emboldens them). The black lives matter movement is a movement against systemic racism and police brutality, also not an organization. (Note: yes there is a black lives matter organization, but the movement is not necessarily affiliated with them nor answers to them).

Now that we got the definitions out of the way, The point of all this anti-Antifa and anti-BLM rhetoric is to divert attention from a legitimate movement about systemic racism and inequality in America. By criminalizing it, it allows people an excuse to look away or be against it without having to admit that their motivations are and have always been racist. It is also a fear tactic created to discourage people from speaking out in fear of being labeled a terrorist by Trump and his followers.

There is a real issue of systemic racism and inequality in our country, and it is something that needs to be addressed. For some reason, anti-intellectualism and blind nationalism are what go for patriotism these days, and if you disagree, then you must be a terrorist or hate the United States. True patriotism isn’t holding onto some falsely glorified relic whose symbolism is really an echo of a thousand screaming voices demanding subjugation and death. It isn’t drowning in willful ignorance when the deliverance of truth is right in front of you.

True patriotism is recognizing and admitting to the wrongs of the past. It is acknowledging and addressing the injustices that continue to be perpetuated today and taking responsibility for those wrongs. It is fighting and advocating for true equality and justice. I am a firm believer that we, as people and as a community, need to keep growing, learning, and progressing. True patriotism is realizing that “America” is still just a dream and has only ever really been a dream, one that has been lost in a history of blood and lies, and it will forever remain a dream unless we work to ensure that we have true equality.