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Reparations is Slavery. https://www.mpalacioart.com/reparations-is-slavery/

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Reparations is Slavery. Coleman Hughes https://www.mpalacioart.com/reparations-is-slavery/

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On June 19, 1865, the enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally learned the news that they were a free people, nearly three years after President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

On abc’s Blackish season 4 premiere, the The Roots give a perfect explanation of why we celebrate Juneteenth. 🇺🇸

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#CasterSemenya is above average. Now they want to deform her to be "normal".

Semenya’s experience highlights many issues involving gender and sexuality. Society believes that to be a woman, you must look, dress, and perform a certain way.  Semenya was stripped of her sexuality because of the way she looked.  Her “masculine” qualities such as her muscular physique and performance caused a stir in the athletic world.  She was lied to and forced to take a test that was not kept private.  She found out a life changing fact about herself that she was unaware of.  She was treated unfairly and was banned from performing in athletic events for a period of time.  A woman, an athlete, a driven human was treated poorly because of her ambiguous gender.  The world that we live in is so caught up in the gender binary that they fail to see people for who they are. Semenya’s unique situation has opened the eyes of many people.  If society worked to try and understand such a situation, intersex athletes would be treated as equal competitors and the athletic world would be a better, and safer place.

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Petition the FBI to add "forced to penetrate" to the definition of Rape.

This is in response to this case from June 2018: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/27/montana-woman-with-machete-hides-behind-ex-boyfriends-door-then-forces-sex-on-him-police-say/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.54112a7cbefe

The wording used “After the intercourse” and “An argument began as soon as the sex ended,” but never do they say rape.

Then this article about the same case:  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sex-boyfriend-machete-break-in-house-samantha-ray-mears-montana-a8427066.html

The wording used “woman allegedly forced her ex-boyfriend to have sex by threatening him with a machete” and “engaged in sexual intercourse” and “machete in her hand as she sat naked on the bed and tried to have sex again,” and again, never using the word “rape”.

The woman, the aggressor, was charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, unlawful restraint, partner/family member assault, and 2 counts of criminal mischief… but not rape.

As a society, don’t we deem sex by coercion rape? Threatening someone with a machete for them to perform a sexual act is coercion, just like it is coercion when a male holds a weapon to a female when he forcibly penetrates her. Just because a man gets an erection, does not mean he is feeling aroused. It’s often a reaction to physical stimulation, similar to women: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353113103001536

The FBI definition of rape, as of 2012, is as follows: “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” This seems to only apply to women when it comes to forced penetration, unless it’s done anally. Not even a women forcing a man’s penis in her mouth would be considered rape because his mouth is not being penetrated by a sexual organ.

This does not include men being forced to penetrate. The definition should be revised as follows:

The forced penetration, as well as the act of being forced to penetrate, no matter how slight, of the or in the vagina or anus with any body part or object without the consent of the victim; or the act of forced oral penetration by another person’s sexual organ, as well as the act of forcing another person’s sexual organs into one’s oral cavity without their consent.

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(via Bermudity: Vol 1. Episode 1)

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Wow, she forking nailed it!

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEsiSNH2_yU)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxLByThNvWU)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXApeTYRYNQ)

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That actually made me tear up. What a generous and kind young man. Obviously raised by parents that showed him the proper path to take helping others in a dignified way.

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I keep seeing this post going around on social media and everyone keeps commenting on how smart the guys is and how true the post is, but in my opinion it just comes off as abusive and multiplicative. If you have to take a picture of yourself putting on lotion because you know your gf will freak out on you and claim you’re cheating if you don’t than you are not in a healthy relationship. This is abuse. Just because it’s the girl who’s doing doesn’t mean it’s not abuse. Let’s stop passing off abusive women as just being crazy girlfriends. Let’s stop encouraging this behavior.

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Yo, okay, stop tellin boys that their height is funny if they’re short. Stop rebloggin things about boys who are under 6ft tall with the intention of laughing at them.

Stop telling boys to man up.

Stop telling boys that they should just move on and get over emotionally/physically traumatic experiences.

Stop telling boys that their girlfriends are “always right because women are always right.”

Stop making fun of boys for parts of their body that they were literally just born with an HAVE no control over.

BOYS. NEED. EMOTIONAL. SUPPORT. TOO. BOYS. HAVE. BODY. IMAGE. ISSUES. TOO.

Fuck.

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Made some things.

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Ann Peebles performing “I Can’t Stand The Rain” live in 1974

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Oct. 3, 1996 Affidafit shows CIA knew of contra drug ring

by Gary Webb and Pamela Kramer_Knight-Ridder Newspapers LOS ANGELES -

During the early 1980s, federal and local narcotics agents knew that a massive drug ring operated by Nicaraguan contra rebels was selling large amounts of cocaine “mainly to blacks living in the South Central Los Angeles area,” according to a search-warrant affidavit obtained by the San Jose Mercury News. The Oct. 23, 1986, affidavit identifies former Nicaraguan government official Danilo Blandon as “the highest-ranking member of this organization” and describes a sprawling drug operation involving more than 100 Nicaraguan contra sympathizers. The affidavit of Thomas Gordon, a former Los Angeles County sheriff’s narcotics detective, is the first independent corroboration that the contra army - the Nicaraguan Democratic Force - was dealing “crack” cocaine to gangs in Los Angeles’ black neighborhoods. Known by its Spanish initials, the FDN was an anti-communist commando group formed and run by the CIA during the 1980s. Gordon’s sworn statement says that both the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI had informants inside the Blandon drug ring for several years before sheriff’s deputies raided it Oct. 27, 1986. Gordon’s affidavit is based on police interviews with those informants and one of the DEA agents who was investigating Blandon. Twice during the past year, Ron Spear, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman, told the Mercury News that his department had no records of the 1986 raids and denied having a copy of Gordon’s search-warrant affidavit. The Mercury News obtained the entire search-warrant affidavit this week. Sheriff Sherman Block’s office did not respond yesterday to written questions about the affidavit. A recent Mercury News series revealed how Blandon’s operation, which sold thousands of kilos of cocaine to black Los Angeles drug dealers, created the first mass market for crack in America during the early 1980s and helped fuel a crack explosion that is still reverberating through black communities. Both the CIA and the Justice Department have denied government involvement. But according to a legal motion filed in a 1990 case involving a deputy who helped execute the search warrants, one of the suspects involved in the raid identified himself as a CIA agent and asked police to call CIA headquarters in Virginia to confirm his identity. The motion, filed by Los Angeles defense attorney Harlan Braun on behalf of Deputy Daniel Garner, said the narcotics detectives allowed the man to make the call but then carted away numerous documents purportedly linking the U.S. government to cocaine trafficking and money-laundering efforts on behalf of the contras. The motion said CIA agents appeared at the sheriff’s department within 48 hours of the raid and removed the seized files from the evidence room. But Braun said detectives secretly copied 10 pages before the documents were spirited away. Braun attempted to introduce them in the 1990 criminal trial to force the federal government to back off the case. Braun was hit with a gag order, the documents were put under seal and Garner was convicted of corruption charges. Internal sheriff’s department records of the raid “mysteriously disappeared” around the same time the seized files were taken, Braun’s motion said. That claim was buttressed in an interview this week by an officer involved in the raid. The officer, who requested anonymity, said the alleged CIA agent was Ronald Lister, a former Laguna Beach police detective who worked with Blandon in the drug ring. The 1986 search-warrant affidavit identifies Lister’s home in Laguna Beach as one of the places searched. It says Lister was involved in transporting drug money to Miami and was Blandon’s partner in a security company. The company, according to a former employee, was doing work at a Salvadoran military air base in the early 1980s. Lister pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking in 1991.