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Perhaps the poetry we find most beautiful are the ones that are purposefully left most vague, because it allows us to weave our own stories between the letters. and for some reason, seeing our story, interwoven on a string of vague beautiful words, makes our lives seem more aesthetic and meaningful. As if the very credence that those words exist, the words that hold one’s story, solidifies the credence of one’s life itself. It is as if the vagueness and mysticism of the page reinforces the mysticism of the world. Away from scientific explanations into everything mathematical, and into the mysticism that our lives, and our existence. Matters. And you know what is really interesting, is that, their lives do become more aesthetic and meaningful. As the experience of life is inevitably subjective; the credence of those words, the mysticism they entail, and the beauty they create for someone. is real. And so through the power of the human imagination, an imaginary interweaving of ...

“At such a time true lovers of humanity can only hold higher the pure ideals of science, and continue to insist that if we would solve a problem we must study it, and that there is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know” (Du Bois, “The Study of Negro Problems.” P. 27 1898) The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois Introduction “Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.” P. 3 “Leaving, then, the world of the white man, I have stepped within the Veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses, -- the meaning of its religion, the passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls. All this I have ended with a tale twice told but seldom written.” P.3 “I who speak here am...

I found it interesting. I did a google image search "interracial photography" because I need an image for a poster project i'm doing of a interracial couple. However almost all of the image results were sexualized images of black males and white women. Many were tastefully done, but I still find the pairing interesting. For one, I think the fact that all the couples are sexualized show a sort of fetishism about it. This not only brings up the idea of black males as animalistic and therefore erotic, but also shows (I think) that the issue of interracial relations is not taken seriously. It is seen as a sexual fetishism and commodity rather than a portrayal of love and compassion. I think sexualizing things reduces vulnerability to classes in power.  We do it with females, and I think we are doing it with interracial couples too.

Corperate influence NY times Cronon Investigation http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/28krugman.html His research on ALEC etc. http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/ statements between the two for emails http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/ SOPA Overview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act governments and corperations combine to put social media on the market Companies that support SOPA http://gizmodo.com/5870241/presented-without-comment-every-single-company-supporting-sopa-the-awful-internet-censorship-law Supporters of SOPA, those that did and dropped out (didn't want bad public image) and those that oppose it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_with_official_stances_on_the_SOPA_and_PIPA Why Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO) opposes SOPA http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/mark-zuckerberg-sopa_n_1214090.html Mark Zuckerberg's twitter feed http://twitter.com/#!/finkd 60 minutes on Mark Zuckerber...

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When asked how to solve racism, the answer I hear from a lot of white people is “don’t see color”. For one I want to point out that this is a great step from blatant racism. Being “color-blind” is much better than being color prejudice. However, thinking you are “color-blind” doesn’t necessarily correlate to lack of racist behavior such as micro-aggressions. This can be something like being especially self-conscious or cautious when a Black man enters a bus and sits next to you rather than a white one. Sure, you could argue that as humans we naturally schematize things accordingly. You might say, well gee, the reason I flinch when the Black guy sits next to me is because they are most likely to commit crimes. I want to just side note the amount of subliminal racism and micro-aggression that occur in racial profiling as well as media portrayals, but with that aside, why do Black people, and Black men in particular commit more crimes? Socioeconomic status....

It seems the world was awash with a flood of empathy arising from the Kony 2012 video released earlier last week. Sadly, that motivation for change, that inkling against bureaucratic apathy, that we, the american citizen had a voice and could change the world was eroded away with criticism. Yet it no-one criticized the criticism.  American citizens and the world alike have slouched back into political apathy, but this time feeling justified.  It is clear to me that the criticisms need to be resolved directly. I want to stress that this isn’t an attempt to say that invisible children is THE perfect charity out there, indeed it is probably not (although its efficacy is unprecedented) but rather that we shouldn’t waste all of the effort and sweat that thousands of empathetic americans like yourself to create such a beautifully successful campaign go to waste. I would even argue that the charity, although not perfect, is very good. For a simple answer, here is a response fro...