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This is awful and indefensible and I’m not defending apple, I’m saying that the message shouldn’t be “look how evil apple is” but “modern means of mass production for ALL large scale companies are all exploitative and literally kill people” putting the blame on a single company masks the systemic nature of the problem 

My buddy Boney

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

In honor of Sherman Alexie’s birthday today, October 7th, we have reviewed one of our favorites, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Alexie tells the story of an aspiring cartoonist and his journey and life growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determine to make it on his own, Junior leaves his school to attend an all-white farm town high school, where he is obviously the only ethnic person.

Funny, heartbreaking, thoughtful and beautifully written The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian tells a realistic and contemporary tale of a Native American boy who desires to break stereotypes and molds inside and outside his community. Alexie retells his life experiences through his art by pulling away from his tribe, breaking free and beatings all the odds.

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Read excerpts from the book here!

Conservative: That’s lazy. Get a job.

Poor Person: Fine. I got a job, but it doesn’t pay enough. The minimum wage needs to be raised.

Conservative: Still lazy. Go to college so you can get a better job.

Poor Person: Fine. But I’ll need financial assistance to afford college.

Conservative: Still lazy.

Poor Person: Fine. I went to college, put myself in debt, and got a degree. But the only jobs I can get without experience are unpaid internships. Businesses should be required to pay their interns.

Conservative: …

Conservative: Still lazy.

Poor Person: How the hell do you expect me to get out of debt?

Conservative: It’s your own fault. You choose to go to college even though you couldn’t afford it.

Poor Person: But you’re the one who keeps telling poor people to go to college. Are you saying that I’m lazy if I don’t go to college, and lazy if I do?

Conservative: Yes.

Poor Person: Then what the hell should I do?

We don’t fit in a Census box, we break the mold

“Growing up Latino meant that your parents had an accent and worked three times as hard as everybody else’s parents, and you were supposed to be the great brown hope.” - John Leguizamo

accuse innocent black men of rape and get them thrown in jail or executed for shit they didn’t commit

take Black, Latinx/Hispanic, and Asian (among many) cultures and ruin it, defile it and disrespect it by treating it like a common fashion fad

Look like idiots with cornrows, grills, bindis and henna, but swear they’re the shit even though they made fun of the Indian girls in their school for it when they were children, called Black girls ghetto for their boxbraids and other protective styles, and called every Black man within a 50 mile radius “DaQuan” while throwing up fake gang signs and assuming every Black male likes grills or is “ghetto”

Made fun of Indian and Asian people for the way they smell, only to start using incense like it’s fucking perfume 

tan to look like the Black and Latinx and other woc they constantly ridicule and make fun of

tell immigrants to “go back to your own country” while they sip margaritas and eat enchiladas on Cinco De Mayo every year

More times than not have not a fucking clue where the culture they’re appropriating even originates from

being carbon copies

crying about being called out for their white privilege by their peers

using AVVE incorrectly

singing the n-word in songs but can’t pronounce a Black girl’s name even after being told how to say it several times, and the pronunciation isn’t even that hard, but even if it is who the fuck cares, and then have the nerve to name their children KaileighPumpernickle Doodlebop 

touching our (Black and WOC) fucking hair without permission

“yeah you’re black but you’re like, not THAT kinda black ya know?” 

pointing out features on woc that are unlike their own (the size of woc noses, ears, or lips)

calling people sassy and not realizing how completely stereotypical and dehumanizing it is

or realizing it and not giving a shit

thinking they are entitled to every goddamn thing

being mad about a social justice issue not pertaining to their race or culture for less than 12 hours

Telling Black people/poc to “get over” the oppression they face on a day to day basis

Telling Black people/poc what is or isn’t racist

Pretending that they don’t know what the fuck is acceptable as far as language, style, culture and exposure goes when referring to other races and their cultural differences

Generalizing poc (”all black people look alike”)

Tolerate/welcome Black men who don’t see the worth of Black women/speak ill of their women

deciding what’s feminist and what’s not (emma watson being the perfect image of feminism, miley cyrus being a decent example, but beyonce at the vma’s being “raunchy and inappropriate” for claiming her sexuality, and every white actor at the Oscars talking about equal pay for women but refusing to acknowledge that even in the category of just women, the pay is still skewed significantly)

“i can say the n word, my friend said it’s okay”

“i don’t see race”

“not all white girls act like this”