runaway train of thought

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http://www.giuciao.com

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http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=380

http://www.alleng.ru/ 

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http://theaudiobookbay.com/

George Francis Atkinson - Botany for High Schools (1910):

George Floyd - change.org

George Floyd - amnesty.org

George Floyd - colorofchange.org

Get The Officers Charged

Charge All Four Officers

Breonna Taylor - moveon.org

Breonna Taylor - colorofchange.org

Breonna Taylor - justiceforbreonna.org

Breonna Taylor - change.org

Breonna Taylor - thepetitionsite.com

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org 2

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org 3

Justice for Oluwatoyin Salau

Pass The Georgia Hate Crime Bill

Defund MPD

Life Sentence For Police Brutality

Regis Korchinski - change.org

Tete Gulley - change.org

Tony McDade - change.org

Tony McDade - actionnetwork.org

Tony McDade - thepetitionsite.com

Joao Pedro - change.org

Julius Jones - change.org

Belly Mujinga - change.org

Willie Simmons - change.org

Hands Up Act - change.org

National Action Against Police Brutality

Kyjuanzi Harris - change.org

Alejandro Vargas Martinez - change.org

Censorship Of Police Brutality In France

Sean Reed - change.org

Sean Reed - change.org 2

Kendrick Johnson - change.org

Tamir Rice - change.org

Tamir Rice - change.org 2

Fire Racist Criminal From The NYPD

Jamee Johnson - organizefor.org

Darius Stewart - change.org

Darius Stewart - moveon.org

Abolish Prison Labor

Free Siyanda - change.org

Chrystul Kizer - change.org

Chrystul Kizer - change.org 2

Andile Mchunu (Bobo) - change.org

Eric Riddick - change.org

Amiya Braxton - change.org

Emerald Black - change.org

Elijah Nichols - change.org

Zinedine Karabo Gioia - change.org

Angel Bumpass - change.org

Sheku Bayoh - change.org

Angel DeCarlo - change.org

Sandra Bland - change.org

Sherrie Walker - change.org

Darrien Hunt - change.org

Cornelius Fredericks - change.org

Elijah McClain - change.org

James Scurlock - change.org

Darren Rainey- change.org

http://www.pb-resources.com/

https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

Do something!

growing up, i was conditioned to believe that any display of emotion, whether it be grief, outrage, or hunger, was a burden to others. I still feel like I’m taking up space whenever I put my own needs first. katara has always been a role model to me, for her sheer strength, but also in how unapologetic and flawed she is allowed to be.

katara loves taking up space. she doesn’t try to accommodate others and put up with their shit if she doesn’t want to, especially when it comes to cultural sexism from other brown men. pakku says it is not their custom to teach her, and she yells back, “well then your customs suck!” she fights to be acknowledged; she’s loud, and unapologetic, and angry.

and even when her anger isn’t justified, even when she’s petty and cruel (and don’t tell me she can’t be cruel. or lest we forget, “the stars sure are beautiful tonight.... too bad you can’t see them, toph!”), katara doesn’t back down or apologize. katara is allowed to be a fully three-dimensional teenage girl, a traumatized, rage-filled, heroic, driven, flawed, brown girl, and she is unequivocally the hero of the story.

katara is a traumatized brown girl, and she lashes out and she processes her pain openly in a way I not only admire, but envy. I wish I had the strength to communicate my grief like she does. I wish I could be as loud and assertive and unapologetic.

but I’m afraid of being called “annoying, overemotional, too angry, a bitch.” katara isn’t. katara knows that her flaws don’t define her, and so do I. but I also love all her flaws with her entire heart, because maybe she’s not “palatable” to everyone, but that just makes her that much more of an inspiration to me, and also every other traumatized brown girl who grew up with katara as a role model.