Born From A BoomBox

Writer Tim Wise hit the nail on the head. White people claiming to be victims in Michael’s or Starbucks are only revealing how privileged they are. (x)

Richard Spencer, the notorious white nationalist, was met by hundreds of student protesters Tuesday evening during his speaking engagement at Texas A&M University. 

Police officers, equipped with helmets and protective shields, clashed with protesters who were blocking the banquet hall in College Station, Texas, where Spencer was speaking.

A Facebook Live uploaded by Texas A&M senior Hana Zeenath Khan shows police officers clashing with protesters. They are heard chanting “the whole world is watching.”

This Muslim-owned restaurant was vandalized with bacon twice in one week, owner threatened

Zaza Bar & Bites, a Muslim-owned restaurant in Galveston, Texas, fell victim to two bacon-involved vandalism incidents last Sunday.

The first incident involved bacon grease, which was smeared over the door handles of the restaurant. 

The second incident involved bacon pieces sprawled all across the front of the establishment. 

Many Muslims abstain from eating pork, which suggests the acts could have been a deliberate target against the restaurant owners’ religious affiliation. 

The perpetrators of these acts have yet to be apprehended or identified

Zaza Bar & Bites’ owner Asad Khan, who immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in 1993, said he also has been receiving threatening phone calls telling him “to leave the country.” Read more

The question?

“What is the word for beer in Ancient Egyptian?”

Pub: *loud raucous laughter and cheering*

Landlord: *looks smug*

Me: Do you want that in English or in the original Hieroglyphs?

Landlord: The hieroglyphs of course!

Pub: *more laughter*

Me: *scribbles quickly in the 10 seconds I had to answer*

Landlord: Fuck. Me. 

Pub: *utter silence broken only by someone at the back exclaiming WTF* 

Landlord: How did you even know that?

Me: You picked the one person here who can read them?

Landlord: Oh shit it’s you isn’t it?

Dad yelling from the back: SURPRISEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE