this'll be on my videotape....

Ava Cherry & David Bowie

-REM

"Who’s influenced you the most in your life?" “My principal, Ms. Lopez.” “How has she influenced you?” “When we get in trouble, she doesn’t suspend us. She calls us to her office and explains to us how society was built down around us. And she tells us that each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built. And one time she made every student stand up, one at a time, and she told each one of us that we matter.”

The Day After, Pt 1 (11/25/14): Ferguson begins to rebuild. We stand with you. Prayers, blessing, and peace to the residents and protesters in Ferguson. #staywoke #farfromover

I decided to try to work on myself at least by identifying some of the daily effects of white privilege in my life. I have chosen those conditions that I think in my case attach somewhat more to skin-color privilege than to class,religion, ethnic status, or...

Moses’s Journey into Egypt (c. 1482), Pietro Perugino / The Crossroads, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 

  The Ascension (1775), John Singleton Copley / Touch The Sky, Kanye West ft. Lupe Fiasco

The Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David (1793) / N.Y. State of Mind, NaS

Your Terms of Service prohibit “items that promote… hate, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime.” Take a look at the comments that come with the donations on this page and tell me that doesn’t violate your terms. “Support Officer Wilson” is a thin veil for people rewarding Wilson for killing a black kid.