i'm sara and this is my blog. what you'll find here can be just about anything, ranging from geekery, Catholicism, the perils student life, the occasional politics, social justice goodness, music, feminism, sometimes even some sports, and other things I find aesthetically pleasing. because this is my blog and I DO WHAT I WANT.
"Rap and Hip-Hop isn't meaningful or complex!"
- 2Pac: And since we all came from a woman, got our name from a woman and our game from a woman, I wonder why we take from our women. Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it's time to kill for our women, time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies that make the babies. And since a man can't make one, he has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one.
- Jay-Z: Silly rappers, because we got a couple Porsches, MTV stopped by to film our fortresses. We forget the unfortunate. Sure I ponied up a mill, but I didn't give my time. So in reality I didn't give a dime, or a damn. I just put my monies in the hands of the same people that left my people stranded. Nothin' but a bandit, left them folks abandoned. Damn, that money that we gave was just a band-aid, can't say we better off than we was before.
- Kanye West: Is it genocide? 'Cause I can still hear his momma cry, know the family traumatized. Shots left holes in his face, 'bout piranha-size. The old pastor closed the cold casket, and said the church ain’t got enough room for all the tombs. It’s a war going on outside we ain’t safe from, I feel the pain in my city wherever I go. 314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in Chicago.
I teach women’s health. This happens constantly and is usually a justification for something really sexist that they have just said or are about to say.
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so since she got old she’s turned into this fox news watching ‘obama’s a socialist!’ zombie, fyi. it’s treason considering her kennedy for president poster is still hanging in the guest room.
but as if having to stomach some of this fox news bullshit now I have to watch this program saying how thankful I should be that people are dying in iraq and afghansitan ‘for me,’ and also that people died in vietnam, korea, the gulf, etc, also ‘for me.’ also I should be so proud to be an american
okay 1, no I am not thankful that americans have died in Korea or Vietnam or Iraq or Vietnam because we didn’t need to be in any of the those places. 2 please don’t do this ‘they died for you!” thing because they didn’t know me. they died for an idea of america, not me. 3 nope, ‘proud’ is not necessarily a word I would use to describe my relationship with america…
"I’m a Catholic who was raised by intellectuals, who were very devout. I was raised to believe that you could question the Church and still be Catholic. What is worthy of satire is the misuse of religion for destructive or political gains. That’s totally different from the Word, the blood, the body, and the Christ. "
Stephen Colbert, quoted in “And Nothing But the Truthiness: The Rise (And Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert” by Lisa Rogak (via rockthepale)
This is originally from an NPR interview, just fyi :)
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things were just crazy after I got home
TUMBLIN’ TIME, HOLLA
"There are days when I want to stop all those poor people, giving their coins to the church, and tell them to march on the offices of the archdiocese—tell all the people inside those offices to move out of their plush rooms and share the lives of the hungry and the hurt. Would Jesus sit in some big, fancy, air-conditioned room near the banks and the department stores where the rich store their millions and spend their millions? Would he let himself be driven in big black limousines, while thousands and thousands people who believe in Him and His church are at the edge of starvation? Would he tolerate big mansions and fancy estates and luxurious traveling, while people come to church barefooted and ragged and hungry and sick, children all over the world? In my mind, there is only one answer to questions like these: No! "
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someone explain how that works????
