musings of a unimoose

Jun 07

Thank you.
aeraspais:

To be honest, I dislike how often discussions of racism get derailed to explain to people that the dictionary definition is out-of-date and inadequate but I feel it is a conversation we need to have.  Racism will always be more complex than a “hatred or intolerance of another race or other races”.  It is a set of practices and subconscious behaviors that continuously teaches us to default to white, where “nude” is considered to be beige, and black folks and Hispanics have higher incarceration rates than whites for the similar crimes.  By saying this I am not undermining bullying you may have received in grade, middle or high school and I am also not saying people of color cannot be prejudiced against other races themselves.  All I am saying is we, as people of color, cannot be racist since we lack the power to full on oppress you.  It is truly that simple to grasp.

Thank you.

aeraspais:

To be honest, I dislike how often discussions of racism get derailed to explain to people that the dictionary definition is out-of-date and inadequate but I feel it is a conversation we need to have.  Racism will always be more complex than a “hatred or intolerance of another race or other races”.  It is a set of practices and subconscious behaviors that continuously teaches us to default to white, where “nude” is considered to be beige, and black folks and Hispanics have higher incarceration rates than whites for the similar crimes.  By saying this I am not undermining bullying you may have received in grade, middle or high school and I am also not saying people of color cannot be prejudiced against other races themselves.  All I am saying is we, as people of color, cannot be racist since we lack the power to full on oppress you.  It is truly that simple to grasp.

(Source: formerlyaeraspais)

May 28

icelandwantstobeyourfriend:

Halló.
I do not know what an “emo” is, but I have heard that many humans think that my horses have “emo” haircuts, and also that they are not very impressed by my volcanoes.
Here is one of them, photo-graphed by Soffía Gísladóttir, who takes many good pictures, and puts them on the inter-net for you to see.
See you soon- Iceland 

icelandwantstobeyourfriend:

Halló.

I do not know what an “emo” is, but I have heard that many humans think that my horses have “emo” haircuts, and also that they are not very impressed by my volcanoes.

Here is one of them, photo-graphed by Soffía Gísladóttir, who takes many good pictures, and puts them on the inter-net for you to see.

See you soon
- Iceland 

May 09

The Urgent Matter of Books -

Why do we read books? Because “in times of crisis, we can still remember them burning.”

May 08

“There is no them. There are only facets of us.” — John Green