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Prejudice, Bigotry and the Safety Pin

We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident

safety-pinWhite people wearing a safety pin has become a symbol of being a safe person against racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and other hateful ideologies.  An idea behind the pin is that it’s a public pledge that the wearer will help de-escalate situations where the marginalized are under attack, whether verbally or physically.

Because of its controversy, yesterday I read as much as I could about the symbol of wearing a safety pin.  Christopher Keelty, a White bisexual man, wrote for the Huffington Post that the safety pin is an embarrassment for White people.

The general criticism is that it’s more of a sign of White-guilt.  There are articles which in summary, say how dare White people think that they can say what solidarity with minorities, immigrants and others should be; should look like.

Yes, I read allot yesterday and I also talked with others.  Nothing satisfied me one way or…

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Giving Tuesday for CincySmiles Foundation

CincySmiles Foundation was established in 1909, and our mission is to ensure that all members of our community have access to oral health education, disease prevention and treatment services with a special emphasis on those who are at risk due to poverty.Our programs served over 15,000 men, women and children last year and we continue to expand our impact as we move forward into the future. CincySmiles has 4 programs that include the Dental Road Crew, McMicken Dental Center, Discounted Donated Services, and our Workforce Development Program. We are asking for support for our first Giving Tuesday Campaign.  Giving Tuesday is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday and is a movement to create an international day of giving. To get involved with this movement, we have asked several of our employees, volunteers and supporters to participate as Ambassadors.  Our Ambassadors are helping us raise awareness about our organization and this event all month long.  The event will begin on November 2nd and will run until Giving Tuesday, November 29th. On November 29th, we will celebrate and announce the funds raised from the campaign!Please support our event and help us continue to bring smiles to the Greater Cincinnati area.

Source: Giving Tuesday for CincySmiles Foundation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kTcjXhGbxU&feature=share night train best version ever – Louis Prima – Sam Butera on sax

Swedish politician suspends Twitter account over ‘hate’ – The Local

A former Social Democrat MP and one of the party’s most outspoken feminist and anti-racist campaigners on Tuesday said ‘lies and hate’ had prompted her to take a break from Twitter.Racist and sexist trolls target Sweden’s Twitter account (06 Oct 16)Veronica Palm, a former member of parliament and chairwoman of the centre-left Social Democrat party’s local branch in Stockholm, said the increasingly hostile social climate on Twitter was behind her decision to suspend her account.”As you have noticed I’ve been tweeting less and less. The reason is simple: it actually bloody hurts,” she wrote in a tweet on Tuesday morning.”I simply don’t have the energy. I am human and want to continue to be human. Not switch off my feelings about what other people say. And in that case, lies and hate hurts. It gets under my skin, every day,” Palm, 43, continued.”I have promised that I won’t be silenced by hate and threats. I know that the democratic conversation and free speech is the foundation of democracy, but right now I just can’t do it. I won’t stay quiet, but I’m taking a break from Twitter.”

Source: Swedish politician suspends Twitter account over ‘hate’ – The Local

Trump-Branded Buildings Being Renamed After Complaints | Hollywood Reporter

Tenants learned on Tuesday from the company that owns and manages the New York skyscrapers, which hold 1,325 rental apartments, that the huge gold letters spelling out “Trump Place” would be removed from the sides of the buildings within days.”We’re all very excited and thrilled, and it’s about time,” said Marjorie Jacobs, who has lived in one of the buildings for five years. “We’re disgusted with the results of the presidency.”

Source: Trump-Branded Buildings Being Renamed After Complaints | Hollywood Reporter

A declaration of defeat

Continuous defeat, is a very real sense… but you are still standing, you are still Palestinian. The thousands of Israeli’s working everyday to imprison you are themselves imprisoned in that task rather than building a peace for the seventh daughters and sons and their seventh daughters and sons of Palestinian and Israeli peoples.

نادية حرحش

When the declaration of the Palestinian independence was announced in 15 November 1988 in Algeria, the dream of liberation became a step closer. We were in the middle of the first Intifada and the stories of of our heroic resilience were impressive even to us. We really believed that it was time for liberation. After living a whole life, (I was fifteen back then) under occupation, only commemorating one misery after another, it was time that we have a good Palestinian day.

With its good and worse, this day became a symbol.

However, independence never came even though a state has been declared in a similar symbolic empty setting, this time in the UN.

As I am looking at myself , three times older than that day when the independence was first declared , I bow down my head with disappointment that continued to impose itself on the Palestinian living…

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