Little poverty things:
Seeing the results of your parent severely neglecting themselves for years, so they could take care of *you* and take *you* to the dentist and optometrist and doctors. And still not being able to do a damn thing to help them.
People can fall into the trap of blaming the poor of developing countries for the problems of the world since it is poor countries that have these massive, ballooning populations. Is is true that overpopulation in poor countries exacerbates the living conditions in those countries, but bear in mind that the average middle-class citizen of a Western nation consumes more than a hundred times the volume of resources of the average poor citizen of a developing nation. Armory Lovins calculated that the average American consumes 250 times the resources of the average Nigerian. This means that the United States has the global impact of seventy-five trillion Nigerians. I’ll go one step further: I’ll bet American citizens consume more Nigerian resources than Nigerians themselves.
Steve Hallett and John Wright, Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future (via therecipe)
aka why most cries of overpopulation are just racist as fuck.
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!!! I’ll bet American citizens consume more Nigerian resources than Nigerians themselves.
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#welp
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I’ll bet American citizens consume more Nigerian resources than Nigerians themselves.
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[photo: a meme featuring a screenshot of Sweet Brown, a Black woman who became popular with the phrase “ain’t not body got time for that.” pink text reads, “ain’t nobody got time for creating videos that make fun of low income people of color using auto tune. unless you’re a white person that is so privileged that you do have time and yet dont’t use that time to educate yourself on race issues.”]
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arevolutionisacomin:
i made a meme.
sometimes I forget that some folx (namely white folx) like people like Sweet Brown and Antoine Dobson not because they remind them of their neighbors or aunts, or cousins or church school teachers, but because they perform stereotypical notions of poor people of color. I need to be cognizant of this more.
i think that goes for non-Black people of color, too, really. i’ve seen plenty of non-Black poc share Antoine Dodson videos and Sweet Brown and most recently Ramsey over the past few years. with white folks that behavior is typically predictable but with non-Black poc we really need to bring our A game and be real about how we are taught to be anti Black, internalize that and simultaneously consume Black culture/products of the exploitation of Black folks while relying on this shared identity of being “people of color.” it’s not untrue that low income people of color are made fun of but let’s be real, consistently it has been low income Black people in these internet sensations.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/5b5212165b8afcbc2366475c8acc2866/tumblr_mmk42txMHZ1qezca0o1_500.jpg)
[photo: a meme featuring a screenshot of Sweet Brown, a Black woman who became popular with the phrase “ain’t not body got time for that.” pink text reads, “ain’t nobody got time for creating videos that make fun of low income people of color using auto tune. unless you’re a white person that is so privileged that you do have time and yet dont’t use that time to educate yourself on race issues.”]
i made a meme.
sometimes I forget that some folx (namely white folx) like people like Sweet Brown and Antoine Dobson not because they remind them of their neighbors or aunts, or cousins or church school teachers, but because they perform stereotypical notions of poor people of color. I need to be cognizant of this more.
i think that goes for non-Black people of color, too, really. i’ve seen plenty of non-Black poc share Antoine Dodson videos and Sweet Brown and most recently Ramsey over the past few years. with white folks that behavior is typically predictable but with non-Black poc we really need to bring our A game and be real about how we are taught to be anti Black, internalize that and simultaneously consume Black culture/products of the exploitation of Black folks while relying on this shared identity of being “people of color.” it’s not untrue that low income people of color are made fun of but let’s be real, consistently it has been low income Black people in these internet sensations.
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stop supporting the myth that poor people don’t deserve to have “nice” things. because that sort of narrative continues to ignore the complexities of capitalism and struggle and takes us away from examining why it’s easier for someone living below the poverty line to get a smart phone than to get sustainable support for housing, employment at a livable wage, healthcare services, etc.
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| What you say: | I'm economically conservative and socially liberal |
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| What I hear: | Poor people can starve for all I care so long as I have weed. |
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Yes, obviously. What better way to teach English Lit than to bring Charles Dickens’ novels to life?
Do these assholes not realize or just willfully ignore the fact that hunger is a huge reason why so many poor kids perform poorly in school in the first place?
rich white spawn FIRST
Yes, obviously. What better way to teach English Lit than to bring Charles Dickens’ novels to life?
Yes, obviously. What better way to teach English Lit than to bring Charles Dickens’ novels to life?
Yes, obviously. What better way to teach English Lit than to bring Charles Dickens’ novels to life?
Yes, obviously. What better way to teach English Lit than to bring Charles Dickens’ novels to life?
perfect
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MetroCards for the Poor? No Asking in Stations [NY Times]
An excerpt:
The sums are a pittance — spare quarters and dimes, perhaps less in some cases — left behind on the unwanted MetroCards tossed to the station floor.
But add a few together, the thinking goes, and a downtrodden rider might have enough for a swipe. Combine a few more, and perhaps a job seeker who is homeless can find his way to a few interviews.
And if there was a means to recover all of the more than $50 million in unused balances wasted annually by New York City’s transit riders? Then, Zachary DuBow thought, he would really be onto something.
So Mr. DuBow, 24, a consultant and recent New York University graduate, founded the Next Stop Project, in February. He would collect discarded MetroCards, ask station agents to aggregate the remaining balances into full-fare cards, and distribute them to needy residents — ideally partnering with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to gather the forgotten passes.
“Transportation is overlooked relative to food or health care,” he said. “But people need it to access those resources.”
In recent weeks, though, Mr. DuBow has found himself in an unexpected tussle with the transportation authority over the spare change. The authority has barred him from placing card-collection bins in stations and from soliciting card donations there in any way.More information on the Next Stop Project available at their website.
What the fuck is WRONG with them!!!!!
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hey yall you can still like hiddles and think he’s dreamy and want to fuck him and go see his movies and give his unicef work side-eye all at the same time! i know i will!
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