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akitron:

malenkydevil:

Bruno Mars, where the heck do you think you’re going with my heart?!

And how did you know I don’t know how to skate?!

ommggg cutie



15 hours ago with 119 notes, via alliterate, from bilius

quebradiza:

havisham | bilius

Freeman says racism is totally wrong yet insists multiculturism divides rather than unites people.

Politely, I comment on his lovely house and the tranquillity that surrounds it.

“When I moved up here this woman I know said, ‘Ooh! There are a lot of whiteys up there’, and I said, ‘I love white people; I’ve no problem with them at all.”

The idea was that I was going to complain because there weren’t enough blues dances out here; not enough ragga around. But I’m not bothered by it.

“Multiculturalism hasn’t and doesn’t help, because rightly or wrongly it polarises people so much,” he continues.

“Racism is one thing ? and I don’t agree with that in any form ? but noticing that there are differences is normal and fine and to be encouraged.

“We’ve reached a state now where it’s, ‘You shouldn’t notice. Why are you noticing he’s got a bomb and has a beard and is Muslim and wants to kill your family?”

“There is no country in the world like this. If all of a sudden all the traffic wardens in Ghana were Welsh, they’d really notice and might not love it? We give ourselves a hard time in this country in a sort of mea culpa way. But if we were that racist, people wouldn’t come. Very simple.”

Wait, what?

wow yes go on martin freeman i really wanted your thoughts on this subject

Wait… where is this from? What’s happening? I AM SO CONFUSED BY THIS POST.

EDIT: Ok so I found this post on the daily mail but I can’t decide if I think it’s real or not? because the writer? puts lots of random punctuation . in the article and it looks like ???? a drunk tumblr post

EDIT 2: I’m sorry Aut :(



16 hours ago with 886 notes, via sheethkalshahar, from fuckyeahginatorres
fuckyeahginatorres: When I became an actress I quickly realize that the world liked their latinos to look Italian. Not like me. So I wasn’t going up for Latina parts. I was going up for African American parts. […] Regardless of the fact that I spoke the language better and understood the culture better, those weren’t the parts that…I could take seriously. Suddenly you have to explain why I look how I look. And then it gets complicated. And nobody wants complicated. Gina Torres | Black & Latino

fuckyeahginatorres:

When I became an actress I quickly realize that the world liked their latinos to look Italian. Not like me. So I wasn’t going up for Latina parts. I was going up for African American parts. […] Regardless of the fact that I spoke the language better and understood the culture better, those weren’t the parts that…I could take seriously. Suddenly you have to explain why I look how I look. And then it gets complicated. And nobody wants complicated.

Gina Torres | Black & Latino



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prettyboners:

I really don’t care if this is tacky or w/e but seriously the missing e feature to see who unfollows you needs to come back. Shit was useful. 

#if you make it easy by unfollowing me there’s a good chance I was waiting for one of us to give in

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prettyboners:

I really don’t care if this is tacky or w/e but seriously the missing e feature to see who unfollows you needs to come back. Shit was useful. 

#if you make it easy by unfollowing me there’s a good chance I was waiting for one of us to give in


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Wonder Girls “The DJ Is Mine”



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I wish I could touch his face. And other more exciting parts.

 

gryffinclaw replied to your post: OMG WHAT SCANDAL? I will not handle an Evans scandal. I will break. He is my number one I could handle everyone else but him. He is such a goody two shoes though, please there is nothing in that closet that is THAT dark
set fireeeee to the rain! watch it pour, as I, touch your facceee. Seriously though I would need a break from the internet and I KNOW people would be all “Gryffinclaw have you heard!!” OF COURSE I HAVE - I HEARD BEFORE YOU LEAVE ME BE TO MOURN!

EXACTLY. I’ll just crank up the power ballads as I stare bleakly into the middle-distance, clutching my Evans DVD collection and crying perfect tears of despair.



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gryffinclaw: OMG WHAT SCANDAL? I will not handle an Evans scandal. I will break. He is my number one I could handle everyone else but him. He is such a goody two shoes though, please there is nothing in that closet that is THAT dark

I would turn off my computer for a week in grief. I love him more each interview and vid I see, so I figure it’s only a matter of time before something terrible occurs, it’s like an inevitability with my hollywood loves. I think I would actually try to set fire to the rain.



19 hours ago with 166 notes, via alliterate, from racismfreeontario
racismfreeontario: Black History Month: Canada had slaves, too MONTREAL — What unfortunate distinction does Olivier Le Jeune hold in Canadian history? Le Jeune was the first recorded black slave in New France, brought to Canada from Africa in the 17th century when he was a child. If you didn’t know the answer, you aren’t alone. The story of blacks in Canada doesn’t form part of the national narrative and is outside the mainstream of what most people learn, says Lawrence Hill, author of the acclaimed historical novel The Book of Negroes. Hill told students on Thursday at Ecole secondaire Antoine-de-Saint-Exupery in Montreal that he finds most Canadians and Quebecers know more about the history of blacks in the United States than they do about the topic in their own country and province. As a teenager, Hill said he was never taught about the history of blacks in Canada. If it wasn’t for his parents, who had written books on the subject, “I wouldn’t have even known that slavery existed in Canada.” Hill’s appearance marked the launch of Black History Month at the high school and also the launch of a French-language Black History in Canada Education Guide, a teaching tool that draws on The Book of Negroes. The guide was developed by the Historica-Dominion Institute, a charitable organization dedicated to Canadian history and citizenship. It contains discussion questions related to Hill’s novel, as well as a black history in Canada timeline that notes key milestones, such as the abolishment of slavery in the British colonies, which took effect in 1834, and the election in 1866 of Mifflin Gibbs to Victoria, B.C.’s town council, making him the first black politician in Canada. The English guide was sent to more than 3,000 schools across Canada last year. The new French guide has gone to 1,500 French and bilingual schools in the country. “It’s an honour for the novel but more importantly, it’s a tool that hopefully teachers or students can use if they want to learn more,” Hill said in an interview. Many teachers and educators have so little information about black history, Hill said. “Dozens of times in my life teachers have come to me and said ‘I’d love to do something about black history or talk about black literature but where can I find anything?’” “As Mr. Hill said, it seems that Canadians know a lot about (American) black history but we don’t know enough about our own black history,” said Brigitte D’Auzac, senior manager of programming for the Historica-Dominion Institute. “So it was important for the institute to make sure that we talk about it,” D’Auzac said. “Let’s get every kid in school aware of this. And let’s talk about our history. It’s important and we need to know about it.” Hill told students how he was born and raised in Toronto, the son of a black father and white mother who had emigrated from the U.S. Fluent in French, and a graduate of Universite Laval, Hill talked to students about his novel, weaving in historical information — such as the first big wave of black immigration in 1783 to Nova Scotia at the end of American Revolutionary War, and how, faced with racial discrimination, slavery and segregation in their new location, one-third of the Black loyalists ultimately left Halifax in 15 boats to create the colony of Freetown in Sierra Leone. “The first big exodus of blacks from the Americas to return to live in Africa came from Halifax,” in 1792, Hill said. He also read an excerpt from The Book of Negroes, which has been translated into French with the title Aminata. Hill said it’s great to see more and more people in Quebec have learned about Marie-Joseph Angelique, a black slave who was accused in 1734 of setting fire to her master’s house, which also destroyed half of what was then Montreal. (Angelique was convicted and executed.) For the longest time, people in Quebec seemed to know nothing about the history of slavery in Montreal or Quebec City, Hill said. “After all, the first slave in Canada is in Quebec City in 1628 — a boy from Madagascar, Olivier Le Jeune.” Hill said he believes there is often an “unconscious resistance” to looking at our own history. Many Canadians know about the underground railroad, he said, which makes us feel good because we feel “we’re welcoming poor, fugitive American slaves and giving them their freedom here. “So it’s convenient to know about that. And if a Canadian does know a tiny bit about black history in Canada they’re likely to trumpet the underground railroad,” Hill said. “But very few people can talk about, or know anything about the black Loyalists or them being so terribly mistreated in Nova Scotia that they left en masse 10 years later.” (via Black History Month: Canada had slaves, too) See also: Black Canadian, Slavery in Canada, Underground Railroad #we as a country have always been better at loftily pointing at the usa’s fuck-ups than acknowledging and remembering our own

racismfreeontario:

Black History Month: Canada had slaves, too

MONTREAL — What unfortunate distinction does Olivier Le Jeune hold in Canadian history?

Le Jeune was the first recorded black slave in New France, brought to Canada from Africa in the 17th century when he was a child.

If you didn’t know the answer, you aren’t alone.

The story of blacks in Canada doesn’t form part of the national narrative and is outside the mainstream of what most people learn, says Lawrence Hill, author of the acclaimed historical novel The Book of Negroes.

Hill told students on Thursday at Ecole secondaire Antoine-de-Saint-Exupery in Montreal that he finds most Canadians and Quebecers know more about the history of blacks in the United States than they do about the topic in their own country and province.

As a teenager, Hill said he was never taught about the history of blacks in Canada. If it wasn’t for his parents, who had written books on the subject, “I wouldn’t have even known that slavery existed in Canada.”

Hill’s appearance marked the launch of Black History Month at the high school and also the launch of a French-language Black History in Canada Education Guide, a teaching tool that draws on The Book of Negroes.

The guide was developed by the Historica-Dominion Institute, a charitable organization dedicated to Canadian history and citizenship. It contains discussion questions related to Hill’s novel, as well as a black history in Canada timeline that notes key milestones, such as the abolishment of slavery in the British colonies, which took effect in 1834, and the election in 1866 of Mifflin Gibbs to Victoria, B.C.’s town council, making him the first black politician in Canada.

The English guide was sent to more than 3,000 schools across Canada last year. The new French guide has gone to 1,500 French and bilingual schools in the country.

“It’s an honour for the novel but more importantly, it’s a tool that hopefully teachers or students can use if they want to learn more,” Hill said in an interview.

Many teachers and educators have so little information about black history, Hill said. “Dozens of times in my life teachers have come to me and said ‘I’d love to do something about black history or talk about black literature but where can I find anything?’”

“As Mr. Hill said, it seems that Canadians know a lot about (American) black history but we don’t know enough about our own black history,” said Brigitte D’Auzac, senior manager of programming for the Historica-Dominion Institute. “So it was important for the institute to make sure that we talk about it,” D’Auzac said. “Let’s get every kid in school aware of this. And let’s talk about our history. It’s important and we need to know about it.”

Hill told students how he was born and raised in Toronto, the son of a black father and white mother who had emigrated from the U.S. Fluent in French, and a graduate of Universite Laval, Hill talked to students about his novel, weaving in historical information — such as the first big wave of black immigration in 1783 to Nova Scotia at the end of American Revolutionary War, and how, faced with racial discrimination, slavery and segregation in their new location, one-third of the Black loyalists ultimately left Halifax in 15 boats to create the colony of Freetown in Sierra Leone.

“The first big exodus of blacks from the Americas to return to live in Africa came from Halifax,” in 1792, Hill said.

He also read an excerpt from The Book of Negroes, which has been translated into French with the title Aminata.

Hill said it’s great to see more and more people in Quebec have learned about Marie-Joseph Angelique, a black slave who was accused in 1734 of setting fire to her master’s house, which also destroyed half of what was then Montreal. (Angelique was convicted and executed.)

For the longest time, people in Quebec seemed to know nothing about the history of slavery in Montreal or Quebec City, Hill said. “After all, the first slave in Canada is in Quebec City in 1628 — a boy from Madagascar, Olivier Le Jeune.”

Hill said he believes there is often an “unconscious resistance” to looking at our own history. Many Canadians know about the underground railroad, he said, which makes us feel good because we feel “we’re welcoming poor, fugitive American slaves and giving them their freedom here.

“So it’s convenient to know about that. And if a Canadian does know a tiny bit about black history in Canada they’re likely to trumpet the underground railroad,” Hill said. “But very few people can talk about, or know anything about the black Loyalists or them being so terribly mistreated in Nova Scotia that they left en masse 10 years later.” (via Black History Month: Canada had slaves, too)

See also: Black Canadian, Slavery in Canada, Underground Railroad

#we as a country have always been better at loftily pointing at the usa’s fuck-ups than acknowledging and remembering our own