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writeswrongs:

Black Man to Lose Scholarship For Refusing Racist Assignment

Timothy McNair is a graduate student of opera at Northwestern University’s famed Bienen School of Music. McNair is at the school on a full scholarship, but the 25-year-old is standing up to his school after his professor, Donald Nally, gave him an assignment to perform a song created by a racist American poet named Walt Whitman. McNair asked his instructor if he could be assigned to perform the work of other artists but Nally denied him the opportunity and told him if he didn’t turn in all of his completed work by Friday, May 17th he’d receive a failing grade. McNair refused.

“Certainly I do not deserve to fail this class.  I have a 3.7 GPA.  I’m an officer on three committees of this university.  So what is deserving for me?  Is to be able to perform two pieces and have the third piece removed because of the insensitivity,” McNair told Chicago’s WGN news station. Although the piece McNair is instructed to perform does not contain any blatant racism, McNair believes it is still offensive that he was asked to complete the works of a devout racist. “We know (he) was historically racist.  He’s called African Americans ‘baboons’ and was for oppressing voting rights,” McNair said of Whitman.

But let a white person had to sing a song written about Osama or Sadam that shit would have been on every new station.

I didn’t realize Walt Whitman had written such racist stuff (that wasn’t covered when we read his work in high school, SURPRISE) (if you’re curious, his archive has a super-apologist piece about it - along the lines of “well sure he was racist, but everyone was racist back then!”), and this is super fucked up.

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mszombi:

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motheatendeerhead:

This is what we need reported more in the media-positive stories

god 

Zach Galifianakis, you perfect man. 

christel-thoughts:

mrgolightly:

Maya though.

notice how she effectively uses the pregnancy bump to enhance the body roll.

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sugarycarnevil:

The Cage of Heart

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superwhoavengehobbitpotterlock:

You are allowed to drink when you’re 16.

You are allowed in clubs when you’re 18.

You receive free education.

You receive economic support while studying.

You enjoy free hospitalization.

You’ll be correctly informed by objective news channels.

Sounds like The Netherlands, aside from that college and hospitalization aren’t free.

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hadrian6:

Detail : Creusa consumed by the poisoned robes. Jean Francois de Troy. French. 1679-1752. oil on canvas.

http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

bluandorange:

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dancepunksnotdead:

You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?

It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.

http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift

holy shit!

fucking COOL

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beatyourselfup:

How To Recover Video Footage That Was Deleted By The Police

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genishihara:

uuuhshiny:

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president

Doing it on vocation!!! My shoelaces will be blue ;)))

im so doing this

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