Go slow…and the weekend begins! (Taken with instagram)
Hilarious girl on Facebook is hilarious.
“If women like me go overseas to places like where your family is from and other horrible places like Afghanistan, Africa and Saudi and just teach the women how to deal with their oppression. They don’t understand that they have rights! I think that if I go and I’m able to tell them that they don’t have to be treated like dogs, that here in the United States we’ve learned how to respect women and treat them like equals.. that if they understand the teachings of Jesus.. they’ll be much better off.”
Sigh.
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To the Western world.
DOCUMENTARY: #OccupyNigeria-How Nigeria Came Close To A Revolution
All it took was “Asalaamo Alaykum”
good morning lemon drops, I hope you have a wonderful saturday.
I wanted to share a very short story with you that happened to me yesterday, but waking up this morning I reflected on it and it just made me smile.
at the research symposium I presented at yesterday, there was an african woman, in an abaya and hijab, that looked nervous and out of place, standing by her poster. I don’t know her, or her story, or what department she was a grad student in. however, she did look really stressed and tight.
I walked over, I don’t think in my fully dressed up mode it was easy to think “hey, he’s a muslim” unless you know my name or who I am. anyways, all I did was say “Al salaamo alaykum sister” and her face changed completely. she had the biggest smile on her face, just to hear those words, that there is a fellow muslim that recognizes her. so we made small talk for about five minutes. I wish her nothing but the best. her attitude changed the whole time; she was no longer nervous and I was there for one of her presentations for the judges she did great, alhamdulillah.
you don’t know the power of Al salaamo Alaykum.
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Years before the killing of Trayvon Martin grabbed the nation’s attention, the teen’s father warned him that his race could make him a target of violence.
The advice Tracy Martin gave his black son, that people veiled by racism and prejudices might see him as suspicious or violent, is a common and continuous warning in many black families, parents and experts say. In the aftermath of Trayvon’s death, more families are having “the talk,” teaching sons to be aware of their race, avoid confrontations with authority figures, and to remain calm in situations even if their rights are violated.
“I’ve always let him know we as African Americans get stereotyped,” Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s father told USA TODAY three weeks after his son’s death. “I told him that society is cruel.”
Trayvon, 17, was shot and killed on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., as he was returning to a gated community after buying candy at a nearby store. The gunman, George Zimmerman, whose father is white and mother is Hispanic, now faces a charge of second-degree murder.
Trayvon was “profiled” by Zimmerman, who “falsely assumed (Trayvon) was going to commit a crime” as the teen was trying to get back to the home of his father’s girlfriend, according to public filings by Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey. The documents portray Zimmerman as the aggressor throughout the incident, remarking to police at one point that people like Trayvon were “punks” causing trouble in his neighborhood.
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USA Today (via the Detroit Free Press), “Trayvon Martin’s Father Warned Son About Stereotypes.”
This is for anyone who thinks that race had absolutely nothing to do with the Trayvon Martin murder.
Seven words: “Get your head out of your ass.”
(via inothernews)
