Me and my son creating memories

dialmformoist:

If you know something to be true, it’s worth fighting for.

Born in Washington, DC, on November 17, 1964, Susan E. Rice started her government career in 1993 with the National Security Council in Washington, DC, as the director of international organizations and peacekeeping. Her mentor, Madeline Albright, recommended Rice for the post of assistant secretary for African affairs in 1997 under President Clinton. She is currently the UN ambassador for the US.

U.N. Ambassador, foreign policy advisor. Born Susan Elizbeth Rice in Washington, D.C., on November 17, 1964, to parents Lois Dickson Fitt and Emmett J. Rice. Rice’s family is well renowned among the Washington elite; father, Emmett, is a Cornell University economics professor and former governor of the Federal Reserve System, while mother Lois is an education policy researcher and guest scholar at the Brookings Institution.

Growing up, Rice’s family often spoke of politics and foreign policy at the dinner table. Her mother’s job also brought notable figures through the house, including Madeline Albright, with whom Rice’s mother served with on a local school board. Albright would later become a pivotal figure in Rice’s personal and professional life.

Rice attended National Cathedral School, a prep academy in Washington, D.C. She excelled in academics, becoming her class valedictorian, and showed her aptitude in the politic realm as president of the student council. She also loved athletics, competing in three different sports, and became a star point guard on the basketball team.

After graduation, Rice attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. In college, she pushed herself to excel. She not only earned Departmental Honors and University Distinction, but also became a Harry S. Truman scholar, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes scholarship. She turned the heads of top administrators when she created a fund that withheld alumni donations until the university either stopped their investments in companies doing business in South Africa, or the country ended apartheid.

unapproachableblackchicks:

“[Of all] the things they [Republicans] have disliked about things that have gone on in the administration, they have never called a male unqualified, not bright…” Fudge (D-Ohio) said at a news conference called by a dozen women members of the House of Representatives. “There is a clear sexism and racism that goes with these comments being made by…Senator [John] McCain and others.” ….

McCain described Rice as “not very bright.” Rice graduated from Stanford University with honors, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. at Oxford University.

McCain, who selected Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, finished 894th of 899th in his graduating class at the U.S. Naval Academy. According to the book, {The Nightingale’s Song} by Robert Timberg, he was a “below par” Navy pilot who lost five military aircrafts before being captured as a prisoner of war.

According to eurocentric standards of intelligence … who’s not so bright?

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itsacookthing:

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knowledgeequalsblackpower:

June, 1964. Black children integrate the swimming pool of the Monson Motel. To force them out, the owner pours acid into the water.

And white folk wonder why

My mom was born in ‘64, kay? So, what that means is… THIS SHIT WASN’T THAT LONG AGO AND Y’ALL NEED TO STOP ACTING LIKE THE SHIT WE TALK ABOUT IS ARCHAIC AND OLD-HAT.

my mom was still in trinidad when this happened but seriously it could’ve happened to either my aunt or uncle who were 12 and 15/16 respectively

I think photos like this need to exist, not because I like the subject matter, but because it helps immortalize events that many people want to forget ever happened (and work pretty hard to make it so). It makes us face it. I’ve seen this picture before, but don’t know all the details. I hope the children in this photo were okay.

I’m always going to reblog photos like this. People are always like “Oh just get over it already”. Well, no.

No.

Never forget, this is a huge part of our history. No matter how hard white people try to wash it out of textbooks (I see you Texas) or brush it under the rug when the topic pops up in conversation. 

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TQ BONNER  added

In my neighborhood I noticed a lot of people with Mitt Romney sign in their front yards. I live in Virginia Beach Virginia a pretty conservative area, I know I should not judge someone based on their political affiliation, however I think that most of them are racist, let me explain my position, most of them earned under 250,000 a year and would receive a tax cut from president Barack Obama’s tax plan, the lady that lives across the street from me is raising her daughters son and receives public assistance, you know public assistance (the thing they call it when white people get welfare), she was able to modify her mortgage loan because of president Obama, she has a daughter that lives with her and her daughter has a son and receives you know public assistance, her husband only likes Ford pickup trucks and you know what president Obama did for the auto industry.

So I wonder is it just uninformed voters, who pay too much attention to Fox news or is it just what I think.

(Source: christopherstreet, via bvsed-socialist)