ThePrettiestOne

The fact that black Americans are more routinely pulled over for minor and even bogus traffic violations than white Americans is something people of color have lived with for years despite efforts to discount it. Now the New York Times has a long and damning piece out titled "The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black" that was the result of combing through tens of thousands of traffic stops and arrest data over a period of years. Here was one finding from its examination of stops in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Officers pulled over African-American drivers for traffic violations at a rate far out of proportion with their share of the local driving population. They used their discretion to search black drivers or their cars more than twice as often as white motorists — even though they found drugs and weapons significantly more often when the driver was white.

Officers were more likely to stop black drivers for no discernible reason. And they were more likely to use force if the driver was black, even when they did not encounter physical resistance.

Similar patterns were found in the other places after the Times mined data from four states that keep the best records on traffic stops and searches by consent. That data was used to produce these two charts demonstrating that blacks were far more likely to be searched during a stop, even though those searches were considerably less likely to turn up any illegal contraband.

validopinions:

Alan Turing was convicted for indecency because he truthfully admitted to being in a relationship with his boyfriend. In The Imitation Game they purposefully changed this fact to him being caught with a male prostitute.

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kimreesesdaughter:

Always and forever.

lyriumnug:

John Boyega Is The Galaxy’s Biggest Fanboy

It’s okay if they’re yours, you know.

fatassvegan:

I’d like to take a second to list all the people I wish had known more about dyscalculia growing up:

My first grade teacher, who noticed when on a verbal counting test that I went from 99 to 100 to 200 and told my parents I just needed a little practice

My third grade teacher, who couldn’t understand why I would turn in a timed multiplication table test with absolutely nothing written on it, or burst into tears when asked to bring it home and have it signed by my parents

My school corporation, who placed me in advanced mathematics for two excruciating years based on aptitude tests, apparently unaware that aptitude and ability are not one and the same

My fifth grade teacher, who privately admonished me for “laziness” because I couldn’t stop making “silly mistakes”—like switching multiplication and addition, or flipping numbers like three and eight, or failing to follow every step of a math problem

My sixth grade math teacher, who publicly called me out for writing the formula for the Pythagorean Theorem on my hand, claiming I didn’t study, though I had spent five hours the night before preparing

My parents, who grounded me every time my report card came out, trying their best to discipline what they thought was laziness

My family doctor, who, once told about my math troubles, prescribed me ADD medication without any running any kind of diagnostic

My Algebra teacher senior year after I was diagnosed, who claimed that giving me extra time on my test would be “unfair to the other students”

Every teacher who ever laughed and pointed at the clock when I asked them what time it was

The boy in my band class that said I was the “stupidest smart person he’d ever met”

My former boss, who when I told I had dyscalculia told me “I probably have it too, I am always mixing things up!” (she was an accounting major and ran the accounting portion of that place of business)

But you know who would have really benefited from knowing about dyscalculia? Me. I wish I had known. I wish I could go back and tell my ten year old self that it wasn’t my fault, that I am extraordinary in the best way. I wish someone, somewhere along the way could have seen what was really going on.

That’s why dyscalculia awareness is so important.

misandry-mermaid:

Telling a woman who says she doesn’t want kids “You’ll change your mind” is really shitty because

• it’s assigning motherhood to a person who is explicitly rejecting it
  
• it’s reinforcing gender roles 
• it makes motherhood out to be something you do because you have to, not because you genuinely want to
• it’s infantilizing to make it seem like she can’t make decisions about her own life
• it’s invalidating of her desires which she is capable of knowing and communicating
• it’s telling a grown woman that you know what she wants better than she does

CEO of a major corporation: What are the teens into these days?
Assistant: Well sir, it seems they're blogging about... the Founding Fathers
CEO: I need a real answer, Jones!
Assistant: Sir, that IS the real answer
CEO:.. I don't understand what the children want

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

slythwolf:

children do not have more of a responsibility to protect other children from adults than adults have not to attack children

If you have any control over the date or time of your job interview, you might want to consider Tuesday morning. Glassdoor suggests that this is an ideal time because your interviewer will be productive and alert.

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bitterbitchclubpresident:

saintmosshart:

loveremains4eva:

33 Questions White People Have For White People (X)

You all need to watch this, white people calling out white people…😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

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weeping-who-girl:

Favorite Doctor Who Confidential Moments (10/?)

The Doctor and Donna’s Dynamic

““Use hostile empathic transfer.”
“Do I have enough emotional pain to incapacitate a child?””

- (via outofcontextdnd)

she-bear-daddy:

vivaciousvarlot:

femtoxic:

The potato has been genetically modified ever since scientists realized they could fight back blight that caused the Irish potato famine

ALL citrus fruits are GMO hybrids of the pomelo, mandarin, and citron- the only 3 original citrus. 

Most people have no idea what they’re talking about when they say they’re against GMO’s. No idea. 

We need to get around to realizing that genetic modification isnt contamination, or carcinogenic chemicals, or sludge, or evil godless mutations. They aren’t horrifying and they’re grown natural just like everything else. 

“i don’t buy anything with gmos,” said the woman walking her purebred pug

look don’t be against GMOs be against PATENTING GENES and PURPOSELY DESIGNING CROPS TO BE STERILE SO FARMERS HAVE TO KEEP BUYING SEEDS.

okaytrue:

dissociating is so scary because your missing chunks of your life, you literally don’t remember parts of your day or you cant pay attention no matter how hard you try and people accuse you of not listening and get mad but its like pls be patient im not really here right now

buzzfeedgeeky:

Beyoncé woke up like Storm. (x,x,x)

artsyartichoke:

MOGAI peeps protecting MOGAI peeps 2k15

(I would have added more but I ran out of puns)

libertinem:

Head Canon that it takes months for Mark Watney to stop narrating everything that he is doing. And most of that is peppered with generous profanity.

“Now I am going to cleanse myself with precious precious water. Fuck you Mars!”

The crew indulges him for a while but eventually starts saying, “Fuck you Mars!” as a general phrase of discontent.

The coffeemaker jams? “Fuck you Mars!”
Someone stubs a toe? “Fuck you Mars!”

NASA is not amused when tshirts and bumperstickers pop up.

sourcedumal:

wanderingpuck:

theregoesmywristagain:

potsiepie:

I think I need a cane but I’m totally in denial. Help?

Do you have problems walking? Try out a cane.
Does the cane make walking easier? Buy the cane.

Do people make you feel bad for using the cane? Hit them with the cane.

when i got a cane, i realized how much slower than usual i had been walking, and now i can walk at my normal pace again. it’s glorious.

when strangers ask me what my cane is for, I tell them it’s for hitting people who ask inappropriately personal questions. shuts them right up.

Never ever feel bad about using assistive devices. NEVER

ankh-kush:

rudegyalchina:

Dear white people
Fuck you and who ever else is posting this fake picture.

Stop exploiting us !

nothing scares white people more than the thought of people of color telling our own stories. 

maaarine:

“Do you ever get over having to come out?” (x)

fartgallery:

actually, frankenstein is the doctor. capitalism is the monster

street-lamp-orange:

micdotcom:

These menstrual product ads were just denied placement in the NYC subway

Thinx is a new menstrual underwear company “committed to breaking the taboo around menstruation.” That mission just got a lot harder, as the company responsible for NYC subway advertising rejected their ads. The ads were deemed too risqué and inappropriate, due to the skin shown, food imagery and, yes, the word “period.” When Thinx pressed the issue they were told, “This is not a women’s issue. Don’t try to make it a women’s rights thing.‘”

But cleavage and fruit as breasts in ads? Totally fine.

P sure anytime someone says “don’t make this a women’s rights issue” it already is

prostheticknowledge:

Caress of the Gaze

Fashion tech project by Behnaz Farahi is wearable top which changes form based on gaze of others:

What if our outfit could recognize and respond to the gaze of the other? This is an interactive 3D printed wearable which can detect other people’s gaze and respond accordingly with life-like behavior.

Link

imthehomoyourmomwarnedyouabout:

stuffmomnevertoldyou:

This mom’s thank-you letter is breaking the Internet with kindness

The guy’s response? “I wanted to see her leaving wanting to skateboard again.“ 

I’m literally crying if that was my daughter I’d be a wreck in tears and give him a hug and ask him if he wanted to teach her more some other time and I’d pay him cause that’s something she just really wanted and he’s so nice ok I’m probably pmsing

This is why I don’t have a lot of patience for the “but [example of shitty abusive men] is behaving that way because they’re young”…and? Clearly it’s possible to be too young to vote and still know better, so. Catch the fuck up.