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Death Penalty and Race: Race of Homicide Victims in Cases Resulting in an Execution since 1976

Economic harassment and the Ferguson crisis

Why I Don’t Call the Police: Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Debra Harrell. And that’s just the latest.

White Privilege: An Insidious Virus that’s Eating America from Within

What I've Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings

What Militarization Has Done to Our Police Departments: A few facts you might have missed about the flow of military equipment and tactics to local law enforcement.

Whitewashing and the Problem With the Ice Bucket Challenge

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The Heavy Metal Subculture of Botswana, Africa

An Afghan Village Of Drug Addicts, From Ages 10 To 60

Apple Cores Are A Myth

There Is No Such Thing As a ‘Typical’ Low-Wage Worker

Nigeria's Stolen Girls

James Kenneth Embry

James Kenneth Embry had a mental illness. James Kenneth Embry was a drug addict. James Kenneth Embry went to prison for drugs. James Kenneth Embry was denied medication for his mental illness in prison. James Kenneth Embry died of starvation in an American prison.

James Kenneth Embry was a human being. James Kenneth Embry deserved care on the streets of Murka and James Kenneth Embry deserved care in a cage in Murka.

Dammit, Murka. I'd bet $20 that this man took drugs because he had a mental illness. Instead of treating him, we imprison him and then instead of treating him, we kill him.

I don't have really anything else to say, except that we are not even close to the great country on Earth.

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Because I am a giant feminist.

Hollywood and the N-Word

The Unbearable Whiteness of Breaking Things: Privilege in action, yo.

Where White Supremacists Breed Online

The trouble with virginity: What America’s sexual language leaves out

The Life and Death of Enslaved Human Zoo Captive Ota Benga

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When “Life Hacking” Is Really White Privilege: Personal Development gurus can get away with whatever they want, so why can’t you?

Birth Control Sabotage as Domestic Violence: A Legal Response

Why Is the NYPL Hosting Convicted Rapist Mike Tyson? Or, Why the fuck is anyone paying any attention whatsofuckingever to rapist Mike Tyson? This article clearly outlines my thoughts.

CDC Data WTF? On Number of Sexual Partners
Median number of female sexual partners in lifetime, for men 25-44 years of age, 2006-2008: 6.1
Median number of male sexual partners in lifetime, for women 25-44 years of age, 2006-2008: 3.6

Okay, so the average man sleeps with 6 women and the average woman sleeps with 4 men. In their entire life. What? Okay, maybe I'm just a big slut. Whatever. It's cool; I'm sex-positive, haha.

Finally, when I read articles, websites generally suggest articles. Here's one such list of suggestions:

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When Men on the Left Refuse to See Their Sexism

White Hot Rage

On Thin Privilege

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

The Thing Is, I’m Undocumented

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News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier

Psychedelic Portuguese Man-of-War Photos Prove God Is a Stoner.
(They prove no such thing, but the images are gorgeous.)

The Saudi Marathon Man

Black Gold: Thar’s Oil In Them Thar Walls (On the Discovery of a Hidden Mural)

States Can Legalize Marijuana (Though Federal Laws Stand), Says Congressional Research Service

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This week, I'm thinking about privilege. Okay well really, I'm always thinking about privilege but this week I'm linking about privilege. Haha.
 
On Privilege

The Distress of the Privileged

THE ETHICS OF LIVING JIM CROW: An Autobiographical Sketch

Whites Believe They Are Victims of Racism More Often Than Blacks: In Zero Sum Game, "Reverse Racism" Seen as Bigger Problem than Anti-Black Racism

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

Facts are Cool: In Support of Straight White Male

What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’

On Privilege

From my Honors Colloquium II term paper:

“What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don’t understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip—even, and perhaps especially, when it remains unacknowledged.” ~Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name

In our society, we are taught that racism, sexism, and classism, inasmuch as they still exist in our modern society, are things that put others at a disadvantage. The interesting corollary to this is for every person put at a disadvantage, someone has an advantage. In an essay on the topic, entitled “The Breeze at My Back”, Dr. Michael Kimmel, esteemed sociologist and author, compared privilege to running in the wind, stating:

“To walk or run with that same wind at your back is to float, to sail effortlessly, expending virtually no energy. You do not feel the wind; it feels you. You do not feel how it pushes you along; you feel only the effortlessness of your movements. You feel like you could go on forever. It is only when you turn around and face that wind that you realize its strength. Being white, or male, or heterosexual in this culture is like running with the wind at your back. It feels like just plain running, and we rarely if ever get a chance to see how we are sustained, supported, and even propelled by that wind.”