I've got a Bakewell heart

Listen, I think one of the things that’s real strange, and you see it for when I see it with my kids, is that they have entire networks of communications and entire networks of sort of joining up with each other and talking that I think allude folks like me and older. I mean, I’m not on Tumblr every darn day. I’m not. I don’t have Instagram. I don’t get on any of these networks my kids are on. There’s all this movement and information that’s passing and that is sort of slipping past what we would call the mainstream radar.

My kids, my students, they understand that there’s these kind of two worlds. That there’s the official world, or the official world that they’ll go work and the official world where they’ll talk to adults. And in that official world, folks don’t talk about race. Folks don’t talk about rape. Folks don’t, you know, acknowledge how much young people are doing or what they’re doing. Folks don’t talk about how many gay folks are out there. Folks don’t talk about how Iowa’s got all these Mexican Americans living there. And then there’s the world that they live, on the ground, where they’re seeing all this stuff right up front. And I think a lot of what’s going on is that you’re getting communities that are becoming bilingual and speaking real speak (and real speak is the stuff that, you know, we can acknowledge is happening) and speaking the official speak. And in the official speak, we don’t acknowledge any of this stuff.

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Junot Diaz

Oh, Junot, LITTLE DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE ON TUMBLR 

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The more different ways of talking we have, the more opportunities we have to tell the truth.

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therumpus:

jsmooth995:

T-Paining Too Much: The Meme-ification of Charles Ramsey

So many big questions to ask about Cleveland, so much to grapple with. So much that is unthinkable but needs so direly to be thought about. I feel like it’ll be a while before I can say anything intelligent about it. But in the meantime here are some thoughts about the side questions around the Charles Ramsey phenomenon.

If you don’t have a crush on J Smooth, then I don’t know if we have anything to talk about here, okay.

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Little black girls were never taken seri­ously in books, they were always jokes…But I wanted to read a book where they were taken seriously, so I had to write it.

—Toni Morrison (Emperor of Realness)

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sophistory:

Another thing that is rustling my fucking jimmies about the way Louise Brealey and Moffat/Vertue have behaved/are behaving with regard to Elementary:

I have zero problems with celebrities being outspoken about things they have legit concerns about. Dom Monaghan publically…

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