Those of us from rural south know how to handle toilet paper shortage. Eat more corn on the cob! The corn isn't important, but the cobs are free and work great! (Just don't flush them!) You're welcome!
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Detroit-based rapper Tiny Jag pulled out of a Detroit, MI music festival this week after she learned that white concert-goers would be charged a higher price than people of color.Jag, also known as Jillian Graham, told the Detroit Metro Times that she found out about AfroFuture Fest's pay model when a white friend reached out to her and sent her a screenshot via Instagram that outlined the pay difference. The early bird POC ("people of color") ticket was $10 while the early bird "non-POC" ticket cost $20. "I was immediately enraged just because I am biracial," Graham told the Metro Times. "I have family members that would have, under those circumstances, been subjected to something that I would not ever want them to be in ... especially not because of anything that I have going on." The organizers of the event are upfront that they are charging different prices based on race, including sharing artwork on social media with a caption about early-bird tickets that reads, “Early Bird POC Tickets are $10 & $20 for NONPOC’s & on sale until JULY 17th.”
WHY DO WE HAVE POC(PEOPLE OF COLOR) AND NONPOC(WHITE PEOPLE) TICKETS? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED! EQUALITY MEANS TREATING EVERYONE THE SAME EQUITY IS INSURING EVERYONE HAS WHAT THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL OUR TICKET STRUCTURE WAS BUILT TO INSURE THAT THE MOST MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES (PEOPLE OF COLOR) ARE PROVIDED WITH AN EQUITABLE CHANCE AT ENJOYING EVENTS IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY(BLACK DETROIT). AFFORDING JOY AND PLEASURE IS UNFORTUNATELY STILL A PRIVILEGE IN OUR SOCIETY FOR POC AND WE BELIEVE EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO RECEIVING SUCH. WE'VE SEEN TOO MANY TIMES ORGASMIC EVENTS HAPPENING IN DETROIT AND OTHER POC POPULATED CITIES AND WHAT CONSISTENTLY HAPPENS IS PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE COMMUNITY BENEFITING MOST FROM AFFORDABLE TICKET PRICES BECAUSE OF THEIR PROXIMITY TO WEALTH. THIS CYCLE DISPROPORTIONATELY DISPLACES BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE FROM ENJOYING ENTERTAINMENT IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES. AS AN AFROFUTURIST YOUTH LEAD INITIATIVE THE VOICES OF OUR YOUTH INFORM OUR RESISTANCE. HERE'S WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY " IF YOU DON'T SEE MY BLACKNESS, YOU DON'T SEE ME. PERIODT!"
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I want to be able to wear a dress w/ a sweater to work in the summer and not freeze my face off
She's right, AC is necessary for some people in some places but it gets way overused because Americans are sexist hogpeople
US government: *bans Juggalos*
When juggalos are outlawed, only outlaws will whoop whoop.
I’m kind of curious who is responsible for taking care of spiders. I would have thought pest control would fall to renters
BAN ALL THE BANKERS AND KILL THEM
https://twitter.com/davegwitt/status/1149100995529662467PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION FOR EXPOSURE.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1149260810222485504
Delphine said: “People like to make the joke that by 2019 they thought there would be flying cars, amazing medical technology, and other humankind forwarding ideas. I think stuff like that is happening constantly – but also people are buying bottled gamer girl bath water.”
Quote from: Stro on July 14, 2019, 01:26:23 PM...apply...to....high school? My guess is the homies and admission at said private schools won't actually give a shit lol. Very good!
...apply...to....high school?
Pay $4K a month to live like a college student, bruh.
And then again, maybe getting out of the car—out of view of the cameras—doesn't sound that bad after all.
Honestly a family Slack sounds much, much, much better than getting stuck in family group texts
https://twitter.com/wsvn/status/1151475387567919105
https://twitter.com/Kotobukiya_EN/status/1151649031376003072