Miscellanea
Things I need to remember:
• Asking for help is not, as it turns out, fatal.
• Laughing is easier than pulling your hair out, and doesn't have the unfortunate side effect of making you look like a plague victim.
• Even the biggest tasks can be defeated if taken a bit at a time.
• I can write a paper the night before it's due, but the results are not all they could be.
• Be thorough, but focused.
• Trust yourself.
• Honesty, always.
Historians are the Cassandras of the Humanities
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Date: July 8th, 2009 09:26 pm (UTC)Publicly, I think that media attention needs to go that direction. Some tasteful protests, polite expressions of indignation, and sincere consciousness raising.
And while I do grok that "Private Social Clubs" have a right, upheld by the Supreme Court, hence Boy Scouts of America's stand to exclude gay scouts and leaders, to set their own membership policies. What did they EXPECT taking an inner city day camp's money? JUST the white kids?
"I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,"... RIGHT. I guess just BECUASE their black, that makes them dangerous and criminals. Crap like that just raises my back. Always has. It's a hateful and ignorant attitude.
Privately, I think it's time for [ ghetto ] some uptight mother------s to grow the f--k UP! [ /ghetto ] I put up with that bulls--t back in the 70's, we're DONE wit dat. Word.
* Gnash Gnash *