Nation of Immigrants. The greatest vanity is forgetting where you came from.
lmaooo, true story bro.
I saw this before. so true! someone should of beat his ass a long time ago.
Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old kid walking home from a convenience store with an Arizona Iced Tea and a pack of Skittles last month in Orlando. He’d gotten the snacks for his little brother during a break in the NBA All-Star Game. Martin’s grandparents lived in the gated community he was walking through, but that didn’t stop George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain, from tailing Martin in his car and calling the police to tell them a “suspicious person” was in the area. That also didn’t stop Zimmerman from confronting Martin before the police arrived and then shooting the teenager with his 9-mm handgun. By the time police got there, Martin was dead, and Zimmerman was telling everyone he’d acted in self-defense.
It’s now been weeks since a black kid got killed for doing nothing more than trying to get home to see his family, and police have yet to charge or arrest Zimmerman with a single crime.
Yesterday, hundreds of miles from Orlando, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the best way he knows of to clean up gun violence in New York is by stopping and frisking random men of color on the street, essentially treating them all like they’re suspicious, dangerous, the kind of people who can be menacing with only a pack of Skittles in their pocket.
(via soupsoup)
Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj has won the Reuters Photo of the Year award for this image captured in North Korea in 2011.
“After days of excitement and lots of rare pictures in the provinces, I came back to Pyongyang without big plans for shooting in the capital. All I wanted were some moody general views of the city,” Sagolj wrote. “This is probably the easiest big picture I shot for a long time - it was taken from the window of my hotel room in Pyongyang early morning, just before the sunrise. I knew that portrait was there and I insisted with our hosts to get a room on a very high floor facing that direction. So, all I had to do is to wake up early in the morning, make a coffee, light a cigarette and make sure I exposed well. The scene has this eerie look for maybe 5 to 10 minutes, then the revolutionary songs and propaganda speeches from loudspeakers wake the city up.”
The photo shows a picture of North Korea’s founder Kim Il-sung decorating a building in the capital of Pyongyang on October 5, 2011.
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untitled: Visible Children: Viewed Critically
This is my own personal, response and does not reflect the views of any person or any organization besides myself.
http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/
The above link. It is being posted as a response to KONY 2012. And so I would like to respond to it. This is my own personal, response…
npr:
Critically acclaimed photographer Martin Schoeller recently released his second monograph, Female Bodybuilders - a book showcasing portraits he took of numerous female weightlifters. Visit www.pondpress.com to learn more about Schoeller’s project.
(via Female bodybuilder portraits | Fox News)
Photo: ©Martin Schoeller/www.pondpress.com
Love Santigold with a passion. New song, “Disparate Youth”
