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msamberhazard:

genderbitch:

so-treu:

cause i’ve been getting a lot of “but if you don’t talk nice you won’t win people over to your side!!!11!!1”

if i have to convince someone that i am a human being, i don’t want them on “my side.”i don’t want to be anywhere *near* them.

in…

As the Trayvon Martin case draws national attention, we look at another fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American male that has received far less scrutiny. Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68 year-old African-American Marine veteran, was fatally shot in November by White Plains, NY, police who responded to a false alarm from his medical alert pendant. The officers hurled racial slurs at Chamberlain, broke down his door, tasered him, and then shot him dead. We’re joined by Chamberlain’s son, Kenneth Chamberlain Jr., and two of his attorneys. One of the attorneys, Mayo Bartlett, questions the police response to the shooting, comparing it to the official story that emerged after George Zimmerman shot the unarmed African-American teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida last month. “It’s very similar to Mr. Zimmerman suggesting that he had a bloody nose, and now you look at the video and that doesn’t appear to be the case,” says Bartlett. “That really makes you question what we’re being told sometimes by government with respect to these types of matters.” Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. struggles through tears to recount his father’s final moments, including the way police officers mocked his father’s past as a Marine. “For them to look at my father that way, (with) no regard for his life, every morning I think about it,” he says.

blackamazon:

The black people moving into that community?

Thought they were making better choices for their children and their children’s future.

Trayvon’s father brought his son to him to try and INTERCEPT issues he saw him having .

That’s how big the gulf is.

That a black person paying…

flowerfood:

theafroqueerizedbeekeeper:

 Bees feeding off tea trees native to New Zealand, produce a type of honey that’s known as “Jelly Bush Honey” in Australia and “Manuka Honey” in New Zealand. Now, scientists at the University of Sydney’s School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences have found this particular type of honey has some amazing curative properties.

Until now, Manuka Honey has been sold in health food stores as a natural medicine. That is probably about to change. New research has shown the honey kills every type of bacteria scientists have thrown at it, including the antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’ plaguing hospitals and killing patients around the world.

Professor Dee Carter is one of the research team that made the discovery. She said a compound in the honey called methylglyoxal is the key ingredient to the effectiveness of the honey. However, methylglyoxal on its own is toxic but when it combines with what are, as yet, unknown compounds it causes “multi-system failure” in bacteria.

Manuka Honey Unique to New Zealand

Honey bees collect nectar from Manuka bushes (also known as Tea Trees) which grow in remote areas of New Zealand. According to Manuka Health the discovery of the anti-bacterial properties of methylglyoxal was made by Professor Thomas Henle at the University of Dresden, Germany.

The curative properties of various types of honey have been known to indigenous cultures for thousands of years, and dressing wounds with honey was common before the advent of antibiotics.

Oh, my. I’ve noticed this on the shelves at various natural foods shops. Will be buying some tomorrow.

stfuconservatives:

A really great article about the Black experience and casual racism in America.

cloneboy:

diabsoule:

drunkenpaper:

Interesting I’ll be following this to see how the research comes up.

Do want.

Also it blocks HIV. Goddamn.

This sounds interesting, but I’m not too crazy about the idea of injecting plastic into my junk.

Also, the HIV blocking claim is totally overstated and completely unfounded.

newwavefeminism:

Apparently our opinions are only valued if they are written in a “kumbaya, the world isn’t THAT bad” mentality of the majority that has a privilege to never display bitterness that they’re lived experiences bring them. It’s funny because the majority gets to play ignorant like “I never knew we…