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Hey ~ wanna get creative 😘✏

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I'M GONNA GO TO #sabakucon2016 TO MEET NARUTOOOOOOO Hopefully I finish my Naruto cosplay by then

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It me

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“What… ARE… YOU… THINGS!?”

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Shia watching “Transformers: Dark of The Moon” (2011)

(yes, that is him sleeping on the floor in the last photo.)

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the story of a man and his unlikely friend

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I haven’t seen anyone complaining about the Starbucks cup. I’ve only seen people complaining about people complaining about the Starbucks cup.

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Homeless veterans die every single day from mental illness/drug addiction and nobody ever gives a fuck, yet we have Veterans Day and people still don’t give a fuck.

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when a guy acts like a decent human being and gets praised for it

Person 1: I don’t think girls have to make guys sandwiches… [cheering sounds in the background]… yeah- oh is this for me? [gets handed a plaque that says “Decent Human Award”]

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So in world history we're going over Spanish and American imperialism in the Philippines, and a bunch of kids keep saying how it 'helped' us. They say things like 'without Europeans, they'd still be living in the jungle' and other things of that nature.. As a filipinx, how can I address how wrong that is with them?

Good lord I’d like to recite my debate speech about how colonization fucked everything up. 

1) Colonization is the direct cause of colorism in the Philippines. 

It’s all rooted back to how the Spaniards differentiated us by putting us into categories according to skin tone. Lighter Filipinxs got better *house* jobs and darker Filipinxs got the hard outside labor. 

2) It was the genocide of our culture and writing system. 

Baybayin was the lost pre-colonial writing system before Spain. By the time Spain came, they were surprised at how we could read and write. Men and women. 

Know what that means? It was more of an egalitarian society. 

But oh no. We are just savages who lived in the jungle before the white saviors came. 

3) The Philippines has been constantly exploited for over 500 years. 

We’ve been colonized over and over and over again. Taken for our location and our resources. They made us hate our skin, hate our culture, and embrace everything that is white. 

I need to make a longer post about this cause arguments like this really piss me the fuck off cause the more I read up on this topic, the more I realize how much the root cause of racism and colorism stems from colonization. 

And the self-hate is passed down from generation to generation. You will get treated better if you’re light-skinned. Pale is beautiful. Brown is ugly.

This is something we’re told and grow up seeing and it’s all because some fucking white assholes imposed that on us. 

We barely know any of our history cause it was all wiped out and forgotten. They didn’t do shit to help us.

They exploited us. 

-Leah

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