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Fanart - Korra and Asami

*long loud sigh of bliss and satisfaction*

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You do realize that it was whites that ended slavery and have invented almost everything, right?

Black Inventions:

Air conditioning unit

Almanac

Auto cut-off switch

Auto fishing device

Automatic gear shift

Baby buggy (aka stroller)

Bicycle frame

Biscuit cutter

Blood plasma bag

Cellular phone

Chamber commode

Clothes dryer

Curtain rod and curtain rod support

Door knob

Dust pan

Door stop

Egg beater

Electric light bulb

Elevator

Eye protector

Fire escape ladder

Fire extinguisher

Folding bed

Folding chair

Fountain pen

Furniture caster

Gas mask

Golf tee

Guitar

Hair brush

Hand stamp

Horse shoe

Ice cream scooper

Improved sugar making

Insect-destroyer gun

Ironing board

Key chain

Lantern

Lawn mower

Lawn sprinkler

Lemon squeezer

Lock

Lubricating cup

Lunch pail

Mail box

Mop

Motor

Peanut butter

Pencil sharpener

Phone transmitter

Record arm player

Refrigerator

Riding saddles

Rolling pin

Shampoo headrest

Spark plug

Stethoscope

Stove

Straightening comb

Street sweeper

Thermostat control

Traffic light

Tricycle

Typewriter

Jazz (and subgenres)

Hip Hop (and subgenres)

Rock n Roll 

Speech (Africans first to use language)

Writing (before it became more complex in Mesopotamia)

Medicine (Ancient Egypt)

Architecture (Ancient Egypt)

Mathematics (prehistoric)

Mining of minerals

Iron smelting

Religion

Laws

International trade

Philosophy (dates back to before Ancient Egypt was before Ancient Egypt if you know what I mean)

Art (oldest art known is 75,000 years old found in South Africa)

Muslim Inventions:

Hospitals

Surgery

Algebra

Coffee

First to invent a flying machine

University

Optics (eye stuff)

Instruments in music

Toothbrush

Crank connecting rod system

Perfume

Central and South American inventions:

First try at the color television

Ochoaplane, a folding wing airplane

Acceleglove, a glove that can translate sign language into speech

Rocket belt

Air-pressure powered driver for pneumatic ventricular assist device

A method for preforming cable for promoting adhesion to overmolded sensor body for Delphi Technologies Inc

Contraceptive pill

The pen

Discovering mosquitos are cure to yellow fever

One of the world’s earliest submarines

Photographs

Chinese inventions:

Silk fabric

Ink

Irrigation canals

The kite

Poetry

Domestication of rice

Umbrella

Handheld crossbow

Paper

Wheelbarrow

Seismoscope

Abacus

Toilet paper

Porcelain

Gunpowder

Flamethrower

Magnetic compass

Circulation of paper currency (paper money)

Land mines

Sumerian inventions:

First written language

The wheel

Babylonian invention:

Soap

Mesopotamian inventions:

Parasol

Map making

Discovery of alcohol

Middle Eastern inventions (prehistoric):

Food supply

Domestication of the cat and cattle

Judea:

Weaving

Southeast Asian invention (prehistoric):

Domestication of chicken

Syrian invention:

The mirror

Persian inventions:

Ice cream

Windmill

Vertical sails

Indian inventions:

Modern numbering system (also in Arabia)

Chess

Korea

Metal movable type

Ironclad “turtleboat”

Filipino inventions:

Karaoke

Medical incubator

Moon buggy

Erythromycin

Yoyo

Video phone

Computer microchips

Isolated rice breeds

Drug detection

Jeepney (Jeeps)

Patis

Native American inventions:

Maple syrup

Hammock

Lacrosse

Inuit inventions:

Kayak

Parka

Toboggan

Hawaiian invention:

Surfing

Also, whites didn’t end slavery. Abraham Lincoln didn’t care about Black people and slavery until he knew that slavery was a very important economic part of the South, so he threatened to end slavery if they didn’t surrender because then the Confederate states would crumble, which is mostly what happened after they had to surrender. Slavery wasn’t necessary over after the Emancipation Proclamation, either. He only freed the slaves in the South. Sharecropping happened so after, which is basically slavery but only with drowning in debt so the Black families could become dependent on the white folk they’re on the land and work for.

Goodbye honky.

- Jess

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Maurice Sapiro - Moonglow

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The story arcs of Avatar - part 2 Twitter | Instagram

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Passed on

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Just to be alive On this fresh morning In this broken world. I beg of you, do not walk by without pausing to attend to this rather ridiculous performance. It could mean something. It could mean everything. It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote: You must change your life.

Mary Oliver

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Why should it? It can wait. It can stay silent a lifetime. Who knows anyway what it is, that wild, silky part of ourselves without which no poem can live?

Mary Oliver

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woman who shines at the head of my grandmother's bed, brilliant woman, i like to think you whispered into her ear instructions. i like to think you are the oddness in us, you are the arrow that pierced our plain skin and made us fancy women; my wild witch gran, my magic mama, and even these gaudy girls. i like to think you gave us extraordinary power and to protect us, you became the name we were cautioned to forget. it is enough, you must have murmured, to remember that i was and that you are. woman, i am lucille, which stands for light, daughter of thelma, daughter of georgia, daughter of dazzling you.

Lucille Clifton

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Your body is the harp of your soul. It is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

Khalil Gibran

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I wish you mouthfuls of laughter and warm hands and bowls of nourishing soup and starry light glittering at the periphery of your eyes as if someone is tapping you gently on the shoulder, whispering a song from your childhood that makes you smile and weep at the same time, in a good way, like when you know who you are. I wish you a loving letter from an old friend when you least expect it, with words that warm you like small sticks of kindling that catch and smoke and smell of ancient sandalwood forests and the tiny blue birds that sing at night, and a low slung moon. I wish you pan-friend plantains drizzled with honey, and the lonely sound of a fog horn at dusk after it’s rained all day, and the sweet, rich, gentleness you feel in every cell of your body when you’re kind to another human being.

Meredith Heller

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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

Pablo Neurda

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My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after age, forever

Rabindranath Tagore

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but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for

Richard Silken

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Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Khalil Gibran

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kind things i've said to myself today:  1. Other people find your awkwardness endearing 2. Not everything you believe about yourself is true 3. You only see memories from your perspective (so that thing might not actually have been that bad) 4. You are too close to see yourself clearly, you have no idea how great you could look to a stranger

srwpoetry

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Like Buddha says, honey, there's many ways to the top of the mountain and everyone has their own way. I just think that, if this was like, November '16 through some time in '17, maybe there are multiple things I would've advocated. But for me, I can't normalize the behavior. Two-thousand-and-fifteen Indiana governor Mike Pence is all I need to know to know that I will advocate for change and affect change in a room that isn't actively trying to kill people.

JVN

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When we see the beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

Ram Dass