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To be, or not to be?

Yeah...can I get a refund? 

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Just let that sink in. Black people are happy about an invisible sunscreen for dark skin tones in 2017. We didn’t have them until 2017. That’s crazy. Black customers are always left with few choices, especially black people with dark skin tones. Beauty brands just don’t feel like dark skin women need to have the same amount of different products for their skin type as white women. This inequality breaks my heart every single time i think about it.

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chaotic good

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“..tryna make a dollar out of 15 cents”

African-American proverb indicating that someone is over-dramatizing a situation or bragging about something insignificant. (via blkproverbs)

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This is perfect

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The Washington Herald, Washington DC, May 25, 1911

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Washington, DC

People tend to talk about DC as being just politicians, monuments, hotels, and restaurants, with not much in between. That’s not actually the case at all. So when you’re going to write about DC, here are some things to keep in mind, in no particular order:

DC isn’t a state. While that may seem obvious, it leads to some odd things, like the fact that DC has no vote in Congress. This is particularly weird given that Congress approves DC’s budget and given that DC residents, as opposed to residents of places like Puerto Rico (which also have one non-voting member in the House), are subject to all federal taxes. (This was an issue during the government shutdown, because they refused to pass the DC budget as well.) A lot of DC license plates read “Taxation Without Representation”.

As of July 2016, there were about 680k residents in DC, with the number of people in the city reaching 1 million during the workweek. The DC Metropolitan Area (which is mainly DC, Arlington, and Alexandria) is the sixth largest metropolitan area in the US, with more than 6.1 million people.

DMV refers to DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

Visiting the monuments is referred to as “monumenting”.

There is a large public transportation system in DC, consisting of buses and the metro. Nobody calls it the subway. The system is called WMATA. The buses are a flat rate of $1.75 (soon to go up to $2) per ride. The metro cost depends on starting and ending points and whether you’re On- or Off-Peak (aka rush hour). The highest cost is $5.90 for a ride. They no longer (I think) have paper tickets, so everyone uses SmartTrip cards.

The metro is a mess. They’re currently doing repairs, which mostly makes it more of a mess because they’re running shorter hours and frequently do single-tracking, which significantly slows down travel. On the other hand, it catches fire less.

There are twenty colleges and universities in DC.

You can’t take the metro to Georgetown University.

DC has neighborhoods and quadrants. Neighborhoods include Georgetown, Dupont, Potomac Heights, etc. Quadrants are NW, SW, NE, and SE. They’re not of equal size. Addresses contain the quadrant in them. For example, the White House is at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.

There is a lot of difference culturally and socio-economically between the quadrants.

Embassy Row is a road containing most of the embassies. On Halloween some of them give out candy and stamp passports. A lot of them also have very disparate architecture style, which looks very weird all next to each other.

Things are referred to by acronyms. Everything has an acronym.

The Homeland Security building is diagonally across the street from American University.

DC is ~48% Black or African American.

There are a lot of gentrification issues in DC.

DC is a very expensive place to live.

Tourists drive DC residents nuts, primarily when they can’t figure out how to use escalators.

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Washington, DC | 2017

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Washington, DC | 2017

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DC! :)

Full Name: Johnathan Zachary Davis Gender and Sexuality: Cis and Bisexual Pronouns: He/ Him/ HimselfEthnicity/Species: Black, Piscataway, White |Embodiment of Washington DCBirthplace and Birthdate: P.G. County, Maryland | July 16, 1790Guilty Pleasures: Arts and craft stores just browsing them and not buying anything (it’s the smell those stores smell great), Watching zit popping videos on youtube at 3am, googling himself, getting a fresh new pair of shoes only to sniff them because new shoes smell greatPhobias: He has a fear of heights. (It has a lot to do with this)What They Would Be Famous For: As a person, lol he’s already kinda famous for this at work, but taking on so many tasks and not exploding from all the pressure. :’D What They Would Get Arrested For: The things he’s been arrested for was trespassing, and disorderly conduct. All in reference to the times he’s been arrested for protesting.

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i can understand Takeoff but don’t ever ask me to decipher what a DC nigga is saying that’s out

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4/12/17 Transgender pride flag left from women’s March on Washington

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Our first pride was a success!!

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Dozens of black kids are missing in DC. These black lawmakers want the FBI to find them.

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) are urging FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate over 500 cases of children missing in the nation’s capital.

On Friday, the New York Daily News reported that Richmond and Norton sent a letter pleading to Comey and Sessions to “devote the resources necessary to determine whether these developments are an anomaly or whether they are indicative of an underlying trend that must be addressed.”

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, more than 500 kids and teens — many of them black teenage girls — were reported missing in Washington, D.C., since the beginning of 2017. 

As of Wednesday, 22 cases remain unsolved. Read more.

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Do you believe in ghosts and the paranormal?

No, I don’t.

However that would be pretty contradictory of me not to believe in things like that. Since, in a strange twist of fate, we’re pretty paranormal, in a sense.

Like, Are We Human, or Are We Landmasses?

I dunno that’s something to think about while cracking open a cold one with the boys.