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Hashtag Poem

You check Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat

All day staring at that little screen

This becomes the real world

Where everything is okay

All the racism,

Sexism and hate

Happens somewhere else

Another black kid killed,

Another rape

Just another picture, another video

To scroll by

A warrior for justice online

Silent in the streets

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Father, everyone is starting to pay attention to me again because of the new millennium. Huh I’m kinda making a comeback!

Jesus, South Park “Are you there God, it’s me Jesus” (via ross-george)

I agree with your hashtags that this part of the episode is a satirical play on how people turn to religion only when they are in need, not staying true to it all the time.

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hey, let’s sell our souls a few more times

Flynn (via jammiebear28)

This pokes fun at the old Catholic practice of selling indulgences for money and in general, showing the imperfectness of religion. This makes you question established religion because of how even the most heralded institutions can become corrupt.

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Dear white people, the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, but your weed man, Tyrone, does not count.

Dear White People (via jackryan1369)

This makes fun of the common argument that just because you have a black friend you automatically aren’t racist. People can still have biases and stereotypes no matter how many black friends they have, especially if their only black friends are the ones that sell them drugs.

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If God just answered all our prayers, there’d be nothing left for us to do ourselves. Life is about problems, and overcoming those problems, and growing and learning from obstacles. If God just fixed everything for us, then there’d be no point to our existence.

South Park, “Are You There God? It’s Me Jesus” (via samantha-e-hicks)

This is my favorite quote out of this episode because I think it sums up the idea that people lean on God/religion as a crutch and just like in the episode fail to see what the point of religion is. The episode also plays with the idea of Jesus being human and demonstrating how even the son of God has to deal with normal everyday issues and trying to find himself.

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I like how in this quote John Oliver uses humor to illustrate the absurdity of the situation in Ferguson. In response to the denial of racism existing in Ferguson, John Oliver, while maybe exaggerating, gives a very valid example of how the police force is inherently prejudice and that the way the system works needs to be fixed.

“If you’re white in Ferguson, you would need to be snorting cocaine directly off your dashboard to get stopped by the police. Whereas, if you’re an African-American citizen, you might have a slightly different experience.”

-Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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These Black female spheres of influence constitute potential sanctuaries where individual Black women and men are nurtured in order to confront oppressive social institutions

Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination

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Dear white people, this just in: Dating a black person to piss off your parents is a form of racism

Dear White People (2014)

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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background

Blackness as the second person

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You hope by sitting in silence you are bucking the trend

Citizen, Rankine

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These instances show how the seemingly vacuous practice of taking “selfies” (i.e., photos of oneself) can become politically meaningful in the context of racialized bodies.

#Ferguson, Bonilla and Rosa

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If God just fixed everything for us, then there’d be no point to our existence

“Are You there God, It’s me Jesus”

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He told them he'd be back like us he said this every time he left

Flynn - Jesus Knew

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Jesus is my virtue, Judas is the demon I cling to

Judas - Lady GaGa

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Those in charge don't have the best sense of how their community feels

John Oliver; Last Week Tonight

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Oh say can you see, this is the American Dream Young girl, hustlin' On the other side of the ocean You can be anything at all

Rihanna; American Oxygen

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a takeout box between my legs. plastic bag lady. flimsy white fork to snap in half. dispose of me.

“To the Man who Shouted I Like Pork Fried Rice at me on the Street” -  Franny Choi