Basically
Arya: Yoren I’m scared tell me a bedtime story
Yoren: This bastard called Willem murdered my brother so I drove an axe so far into his skull that they had to bury him with it
Arya: Ok thanks Yoren
and how many ships has the The Lord of Light got in His fleet?
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| — | Davos Seaworth Onion Knight of my heart, blood of my blood etc etc |
Oh my sweet summer child. How much do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Well, Sophie… When a grizzly sized, half faced man loves a young woman very much….
HOW ARE YOU SO CUTE?
omg bless her heart
We Have A Serious Problem. #TrayvonMartin
To raise awareness about the #millionhoodies march and general online campaign I’ve posted the picture below on my social networks. This was the response on one of them.
[REDACTED]: Um no. This guy IS suspicious. I would totally purse clutch and traffic dodge to avoid and I’m not sure of the message here. March for hoodies?
[REDACTED]: I grasp the point racism is rasicm, no dress code needed. But we need to watch our PR and how our message is distributed. The above is not helping or helpful to disseminate the message. It’s an image of a thug in a hoodie. Treyon was not a thug, he was a child and this is the image that should be used. And the main goal is to make the “point” as EASY to grasp as possible. We can march and protest and leverage petitions, but if our attitude is, “read between the lines to get my point”, then we move no one. We also need to utilize the most powerful, personable images we have. This guy is not one of them.
Elon James White (me): Oh HI [REDACTED] I’m the image of the “Thug in a hoodie.” Do you know who I am? Do you know what I do? You said that THAT’s an image of a thug in a hoodie and TREYVON WASNT A THUG. Ma’am, I’m not a thug. I’m an engaged political commentator with a background in I.T. I throw dinner parties and build studios from scratch. But YOU saw a thug in a hoodie.
Do you understand the problem now?[REDACTED]: I’m sure youve very accomplished, and my comments don’t take away from that. But I see a thug in a hoodie. You may not like it, and I dont know you, but I can ONLY see the photo. We disagree. I can stomach that.
Elon: Can you read your own words? The type of thought process you have right now is why Tayvon Martin was stalked and killed. He “looked like a thug” even though he wasn’t. To MANY people a Negro in a hoodie is a thug. That is not right. That is not okay. That is the POINT of the march today. That is the point of the online campaign to wear hoodies in solidarity.
Under no circumstances should I or ANYONE be looked at as a threat because they put a hoodie on.
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And by the way? [REDACTED] is black.
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POC can watch white shows and not endorse the whiteness in it. The fact that we enjoy the characters or the plot does not mean we can’t point out the problems or -isms inside.
What is problematic is policing what POC can/cannot engage in. I’m writing this in a specifically “Western” context, because I cannot turn on the tv, radio, ANYTHING, without it being white. Everything is white. Everything is straight. Everything is able-bodied. What do you expect of POC in this type of environment? Turn off our media and engage only in that which represents us? Or will you, oh high and mighty arbiters, let us enjoy what we want to enjoy?
We have no choice when it comes to the programming offered. We can either watch it or not. Whether we choose to do so or not, however, says absolutely nothing about our commitments to anti-racism. Because what you’re saying is that POC should only watch POC shows.
WE DO WATCH THEM. There are not enough of them. Some of us even leave “Western” media and head to other countries to watch their shows and cinema.
AND SHIT, BEING POC AND COMMITTED TO ANTI-RACISM DOESN’T MEAN WE CAN’T TAKE PART IN A FANDOM. HAVE YOU SEEN THE SHIT THAT GOES DOWN WHEN A POC CALLS OUT A FANDOM/SHOW FOR BEING RACIST? OR SEXIST?
You do not control our choices, fuck off.
#STOP BOTHERING MY WIFE #fuck all of you though seriously #if you’re going to try and police our tv choices #make sure you know what you’re getting into #DO YOU KNOW WHAT MY WIFE WATCHES??? DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HER??? #i cannot believe this anon is using got and the borgias and mad men as points of white supremacy #YES SHE KNOWS TELL HER SOMETHING NEW #you’re missing the obvious point WHERE SHE’S CALLED THAT SHIT OUT OVER AND OVER #god fuck people in fandoms and people not in fandoms#people suck
