deliciouskaek:

tashabilities:

notesofanativesister:

tashabilities:

I don’t know what did it, but I’m crediting it to Black folks givin hella feedback via social media.

Thanks for the reblogs and the comments on their facebook page, y’all!

YAY! 

Wait, isn’t this the same Wet Seal that just got sued for racial discrimination in its stores? Come on………..

The very same Wet Seal.

Well, apparently THEY LIED, 

Cause if you click that link, the shit is available for sale again.

i want to be surprised and have one company pull something from their store for a good reason like this and have them fucking stick to it

JUST ONCE

Ok so it IS in fact gone; if you haven’t cleared your web browser’s cache since the last time you looked it will still show up. I can verify that testing the link in a browser I don’t regularly use redirects me to the main Wet Seal page.

tashabilities:

I don’t know what did it, but I’m crediting it to Black folks givin hella feedback via social media.

Thanks for the reblogs and the comments on their facebook page, y’all!

YAY! 

It’s still available, though. I was able to add it to a shopping cart on their site.

strangegods:

hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

(Source: nadiaxx)

Yesterday, Sen. Vitter of Louisiana offered up an amendment to permanently drop anyone ever convicted of a violent crime from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Democrats in the Senate obliged him. The amendment is for a farm bill, which is currently being debated in the Senate.

Says Greenstein:

The amendment would bar from SNAP (food stamps), for life, anyone who was ever convicted of one of a specified list of violent crimes at any time — even if they committed the crime decades ago in their youth and have served their sentence, paid their debt to society, and been a good citizen ever since. In addition, the amendment would mean lower SNAP benefits for their children and other family members.

So, a young man who was convicted of a single crime at age 19 who then reforms and is now elderly, poor, and raising grandchildren would be thrown off SNAP, and his grandchildren’s benefits would be cut. … Democrats accepted it without trying to modify it to address its most ill-considered aspects.

Two-thirds of SNAP recipients are children, elderly or the disabled, and two-fifths of SNAP households live below half the poverty line.

According to Greenstein, if this amendment ends up in the farm bill and passes, it would hit African Americans particularly hard:

Given incarceration patterns in the United States, the amendment would have a skewed racial impact. Poor elderly African Americans convicted of a single crime decades ago by segregated Southern juries would be among those hit.

Sen. Vitter is claiming that his amendment is only aimed at preventing those convicted of violent crimes from obtaining benefits, apparently under the logic that stripping them of what may be their only form of income assistance will lead to less violence. Curiously, he didn’t propose that johns who’ve hired sex workers would also be banned from SNAP.

Sen. Vitter also proposed an end to the so-called “Obama Phone” program, which started under President Ronald Reagan to help elderly and low-income with cellphone service, particularly in rural areas.

(Source: marginalutilite)

navigatethestream:

maiqilai:

hollow-wooden-ring:

someone just posted this in the l & d conference; it is a letter from lierre keith.

“Hi Stephanie,

Thanks for your note. It’s true I don’t have a lot of time to reply, as I’m too busy handling all the recent death and rape threats from transgenderists, as well…

woooooooooooow

what do you even say to this kind of bullshit？

there is so much wrong with Lierre’s letter that i don’t even know where to begin 

first of all, what the fuck is a “transgenderist”? honestly that sounds like a word CNN came up on the same day they thought up “Islamicist”

also her mention of footbinding and female circumcision as a way of talking about “the plight of women”

sit the fuck down!

i am so tired of white woman reaching into their magicians hat of orientalist tropes to make these grandiose statements. trying so fucking hard to construct this universalist understanding of “the woman’s plight” when all the while its still located in the exclusionary praxis of white feminism 

(Source: hollowring)