“Never eat Mexican food east of Mississippi or north of Dallas.”
— Lyle Lovett, telling god’s honest truth
Anonymous asked: why are you so obssed with racism?? whites aren't your enemy so get over it!
“The idea that racism lives in the heart of particularly evil individuals, as opposed to the heart of a democratic society, is reinforcing to anyone who might, from time to time, find their tongue sprinting ahead of their discretion. We can forgive Whitaker’s assailant. Much harder to forgive is all that makes Whitaker stand out in the first place. New York is a city, like most in America, that bears the scars of redlining, blockbusting and urban renewal. The ghost of those policies haunts us in a wealth gap between blacks and whites that has actually gotten worse over the past 20 years. But much worse, it haunts black people with a kind of invisible violence that is given tell only when the victim happens to be an Oscar winner. The promise of America is that those who play by the rules, who observe the norms of the “middle class,” will be treated as such. But this injunction is only half-enforced when it comes to black people, in large part because we were never meant to be part of the American story.”
“For example, Columbia Room bartender Matt Ficke proposed to his wife last year with a hand-carved ice diamond in a glass of Thomas H. Handy Sazerac rye whiskey. “She likes whiskey a lot more than she likes jewelry,” he says.”
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The Ice Is Right: Is Artisan Ice the Final Frontier for Craft Cocktails? - Young & Hungry
love these 2 forever
“The research results were obvious: women job seekers were more interested in male-dominated jobs when advertisements were unbiased, making reference to both men and women as candidates. In other words, women and men, for example, may equally like and desire an engineering job, but highly masculine wording used in the job posting reduces women’s appeal of the job because it signals that women do not fit or belong in that job. In this way, qualified male and female applicants are opting out of jobs that they could perform well.”
— You Don’t Know It, But Women See Gender Bias in Your Job Postings - ERE.net (via techladymafia)
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Miriam Makeba on the Cosby show!
Miriam Makeba’s birthday commemorated in Google doodle is my everything
