2 posts tagged “politics”
I recently attended a lecture on Prisons, Politics, and Gender given by Angela Davis.
This is what the post will be about.
Angela Davis is a former (?) Black Panther freedom fighter, and she is now current Professor of The History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. She is most famous for the campaign to free her from prison in the 70's, cause she kinda broke the law. But not really at all. But just because she didn't BREAK any law didn't mean that she wasn't on the FBI's top ten most wanted list for something like 2 months.
She also once ran for VP of the US under the Communist ticket. Because of her affiliation to the communist party she was fired from a prominent position in state government by Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan - what a complete embodiment of Satan douche. Don't worry, she was totes rehired.
So yeah, she's pretty interesting.
So why did I go to this lecture? Let me explain with this dialog:
Brittany: OMG girl you wanna go listen to Maya Angelou speak?
Me: OMG *fangirls* YES! Now I can find out why the caged bird sings!!!
Brittany: Yeah...I dunno anything about her but Carissa says she's here RIGHT NOW! LETS GO PUT ASIDE YOUR FOOD!
Me: Okay, I will even put aside nutrition to go! Screw eating!
...at the auditorium...
Me: Ummm Brittany this isn't Maya Angelou, it's Angela Davis
Brittany: Oh close enough
Me: Eh, whatever, prisons is a sweet topic *cool*
Let me just start of by saying that Angela Davis has THE COOLEST AFRO IN THE WORLD.
Okay, now on to the serious part.
The lecture started off poorly. The whole thing was kinda shaky until the end. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
To start off she mentioned Obama and Clinton. And then she said she really could care less because she is now a member of the Green Party and voted in that primary. But she does think that neither of them can a have a voice for all women/African Americans/minorities.
It was rather refreshing to hear someone speak about them that way.
Next she brought up Sodexho, which was the first thing me and Britt noticed about the pamphlets in our hands. Sodexho was a sponsor of this event and we weren't getting any damn food.
But her point about it was different. Turns out, Sodexho provides meal services to most of the colleges around America, most prisons around the world, and the US army.
It also use to be the largest shareholder of the company that owns most of the prisons in the world.
So technically she shouldn't have ate the food that was provided to her here - but she was real hungry XD
Next she talked about how the ideas of Kentucky Fried Chicken and commercial Prisons came from the same people.
Apparently they wanted to create two business that would always be in demand.
Oh, the jokes - they are endless and hilarious.
Next she addressed race and prisons. Sorry, I am not talented enough to convey what she said here. This where the presentation really started to take off and her confidence grew.
I also learned that there is now an entire prison in Arizona dedicated to handling solely Hawaiian prisoners.
She then talked about a young man who was shot in the head for being gay by a fellow classmate. Both are 15 & 14 respectively.
Well the boy died. And now the 14 year old will be tried as an adult.
A bad situation all around.
And I feel horrible, because I read that the boy often wore high heels to school. Sorry, just a shout out to his memory ~fabulouzz bb~ christ I never even bother to put on a pair.
In short, I learned more from her lecture than I learn in an entire month of reading multiple news sources everyday.
I left during the questioning round though, because Britt bailed and a weird guy asked a very creepy rhetorical question and I was like: "No sorry dudes I'm dying of starvation."
All in all it was really fun :)
YKWITAR?
WKRMSTK?
okay I'll just tell you who i'm talking about.
1. Tegoshi Yuya because he's S and now apparently enjoys speaking in this
2. William F Buckley Jr., erudite conservative and excellent douche. :(
I betcha didn't think i could fit a picture of a jpop idol into this post about f buckley but i totally did cause i have mad skillz
NEWAYS now i'm gonna explain why i am writing about this douche. he died. sad, blah blah respect dead people whatever. but let me tell you something. the other day i was lost for about 3 hours and i ended up at traditional japanese graveyard. at this moment, i do not feel like being all sensitive cause that really freaked me out, it was dark, and buckley is a douche.
Today in my Soc class, we talked about this man for roughly an hour.
Why?
I do not know, but the best way I can explain it is Ann Coulter. But let's start from the beginning.
So I get to class 10 minutes early. My teacher gets to class 10 minutes late. No big deal right?
At the start of every class our teacher shares some sort of new knowledge with us. Past topics include: "The Big Lie" "Primaries" "A Big Giganto Swimming Pool in South America" and "The Time this guy I knew totally got exploded by a terrorist and Survived"
Today He didn't say what we were gonna talk about, but I had a bad feeling when I saw that he had a new e-mail from Ann Coulter in his inbox. I have provided a very informative graphic for those of you who live under a rock:
Jesus Christ Super Star, that almost deletes the hotness that I posted earlier *shudder* Okay so anyways, today's topic was the death of WFBJ. Oddly enough, the topic was introduced by showing us clips of The Colbert Report. And then my prof repeatedly referred to Jon Stewart as Jon Daily and no one bothered to correct him, because, I am assuming, it was full of hilarity.
And then my prof just went on and ON about how fab WFBJ was and how we should all know about his great genius-ness.
And now, to sum up my feelings about WFBJ, I will give you some of his "erudite" comments:
I like to call it WFBJ MASTER HITS
"The central question that emerges…is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race.”
“Now listen, you QUEER, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I will sock you in your goddamn face, and you will stay plastered.” OH QUEER GOOD WORD CHOICE, I CAN TOTES TELL YOU HAVE A GOOD USAGE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. But that was an intense battle between him and Vidal. I have to admit however that lately I have been interested in using the word "plaster" for a variety of things.
I don't really care if he has occasionally said cool things, he once said that uneducated people have no right to vote.
Douchery at it's highest. This is America. Not Eruditica.
It's not even Eroditica. But that is a seriously cool made-up name for a country filled with ero stuff ~ gyak gyak.
Tegoshi could be president~ And Bambina would be the national anthem ~ and I would go there for vacation a lot to see the uber hot president and his S ways of leadership
Anyways it's midnight and I'm going to sleep bb.
