I am convinced this man is insane
oh my god his laughter
help me
Hi! I found this while looking for a documentary on girls soccer in the US. It’s about racism in world football
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-2CX5633olM
Background for those unfamiliar with soccer/football:
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has said a lot of dumb things about gay people and racism on numerous occasions and he is allowing Qatar to host the 2022 world cup, a country that apparently punishes homosexuality by death (although it’s not unique in this, actually, at all). Anyway apart from asking people to retain from doing anything gay in Qatar he also kind of ignores the issue of racism in football and has stated that any racist act can be settled after the game with a handshake.
People are pretty upset and there has been a lot of backlash against this quote, which is a good thing. He’s the head of operations, though. I want to make that clear, because this is a global issue and he’s screwing it up literally for everyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OstAHc-NxM0
I also wanted to show this Di No Al Racismo ad that ran last year. It’s clear Blatter is aware of some issues, he’s just looking through the telescope backwards? I enjoyed this commercial at the time, but really, this is a feel-good move that seems to be doing a lot of—yeah—whitewashing of something that should be in the open, for me and anyone who does care about the future of sports:
HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM AND SEXISM HAS NO PLACE IN SPORTS. EVER. IT CAN’T BE SETTLED WITH A HANDSHAKE. IT’S DISGUSTING AND NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED, CONSTANTLY, IN FRONT OF EVERYONE.
Good post.
You definitely picked the right version of the first video. The same clip comes up if you type in “European Racism”, except there’s thousands of comments of “Europe for Europeans, white people are under attack, no one is forcing Africa to accepr immigrants from Europe, why should we do the same BLAHBLAHBLAH.” Also worth noting, BBC aired a clip on racist hooliganism in Ukraine a week or two ago ahead of the Euro 2012 that is being held there (and in Poland), but I can’t find it on Youtube.
In Florida, Nearly 70 Percent Of People Who Invoked ‘Stand Your Ground’ Walked Away Scot Free
It took 44 days before George Zimmerman was arrested for Trayvon Martin’s death because police claimed he was “standing his ground” when he fatally shot the teenager. But these kinds of delays are not all that uncommon under the ALEC-sponsored law, a new report by Tampa Bay Times concludes. The report finds that in nearly one-third of 200 Stand Your Ground cases, the defendant had initiated the fight, shot an unarmed individual or first pursued the victim, and were never even charged with crimes.
Additionally, Stand Your Ground has allowed police a wide latitude of interpretation, resulting in uneven enforcement for whites and blacks. Some of the report’s findings include:
- Nearly 70 percent of those who have invoked “stand your ground” to avoid prosecution have gone free.
- 73 percent of those who killed a black person walked away without penalty, while 59 percent of those who killed a white person went free.
- Attorneys are increasingly invoking Stand Your Ground in ways state legislators didn’t originally intend, and use of this defense has grown five-fold in nonfatal cases between 2008 and 2011.
- Among the incidents where defendants walked free: “One man killed two unarmed people and walked out of jail. Another shot a man as he lay on the ground. Others went free after shooting their victims in the back.”
- There are three times more concealed carry permits in Florida since 2005, when Florida passed the law.
In Florida, the number of Stand Your Ground cases is on the rise, being invoked in cases with both minor injuries and where the defendants shot a person who was unarmed or whose back was turned. As Tampa Bay Times writes, “If you claim ‘stand your ground’ as the reason you shot someone, what happens to you can depend less on the merits of the case than on who you are, whom you kill and where your case is decided.” For George Zimmerman, these inconsistencies have played out in national media, but many times these cases escape notice and even police records.
sherlockseesthrougheverything:
#in that moment i like to think that loki is just like #’typical. of course my father would banish thor and won’t let me get the hammer’ #and for a moment he feels stupid that he even tried because obviously his father would never allow HIM to get the hammer #even with the prodigual son bannished #and the look he gets when he pulls away from the hammer #i just feel like he’s not even surprised #it’s the small things like that that really kills me in thor
This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.
- romeo: hey i just met you.
- romeo: and this is crazy.
- romeo: but i saw you at your dad's party that i wasn't supposed to attend and i thought you were pretty cute so i followed you and we kissed but then your nanny called you away and i found out you were a capulet and got bummed so i sneaked into your back yard in the middle of the night and climbed your balcony uninvited to profess my undying love after an hour even though i wanted to bone rosaline like two scenes ago.
- romeo: so marry me maybe.
White privilege is being the #1 consumers of welfare, food stamps, general government aid, and illegal drugs, but STILL blaming POC for all of those things as well as incarcerating them at an exponentially higher rate.