Mondian posted:

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Let’s not forget where coffee and tea come from: this mug is bitterly opposed to its own contents. Unless you drink hot Tizer from a coffee cup, the drink inside that mug will be an immigrant. The logic of a receptacle for hot beverages provided by slavery and colonisation being anti-immigrant bears no more examination than a pair of homophobic Speedos.

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VagueRant posted:

This seems like a horribly designed image/text. Maybe I'm stupid, but I had to read it a couple of times.

Why does the colour change in the middle? It makes it seem like you could just read the red text, but if you skip the middle bit, you get the opposite message of what was intended.

And is the picture of terrorists or of the NRA?

Exclamation Marx posted:

A hundred years ago today, Winston Churchill ordered British, Australian and New Zealand troops to invade Turkey, sending them to an unscaleable beach where they were mown down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY

trapped mouse posted:

A bust of George Washington sculpted to look like a Roman emperor. Was offered as a gift to Washington after he was finished. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_(Ceracchi)

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LimburgLimbo posted:

Yeah riot police lining up is totally the same as MBTs and army forces dropping a couple hundred protesters.

Chorrax posted:

wikipedia article on Harlem posted:

After the American Civil War, Harlem experienced an economic boom starting in 1868. The neighborhood continued to serve as a refuge for New Yorkers, but increasingly those coming north were poor and Jewish or Italian. The Metro-North Railroad as well as the Interborough Rapid Transit and elevated railway lines, helped Harlem's economic growth, as they connected Harlem to lower and midtown Manhattan.

The Jewish and Italian demographic decreased, while the black and Puerto Rican population increased in this time. The early 20th-century Great Migration of blacks to northern industrial cities was fueled by their desire to leave behind the Jim Crow South, seek better jobs and education for their children, and escape a culture of lynching violence; during World War I, expanding industries recruited black laborers to fill new jobs, thinly staffed after the draft began to take young men. In 1910, Central Harlem was about 10% black. By 1930, it had reached 70%. Starting around the time of the end of World War I, Harlem became associated with the New Negro movement, and then the artistic outpouring known as the Harlem Renaissance, which extended to poetry, novels, theater, and the visual arts. So many blacks came that it "threaten[ed] the very existence of some of the leading industries of Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama." Many settled in Harlem. By 1920, central Harlem was 32.43% black. The 1930 census revealed that 70.18% of Central Harlem's residents were black and lived as far south as Central Park, at 110th Street.

Kopijeger posted:

Gentrification is no doubt undesirable for those who are displaced by the process, but it seems hypocritical to complain about "colonization" given that Harlem was not exactly founded as a settlement for blacks in the first place.