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Stonehenge vs. Wassu Stones: Could This Be A Merging of...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:20:38 +0000

Stonehenge vs. Wassu Stones: Could This Be A Merging of Histories?

Having heard about the ancient Wassu stone circles on a recent trip to Gambia, one can only assume…

"Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of..."

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:27:43 +0000

“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.”

- John Berger

Calls for writers, journalist and essayist to contribute to the soon to launch online journal...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:06:00 +0000

Greetings and happy New Year…

This 2013 Get Perspective blog is intending to expand into an online culture studies journal, piloting the project on WordPress!

In keep with our core aim of encouraging critical thinking by deconstructing political, social & cultural messages to provide an engaging perspective & incite debates. The online journal will be more diverse in the subject matters covered, it will also house and supporting other writers with similar interests and varied areas of expertise.

In this Get Perspective Journal intends to reach and intrigue the minds of a vast and broad audience from all backgrounds, from teens to adults. With its content ranging from easy reads to academic pieces all written by professional and amateur writers, journalist and essayist.

Intending to launch early March 2013, Get Perspective Journal are looking for writers, journalist and essayist to contribute to its content. We also welcome volunteers to join and support our team in a variety of roles such as Editors, Feature Editors, Administrators, etc.

If you would be interested in contributing either as a team member or writer, click Join Us for further details & instructions how to apply.

sevn-devils: i wish Love it!

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:31:58 +0000

sevn-devils:

i wish

Love it!

lovtheladies: 100% Correct. And if you’re black, increase all...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:50:48 +0000

lovtheladies:

100% Correct. And if you’re black, increase all of your odds of this happening

Wow is this really insightful, sadly in the UK no police officers have ever been charged or convicted for the hundreds of deaths in police custody!

breakingnews: Delhi gang-rape victim dies in hospital in...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:53:38 +0000

breakingnews:

Delhi gang-rape victim dies in hospital in Singapore

BBC News: The 23-year-old woman gang-raped on a bus in India’s capital Delhi has died at a Singapore hospital, doctors say.

“The patient passed away peacefully at 4:45am on 29 Dec 2012,” a statement from the hospital said. The patient’s family had been by her side, it added.

The 23-year-old had arrived in Singapore on Thursday after undergoing three operations in a Delhi hospital.

Follow updates on the story at Breaking News.

Photo: A young woman, one hand covered in fake blood, takes part in a protest earlier Friday in Calcutta against the gang rape of a student. (Piyal Adhikary / EPA via NBC News)

Sad sad story! #thishastostop #rapeisrape

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Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:35:18 +0000

Thanks for the heads up ;0)

Why I've only discovered your blog now I don't know!!! But it has made my day, as every single post of yours stimulates my brain and leaves me in deep thought. Thank you!

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:34:45 +0000

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don't get me wrong though, we don't need more white people defining what black people should look in the name of positive discrimination...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:28:35 +0000

Are you assuming I’m white?

izuba: THE FORGOTTEN - Example Of An African...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:40:50 +0000

izuba:

THE FORGOTTEN - Example Of An African Middle-Class

Images from Africa in the Western media show mostly terrible misery, war, hunger and poverty. According to UN figures more than ninety percent of all Africans live neither in war nor crisis-areas and the economic growth of some African countries is among the largest in the world.

Kenya‘s economic growth is annually between five and six percent which is three times higher than the growth in Germany. This is above all to the credit of the middle class, which is probably the most crucial potential for the development of the country. Nevertheless you hardly notice anything about the lives of African middle class people. Hahn + Hartung traveled to the capital city of Kenya, Nairobi to meet and create a portray of people belonging to the middle class.

#africanmiddleclass#seeafricadifferently

Huffington Post UK Claims Afro Hair Makes Black Women Fat, There's Been A Study Apparently!

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:04:54 +0000

Huffington Post UK declares that “40% of African-American women avoid exercise because of concerns about their hairstyle, a study has found”.

According to the article a recently published study in America has identified that 40% of African American women purposely avoid exercise to maintain their costly hair styles. The study which used (only) 103 African American women participates between the ages of 21 to 60, consisted of a 40 question questionnaire and was led by dermatologist Dr Amy McMichael.

It was mentioned early on the article that the study is said to ‘fuel concerns about the obesity epidemic in the United States.’ Though what ‘concerns’ this study actually fuels the article (I believe) is intentionally ambiguous. Considering the article focuses solely on African American women surely this would imply that this group/race of people are potentially at the bulk of this epidemic.

It was irresponsible of the article to imply that a greater reason or cause of obesity exclusively within black women is down to vanity of their hair when the study quoted was far too small to confirm this. Yet the article had no problem highlighting the amount of money and time African American women spend on regularly maintaining their ‘coarser’ hair on ‘time consuming’ processes which makes their hair ‘incompatible’ with heavy exercise.
It is this tone that makes the article highly racist, since it intends to imply not only that black women’s vanity over their hair is more extreme to that of their white female counter parts but also that the very make up of their hair hinders their ability to take up exercise… (click to read full post)

BET Hip-Hop vs. America:- One of the best of argument/clip for...

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:30:46 +0000

BET Hip-Hop vs. America:-

One of the best of argument/clip for the entire programme.

Nelly you just made yourself look like a fool, don’t speak just listen and learn!

Beatiful

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:11:28 +0000

Beatiful

Music Review: The Weeknd Trilogy

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:05:00 +0000

Music Review: The Weeknd Trilogy

What an artist!

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:03:00 +0000

What an artist!

#Realtalk

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:55:29 +0100

#Realtalk

Why Is The World Not Ready To Accept Strong Black Women? Spanish...

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:51:00 +0100

Why Is The World Not Ready To Accept Strong Black Women?

Spanish magazine felt it appropriated to super impose the head of America’s First Lady onto the half naked body of a female slave painting by French artist Marie-Guilhelmine Benois.

Click to read further…

chicanita: sonofbaldwin: Don’t act like you don’t...

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:12:11 +0100

chicanita:

sonofbaldwin:

Don’t act like you don’t know.

Truth. Truth. Truth.

Love it!

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:33:17 +0100

Love it!

dearwhitefolk: Dear White Folk, Acts of terrorism are not limited to PoCs.

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:19:28 +0100

dearwhitefolk:

Dear White Folk,
Acts of terrorism are not limited to PoCs.