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“Advanced dentistry techniques allowed Native Americans to inset gemstones to their teeth as far back as 2,500 years ago. The early dentists used a drill-like device with a hard stone such as obsidian, which is capable of puncturing bone. The ornamental stones—including jade—were attached with an adhesive made out of natural resins, such as plant sap, which was mixed with other chemicals and crushed bones.”
Neechi’s be pimpin’ before time!
This skull was found in Mexico. It’s good to see the Native American used for us Mexican ndns, too.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090518-jeweled-teeth-picture.html
folks of color stay creative. this is ancestral shit.
This is awesome.
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amen
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We are nonviolent only with nonviolent people. I’m nonviolent as long as somebody else is nonviolent - as soon as they get violent they nullify my nonviolence.
–Malcolm X
Answer to the question: “If the Muslim Mosque, Inc., joined in a demonstration sponsored by a nonviolent organization, and whites countered with violence, how would your organization react?” Taken from an interview with A.B. Spellman(New York, March 19, 1964).
(via thepeacefulterrorist)(via thepeacefulterrorist)
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Three mass graves with 1,000 corpses found in Iraq →
Iraqi officials have found three mass graves containing the bodies of about 1,000 people thought to have been executed by US soldiers during their occupation of the country.
The graves were uncovered in Iraq’s western province of al-Anbar. The remains are believed to be from victims killed by US forces during 2004 and 2005 in the city of Fallujah, located roughly 69 kilometers (43 miles) west of Baghdad.
Horrible.
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There is no single jurisdiction in the U.S. where a minimum wage worker can afford the fair market rent for a home.
– National Low Income Housing Coalition (via presidentjonesco)(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
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An out pouring of brilliance from high school students across the country on how to make schools safer! #outshine2013
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Working with participants at the first ever National GSA Summit harvesting recommendations on safety locally & nationally to be developed into a charter and presented federally. #outshine2013
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Dying To Be Beautiful? →
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Independence, we need to question our national motto, ‘Out of Many, One People’? Is Jamaica really a multiracial society? Obviously, not! We are a black-majority nation with a small minority of other racial groups. Our national motto is clearly delusional.
Fabricated by the brown/white elite half a century ago, the motto symbolises the arrogance of those who consider themselves entitled to rule. Disregarding the black majority, the self-centred minority deliberately falsified the truth. They concocted a motto in their own image: ‘Page 2′. No wonder the black in the flag represented ‘hardship’. In the spirit of Marcus Garvey, I propose an emancipated motto: ‘One Aim, One Destiny, Full Freedom’. That should cover just about everybody.From the comments, I really appreciate this. We need to stop shaming people:
I started bleaching at age 15, when I was just starting 5th form at St. Andrew high school. I was admiring photos of beautiful Michelle Moodie, who was posing in magazines before she turned 18, and thought, “what a happy girl she must be.” I gave up lunch for days or only bought half just so I could save to buy Nadinola Bleaching Cream. I had the right “straight hair” from my Dad, but my complexion was not the same alabaster tone of my classmates who lived in Kingston 8. I thought that if I bleached out my skin, my lighter complexion would override the fact that I lived in St. Catherine and commuted to school in my father’s beat up sedan. My sister had an easier time, as she had a much lighter complexion: more friends, her choice of boyfriends, and teachers giving her a “break” over late homework assignments. Being beautiful had advantages. There were things she never had to do, that people would do for her. I wanted to be like that. Unfortunately, my skin was too dark and bleaching only shifted my skin tone five percent. So, I decided to buckle down and study difficult subjects, as at least being a pretty black girl with a science degree would be almost the same as being fair-skinned. Why did I stop bleaching? I realised that I was wasting money, and precious time. I was so distracted from my studies, that I ultimately spent more years in UWI trying to get past pre-med than I did contributing to society when I eventually graduated. My self esteem problems will never go away, but I promise you, Dr. Cooper, that it doesn’t help to have these symposiums “studying” women like me and assuming that we are “dying to be beautiful.” It’s not that we’re dying to be beautiful, it’s that we are unhappy and want to have something about us that people can appreciate and admire. Why is that such a bad thing, to want to be loved and appreciated? This symposium is a form of bullying because we are already judging ourselves, but here we have people gathering in groups judging us as well. Wanting reassurance that our existence is not meaningless is not something that we should be punished for.
