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Young Buddhist monks feel their newly shaved heads in Seoul
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stood over the boy with his cop shoes in childish blood
and a voice said “Die you little motherfucker” and
there are tapes to prove that. At his trial
this policeman and in his own defense
“I didn’t notice the size or nothing else
only the color.” and
there are tapes to prove that, too.
Today that 37-year-old white man with 13 years of police forcing
has been set free
by 11 white men who said they were satisfied
justice had been done
and one black woman who said
“They convinced me” meaning
they had dragged her 4’10” black woman’s frame
over the hot coals of four centuries of white male approval
until she let go the first real power she ever had
and lined her own womb with cement
to make a graveyard for our children.”
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Nigerian deities. Beautiful depiction!
These made me squee!
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wow. this fucking hurts my heart.
and of course. in the time that i heard about how Asian Ams where
The research, to be released on Saturday, found that 54 percent of Asian American teenagers said they were bullied in the classroom, sharply above the 31.3 percent of whites who reported being picked on. The figure was 38.4 percent for African Americans and 34.3 percent for Hispanics, a government researcher involved in the data analysis told AFP. He requested anonymity because the data has not been made public.
but we still see, in terms of anti-bullying campaigns that it is white children who get the spotlight.
and you even look at those numbers: all poc kids are bullied more than white kids. and yet.
this shit is always about protecting those delicate white kids.
fuck everything today.
bolded mine.
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We see movement out of the corners of our eyes. We’re watched from the city’s shadows. We all know that. We just don’t want to. Sometimes, though, you can’t help wondering – who are those other Londoners? The ones we never see? Who sifts through the rubbish? Who got oily handprints so high up on that building, way out of reach? Who scratched warning marks on those walls, who disturbs deserted building sites? I can tell you. There are a few of us that know the answer.
Borribles. That’s what they’re called. Tribes of children who don’t need us, punky urban elves who’ve gone their own way, who are proud and resourceful and hard and who never grow up. Borribles.
London’s neurotic about children. Oh, people love them, of course, bless them, the little darlings, of course we do, there’s nothing we won’t do for ‘the kids’. So how come everyone’s so scared of them? Scared rigid?
Think of all the signs on newsagents’ doors – ‘Only Two School Children At A Time’. Watch the faces of the passengers when a bunch of noisy school- uniformed roughnecks appear on the bus. Listen to our politicians slapping down curfews wherever young people are bored and rowdy, locking them indoors like animals.
And do you really, honestly think that children don’t notice? Is it any wonder that the idea of living without adults, these lumbering morons who are so clearly terrified of them, is so appealing? Living in a world where elders won’t try to convince them that ‘you little terror’ is a term of endearment?
There are those who’d like children’s books to be clean, and instructive, and polite, and nice. I’m not one of them, and neither, thank God, is Michael de Larrabeiti. The Borribles are unapologetically mucky. As confused and contradictory as the rest of us. Violently anti-moralistic, these are some of the most moral books I know. A realistic morality, rooted in friendship and freedom, Borribles are true and worthy heroes for children – and for the rest of us.
We need them more than ever. We need them, flicking Vs at those in authority.
Look around you, they’d tell them. Look at your world. How dare you lecture us?”
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![U.S. Adoptive Parents Reduce Murder Charges, Claim Starved 7-Year-old Russian Adoptee Responsible for own Death
Photo: Nathaniel and Elizabeth Craver (neé Ivan and Dasha Skorobogatov)
[TRIGGER WARNING: child abuse, murder] Nathaniel Craver and twin sister Elizabeth were adopted from Russia via Christian agency by American couple Michael and Nanette Craver. Nathaniel died from complications from traumatic brain injury coupled with a “severe failure to thrive.” The emaciated child had 80 wounds on his body, 20 of which were to his head, with each of his shoulders and hip joints pulled from their sockets.
During their 2011 trial, the Cravers told the court that Nathaniel was responsible for his own death, claiming he was self-injurious because of FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) and “Reactive Attachment Disorder,” more commonly known as “Adopted Child Syndrome.”
Forensic pathologist Dr. Wayne Ross testified that there was severe trauma and swelling of the victim’s head, but no sign of FAS upon examination of his brain. Dr. Ross told the jury that the boy suffered many injuries that could not have been self-inflicted, and that his “legs were as thin as pencils.” He also cited indications that the boy had been tightly bound.
A foster parent who had previously cared for Nathaniel and Elizabeth testified that she saw no self-injurious behaviors.
In the Cravers’ defense, attachment therapist Lark Eshleman testified that both children had attachment disorders that were exacerbated when the children were temporarily placed in foster care while prior charges of abuse at the hands of the Cravers were being investigated.
Attachment therapist and international adoption consultant Ronald Federici also spoke on behalf of the Cravers, telling the press that institutionalized orphans are severely self-injurious.
The judge then sentenced the Cravers to 16 months to four years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. Because the couple had already spent 18 months in jail, they will not serve any more time and were released.
Russian authorities were outraged by the verdict and initiated talks between Russia’s Ombudsman for Children’s Rights, Pavel Astakhov, and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.
Sources: CBS: “Adopted 7-year old tortured to death”RT News: “Another adopted Russian child murdered”Examiner: “Expert says Nathaniel Craver didn’t die from self-inflicted injuries”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/b2c9c6e4899d3769764f2ef4f0ce3eca/tumblr_mgzc9zgb501qa06xko1_500.jpg)
U.S. Adoptive Parents Reduce Murder Charges, Claim Starved 7-Year-old Russian Adoptee Responsible for own Death
Photo: Nathaniel and Elizabeth Craver (neé Ivan and Dasha Skorobogatov)
[TRIGGER WARNING: child abuse, murder] Nathaniel Craver and twin sister Elizabeth were adopted from Russia via Christian agency by American couple Michael and Nanette Craver. Nathaniel died from complications from traumatic brain injury coupled with a “severe failure to thrive.” The emaciated child had 80 wounds on his body, 20 of which were to his head, with each of his shoulders and hip joints pulled from their sockets.
During their 2011 trial, the Cravers told the court that Nathaniel was responsible for his own death, claiming he was self-injurious because of FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) and “Reactive Attachment Disorder,” more commonly known as “Adopted Child Syndrome.”
Forensic pathologist Dr. Wayne Ross testified that there was severe trauma and swelling of the victim’s head, but no sign of FAS upon examination of his brain. Dr. Ross told the jury that the boy suffered many injuries that could not have been self-inflicted, and that his “legs were as thin as pencils.” He also cited indications that the boy had been tightly bound.
A foster parent who had previously cared for Nathaniel and Elizabeth testified that she saw no self-injurious behaviors.
In the Cravers’ defense, attachment therapist Lark Eshleman testified that both children had attachment disorders that were exacerbated when the children were temporarily placed in foster care while prior charges of abuse at the hands of the Cravers were being investigated.
Attachment therapist and international adoption consultant Ronald Federici also spoke on behalf of the Cravers, telling the press that institutionalized orphans are severely self-injurious.
The judge then sentenced the Cravers to 16 months to four years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. Because the couple had already spent 18 months in jail, they will not serve any more time and were released.
Russian authorities were outraged by the verdict and initiated talks between Russia’s Ombudsman for Children’s Rights, Pavel Astakhov, and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.
Sources:
CBS: “Adopted 7-year old tortured to death”
RT News: “Another adopted Russian child murdered”
Examiner: “Expert says Nathaniel Craver didn’t die from self-inflicted injuries”
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BBC Report | America’s child death shame
[TRIGGER WARNING] Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. That is nearly four times the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Well, hell. And Americans get mad at countries like Guatemala for not wanting to let their babies be kidnapped and sold to the U.S...
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I can’t believe this episode of Adventure Time, and I mean that in the best way. Can we please take a moment to appreciate the fact that this CHILDREN’S show, (which airs at Seven PM Eastern Standard Time in the US) shown on a network that is entirely and undoubtedly produced for CHILDREN, just did an entire episode filled with subtext about an actual SERIOUS issue?
Adventure Time just addressed the fact that at some point in your life, you might be faced with sexual assault, coercion, or even, as shown in the last two gifs, emotional manipulation and or abuse. And what did Adventure Time, this children’s show, have to say about it?
DON’T LET ANYONE DOMINATE YOU OR FORCE YOU TO DO SOMETHING YOU DON’T WANT TO.
Adventure Time just told its audiences: “If some big galoot is trying to have his way with you, fight back. Don’t be afraid to show him that you are strong.” And most importantly? “Be prepared for this to happen, be ready to defend yourself.”
Last time I checked in with kids cartoons they were spouting crap like “Share with your friends”, “Help your parents clean up the house!” and, my personal favorite, “Treat others as you’d like to be treated! (Unless this is a show about sexy teen girls, in which case, be super judgmental and treat everyone around you like shit because that’s what “cool” characters do in shows, even if they’re made out to be bad guys.)” But not Adventure Time, they were like “What do children need to know that is absolutely essential?” “Well, we could tell them to defend themselves if someone is forcing themselves upon them…” “Hey, yeah, sexual assault is a serious problem. Let’s do that.” I MEAN HOW MUCH MORE FUCKING AWESOME CAN THIS SHOW GET?
/end enthusiastic rant/
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