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Income inequality, as seen from space

May 24, 2012 by Tim De Chant

Last week, I wrote about how urban trees—or the lack thereof—can reveal income inequality. After writing that article, I was curious, could I actually see income inequality from space? It turned out to be easier than I expected.

Below are satellite images from Google Earth that show two neighborhoods from a selection of cities around the world. In case it isn’t obvious, the first image is the less well-off neighborhood, the second the wealthier one.

Click here for full story + more cities from Google Earth

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Moonbat La Raza demonstrators at a Pro-Illegal Immigration rally.

Stolen land? Really?  God, you people amaze me with the amount of BS you can wade through without drowning.

Ahaha! No. There is a reason that the land they are protesting on is in the United States and not Mexico. Also, these people make me embarrassed to say I’m hispanic, seriously. 

What makes this land American and not Mexican or Native American? 

The concept of sovereignty. 

The concept of sovereignty is outdated and rooted in colonialist and imperialist dogma. Who were the original owners of the land? Why are they not the owners of the land today? Was the means used to take it from them just? Those are the questions you must ask yourself. Sovereignty as an argument is intellectual laziness, the equivalent of the ultimate cop out in international politics “Might is right” 

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pragmatic-realist:

People complain about “whiteness” as if those who aren’t white don’t have the slightest chance of participating in our society. Meanwhile my grad program is half POC.

Meanwhile guess who has the highest unemployment rate post-graduation.

…

I’m sorry that you have unfortunate experiences. It shouldn’t be that way. But I do think that any individual can at least earn enough money to live a decent life if they make the right decisions.

Yeah, if you’re white.

Simply not true. There are many successful non-whites in this country.

You don’t seem to understand the difference between de juro and de facto equality. That’s not surprising, since you’re a fucking idiot. “Successful” PoC are the exception.

Like I said, it’s about culture and values. When individuals grow up in a community where it’s not “cool” to be educated or a hard worker, people from that community aren’t going to be successful.

You are not the authority on what cultures and values get respect or what defines successful. You come from the mindset that success only means absurd wealth and poor people don’t work hard. Go to a farm and tell the workers there, making less than half minimum wage just so they won’t die of starvation, that they didn’t succeed because their culture told them not to work hard. Enjoy the contusions and missing teeth.

Your entire worldview is theatre of the absurd. You are insane.

Likewise, impoverished communities end up creating more poverty because that environment is handed down. So you could argue that there is a legacy of racism that effects how PoC live today today, but there isn’t any coercion being used to deny opportunities to PoC as there was in the past.

You could argue that, but you’d be fucking wrong. Just because the laws aren’t written so PoC are actively oppressed doesn’t mean their oppression goes away. You know who thinks like that? Racist assholes that need to acquaint their skulls with some concrete. Western society is inherently racist and built on racism, and if you weren’t using Ron Paul newsletters and “Don’t Tread On Me” flags as sex toys you could learn something from people that experience that racism every day of their lives.

So your explanation is that white people are evil, malicious racists

no

rather than the fact that jobs have left inner cities and many young PoC would rather be involved with gangs, drugs, or skipping school than learning and being successful.

no

We can agree to disagree, but I think my explanation is more rational.

no

See, here’s the problem - you’re a fucking moron.

You have absolutely no concept of root causes, as in why young PoC may turn to gangs instead of education, or why jobs have left inner cities to better serve the interest of rich white men that own the world, or why you are a racist asshole that equates PoC culture to anti-black stereotypes for the purposes of your own fucked up pseudo-reality, or why you think you’re somehow more rational when you conveniently ignore every single argument people have used against you by derailing to “wahhh you’re just saying all white people are racist so i’m more rational suck my big fat rationality dick”.

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I want them back together…

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be excellent to each other

My religious and social philosophy in a nutshell.

I just have to reblog this every time it comes across my dash, because this picture is proof you can be tewtally hardkore and still be nice. And not take yourself too seriously.

Go with what makes you awesomer, not what makes you badder.

One of my favorite pictures in the world.

I’m smiling so hard right now XD

always reblog

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“You don’t want me to go ANYTHING on you.” OMG YES, Tamron Hall is my new queen.

-Jess

This is beautiful.

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[Image: A picture of a tall, very thin Black woman with her shoulder over a shorter, older white man wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing on a New York sideway.]

staghunts:

“This one is very serious, guys:

I came upon these two on the sidewalk. They were having a conversation. “Excuse me,” I said, addressing the girl: “I’m sorry to interrupt, but is there anyway I can take your photo?”

“Why would you want my photo?” she asked.

“Because you look beautiful,” I said. And she did. She was Sudanese. There is a very distinct beauty among people from the Sudan, and she was filled up with it. Suddenly the man cut in: 

“I was just telling her she was beautiful,” he said. 

Naively, I assumed I had just walked up on one stranger giving a compliment to another. I wanted to capture the moment. “Let me take your photograph together,” I said. The man seemed reluctant, he started smiling nervously and inching away. But the girl called him back. 

“Come take a picture with me,” she said. Encouraged by her attention, he returned. She put her arm around him, and I took the photo.

As I examined the photos on my camera, the man started whispering to the girl. She answered him in a loud voice: “I told you! I’m not that kind of girl.” She seemed agitated now. Finally sensing that I had misread the situation, I stepped between them. The man began hurrying down the sidewalk.

When the man left, the girl’s demeanor changed completely. She seemed shaken. Her eyes were tearing up. “He just offered me five hundred dollars to go out with him,” she said. “And then when I said ‘no,’ he offered me one thousand. Why does this always happen to me?”

“It happens a lot?” I asked.

“All the time,” she said. “I’m sorry I’m getting emotional. I just can’t go out of my house without this kind of thing happening. I have a son. I’m a mother. I would never degrade myself like that. I just don’t understand why this keeps happening.”

“Do you mind if I tell this story?” I asked.

“Please,” she said. “Tell it.”

Let’s hope this man, and all men, realize the emotional damage they are inflicting on the women they try to buy. In the meantime, feel free to SHARE.*

Dear Tumblr, fuck you for trying to erase this. 

I’m saving this post because as many times as Tumblr tries to erase this woman’s story and act like anything about this was okay, that’s as many times as I’m reposting it. They can either cut me off or stop being assnuggets about this. whichEVER. 

i will always reblog this. because if this woman were white, the mass-erasure of this image and story would not be happening. and that just speaks volumes to me. the bigotry that contributes to this woman’s constant harassment is the same bigotry that led to the erasure of this story in order to ‘protect’ this man. they are COMPLETELY connected. this is a vicious cycle that perpetuates anti-blackness and the degradation and silencing of black women and women of color as a whole.

oh look trubr0wn just deployed more truth bombs.

i am the truth bomb terrorist.

FUCK YOU TUMBLR. I will reblog this every god damn twelve hours. You will NOT erase this woman’s story just because HONY is a bigot who is full of shit. Tumblr staff is full of shit. They are ALL full of shit. And fuck every single one of you shitty people for thinking that you’re going to win. You will NOT.

Hey this disappeared off my tumblr how strange

anyway, here it is again, supporting this lovely lady who has to put up with this crap just because she exists and goes outside, and to call shame on a society that would actually force her to put her arm around the creep who just upped his price after she told him that she wouldn’t whore for him

Here it is, calling attention to the FACT that the aggressor, the perpetrator of this outrage was the one protected, and the victim is just supposed to disappear

To that I say no

no

Open season on Black women is OVER.

I’m going to back up my Tumblr.

But I just want to see if Tumblr will ignore the e-mail I just wrote to them getting unwanted messages by users I’ve told to leave me alone and will send me another e-mail about “violating copyright,” if not try to delete my blog for reblogging this picture and story that needs to be seen and heard.

I’m not claiming ownership of anything, BTW.  Picture, story behind the picture, and the erasure of the picture copyrighted2012 by humansofnewyork.tumblr.com .  And reblogging this picture has an educational reason behind it — to show how black women are dehumanized, and then silenced if they ever speak out.

Tumblr deleted this post from everyone’s blog. Here it is again. And people have saved copies to their computers, including me. Story’s not going away. The internet is forever.

-Jess

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker Responds to a Question about the NJ Marriage Equality Referendum

Booker 2016

OMG can you imagine the epic fit the Tea Party would have with 2 African-American presidents in a row?

Let’s do it.