Je' m'appelle Chelsea

Let the naps roll in

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:56:01 -0400

Attention! After prayer and much deliberating I have decided to stop perming my hair. SIGHS. It’s been SEVEN weeks. This is the longest I have ever gone without a perm since I was eight. That is all

alwaystheoviereya: dopegirlfresh: robot-heart-politics: langer...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:50:25 -0400

alwaystheoviereya:

dopegirlfresh:

robot-heart-politics:

langer:

Here’s the latest white woman to petition the Supreme Court to affirm that she was denied admission to college because of black people. And in her very first news interview, with Adam Liptak of the Times, she says “I probably would have gotten a better job offer had I gone to U.T.” Imagine that! And sure, yes, a plaintiff has to demonstrate injury in order for the court to establish justiciability, but really, from what dark, sequestered, fucked up inner reaches of our national psyche can someone find it in herself to say with a straight face that the reason she didn’t get a better job offer is because she went to one state university instead of another and that because of this highly tenuous leap of reasoning we should therefore dismantle an entire legal framework put in place to ensure that ours isn’t a country where the only people afforded the opportunity to attend college in the first place—and then wonder if they wouldn’t be even better off if they’d been accepted elsewhere—are privileged white people.

Anyway, fuck you lady!

Yes. At a school where over half the students are white, despite being in a state where only 45% of the state is white, it’s the poor white children who are being unfairly discriminated against. Poor, poor white children.

Keep in mind that at the University of Texas, 75% of students are automatically admitted on the top 10% law. In Texas, students in the top 10% of their classes are automatically guaranteed admittance into state schools. UT was given a special reprieve from the law because so many top 10% students applied and were given admission—only 75% of applicants are from the top 10%, and UT starts admitting at top 1%, then works their way down. Fisher was not even in the top 10% of her class (she had a 3.59 GPA), her SAT score was an 1180 out of 1600 which, while not bad, isn’t stellar either. Her extracurriculars were cello and soccer. That was it. No leadership positions. No academic clubs.

I know people will find this hard to believe is the case at a state school, but if you aren’t in the top 10% of your class (and actually, it’s more like the top 8%), and you are competing for the remaining quarter of spots at UT where over half of applicants are rejected, you’re going to need better than a 3.59 GPA, an 1180 on your SAT, and soccer and cello barely occupying any space at all on your application. It’s cute that you think just by virtue of doing a couple of things and making A’s and B’s you deserve admission into one of the most competitive public universities in the country, but no.

Good lord. You just weren’t good enough. This child probably wasn’t even within sniffing distance of admission, and even though I’m sure she heard her whole life that she was a special, gifted, precious snowflake who’d gain admission to UT because it was a state school that caters to special Texas girls like herself, the truth is, the school is fucking competitive, and compared to most of the non-top 10% people I knew at the university, this girl is a total underachiever. People like this float around thinking the world owes them something, then throws a tantrum when they aren’t given something they think they deserve but don’t.

The sad thing is, this little deluded girl will probably win her case, Grutter v. Bollinger will probably be overturned, and the result will be that access to top schools for black and Latino students will fall off the fucking map. All so that Abigail Fisher—who didn’t have a special snowflake’s chance in hell in getting in to UT to begin with—can console herself that the real reason she didn’t get what she wanted is because black and brown people somehow have an unfair edge over her that she didn’t already get over them from her wealthy suburban public school. Not that, you know, she actually just didn’t cut it with her weak ass application.

i hate this. so much. ruining shit for EVERYONE just because you feel rejected? please. if it were that serious why didn’t she bust her ass at a junior college or do a second senior year to show improvement, focus, and drive? suburbanites do that shit. they send their kids from a public school to a private independent school that’ll make them superstars on the SAT and ACT, so their snot nosed kids can go be snot nosed with at least some semblance of a REASON TO BE SUCH.

fuck.

Ugh….

devidsketchbook: LIONESS BETRIENDS BABY IMPALA Photographer...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:48:19 -0400

Photographer Adri De Visser | via: devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Adri De Visser | via: devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Adri De Visser | via: devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Adri De Visser | via: devidsketchbook.com

devidsketchbook:

LIONESS BETRIENDS BABY IMPALA

Photographer Adri De Visser captured photos of the amazing sight when a lioness befriended a baby Uganda Kob after killing its mother. In the photo series, the lioness seemingly adopts the baby antelope, nuzzling it and picking it up by the scruff of its neck.

howiviewafrica: Travel away in a book.

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:46:58 -0400

howiviewafrica:

Travel away in a book.

dionthesocialist: Nobody ever says: homophobia will go away if we ignore it. terrorists will go...

Wed, 23 May 2012 21:29:49 -0400

dionthesocialist:

Nobody ever says:

homophobia will go away if we ignore it.

terrorists will go away if we ignore them.

homelessness will end if we stop talking about it.

infant mortality will end if we stop acknowledging it.

AIDS will go away if we stop focusing on AIDS so much.

Everybody knows that those notions are ridiculous. Why then do people insist on thinking that racism, which is the tragedy above all tragedies, will disappear if we stop talking about it?

"Just watched the movie “Juice” (starring Tupac, Omar Epp, etc.) the other day for the..."

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:09:01 -0400

“Just watched the movie “Juice” (starring Tupac, Omar Epp, etc.) the other day for the FIRST time. And I can honestly say that no, I do NOT have the juice, at this point in time. Thank you.”

"I’m the product of an FBI agent and a Lawyer. I know how to find things out."

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:34:19 -0400

“I’m the product of an FBI agent and a Lawyer. I know how to find things out.”

reneee170048: livemadisyn: Unlike the beautiful 6-year old...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:40:05 -0400

reneee170048:

livemadisyn:

Unlike the beautiful 6-year old Jonbenett Ramsey who received coverage all over the media - every tabloid, newspaper, news channel, talk show, 7-year old Aiyana Stanley was killed by a police officer during a raid while she was sleep and her murder received very little coverage.

Police, searching for a murder suspect, threw a flash grenade through the window of her family’s apartment around midnight. According to Aiyana’s father, it landed on the couch, setting Aiyana on fire. A police officer’s gun then went off, and shot Aiyana in the neck.

Aiyana was asleep on the living room sofa in her family’s apartment when Detroit police, searching for a homicide suspect, burst in and an officer’s gun went off, fatally striking the girl in the neck, family members said.

Her father, 25-year-old Charles Jones, told The Detroit News he had just gone to bed early Sunday after covering his daughter with her favorite blanket when he heard a flash grenade followed by a gunshot. When he rushed into the living room, he said, police forced him to lie on the ground, with his face in his daughter’s blood.

“I’ll never be the same. That’s my only daughter,” Jones told.

We haven’t forgotten about you baby. R.I.P.

(via imgTumble)

R.I.P baby girl

"The reason why my wife and I were always able to stay together, is because divorce is not in our..."

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:08:43 -0400

“The reason why my wife and I were always able to stay together, is because divorce is not in our vocabulary”

- Will Smith on his marriage

voiceoftheintroverted: ALWAYS

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:04:31 -0400

voiceoftheintroverted:

ALWAYS

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:03:59 -0400

Mike Vick kills dogs and goes to jail. George Zimmerman kills a black boy and isn't even arrested. Hello White America!

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:53:38 -0400

theculturecollective: JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN. THERE WERE...

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:52:31 -0400

theculturecollective:

JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN.

THERE WERE POSTERS FOR KONY 2012, PUT UP POSTERS FOR TRAYVON MARTIN AND GET THE WORD OUT.

SIGN THIS: http://www.change.org/petitions/prosecute-the-killer-of-17-year-old-trayvon-martin

"You can’t always play the role of the superhero, sometimes you have to play the role of the..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:24:08 -0400

“You can’t always play the role of the superhero, sometimes you have to play the role of the bad guy. Happens to the best of us.”

- Yours Truly

archaeology: With Cutbacks, Greeks Say Antiquities Are At...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:14:14 -0400

archaeology:

With Cutbacks, Greeks Say Antiquities Are At Risk

International creditors have pressured Greece to make severe cuts in its large public sector to help pay back billions of dollars in loans and avoid default. But the recent robbery at the Museum of the Olympic Games added to the sense that these cuts are making the country’s vast cultural heritage increasingly vulnerable.

Even before the economic crisis, critics say that Greek governments were never generous in safeguarding antiquities from the cradle of civilization. Less than 1 percent of the budget was earmarked for the country’s hundreds of museums, archaeological sites and monuments.

The Culture Ministry says austerity policies have cut that sum in half. Ten percent of the Culture Ministry’s archaeologists have been either laid off or forced to retire. And the number of guards has also been cut in half, to fewer than 2,000.

It took me that many tries!

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:11:00 -0400

THAT’S how nerve racking trying to text you for the first time it was lol

~~Hey!!! How are you!!~~ (no! to desperate)

~~Hey it’s Chelsea:)~~ (ahh! too friendly)

~~Hiya:)~~ (no too simple)

~~Wadduuppp?~~ (what? trying to sound cool now?)

Well, here goes nothing:

“Instead of galavanting around campus, don’t you have somewhere to be? :)”

yeah, I think we can both agree that sure was a winner<3

educationisliberationn: i just..:( Lord lord lord have mercy

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:50:17 -0400

educationisliberationn:

i just..:(

Lord lord lord have mercy

ai-yo: curiouslycool: baddominicana: relevant forever about...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:28:18 -0500

ai-yo:

curiouslycool:

baddominicana:

relevant forever about everything.

^^^^^^^^
And also ‘cause Gabrielle Union is Gabrielle Union.

GO CLOVERS

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Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:27:51 -0500

For the millionth time tonight, I am sorry

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:29:36 -0500

Let’s face it, relationships are HARD. And the longer and more comfortable you are with a person the worse the arguments, and the heartbreak become. Sure not every moment spent with your significant other is bad. I mean I’ve had AWESOME moments and amazing highs with him. But we’ve also had some lows…very low lows… and they suck! For many reasons, I mean think about it. The hours that we could be spend creating memories we spend ignoring eachother. Energy spent In a weird and sadistic contest of who can hurt the other the most, and we also paint a awful picture to our friends of eachother. Yeah it’s some really sick stuff. And the evil that lurks in us all seems to come out. And words that we would never dare say in a normal situation spew out like toxic venom. It’s like living in a nightmare…I miss him:( Although it’s just a fight…the hours seem longer…someway, somehow everything seems to remind me of him…a smell, a joke a phrase, hell even the way the wind blows lol. Baby, if you’re reading this, I’m sorry and I miss you. This fight is stupid. Let’s end it.