My town likes to go hard. Love this band, love these kids. So much fun. Hands down one of the best shows I’ve ever been to there.

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call-of-cthulhu:

sinidentidades:

 Australia’s history of racism towards Aboriginals is absolutely disgusting. 

Until the mid-60s, indigenous Australians came under the Flora And Fauna Act, which classified them as animals, not human beings. This also meant that killing an indigenous Australian meant you weren’t killing a human being, but an animal.

To this day, Australia breaks every code of the Geneva Convention when it comes to indigenous Australians and their human rights. The “public housing” that the government has given them are one-bedroom shacks with no running water, no electricity and no gas, that entire families are forced to live in. These shacks are in communities in the outback, as far away from “civilised” society as possible. Out of sight, out of mind.

Indigenous Australians that live in the city are commonly forced to live in very dangerous and derelict areas that the government gives very little funding towards. Redfern in Sydney is a highly indigenous Australian populated suburb that is rife with crime, unemployment and horrendous living conditions. The government does next to nothing to help these people, either.

Whenever riots have broken out as a result of incredibly low morale, the police and the government are very quick to point all the blame at the indigenous Australians and say that they are the cause of their own problems, rather than looking at what the actual cause is.

Unemployment rates amongst indigenous Australians is astronomical. Crime rates are astronomical. Suicide rates are extremely high within the indigenous Australian community. Death from inadequate living conditions and inadequate health care is common. Brutality towards indigenous Australians is common.

The way many indigenous Australians are forced to live is equivalent to that of what one would expect from a third-world country. Indigenous Australians are considered by the UN to be one of the most horrendously marginalised groups in the world.

And how does the government amend all of this? With a national “Sorry Day”, where white people plant a hand in some designated area of soil as a token of their white guilt, and then continue going about their white privileged day.

On top of that, white people here commonly bitch and complain about how “good” indigenous Australians have it and how “thankful” they ought to be to the white man for improving their quality of life. Meanwhile, indigenous Australians have lost almost all sense of identity and culture because of white colonisation.

What is left of Aboriginal identity and culture has been nearly completely destroyed. And most people in this disgustingly privileged country do not give a single god damn fuck.

Australia is a disgusting country when it comes to racism. I am disgusted by my own country.

Is this true? Because I honestly thought at first I was looking back at America’s history. I didn’t know this was going on in Australia..and was this the past? or is this current to today? I would like to learn more. 

tipofthescepter:

There’s lots of flooding happening all over Illinois right now.

Small communities in Central Illinois are flooding all over. Pastors are overwhelmed and having to call in pastors from other areas to help.

In my hometown several roads are flooded, some schools cancelled…

Check out my friend Kels’s video… She addresses a bunch of questions about dreads that people have asked her and that I have gotten as well… and I’m lazy and I don’t want to make a video right now haha. Plus she answered them pretty much the way I would have as well.

Feedback would be much appreciated.

#you know  #a while ago i saw this post on how sherlock is completely fascinated with watson because he can’t ‘get’ him; can’t solve him  #and i completely disagree —he can read watson.  #very easily. he probably knows watson better than he does (canon talking to take for all homes and watson relationships talk here)  #no the thing that holmes can never understand about watson is one simple thing: why does watson stay?!  #after all these years why is watson still here?  #with him  #after all that happens watson always goes back to him and he can not figure that out.  #that is what holmes can not understand but he is forever grateful that watson comes back and is always willing to (via iadler)