"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you."
oludxra:
Yooo! So I’m watching this documentary about the Koch Brothers and it’s talking about how they tried to segregate schools in Wake County through their group Americans For Prosperity. I mean, damn. I knew they were funding several think tanks, conservative politicians and oil lobbying but I didn’t know it was THIS deep
Yo what’s that doc called?
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zomganthro:
Tumblr, can we do a thing? If you have a degree in anthropology and are using it in your job can you reblog this and add your occupation? I’m sick of explaining that anthropology graduates aren’t all unemployed. I’m sure a lot of us will be undergrad or graduate students but let’s see how it goes. I’ll start with two (myself and a friend)
I’m an archaeologist.
A close friend works for google.
I’m a grad student and work in a med anthro lab.
I’ll update this in a month or so when I graduate.
anthropology
"It’s terrible to think that a child with five different present tenses comes to school to be faced with books that are less than his own language. And then to be told things about this language, which is him, that are sometimes permanently damaging. He may never know the etymology of Africanisms in his language, not even that “hip” is a real world or that “the dozens” meant something. This is a really cruel fall-out of racism. I know the standard English. I want to use it to help restore the other language, the lingua franca."
Toni Morrison on African-American Vernacular English. Quoted in Spoken Soul. (via many-worlds)
The book that this quote is from, Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English by John R. Rickford and Russell J. Rickford, is also worth the read: a fair bit of it can be previewed here on Goodreads (although not, alas, the third section with the detailed linguistic description of Black English).
(via allthingslinguistic)
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