Anna Haro

Thank you, Anna. You're pretty awesome with your own bad self. - Ha3rvey (F please!)

^and that's why you're my favorite, Ha3rv. - Anna Haro

I just read something on FB that felt like a 'Jerry Springer' episode. JFC - Anna Haro

struck me like a truck on my face x) - Ac0n (former Franc)

<3 Anna. - Fikisha from iPod

Thanks, Haro. :) - Kelli H., FF Squatter

This. - Kristin

*storms out of the room* - Kelli H., FF Squatter

"Over the centuries, Facts became such a prevalent part of most people's lives that Irish philosopher Edmund Burke once said: "Facts are to the mind what food is to the body." To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet. Though few expected Facts to pull out of its years-long downward spiral, the official cause of death was from injuries suffered last week when Florida Republican Rep. Allen West steadfastly declared that as many as 81 of his fellow members of theU.S. House of Representatives are communists. Facts held on for several days after that assault — brought on without a scrap of evidence or reason — before expiring peacefully at its home in a high school physics book. Facts was 2,372. Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion. Services are alleged to be private. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that mourners make a donation to their favorite super PAC." - Anna Haro from Bookmarklet

"Through the 19th and 20th centuries, Facts reached adulthood as the world underwent a shift toward proving things true through the principles of physics and mathematical modeling. There was respect for scientists as arbiters of the truth, and Facts itself reached the peak of its power. But those halcyon days would not last. People unable to understand how science works began to... more... - Anna Haro

"There was an erosion of any kind of collective sense of what's true or how you would go about verifying any truth claims," Poovey said. "Opinion has become the new truth. And many people who already have opinions see in the 'news' an affirmation of the opinion they already had, and that confirms their opinion as fact." - Anna Haro

Anna Haro you're my hero. - Absentee

Heh. I had seen the first one, but didn't know there was a part two. Thanks, Anna. - Kristin

“You might call it Blackmotheritis - a nervous disorder afflicting millions of black women with adolescent and teenage children, particularly mothers of boys. It is a chronic condition of graduated severity, whose acute stage coincides with the son’s puberty. When his legs grow long, his voice deepens and especially when he gets a little fuzz under his lip, the mother’s suffering peaks. She knows that, from now until he has a midlife paunch and graying temples - and maybe not even then - when he is around things with dollar value, her son will be seen through the corners of eyes, over shoulders, through one-way mirrors, through surveillance cameras. Because he is black and young and healthy, a lot will be assumed about this young fellow, the best of which is that Ooh, I bet you’re a good basketball player; the rest of which is that Ooh, I bet you’d just like to take that, wouldn’t you?" - Anna Haro

"This dread has been creeping up on us black mothers all along, bit by bit, but it is full-blown now. Overcome by fear and fury that our child could be falsely suspected and accused and roughed up or taken into custody (or worse) preemptively, we therefore succumb to the condition’s mandates. We fret and fuss and are, oh, so terribly nagging. Keep your hands out of your pockets. Don’t... more... - Anna Haro

"It is reassuring, but I know that he does not always remember. The other day, on a brief shopping foray, while we were looking over the compact-disc players, Joseph popped his hand beneath his shirt to just rub a mosquito bite. “Joseph!” I gasped. My son’s name fell hard from my mouth, as if it were a pain to say it. ”Get your hand … .” “OK, Ma,” he said impatiently, then muttered... more... - Anna Haro

LOL - Tamara J.

*dead* - MoTO Gutter Bumbershoot

lulzzzz - imabonehead

Agree x 1000. - Trish R

Co-sign all the love! - Absentee

This just comes naturally to me. :D - Pixie

stealing this! :) - grizabella

And this is why I stay in my own little tumblr world. Pictures > People - Anna Haro

Well, the people still luh you, doll baby. At least this people does. - MoTO Gutter Bumbershoot

perfect - VALZ looking @ LB

Yes. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

This is an excellent time for explaining what "patriarchy" is, and how it is that women are still not treated as equals but as unruly chattel by the men in power. Also, as a side matter, how we are still maintaining an oppressive Bronze Age pastoralist morality centered around war, dominance, and control. - Absentee

YEP! - #cryptic