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We need to understand depression. We need to understand mental health issues. We need to understand addiction.   Currently, we don’t understand them, we laugh at them, we criticize them and tou…

 I have this thing where I firmly believe that one of Western human society’s plentiful shortcomings, is it’s fixation with binaries,dichotomies, either/ors. What about the  ’ands’ ? Where…

ccushty:

For your information my mother didn’t move my family to England from Zambia for a “better life”.

She was offered a job she liked the look of and took it, she didn’t have to sneak into your precious country illegally, your country offered her stay and her family stay because she was good at her…

peaceloveandafropuffs:

rhapsodyincolour:

Three years ago, Bruno Mars became a worldwide superstar with a string of smash hits.  But before that, he struggled for years to make it, and reveals that one of the barriers to his becoming a pop star was his race.

Bruno is Puerto Rican, Jewish and Filipino.  In the cover story of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, he says that when he and his songwriting partners came up with a song called “Nothin’ on You,” Bruno figured it was his ticket to the big time.  But when he brought it to a music industry decision-maker — a guy he won’t name — the reaction shocked him.

“He goes, ‘Oh man, oh man, what a song,’” recalls Bruno.  But then, he says the guy told him, “You know what kind of white artist we could break with this?  Blond hair, blue eyes, we could make this kid the next thing!”

“It was just kinda sad,” Bruno tells EW.  “It was like, ‘Man, what about the kid that played you the song and wrote it and produced it…what about that guy?’”

That experience, Bruno said, made him feel like a “mutant,” and he says that was his lowest point. “Even with that song in my back pocket to seal the deal, things like that are coming out of people’s mouths. It made me feel like I wasn’t even in the room.”

Thankfully, the story has a happy ending.  “Nothin’ on You” went on to become a #1 hit for Bruno and rapper B.o.B.  It was nominated for three Grammys, and it launched Bruno on what’s became one of the hottest pop careers of the decade.

Look you guys post-racial!!!!