my name is valerie and i'm a 20 year old college student. i naturally blog about my interests which can be nearly anything. specifically however i focus on fun. (the band), politics, journalism, and current events with some panic! at the disco, and randomness thrown in there. i'm also always up for questions on anything (politics, feminism, journalism, current events, etc.) i'd be lying if if i said i didn't love giving my opinion on things. feel free to follow me, but quite honestly i'm not blogging for anyone else but myself.
“I’m a god damn baby.”
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yo real talk he is jay gatsby and gatsby is he
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And as we ran from the cops
we laughed so hard it would sting
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Black Man to Lose Scholarship For Refusing Racist Assignment
Timothy McNair is a graduate student of opera at Northwestern University’s famed Bienen School of Music. McNair is at the school on a full scholarship, but the 25-year-old is standing up to his school after his professor, Donald Nally, gave him an assignment to perform a song created by a racist American poet named Walt Whitman. McNair asked his instructor if he could be assigned to perform the work of other artists but Nally denied him the opportunity and told him if he didn’t turn in all of his completed work by Friday, May 17th he’d receive a failing grade. McNair refused.
“Certainly I do not deserve to fail this class. I have a 3.7 GPA. I’m an officer on three committees of this university. So what is deserving for me? Is to be able to perform two pieces and have the third piece removed because of the insensitivity,” McNair told Chicago’s WGN news station. Although the piece McNair is instructed to perform does not contain any blatant racism, McNair believes it is still offensive that he was asked to complete the works of a devout racist. “We know (he) was historically racist. He’s called African Americans ‘baboons’ and was for oppressing voting rights,” McNair said of Whitman.
But let a white person had to sing a song written about Osama or Sadam that shit would have been on every new station.
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i was feeling nostalgic for 7th grade and scene days and listening to pop punk bands whose tee shirts i could buy at hot topic (and secretly listening to hannah montana sometimes even though i’d never openly admit it)
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AHAHAHA NOT QUITE, OP, NOT QUITE
FUCKING NAILED IT
A+ commentary!
THANK YOU
I had seen the original making the rounds. Glad to see it got a proper rebuttal.
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