Absolutely Disgusting.

Absolutely disgusting.

Reutilizationby J Arell

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Omg, this is incredible. Yes.

Your ancestors were not stolen from Africa, they were sold by their leaders, a fact that you conveniently forget. That doesn’t absolve the sins of the slave trade, but putting blame where it is due goes a long way towards actual change.

White People Be Like...

White People: You should be grateful you’re not living in Africa!

Black People: Yes, we should be grateful for our ancestors being kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered.

White People: If you don’t like it here, you can just leave!

Black People: And go WHERE?? Did your punk ass ancestors keep records of where they kidnapped my family from? Or were they too busy raping and killing them to care?

Here falls the shadow of despair. 

tho i walk thru the valley of the shadow of death

Except that doesn’t answer my question. I asked for an alternative, you gave me an unfeasible practice that is not inline with the legal tradition of the united states. Abolishing indictment hearings means the court system will be even more backlogged than it already is, as these hearings sift through charges that do not have any standing and  

You propose we abolish grand juries, but I assume you will keep the petty juries that are used during the trial? If that’s the case, your claim is completely moot, as a grand jury provides a similar function to a petty jury. 

And everybody charged with a felony must be brought up on formal charges via Indictment hearing, some with grand juries and some by the prosecution filing with the court, which still requires a preliminary hearing to determine the validity of the charges. This is outlined in the 5th amendment, which is 5th grade history class, bro.  

Abolish grand juries in police violence cases and stop using crooked prosecutors that don’t actually want justice.

Then maybe cops will start being held accountable for their actions.

When I attended OSU for Nuclear engineering, I was required to take “Power, Difference, and discrimination” so I could graduate. I find this repugnant, as that money came out of my pocket for a class that had nothing to do with my chosen field. 

My comment was in reference to majors being forced to take classes that have nothing to do with a particular field of study, not necessarily in reference to sociology or the said white guys specifically, I merely assumed, as anybody taking a mandatory class is less likely to simply walk out of lecture, at least in my experience.

I know the whole “well you need to be well rounded, etc. etc.” which is a cute idea until you have to shuck out $100 or rend a book written by the professor that is teaching your class, or the matter of the tuition and time it takes to complete said classes in order to earn a specific degree. 

The fact that tuition hikes exist means being forced to take classes that simply will not help you constitutes fraud, in my humble opinion. Either way, the required credits for a degree would likely go down if the fat and waste classes were simply trimmed out of that particular pipeline. 

This concept can be applied to fine arts students as well. Should an English major be forced to take Calculus II? I don’t think so. My main complaint is about waste, it isn’t efficient to take classes that simply do not apply, especially in college, where you are looking to specialize into a particular field of academics, research, or work. 

@kingofthegray replied to your photo “pleasestopandrew: fed-ex-official: poetic-floetry: …”

Why are STEM students being forced to take and pay for useless classes like sociology?

even though this was more a general comment on that post i decided to add my two cents since it showed up in my notifications.

the post didn’t say anything about STEM fields so it’s only a very bizarre assumption that there were STEM students being forced to take a sociology class, but as I’m sure most people know, in college you have to take a number of classes that have nothing to do with your major (I know I wound up taking a load of classes that weren’t related to my field at all). At my school they were called “learning goals” and “distribution requirements.”

And as luck would have it i can still log into my old college account and get the list of requirements and the classes i took for them

that was for my personal major, my major was included in the college of arts and sciences which includes STEM fields, so it would be the same for them as it was for me, but basically we had to get a certain amount of credits in each section and a bunch of classes fulfilled those requirements. Some of them were indeed sociology classes (almost every course offered at the school fulfilled at least one of the requirements so there were always loads of people in my classes that weren’t in the same major but chose to take the class). I personally never really felt forced to take any class (except spanish, fuck that class) for one of the learning goals or additional requirements since there were so many options that I got to always take a class I really wanted to take.

So tl;dr: while again, we don’t know if the random white dudes in the screenshotted Twitter post were majoring in a STEM-related field, chances are they were not forced to take or pay for a sociology class, but chose to take it because it fulfilled a requirement for their degree or they could have been majoring in sociology (though if they really walked out of the sociology class, my guess is that they weren’t majoring in it and were taking it as an elective).