the prettiest babe in my favorite gso spot.
(Source: mistersadeyes)
ispendtoomuchtimeontheinternet:
yep
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The problem with this is the possible argument that only the educated are able to make these sort of “right” choices. This ignores the cost of education, the marginalization of those not “educated”, and our commitment to placing us “educated” on a pedestal. Although there certainly is a parallel, what we should be drawing from this parallel is not that “higher education” results in equality; but that there are a number of people in this state without the privilege of higher education and our commitment to blaming their ignorance is what keeps the South in the Jim Crow framework. While this certainly is illuminating, it also allows us to see that we need to reach out a little more, and that being so isolated in our little communities is (while empowering) promoting the isolation of equality in the South. And what are we doing to change this? Come on NC, we can fight this. I’m tired of reading status updates about NC letting them down, about people not wanting to live here anymore. This is a result of the historical regionalism that has affected the South, people throwing their hands up and surrendering their morals against the persistence of Southern oppression. This, in itself, results in its own perpetual cycle. Don’t you see this is how hegemony/oppression/the whole system feeds itself? Come on, ya’ll! We can do better.
Georgie Buck - Elizabeth Cotten
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Taken near Duck, NC, ca. 1939.
From the Farrell Photo Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
