trying to prove a point to birds
reblog if you dont scream at 5am
atopfourthwall: knitmeapony: apaullo95: continue-5-4-3-2-1: thethroneofbooks: “ In August, 1968, the country was still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King four months earlier, and the race riots that followed on its heels. Nightly news showed burning
“ In August, 1968, the country was still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King four months earlier, and the race riots that followed on its heels. Nightly news showed burning cities, white flight, radicals and reactionaries snarling at each other across the cultural divide.
“A brand new children’s show out of Pittsburgh, which had gone national the previous year, took a different approach. Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood introduced Officer Clemmons, a black police officer who was a kindly, responsible authority figure, kept his neighborhood safe, and was Mr. Roger’s equal, colleague and neighbor.
“Around the first anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death, Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons to join him in soaking their tired feet in a plastic wading pool. And there they were, brown feet and pasty white feet, side by side in the water. Silently, contemplatively, without comment.
“25 years later, when the actor playing Officer Clemmons retired, his last scene on the show revisited that same wading pool, this time reminiscing. Officer Clemmons asked Mr. Rogers what he’d been thinking during their silent interlude a quarter century before. Fred Rogers’ answer was that he’d been thinking of the many ways people say “I love you.”
– Carl Aveni’s FB page
Mr Rogers was one of the good ones.
^^^^^
Considering the fraught and painful history of excluding black people from swimming pools in that era, there is no way this wasn’t a very pointed commentary to the people who were being exclusionary. This was a specifically chosen visual.
It’s not a fuck-you. Mr. Rogers didn’t do fuck-yous. But it was a clear, decisive, pointed statement. It was more than just showing inclusion; it was a deliberate response to what was going on in the world. This was him saying “you can do better. We can all do better. What you are doing is wrong.” This was a sweet, simple, and relatable thing to show little kids, to give them a view of a black man as kind and professional and a trusted adult – but also a lovely and strong statement to their parents and to the world.
It could have lost him his show, or at least his national distribution. It could have gotten him attacked both in the news and personally in person, but he did it anyway. I wish I knew if he ever talked about this, and how aware he and the show producers were of the statement this made.
Man, do we need more Fred Rogers in the world.
Always reblog Fred Rogers.
A group of rough looking boys walked past me today and all I heard of their conversation was “he’s got that anxiety disorder bro so I went with him so he’d be more comfortable” and it made me realise the world isn’t all that bad
The pet store I worked at had a pen with rabbits near the front door. On every side of the pen were huge signs saying “You can pet me, but don’t pick me up!”
One day two absolutely huge guys came in and one immediately reaches into the pen to grab a rabbit. Before i could say anything his friend grabbed his arm and asked him “did you see the sign?”
He said “yeah! it says that you can pick them up but don’t pet them!”
Then he went quiet for a moment and softly said “I didn’t read it right did I?”
And his friend just puts his arm on his shoulder and said “its ok, i know you’ve got that thing where words get mixed up. Let just pet these cute lil shits”
And I still haven’t gotten over that interaction.
Stop Assuming People Don’t Care About Things Because They Don’t Blog About Them 2017
That shit is stressful. Sometimes people just need to get away from it all. Nothing wrong with that.
overgank:Gensol …mini soldier :3
I’m Crying! 😭😩😂
He thought he could say that shit and get away with it.
He says 1488 and tries to run away. Shia drags his ass back and he tries to start reciting 14 words and Shia is not having it.
Listen, Shia may have done some crazy shit, but this is real alliance right here.
This isn’t allyship. Shia LaBeouf is Jewish.
i was kinda hoping that he’d eat him
the year is 2020, and i am found guilty of treason against the united states for vague blogging that i hate someone and donald trump thought it was about him
blackwellbrothers: After a violent death, Etienne is reborn as a mindless scourge, the only way to heal his body from the sickness is to consume a dead Lordaeron citizen. Now that he is a scourge, he hears the call of his master…
After a violent death, Etienne is reborn as a mindless scourge, the only way to heal his body from the sickness is to consume a dead Lordaeron citizen. Now that he is a scourge, he hears the call of his master…
Look who showed up in the Nighthold
Look who showed up in the Nighthold
