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Considering what annotation has done for rap lyrics, imagine what it could do for actual geniuses. What's Online Annotation? And Why Did Helmsley Just Make a Big Grant to Support it?  - Inside Philanthropy: Fundraising Intelligence - Inside Philanthropy

Are you saying we ain’t actual geniuses???

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But while it’s important to be compassionate with ourselves, we must be accountable and self-reflective as well. The impact of classism is multiplied for those of us whom identify with multiple oppressed identities. Thinking Critically About Who Pays for the Date — Everyday Feminism

This concept is referred to as intersectionality: the study of intersections between different forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination.

This statement claims that it’s one thing to be a woman in a sexist world, but it’s another thing when different systems of oppression affect you simultaneously. Therefore, you should not necessarily treat these institutional forms of discrimination as separate ideas, but as entities that work together and frequently reinforce each other.

Take, for example, a woman of color who lives in a racist, sexist world… or a lesbian who lives in a sexist, heterosexist world… a lesbian woman of color who lives in a racist, sexist world. (All of these examples would be different than, say, a White heterosexual woman living in the United States.)

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This is why some people believe that if they pay for a date, they are “owed” something at the end of it (and that if that “something” isn’t given voluntarily, it can be taken). Thinking Critically About Who Pays for the Date — Everyday Feminism

This correlates well with our current bar/night-club culture when a man asks (sometimes even insists on) buying her a drink.

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Thom - AMA Genius Users – Genius User AMAs

  1. What was your favorite year in WWE, WCW, ECW, TNA, and/or ROH (just the ones you’ve watched)? And also, what stands out in that organization from that year?

  2. Who is your favorite face and heel in sports entertainment, respectively?

  3. What is your favorite moment in sports entertainment history?

  4. What is your favorite (football) goal of all-time, and is it the same as your favorite football moment?

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Jeez, that’s hard. I’ve seen a fair bit of all of them (though much less of ROH) but other than WWE, most of it didn’t come live as years per se – more me watching them after them as I got older. I struggle to choose favourite years, but here are some of the moments I remember most -

  • WWE – Stone Cold winning the 1999 Royal Rumble, I remember going to see my cousin who told me what happened and I couldn’t believe it.
  • TNA – 2008, as for some reason whenever I think of older TNA, I always think of Curry Man getting the Feast or Fired briefcase haha.

I’ve got so many moments I’ve enjoyed from the other three too, but I can’t say a specific year for them in all honesty – if you want to know, I can come back to them though!

As for number two, The Rock for both, the main man, I don’t see anyone ever beating him for me. Ric Flair is close, and at the moment (in WWE at least), I love Titus O'Neil. But yeah, Rocky was so perfect at both, I can’t choose anyone over him.

Favourite moment, maaaaaan, I’m really bad with these kinds of questions. Probably Rock vs Hogan at WM18. I’m probably forgetting something, but that’s what’s coming to mind at the moment – I’ll come back to this after I’ve had a think about it.

Favourite goal. These just keep getting harder Ezzo, what are you doing to me?! This is a weird one, but one I went absolutely mad for came from Paulinho in a match against Cardiff last year. I feel this was the catalyst for us scoring so many goals in the last minutes this year for absolutely no reason. I can’t say my favourite moment, there are so many! Buuuuuuuuuut, beating Chelsea this coming weekend for the Capital One Cup is going to be up there!

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@Thom “IF” Spurs beat Chelsea

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@QillaQriss No if about it!

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@Thom I told you so!

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I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey Kendrick Lamar – The Blacker the Berry
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“Monkey” is a racist slur directed towards black people who are perceived by some to be primitive and ape-like.

Instead, Kendrick embraces the word and turns it into a sense of empowerment, just as the words “nigga” and “queer” have been reclaimed by the respective communities at which they’re aimed.

Since black men broke into professional football in the 1970s, they’ve had bananas thrown at them by racists in the crowd. Barcelona full back Dani Alves reacted so well to it in 2014 that people started tweeting photos of themselves eating bananas with the hashtag #WeAreAllMonkeys (in Portuguese #SomosTodosMacacos).

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I think it’s important to mention the positive imagery of monkeys/apes in ancient African art. Frequently, religious figures and powerful rulers were symbolized as apes. The Black Panther film (and comics), which Lamar produced the soundtrack for, shows positive imagery of apes. It was not until European slavery that Africans being compared to apes and monkeys became negative.

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... a buzzing rapper and producer he thought was named "Kane" West. Back then, Heath wasn't especially blown away. "It's alright," he thought. "I'll listen." Fast-forward a decade, though, and Heath, an English language and literature professor at Georgia State University, and an early champion of so-called hip-hop studies, has found something deeply compelling in the rapper—enough to build an entire class around. "We're in the business of solving problems," Heath says... A Professor Explains Why He’s Teaching College Kids About Kanye | The FADER

According to his biography on the GSU site:

[He] specializes in 20th- and 21st-century African American literature, black popular culture, and speculative race theory

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I'm the new three and I change out to my new 3s (To my new 3s) Post Malone – White Iverson
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The number 3 is significant when discussing A.I., as that was his jersey number throughout most of his career. From his college days at Georgetown, Iverson had always worn the number 3, until he was traded to the Detroit Pistons during the 2008-09 season and was forced to choose a number other than #3 because Piston guard Rodney Stuckey selected it before the start of the season; Stuckey said he’d defer it to Iverson, but the NBA didn’t allow it.

The Philadelphia 76ers officially retired his jersey in on March 1, 2014.

The second half of the line, “change out to my new 3s,” refers to A.I.’s shoes, which typically had an I3 (as in “Iverson 3”) logo on the shoe. It’s also possible he’s alluding to the Air Jordan “Cement” 3 basketball sneakers.

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They say I'm caught up in a dream Avicii – Wake Me Up
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Aloe Blacc says that this song is lyrically about living in a dream:

I feel like my life is so good that I just get to sing every day and make people happy that I don’t want to be woken up from this dream.

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It’s almost like that “head in the clouds” cliché. Basically, Avicii is being told that he’s living in a fantasy and that he just does not get reality–whatever THAT means.

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...with bling on, I’m complex.” On 2011’s “Murder to Excellence,” Jay points out that he was born on the day Black Panther Fred Hampton was assassinated by the government in Chicago. Hampton’s murder on Dec. 9, 1969, in a way closed the 1960s and bookended the civil rights era, as the 21-year-old dynamic leader remained perhaps the last galvanizing figure to emerge during the era. “I arrived on the day Fred Hampt... Fox News’ war with Jay Z: Why it picked the wrong fight this time - Salon.com

Both Hampton’s murder and Jay-Z’s date of birth were actually on December 4th, 1969 (not December 9th).

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...go, Northwestern, American, Georgetown and many more universities. Nine of the 15 members of the steering committee of the Project on Middle East Political Science (directed by Marc Lynch) are women. A dozen women have served as president of the Middle East Studies Association. Women are likewise a palpable presence in Middle East policy: Well over a dozen women have served as U.S. ambassadors in the Middle East, and Anne Patterson currently serves as assistant secretary of... The mysterious absence of women from Middle East policy debates - The Washington Post

Suad Joseph (2011)
Virginia Aksan (2009)
Mervat Hatem (2008)
Laurie Brand (2004)
Lisa Anderson (2003)
Barbara Stowasser (1999)
Leila Fawaz (1997)
Ann M. Lesch (1995)
Barbara Aswad (1992)
Yvonne Y. Haddad (1990)
Elizabeth W. Fernea (1986)
Nikki R. Keddie (1981)

(Source: Wikipedia)

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