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The Party Pic Karen Chamisso It is just human nature to stand in a party pic and gargoyle to the unknowns outside this magic circle in your Alex McQueen threads while your blush fails and the flash bounces                                                off of your forehead. His hands are comfortably round your waist this host, not so cute as an octopus, but coming on all tentacles and tan unattached once the starter wife is ejected from the copilot seat. It is just human nature for him to stand in the middle and tycoon a picaro of the scandal mags and loose with money an advisor of sorts: a knower of politicians in their winter. Your beaming smile on his left and hers on the right Do you wonder about the captions for this night? I know already that if I’m in this group of teeth I will be retouched since I am all blurs in the flash aftermath my pic presence running for the exit.

Who's the racist? The tie between economics and racism

From Willettsmag What is the tie between racism and economics? I watched the NYT video of Sanders explaining his take on it – that economic misery creates the need for an enemy other to explain it. This explanation is in concert with the general American mainstream idea that racism is concentrated in the most ignorant and poorest. Yet, at first glance, one would think that if the economic system is racist, then the people who benefit from it most would be the most racist. This takes “racism” out of a certain imprisonment in the notion of sentiment, and makes it a socially constructed intersubjective bundle of characteristics. I think that is a better place for beginning this discussion. With this beginning, we can ask again about economics and racism, with the corollary that the way in which the onus of the racism discussion singles out certain classes as racist and ignores others is, itself, part of the structural racism we are talking about. In the U.S., recently, the que