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if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin
ḱerberos means “spotted”
that’s right
hades, lord of the dead, literally fucking named his pet dog spot
Native Actors who could have played Tonto
by Marty Two Bulls
Michael Spears
Eddie Spears
Rudy Youngblood
Every Native in every movie that feature Native actors as main, supporting or extras
I’M SORRY BUT THE FUCKING EVAN ADAMS ONE IS TOO WONDERFUL I WANNA SEE THAT MOVIE.
WELP.
Stop what you are doing.
Read those.
Right now.
I’ll wait.
If you don’t want to read, I’ll explain the key bullet points, but please read them afterwords:
This is not “we didn’t protect him enough.”
This is not “the government screwed up some random detail or accidentally let his killer loose.”
The 111th Military Intelligence had a team taking pictures of his balcony during the assassination.
They brought in a Special Forces 8-Man Sniper Team from the 20th.
Memphis Police withdrew their regular protection detail from him.
A jury of 12 people, six black and six white, found the United States Government guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.
YOUR GOVERNMENT. MY GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHOT AND KILLED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. And the media never reported the case.
MLK was ASSASSINATED. By a government YOU PAY FOR.
I hate those posts where someone tries to pressure you into reblogging. I almost never ask you to reblog.
This shit is important.
Reblog this. I don’t care what kind of blog you have. I don’t care what you normally talk about.
Reblog this.
Oh my fucking god.
ok, so I just did a bit of research on this case and I found the 1999 case transcript on the King Center Website
http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers
The Judge and Jury found that Jowers was guilty and found evidence that the government was involved in the assassination of MLK.
However, this gets more interesting than just a transcript. Some time after the case, the U.S. Department of Justice did an investigation into the case and found that there was no conspiracy involving Jowers or the government.
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/crm/mlk/part6.php
and here is a new’s article (it’s a ton shorter):
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-273_162-204349.html
So either the government is doing some cover-up ten years after King V. Jowers or this is all false and there was no conspiracy. I’m not sure what side of the line I fall on, but it is an interesting conspiracy to research.
If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.
If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.
If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.
If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.
If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.
Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.
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