Richard Papen Is So Damn Real Not Because He Was On Drugs, Not Because He Was An Introverted Weirdo.

For one like I'll share my smash or pass list of famous poets.

(I really want to share it.)

what joke are you really tryin to tell when you make fun of appalachia and the greater south?

even when you "just" mock our accents (you and i both know what you're really implying when you take on the drawl), the punchline of your joke there is poverty.

those who prefer a more overt route over backhanded implication: when you laugh at our education, or lack thereof, the punchline of your joke is still poverty. systemically underfunded schools packed with underprivileged children who aren't getting the same standards of education as the rest of the country is a real knee slapper boy i tell you what

when you mock our dental health and start quipping about toothless hillbillies, you're still laughin at poverty. appalachia is disproportionately uninsured compared to the rest of the nation. fellas most of us can't afford the privilege of regular, preventative dental visits and checkups, let alone the cost of huge procedures when things finally get dire. beyond that, our poverty is generational. from the get go we inherit bad teeth from family who couldn't afford that shit neither.

in the same vein, when you make fatphobic comments about said disproportionately-uninsured region--one with few jobs available to begin with, let alone work that pays enough to afford wholesome, unprocessed foods that don't rot yer teeth for supper--the butt of your joke is,, u guessed it,, ✨ poverty ✨

but to me the real kicker is the cousin fucker jokes. how can you not see that when you snark about inbreeding, when you piss yourself over that infamous billboard and oh, how could anyone possibly need to be told that?!, your punchline is not only poverty and a lack of education enough to develop critical thinking skills and the ability to build safe support networks, but you're also usually guffawing at incestuous rape and vulnerable children on top of it. peak comedy.

really though, how is any of that funny?

what happens to everyone's class consciousness the moment we start talkin about the hollers n the deep south?

why does health insurance, quality education, and food security for all suddenly go from issues worth fighting for to punishments, and ones we deserve to be humiliated for on top of it?

i know im just a dumb ol hillbilly n all, but i reckon i just don't get what we're supposed to be laughin at here

francis abernathy is genuinely god’s strongest warrior because how did this motherfucker survive THREE homoerotic failed situationships in a ROW, bunny, bunny’s murder, henry, richard, charles, incest twins, being a redhead, a SUICIDE ATTEMPT, being catholic, being gay in the 80s, being catholic AND gay BOTH in the 80s, multiple nervous breakdowns, vermont, an alcoholic absent mother, a homophobic grandpa, being fatherless AND to top it all off being the only diva in the classics group 😢

Way of the Water

Should I start talking to y'all about my book? I'm telling y'all about the characters and the world anyways.

Mostly because I want to build a fandom now so someone can eventually draw the twins as sharpay and ryan.

STOP FUCKING OVER YOUR KIDS BY DUMPING THEM ON TEACHERS WITH NO WAY TO REGULATE THEMSELVES. GET THEM THE DAMN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.

-A man with undiagnosed ADHD who is now a teacher.

ITS MINE. ITS MINE. ITS CERTAINLY MINE. IT BELONGS TO MY BOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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Education?

The only way to really help the poor is to establish opportunities, as part of the total economic order, which in some way reflect the manne

Okay, so speaking of my Writing and Critical Inquiry class, I have this "Blog Post" project. So, today, we're gonna talk about how poverty affects the education system. I *really* liked this article that I found in my college's library on this subject, so if my post doesn't suffice your thirst for knowledge (which it shouldn't, you should always be thirsting for knowledge, but that's not my point. But please read this article if you have the time it's so good.) I will preface, however, that it was made like decades ago, so he refers to black people only as Negros and says the N slur once. So, y'know. be prepared.

He starts out the article with this quote I actually really liked from Pat Sexton's  "Education and Income: Inequalities of Opportunity in Our Public Schools," where he says, "There is an enormous book by a Mrs. Pat Sexton which indicates that a person is likely to get an education in proportion to how much money he has." I wholeheartedly agree with this because I grew up in Charleston, WV. This led to my parents being eager to move away because they were scared to send my sister to a middle school that was rife with drugs and violence, but they didn't have the money to send her anywhere else. This article is old as dirt, and it's very specific to its time, however, I believe that's why it's scary how accurate this is to the modern day. He speaks on how the main people who are hurt by not getting a proper education are Immigrants and African Americans. Specifically Irish Immigrants, which is my ancestry.

He speaks on what he sees in both his community and in the news across America, how we see underserved and underprivileged kids grow up to be "Criminals" and just generally not good people. He accredits this phenomenon to these kids not getting proper schooling and opportunities, causing them to not be able to work, causing them to have to turn to drugs and brothels. He also partially blames educators for this problem, which I disagree with because there are such nuances and different factors that go into teaching children. There's a bunch of red tape to sift through, and Admin is very strict on what we can teach and talk about with our students. However, I do agree that the education system needs A LOT of work. We need to teach our students things that will give them background on how to be a functioning member of society, but we also need to teach them life skills like taxes, public speaking, tolerance, and social skills.

Which brings me to the problem of America's "Education Debt." Education Debt, as paraphrased from the article "From the Achievement Gap to the Educational Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools," Educational Debt is what the American Education System accrued by giving rich, white men a "head start" on education. By implementing "Residential Schools" and by not letting black kids have access to the same schools as rich white kids, black, native, and immigrant children are less likely to succeed in schools because they are still trying to catch up both historically and economically to their more privileged peers.

All this to say, we need to find ways to make this "debt" shrink. I had to research this for my Teachers in Diverse Societies class, and my findings were that we simply learn and adapt to the environment we're in. The best way to help underprivileged kids is to give them the opportunities they need to be successful. Whether that's having better teachers in schools or districts moving tax money around so that all the schools get the same amount of funding so all kids can be equally as successful, or what. The old saying goes, "It takes a village to raise a child," but what are we doing as a village to help the children around us and not just our own children? All children deserve to have equal opportunities for success, so we as a society need to stop being selfish and help the kids who need us, not just kids who have the money to pay for that help.

yeah they go way back 🐶🦾

YES THANK YOU TO THE PERSON WHO LIKED THAT POST

i would have shared it anyhow but here:

John Keats is a smash, lord Byron is a smash. Sappho’s a pass only because she’s a chick. If I liked chicks she’d be a smash. But titties are gross. So pass. Edgar Allen poe is a smash but only if you give me enough liquor to forget how much his hairline’s receding. Walt Whitman is a pass, Langston Hughes is a pass. Percy Shelley’s a smash but William Wordsworth is a pass. William Shakespeare is a pass. William Butler Yeats is a smash. T.S. Elliot is a pass. if you give me a shot or two of courage Oscar Wilde is a smash. more because of personality than looks. but i was also talking to my roommate that if given the chance i'd make a WONDERFUL lover to Oscar. i'd treat that man so good. Dante and Milton are both passes. Federico García Lorca is a S M A S H. Thoreau is a pass.  E.E. Cummings is a smash but only until his like early 30’s. young robert frost is a smash. 

My top three hottest from this list are Keats, Wilde, and Lorca, but Keats is only the top because, in my opinion, John is a more moanable name than Oscar. This is what I did instead of paying attention in my intro to lit and film class and working on my American censorship speech for Tuesday.

you can call francis abernathy a freak for getting busy at the funeral of the homophobe he helped murder but that shit put gay rights forward 20 years