Word: shit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...intends this act to be a symbolic gesture of solidarity towards a young black woman whose dead body was found covered in excrement. “I wanted to give her a voice,” she says. “All of us have that moment where putting shit on us is a better choice.” After covering herself in chocolate, Finley wrapped herself in tinsel, mimicking a mistreated woman dressing for dinner...
...vodka on the stairs. Later, I found out they all worked on the UC.” Commented one socially maladjusted party-crasher, “I got a weird vibe from the people there, like they didn’t want to see drunken, uninvited buffoons spill shit on the furniture.” He then composed a resolution demanding world peace...
...that notion that black excellence is not supposed to be too widespread. I think that when we position people like Cornel West and Skip Gates as the sort of paradigmatic examples of black excellence things like this unleash the possibility for people to question black excellence and to talk shit about black excellence in a way that is really deeply racist...
...using the platform he has because he has earned that space, because he has done a lot of stuff that is quite excellent. He is using that space to raise issues that other people might not raise. And as someone who likes to throw bombs and talk shit myself, I think I’m glad he has one of those platforms, and that it’s so far up. I think we all have positions that we want people to listen to us on. I mean certainly, we talk about leadership all the time. Everyone at Harvard...
...cerebral palsy anymore, but rather, cerebal person.” His classmates respond with approbation and cliches, invoking other writers who were afflicted with handicaps, and paying lip service to political correctness. That is until Scott cuts in and calmly calls the story a “load of shit.” Leo is devastated and breaks up with Vi for encouraging him to read it. Later at a bar, Vi runs into Scott, and asks him if he thinks she could be a writer. He stoically responds no, she goes home with him to his apartment...