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Hello there! I'm Star, History Peep and lover of all things Alexander Hamilton, Maximilien Robespierre, Antoine Saint-Just, Malcolm X, Oscar Wilde, and Vincent Van Gogh.

Here you will find the postings of an 18-year-old cynic whose interests center around history, music, 40s/50s vintage, comics, and cartoons.

Primary musical obsessions: The Used ♥, Emilie Autumn, Queen, Florence + The Machine, The Smiths, Edith Piaf, Michael Jackson, Patrick Stump, and The Temptations.

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desmoulicious:

so star’s post made me want to express my opinions on things like that

guys, i am not a racist.

On race quotas: That’s just as discriminatory as not allowing students into colleges and businesses because of their race. In the end, most of the time a university chooses students based on GPA and…

As a minority, I place 110% of my support behind this post.

Affirmative action does not solve the root of minority disadvantages—remedying poverty does.

We need to stop teaching our children to focus on how “different” everyone is. If we stress difference, we alienate others. We need to place emphasis on what everyone has in common, on the similarities between cultures, between humans.

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