The beginning of We Know The Way is actually in two different languages - the first verse is Samoan while the chorus is Tokelauan, one of the native languages of composer Opetaia Foa‘i. The English verses were built around the Samoan and Tokelauan lines, which roughly translate to:
We are voyagers called by the great god of the sea, Who puts up a challenge. We take up the good challenge, So get ready. Oh, oh! There is land up ahead. A bird in flight to take us there, Oh, oh! This beautiful land, The place I was looking for, we will make our home.
Gymnastics has come a long compared to that old footage, but this difference is particularly significant for black girls! Because they have never taken seriously our abilities! Just because the color of our skin is not what they want to see!
Simone Biles’s fantastic performance has been covered by many news outlets all these years! Now we can see the real difference!
#BlackGirlsMagic
It’s like a metaphor of what millenials have to do to get jobs vs baby boomers lol
I was debating whether to reblog but that last comment did it for me
If Hogwarts is the finest, high class school for witches and wizards I’d love to see a spinoff movie of one of the more ghetto, inner-city magic schools.
what this made me realise is that helen’s certainty implies that dash and violet were both showing signs of their powers as infants and that is the funniest thing i have ever thought of in my life because one has super speed and one turns invisible can you picture first-time parents trying to deal with a baby that sometimes fucking disappears
George Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative commentator — took Trump to task in a scathing Washington Post column on Wednesday, slamming the president for his “untrained mind bereft of information.”
“It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either,” Will wrote. “This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability.”
Will was responding to Trump’s bizarre, ahistorical suggestion that Andrew Jackson could have prevented the American Civil War and his questioning of why the war was necessary.
“The problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that,” Will wrote. “Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something.” Read more(5/4/17)
How fucking terrible is Donald Trump?
He is so fucking terriblem he has put me on the same side as GEORGE FUCKING WILL.
