August 31, 2012
"In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw—having extracted them from the mouths of his slaves."

The sorry legacy of the founders

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they used slaves for spare body parts.

(via theinebriatedfangirl)

Exploitation of Black bodies assure white people can eat.  Literally.

(via bankuei)

shame

(via thefilthofhealth)

April 29, 2012
[He] turned up at her surgery with toothache just days after breaking up with her. She gave him a heavy dose of anaesthetic and plucked his teeth out.

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