I will wear my Wonder Woman shirt today because I am a hero!!

You an me both. You have articulated my feelings perfectly. I mean, goddamn- why do I have to continue to justify my humanity and the humanity of my kids because we are black? It’s beyond old now.

Emulation != piracy.

There is nothing wrong with emulation. I often play PS1 games (that I own, and have the disc for) on my PC. 1: because its easier then setting up my PS1, and 2: because it looks better. Stop trying to be edgy.

Sorry sir I already gave the developer money when I initially bought the game. I don’t feel the need to buy the same game twice when there’s nothing done to it beyond port PC version to console.

Talking about it is a bit different to supplying it. Wikipedia has articles on cocaine but it’s not about to point out your local crack den.

she didnt do it to keep her kid from a life of crime she did it because she was scared of what the police would do to him and that he would become another eddie grey. Read her statements

Ta Nehisi Coates mentioned this a few years ago (it might have been last year). How is it that the reality of racism is so blatantly obvious to black people but incomprehensible to white people?

It reminded me of nothing so much as how parents often react when they pull their kids out of a car’s path, after the kid charged into the street. The yelling and the walloping isn’t a rational parenting choice, it’s a visceral reaction of terror and relief and “if you EVER do that again” because you know putting the…

You are 500% correct it IS INTENTIONAL. Notice how it was Fox News the first one to break out the video! Hmm when was the last time Fox news said ANYTHING good about black people? Hm..... It is ON PURPOSE... It is called distracting the sheep and dis-information...

Don’t even get me started on that fucking Gawker article. Fuck that lady.

"This woman didn't do this because she doesn't believe in the movement or the protest, she did it out of fear for the safety of her kid. SHe is not a hero mom, just a scared one"

This woman didn’t do this because she doesn’t believe in the movement or the protest, she did it out of fear for the safety of her kid. She is not a hero mom, just a scared one. All the parents are scared - almost every black kid has had that experience. The one where you are scolded by your parents because you chose…

At this point I don't even care about using qualifiers. White people have a mental block when it comes to historical context. Look at that Gawker post about the CNN reporter with the audacity to chastise a black man for saying nigger, not because of the history of the word, but because white people can't say it. I…

God yes. About fifteen of my friends posted this on Facebook yesterday and some of them were shared from conservative news links. I remember thinking that this was going to be the main focus instead of what the protest is really about.

This will be the defining image. When the dust has settled this image will be the defining image of the killing and the ensuing protests. This will be the image white people will patronizingly hold up to tell black people how they should act in the face of overwhelming generational adversity and oppression. I mean big…

Greg covered it in his piece. Respectability politics play well with the rich, powerful, and white. And that’s who did the hiring.

Standards

Captions kill travel social media game. Like #honorarynewyorker. Ew. But I'm also pretty anti hashtags in general.

It’s cute how you believe whatever the police tell you.