Yes. That's exactly what I meant.

That's not a pocket square, silly. That's his heart, and it's on fire for Jesus!

You end up with reducing structural racism to bad words you can't say, whether or not you like rap music, and who will be your racial shield when you fuck up.

I don't know if I'd say it's disheartening, since language has always evolved. But we definitely need a new term, since "lame duck" implies irrelevancy, and Obama is demonstrating that he's hardly irrelevant!

You're right— people used to only talk about a sitting president after a new one had already been elected as a "lame duck" (as in, the election's in November but the new president isn't sworn in until January). But as kckempf pointed out, the term has come to mean anytime someone doesn't have to worry about their (or…

Maybe, maybe not. If I share it, I'll instantly be the very "good white person" who shows off how "good" she is. If I don't, the people I know who would find it as helpful and useful as I do might not get the chance to read it.

Exactly. I'm sure "discomfort" and "fear" have been used as cover many times in history when people didn't want to confront the injustices in front of them (that they themselves weren't suffering); it's all too easy to use the same cover to avoid difficult conversations.

Can I just say that Lame Duck Obama is the best Obama ever?

It seems like a kind of bizarro world— shedding the layers of bigotry still leads to a place of difference. Maybe that's the best an ally can do right now— be supportive (without congratulating yourself for it), be aware (without thinking you know everything), and know that whatever you do, you can never really know…

It would be a nice start, anyway.

Thank you for writing this. Feel free to delete this comment if you don't want to hear the response of yet another self-congratulatory "good white person".

Here's one difference I perceive in the two situations, though I think it's a matter of degree and not black and white: if someone shared anyone's nude photos, I'd be angry on that person's behalf. Unless you are posing professionally, no one ever means for such photos to be shared beyond the one person they're sent…

Do we know how old this kid was at the time of the incident? Had she seen other episodes in which a contestant was in the red and couldn't be in the last round?

Between his name and the expression on his face, are we 100% this isn't Flounder doing some kind of pledge week dare?

Oh, wow. That is me, too! Except my reference is Olivia Newton John's "Let's Get Physical" because I am eleventy billion years old.

Their writers could do worse than troll Jezebel websites looking for ideas. How about Leslie Jones calling up Cory Booker?

I have heard that story. I am not kidding when I say that every single jackass on the floor of the house and senate should have to cast votes with a picture of their momma looking at them.

"Paul Davis Ryan, is that the budget Father Ignatius and Sister Mary Vincent would want you to propose? Did I drive you to…

At the very least, it would make a hell of an SNL skit!

I wish every single pundit/politician on earth lived in fear of their mom calling them publicly on their shit.

I am imagining Oprah walking in on Marlena levitating because she's possessed with evil spirits or some shit: