But I don’t think that there is any other situation in which we would call the other 98 folks that watched a child being attacked, lied on official government documents saying that the child was the attacker, went on TV impugning the child and his parents for things totally unrelated to the attack, went back and stole…

This is why they can miss me with that “most cops are good” BS. If any cops actually attempt to try to shed light on or speak against corruption, they are hit MUCH harder than any cop who has actually engaged in wrongdoing, up to and including murder. Until the policies and incentives seriously change—and the police…

I suppose I should explain what I mean by shortsightedness a bit better - racism as a policy of segregation is shortsighted because it actively makes an economy worse. Education standards lower, business productivity suffers, the housing market is worse, and crime rises.

Agreed. When I have gotten dems solicitations for funding, invoking challenges to the muslim ban 1.0 by community organizing and various civil rights groups, I emailed them back and asked them what they did to actually assist in any of the “victories” they are claiming they need help to continue. I think I might…

It is possible that Congress does absolutely nothing and continues to scream “Nothing to see here” while every Jason Bourne on the U.S. payroll is handing out Russian receipts like it’s Black Friday.

That’s blood money you’re taking, Pablo.. hope it’s worth it.

as long as money is to be made off of racism - nothing will change.

I am ready to pre-order “Michelle’s Guide To Being A Classy and Intelligent Black Woman in this Backwards-ass Country” and “The Obama’s Guide to Keeping Your Marriage Crackin’”

I usually can’t with Don Lemon, but that face after he said goodnight and was pulling away from the desk was everything.

This has never been more appropriate: Yaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssss

This is not necessarily a comment on this article alone, but thank you, the Root, for existing. Keep speaking truth to power on issues like this, and also on everything from my beloved Baduism album (altho her live CD is obviously her best one) to Black Love. I cannot understate how amazing it is to find a community…

I’mma let you finish, but um, to be honest, there is a shit ton of data already existing that shows police bias—observational data, experimental data, qualitative studies of pilot programs, ethnographies, the list goes on. Whatever your preferred type of data, it exists and it shows that police (and all other…

I 100% hear this in her voice. It is like you excerpted this from the transcript.

They only supported him because deep down they kinda agreed with his views.

Too bad he didn’t have daughters. Then he could have worked a lot less because he would have saved a lot of money by not even bothering to educate them. A Mothering class at the Learning Annex has to be a lot less expensive than paying for college and medical/law school. (Why bother, am I right?)

Moderate Democrats weren’t going to show up for Sanders and his high taxes and socialism. They didn’t in the primary, and they wouldn’t in the general.

It’s not that she’s a token, it’s that everyone associated with this administration is horrible and incompetent and unprepared. From Sec’y of Ed to Comms Director. The 45 Admin incompetence knows no color bounds.

so you’re just buying into a wild theory...a conspiracy, if you will.

lol or you can continue to be a conspiracy theorist and proclaim something is a lie even though you really don’t have any solid proof

so what if she didn’t carry blue herself? so what if she used a surrogate? what business of ours is it, and why must she share her private life with us?