The fact that people, like Obama, can overcome a system that is rigged against their success is not an argument for continuing the system.

They already have things like this but there are real issues with storage capacity, and data retention policies.

I’m pretty sure there are rules about how cops can use tasers. I’m pretty sure that this isn’t on the list.

If you’re gonna have armed people in schools, they had better be fucking professional.

“Hiring more police officers is not the answer. It comes from the way we address the problems in our homes and the way we are raised,” Birmingham Councilwoman Sheila Tyson explained said blackly, apparently unaware that black parents don’t gather their children around the dinner table and teach them how to bust caps…

I’d like to carefully sit down with this letter writer and explain that, like the Catholic church, the fact that their organization provide a lot of good service to the world and helps literally millions of people doesn’t preclude their organization from recklessly destroying millions of lives through it’s…

Regardless of what he’s aiming for, if he doesn’t move his hand there’s a problem.

Problem is that no one ever said it was exclusively southern. But compare alabama to new jersey (no utopia) and you might begin to pick up what ppl are putting down. Maybe.

Would it make you feel batter if we just said, “Stay clear of places where people fly Confederate flags (which are mostly, but not exclusively, in…

No, it’s really not. You can’t maintain faith in a criminal justice system that appears to be arbitrary, capricious and biased. Punishments need to be at least somewhat coherent and proportional for the institutions to maintain legitimacy.

That’s the underpinning of this article and the outrage that’s being expressed.

Because he’s smart, insightful, humble and people miss his commentary?

Also considering how much liberals, particularly white liberals, miss his voice it’s a pretty shrewd move even from a purely cynical POV.

Yah, that line gave me chills. 

IMO, by publishing this piece you’re just lending credence to a debate that shouldn’t even exist. The people that don’t get this aren’t gonna change their mind after a short article because their objections are not based in reason.

Let the salty be salty, but we don’t need to give’em any oxygen.

More than the police? More than the GOP or Fox News? BBQ Becky? The Trump Clan?

I suspect that this is the influence of the Greys.

Well, the guy’s a Brit. Over there it’s much more likely that Catholic = Non-White. Remember, to many brits Irish is only 1/4 step up from black/brown/yellow.

The P stands for “pretty”. Your friends are projecting. 

As long as it’s sanitary, and not causing some kind of disruption I can’t think of, it’s not for anyone to tell anyone else how to wear their hair. Full stop.

It’s gross to watch how quick ppl are to jump on her side after she spent a decade propping up and elevating this blatant racist.

yeah, she brought the noise that got us into this mess to.

How much racism have you helped to erase from this world? Keep your clever little quips in your pocket while grown ups are talking.

Looks like you opened the pandora’s box of salty white people. Somehow in this equation they’ve been victimized. Clearly.

It must be really hard to go through life being disparaged that way. It’s amazing that you’ve built a life at all, really.