Oh boy. Black piet?

When a five minute google search would suffice in explaining issues such as racism, privilege, black face, etc., then not undertaking that basic effort does indicate intent.

It's not anyone's job to educate this guy.

What, you've never heard of Pinocchio? Was he really a real boy?

That was amazingly succinct and articulated. Thank you.

Sigh. My mom kept her own last name; my dad didn't mind, but there was a lot of pressure from other family members (from both sides). When the time came to name me, she decided on a name that had no patronymic—I just have two regular names, the last of which I use as a surname. It's a bit confusing for people, but the…

I have dark brown eyes. I've used a dark green with some metallic flecking—but I only did it in the evenings b/c it looked too dressy somehow. But I got so many compliments when I wore that rather than my regular boring black liner that I finally switched to plain dark green for daytime. Has been working great. The…

She is amazing. Truly so.

Someone send the writer of that article this one—Don't Make Your Children the Exception to Every Rule—which seemed like common sense to me, but I guess people need to be told?

Dude. I don't know how this happened. But I missed that yesterday. I'm not sure whether I should thank you or not though!

Dear World, this week we've had the 300Sammich Lady, Prof. Douchenozzle Gilmour, Mr. Gaybasher Barilla, Mrs. Daddy's Sleeping Pill Gorga and more. Please tell all the other bullcrappers you have to just lay off for the next few days? Please? Thank you.

I kinda figured that, but it's hard to tell online :-)

Yes. And the overall conclusion he draws—if not in that essay (I can't remember)—is that's how the law is supposed to operate. Which means the law sucks. Or as someone said a long, long time ago, The Law, sir, is an Ass.

Ta Nehisi Coates does precise and easy to understand commentary/roundups on his blog as well as the Atlantic. He is a must read.

Ta Nehisi Coates does precise and easy to understand commentary/roundups on his blog as well as the Atlantic. He is a must read.

As Ta Nehisi Coates wrote:

Well, he just demanded an apology from all the people who had 'rushed to judge' him, so there's that.

hahaha, immigration laws in britain, shitload of immigration and other laws in france, germany germany germany hahaha

Just thinking about the kind of mental and emotional gymnastics required to get to this level of willful obtuseness is wearying me.

I will totally take you up on that :-)