For someone who is saying she wants nothing to do with a Trump presidency, someone sure seems to be teeing herself up to appeal to the base fundamentalist voters. Maybe she thinks that her chance at the big dance is in 4 years?

When will she release the emails about her killing Vince Foster to cover-up the Juanita Broaddrick rape, which was payback for Broaddrick threatening to go public about the CIA’s use of chemtrails laced with alien DNA to kill JFK, who knew that it is physically impossible for man to walk on the moon?

The stupidity and crowd overreaction was what sold it.

Absolutely. This doubly affects poor POC (or even well-off POC) and is part of the whole racial/classist wheel of oppression in this country. Hilary Mantel said it really well in her novel An Experiment in Love (she was talking about gender, but I think it applies here, too)

I read a personal essay about this exact phonomenon — the name of the essay and the author escape me — but in it the author (a black woman) talks about how her mother would put on her best outfit, including real pearl earrings, to go to talk with the school principal, or to the welfare office to talk to the…

It's a good way to suss out real friends from fake friends though.

Of course they didn’t. Most non-black/non-female people in this country don’t care about Black women by default. They just don’t. They don’t think of us, they don’t empathize with us, and they don’t care. That’s the default setting. They have to be made to care by Black women constantly proving our humanity on a case…

Oh my god, this! People who have never been poor do not understand how important it often is to present themselves as well as possible, to be the
“good” poor person who is clearly “trying.” If you can scrounge up the clothes and make yourself look presentable, maybe that job will hire you, or at the very least maybe…

These are the same type of people who look at someone in a supermarket and thinks they don’t look “poor enough” to need food stamps and assumes that they’re just lazy.

I absolutely think Holtzclaw targeted victims he thought would be less likely to be believed. He preyed on poor, minority women - many of whom had some kind of criminal record - because he knew they would be less likely to come forward and he thought he would get away with it.

Subconscious racism is a much bigger, more prevalent and more insidious problem.

“During her testimony, she became very emotional and cried. You could just see something different in her when she started talking about the rape and when it happened,” said Speaks.

I wonder if any of the initially non-believing jurors came to any insight into themselves and their prejudices from this? Like, if they realized that this POS-LEO has chosen to attack and rape these women just because he expected that white men like them wouldn’t believe poor women of color - and that they at the…

That ending was marvelous. Also, fuck this guy. I am happy he’s going to spend the rest of his life rotting away in jail for this, and only wish there weren’t protections on cops and ex-cops in jail.

Yup. Public spaces are shoe spaces. If we aren’t at a beach, pool, spa, or maybe a grassy area in a park, leave that shit on your feet.

AIRPLANES ARE NOT YOUR LIVING ROOM

oh my god yes. and it’s not pleasant! i was in a rush once and checked the bag with real shoes, so i had to go through in flats, then barefoot, and it. was. harrowing. i was like, never again.

Yeah, I’m seriously judging this person. If you must remove your shoes, at least put on some slippers. Don’t just have your gross, stinky feet out on a plane.

When I see people walk through the TSA line BAREFOOT I lose my mind.

OH MY GOD WEAR YOUR SHOES