But this (ought to be) basic high school civics. The interwebs are full of crusty rightwingers reminding us that we live in a republic, not a democracy. I think it is more a case of “you cannot expect someone to understand something when their job requires them to misunderstand it”. Still, it seems very odd. I could…

I never fail to understand how members of Congress fail to understand the role of the constitution. The constitution is intended to put certain off-limits to majoritarian voting. We don’t all get to vote on deny certain rights to people based on the color of their skin, even if a huge, overwhelming majority of us hate…

will it pass bechdel? trailer is ... pessimistic.

but .... he’s not a rapper!

If you read all the replies in this thread, you’ll see various other reports from people noting the same thing as me. For the record, Philadelphia is apparently the most competitive grocery market in the country - too many stores, too close together (though tell that to the food desert dwellers around parts of the…

Buying pre-made food at Whole Foods is expensive. Buying produce and not-very-processed ingredients at Whole Foods is not notably more expensive than other regular grocery stores (if you factor in the organic), and some things are frequently cheaper. Wierdly, for example, Tropicana OJ is nearly always cheaper at WF…

When I labelled Roof’s ideas and language as “absurd” I did so without caring whether there is 1 or 10 million other people who share his appalling attitudes. I didn’t mean to imply that he stood out from the right wing racist (isn’t that redundant, somehow) crowd in any way other than explicitly taking murderous…

Plausible, but damn hard to substantiate.

He was decidedly less chill after mentioning the Sandy Hook shooting; watching as Congress “literally does nothing” was “the closest I came to feeling disgusted,” he said.

The real issue of Charleston or the real issue of Sandy Hook? They have elements in common, they have elements that make them rather different. We need to talk about all of them, but whereas racism is clearly central to the Charleston shooting, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Sandy Hook (or Columbine or…

The 2 million man march (aka the 16%):

Thanks for your thoughtful, informative and informed reply.

I’m a software developer who comments on a variety of blogs (mostly left-leaning, frequently political) while I wait for projects to build. I don’t head down to the local black community centers to try to lecture them on what they should or shouldn’t do, and I certainly don’t consider myself lecturing anyone from the…

So a white journalist has ignorance as a reasonable defense as to why they may report race issues terribly.

When Don Lemon reports, he reports in a way that obscures these kinds of every day lived experiences and frequently places the blame for the violence done to black people by white supremacy, on black people.

I’m not trying to lecture black people. I think making statements about anyone suppressing their “racial identity” are BS and based on the same set of flawed ideas that give rise to white racism: the idea that a person is part of a group and that we can label them according to the properties of the group (whether that…

I’ve been strenuously and effectively explained in another post on jezebel (accurately too, I think) that the “black” community is a product of white racism, and that without it, nationality would win out over “blackness”, just as it does among (currently-judged-to-be) “white” people.

I think he’s had to repress every ounce of his black identity in the service of the corporation he works for.

Do I? NonServiam apparently believes that there is a some sort of “black identity” and that Don Lemon behaves in ways that suggest he doesn’t have a “black identity”. I have no idea what a “black identity” would mean, and I also know that any time a non-black person might attempt to claim to define what a “black…

His “black identity”. Why don’t you go ahead and tell us what a black person is and how they should behave and speak and dress and think?