I know when I hug someone who isn’t my husband, I always put one of my hands on their lower-back. ‘Cause that’s not fucking creepy or pushy or anything.

This sounds Martin “Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez” Sheen’s story.  

With a face like that you can buy beer underage. With a personality like that, no one will drink it with you.

I don’t get it. I don’t frequent websites I hate, I don’t watch television shows I don’t like. What is the appeal of being a troll on a website?

She moved to the United States from France in 1970 when she was (I believe) 13 years old.

Agreed. And more unsolicited advice from someone who has also had to partially estrange herself from her mother (in this case because of untreated mental illness): therapy is a wonderful, wonderful thing. This is really heavy stuff and it helps immensely to find a safe place to talk about it.

Unsolicited advice from someone who survived a very necessary estrangement from her own mother: beware of anyone who attempts to convince you that you should be able to look past this. I wish someone had told me 20 years ago that “blood is not thicker than safety.” Thank you and good luck.

The only reason the police even came out was because of that dog, not this family’s mental health or personal safety. If this family had found the swatsika on their house or car, they probably wouldn’t have been taken seriously by the police. The sad reality is a lot of white people in this country actually value…

Also:

One of the other calls of the wypipo:

I looked at him, shook my head and then 3000 hit this part of the verse on Wailing right on time.

Somewhere in my massive editing process, something dropped out, but let me state it: obviously, this was not for the regular audience of The Root. This is for my fellow white people peeking in. Stopping systemic racism starts with white people and there’s no way around it. Changing your FB profile photo and swapping…

Important takeaways from this: Bun B is/was a college professor!? I didn’t know that!

The rapper also had a few words of advice to white people who don’t want to be associated with white supremacists, and it’s pretty simple: call them out on their shit.

...on a serious note, should I consider stockpiling “sporting goods” and EDC tools?

I just wrote that I have respect for my family’s belief. I don’t believe it. You can believe whatever you want to believe as long as you don’t think your belief should be the law of the land. I have no problems with belief. Just don’t insist that I have to believe it. I don’t.

Yeah. I could go so deep discussing this. No doubt, many of us could. I’ll just comment on point one: The two things which kept me from being athiest for so long are my family, with so many of them being church lifers, and the fact that I was reluctant to feel that I was too intelligent to believe. Cause if that were…

I was raised Muslim but it’s the same across all the abrahamic religions. That’s when it became obvious that something was up. I was in 9th grade and was being obnoxiously arrogant about how Jesus made absolutely no sense to me. He’s God but he’s also God’s son and God sent himself to die for his own creations sins?…

Hi. I’m a 43 year old white lady with two grown kids. Kids who are active (and I mean physically active) in supporting movements towards ending racism. They are FAR more informed and aware than I.