More importantly it doesn’t make Slavery any less racist

I seriously got into a debate about someone over the fact that American slavery was racist.

This woman should have a statue at the Capitol.

This choice is money.

I wish a decent person had stood in the middle of the protesters with a huge sign that said “I’m sorry about these morons, Mr. President.”

Any black person will tell you, there is always one....

Also: “With the slavery and everything else.”

Clarence Thomas existed way before 2015, man.

In Michigan, I’ve seen a lot of confederate flags. My family has a place on a small lake in the Irish Hills, about five miles from Michigan International Speedway. You drive into town to get groceries or go out to dinner, and there are a lot of those flags on display. When it’s race weekend, the number of them…

Oklahoma is what the right wing would like for all of America to look like, statistically. The state is incredibly poor and uneducated. People work for comically low wages and attack anyone who tries to change that (proactively passing Right To Work when something like 2% of the workers in the state are unionized;…

This is why I am trying not to write off the whole state of Oklahoma right now (or other states that piss me off). There are too many good folks there that deserve SO much better.

I heard one of my coworkers make that joke this morning. The motorcade went right past my work this morning, and most of us were watching it, and another one was saying that she didn’t care and wished they’d crash. Which, really? I don’t recall such venom around previous presidents, not when they were visiting. I…

“He should’ve had a better welcome than he had,” Sequoya Turner, a lifelong Oklahoma resident, told Politico before bursting into tears.

The “followers” are absolutely delighted to have their black guy to use as evidence against their racist bullshit.

“...There might have been racism way back then with the slavery and everything else but that’s all in the history.”

First off, kudos to the crack writers at 104.5 KRXO for thier “first president to visit a prison, some folks think maybe he should stay there” joke this morning. Just wow, such quality, great writing, wow, so edgy.

The epitome of class.

Waller County Sheriff’s Office said she died “from what appears to be self-inflicted asphyxiation,” and used the terms “tragic incident.” Her death was later ruled a suicide by hanging,