I wish it were that simple. Do you know how many people of color can green light a Hollywood movie? Very few. The Madea dude (his name escapes me atm), maybe Oprah? Those are the only 2 I can think of. Spike DAMNED Lee has been very vocal about having to practically beg for money and a release date. How many people of…

So Damned true. Its this deliberately hidden history which gives so many people, including trump, the cover to deny the contributions of people of color to this nations progress. It is particularly galling that many of those deniers work with smart capable people of color every DAMNED day, and went to school with…

That’s great! A flag which doesn’t represent anything is just a piece of fabric. You’re allowed to decide for yourself what the flag represents to you. The most accepted interpretation of what the US flag represents is encapsulated in the phrase “liberty and justice for all”. When the nation doesn’t uphold the very…

Sorry, but no. That is such a cop out. To suggest that someone undertake the monumental task of running for office or stfu is a terrible, horrible, defeatist attitude. The state of politics in this country makes it impossible for all but the independently rich to run for office. Who else can afford the investment of…

Why? “Bread and circuses”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and… It’s a c-o-n-s-p...uh...k-a-h-n...er eh...c-a-w-n.... Dammit it’s a plot, man! An organized, coordinated PLOT.

God, I hope you are trolling us... I’m happy for you if you’ve never been the victim of racism, but your experience doesn’t at all invalidate the experiences of others. I’d go further and state that if you hold the widely reported incidents you mentioned as being fully representitive of police interactions with people…

“Common knowledge” might suggest to some that a large number of people from a wide spectrum of demographics share that knowledge. That is not the case here. Vice is not nearly as popular a news source as they’d lead us to believe. Nor can it be expected that this story was widely vowed by those who are aware of Vice…

Not hardly an easy question. One’s identity is an extremely difficult thing to define. As you say, it exists in the mind, but there is so much more to it. Ask anyone who has lost or gained an extreme amount of weight. Ask an old person. Ask a person who woke after spending years in a coma or has been disfigured. I…

Thanks for that. God I hope these lawsuits are successful. I genuinely angers me that all of these sort of things are ignored by the media. It’s this that emboldens the trolls who continually post bullshit like “blacks don’t care about killings unless cops are implicated”. Those of us who have ever spent any time in…

Source, please? This is plausable, but I’ll need reasonably verifiable proof to really believe it. If it is true htf are those shops allowed to stay open? If I recall correctly NYC contemplated lawsuits against states where many handguns used in NYC crime were purchased. Isn’t that an option available to the city,…

Men SHOULDN’T always pay on dates, but that’s a seperate thing... I know equal pay for women is still an issue, but can someone give a plausible reason why? Simply misogyny doesn’t seem to explain it...

I agree. I’d wager that a lot of Uber’s current expenses are legal and regulatory related. It appears to me that they believe that those costs will suddenly go away at the same time that they pick up the autonomous vehicle costs. This is naive, to say the least. They will have both costs for a time. Likely a long…

“poisoning” a child is usually something MRAs whine about because they can’t be fucked to actually parent...”

“But I guess things like that wouldn’t bother you, because it’s all about you and your needs.”

Thanks!

I appreciate your perspective. You are absolutely correct, of course. I’m trying to do better, but part of it is that it took me a long time to get where I am in life. My parents couldn’t do a lot to make things easier for me once I left their home and I feel guilty when I consider leaving my kids to struggle the same…

Sorry, I don’t agree at all. Kids that young aren’t the best judges of what the should or shouldn’t do or how those decisions will effect them in the future. They also don’t understand basic things like how difficult it is to balance work demands and planning for the future ,and basic life responsibilities and…

The court’s myopic view of this is staggering. Aside from the fact that the allegations are easily proven, we have empirical evidence that rapists tend to repeat their crime. We ALSO have evidence, possibly more than just heresay, that he has done this before AND evidence that he delusionally believes this is is no…

I am conflicted as hell about the possibility of ending statutes of limitation on rape. On the one hand there are countless legit reasons why a victim may not report a rape for years or decades. Should those legit reasons remove the possibility of her rapist being brought to justice? On the other hand it is Damned…

What I find funny, side splitting hilarious actually, is that Uber thinks a significant number of cities are going to allow autonomous cars at any time in the near future. Cities obviously have a stake in employment numbers. Uber ain’t gonna replace the tax money their former drivers were paying. Nor will they be…