Not talk about it. You can just do the right thing without telling everyone. That's not only for issues of racism, it's also just a general rule. You shouldn't need positive reinforcement for being a decent person. Just be one.
Not talk about it. You can just do the right thing without telling everyone. That's not only for issues of racism, it's also just a general rule. You shouldn't need positive reinforcement for being a decent person. Just be one.
This is the greatest fucking thing I have ever seen.
Because "up to no good" is more than likely coded racism & white kids would've been given the benefit of the doubt.
Does it bother anybody else that in the movie Sandra Bullock teaches this anonymous poor kid how to hit, but in reality Oher was already an all-state football player before he moved in with them? I mean it's really cool that they helped him out after a string of bad foster situations, but bothers me that the movie is…
What an actual nice person would do is tell her asshole friend to stop assuming a couple teens in her store are "up to no good" because they're texting while black, rather than feel the need to investigate for herself whether a couple of kids texting while black were or were not up to no good.
It's easy to say "we have…
Her point was that we shouldn't profile but she only got to that point by assuming herself that two young black men in a store were doing something wrong.
That's a definite no. The moral of that movie is that young black men who are good at sports deserve to be 'saved.'
No good deed goes un-posted on Facebook.
The Sun Also Rises, But Like, Not as Brightly in the Black Part of Town, So Here's An Unsolicited Three Dollars
The one thing I've always wondered: would the Tuohys have adopted Michael Oher if he was 5'4, 120?
1. The game was in Philadelphia
Ah yes, the good ol' STICK TO SPORTS. Glad to see it's not just twitter idiots using that anymore.
Say what you will about Kanye, but he helped get hip-hop out of the "baggy everything" era and is arguably the greatest producer in the history of the genre. He says some really dumb things, but his impact is impossible to ignore. He was also rapping about social issues in an era where there was little to no…
Just relying on the sample of emails here, it's really something to see Leslie Ryan just fucking cower off, after all the pretty promises made to Friedman that were clearly total fucking bullshit.
"We exemplify multi-generational co-viewing."
Welcome to life, kids.
Pictured: Yet another Cam Newton turn over.
I sincerely hope he's ok.
Just when I think I'm out, he pulls me right back in.
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