I have been a southern church goer my entire life and I have never seen anyone bring someone they are newly dating to church. People bring boyfriends, fiancées, and new spouses to church but not typically new folk. Not that I’ve seen.

The water contains fluoride in most municipalities and it’s because of a public health initiative to improve oral health, akin to adding iodine to table salt. This does not negate using fluoride in your toothpaste. But let me know how your Tom’s toothpaste and oil pulling turned out in 20 years

Anti-Blackness affects all kinds of people, whether they are named Jeronimo or not. Even Black police officers participate, since that’s a big part of how our police force was meant to work. Yes, it’s about race. This rarely happens to white people and happens to Black people often enough that we prep our children on…

I just have a hard time believing “Jeronimo” frigging “Yanez” is a racist white cop like ‘the rest of them’.

That wasn’t the totality of the interview or of her feelings but you can’t really blame her for having those feelings. She is hurt and angry and humiliated.

Ooh! I live in DC (out of the country for the summer, else I’d offer to meet up!) I really love Daikaya for ramen and Izakaya for Japanese bar food. Also, Dukem on U street for Ethiopian, Nellie’s is my fave LGBT bar, and I am always here for brunch at Busboys and Poets.

I really like Haim, which is kinda odd for me, but I do. This past weekend I asked a friend if she liked them and she doesn’t, but she’s only heard I Want You Back on the radio. She did however have the best comparison I’ve heard of them...she thinks they sound like Wilson Phillips. I have to agree, and now whenever I…

I know you won’t see this, but you are a big deal to me and I’m happy for you.

Finally, I can admit it.

Yeah, I agree with the overall points of this article, but I have issue with this being the example they put up being that the “inaccurate trope” is based on a real story.

Speaking as a biracial person, “more valued and/or respected because of certain physical qualities” reads as blatant fetishization. I don’t think you meant it to come off that way, but please be aware that those physical qualities tend to be used to other us more than anything and can get very uncomfortable.

His wife was dead by the time he started siring children with Sally Hemmings.

No. You dumb shit. The correct term for the Victim of a Rapist is “Victim”. There is no grey here. Jesus fucking nutballs.

Well, they didn’t frame her as a mistress at first because they refused to believe that Jefferson would have sex (rape) one of the people he had enslaved. Once there was DNA proof it changed to this magical love story.

I’m not going to finish it

“Next you’ll tell us minstrel shows were racist.”

My well educated parents and two aunts were shocked when I recently told them the Mammy cookie jar from my great grandmother was racist.

When I saw that tweet, I felt the urge to throw things. I know white people always frame Sally Hemings as a mistress, but I will never get used to people calling her that. The fact that people want to write “historical romance novels” with her and Jefferson makes me want to set the world on fire.

I do love the lengths the American Establishment goes to make it seem like the slave trade was somehow a mutual exchange or partnership as opposed to treating people as commodities to be bought, sold, and removed when they are unable to function anymore.

Good lord this thread is full of terrible takes. A whole bunch of biracial folks decided that THIS was the article to drop all their grief because it is interracial adjacent.