He spoke for himself, but wasn’t willing to be a racist’s sound bite regarding the whole issue: even if he too believes that context matters and said as much he knows good and damn well some edgelords will twist shit all around as Chris Rock Endorses All Blackface and ignore caveats. 

All fairness she's actually wearing them for their intended purpose. Also it's not 1997. 

Oh of course not. But words are a fuckery that, honestly, this guy used well to muddy the waters. Ego and pride: how white people see the police feeds and nurtures it as much as how they can wrongly treat black and brown people. To me white people have lived off hundreds of years of fan fiction regarding law…

He gets it, but... he still doesn’t get it.

It wasn’t ego or pride, they simply refused to be in a position where they could be seen as being subordinate to the community.

Imagine a world in which Janet Reno pulled that fuck-shit for Bill Clinton. Don’t give a damn how anyone feels - left, right, center, third eye, etc.: this is a gross use of the judicial system that should never be a thing regardless of who’s in office or what the personal charge is. The lady put the claim on Donald…

Honestly The Atlantic’s article is believable because he talks like that in front of people *all the time* - he talks like that on camera in front of *generals and admirals*, what the hell goes down away from the cameras? Like those in the room aren’t comparing notes and using years of ROTC/academy/basic/specialty trai…

Officers you can maybe say that, certainly the “going in to pay for college” crowd which goes there or into enlistment. But there’s an unfortunate cadre who went in for the street cred of a uniform who might still drink the kool-aid despite cooler heads up top.

Perspective, please.

Why I’m waiting for the after-office tell-alls: this is piddly shit on a turd sundae

In the year of our lord 2020 how in the fuck did this go on for so long. Dolezal sure: she kept the shit small potatoes in 95% white part of a state. But this lady was a professor at a major university in D.C. - metro rides and spitting distance from Howard, still black no matter how many NOVa and Southern Maryland…

First I thought Taylor Swift was now into cosplay. Kotaku dives into this shit a bit with various RPGs - slapping skin color on stock eurocentric features for shits and giggles. Gah. Still sore Angela Bassett wasn’t a consideration in the first X-Men - she was the dream and frankly her white locs in Black Panther gave…

You were too kind here

Thank you for this. The thing that gets me is how little time he had to just give to himself. From 2016 onward if he wasn’t shooting something he was promoting, representing, presenting, and all the shit we expect from those stars we admire to promote his work. Strangely for me it was less about Black Panther or any…

Adding to your great reasons not to have a BIPOC party, probably a 2a: we’d still have two or three factions in that party anyway because we aren’t all unified on a lot of issues. We have our share of progressives, moderates, social conservatives, blue lives/all lives, “boot straps and personal gumption” types,…

Honestly part of policing reform would need to be having police exchange programs with football-focused countries that don’t have our gun nuts. English riot cops are quite adept at crowd work without pulling out a gun thanks to the wealth of training they get securing drunks.

Large part of why the rich white people school scandal worked towards the least flashy D-1/2 sports that get supplemented by football and basketball - would also like to see if it’s equal damage for a, say, gymnist vs a tight end. Because then you’re back into systemic racism given the high entry points many…

Need to do better at killing the lie that there’d be enough well-paying jobs to compensate for loss of homes and tax revenue.

Yes, it IS your problem. Because you, in August of 2020, still want to have this fight on the internet over Sanders vs Biden when the quibble I brought forth had *fuck all* to do with Sanders vs Biden. It had to do with your need to blame centrism for current Republican fascism without giving the GOP personal…

Yeah, reviewing discussion history I’m good. It’s easy to cry about centrism without grappling with the issues that really make progressive-left politics difficult: not getting that we as a people need to be better for things to go where they would need to go. I believe wholeheartedly that if Trump tomorrow got on a…