I find it kind of awesome that all the monitors in the background are playing CNN...

The idea that important black figures aren’t taught throughout the rest of the year is absolutely absurd.

“The biggest difference” isn’t what is taught in schools. That’s the rub. That’s the important detail. Intent matters.

So black history isn’t regular history?

Lots of stars.

It’s a goddammned darkened room mofo. Just buy yer ticket outside your neighborhood and go. Try a matinee if that makes you feel better/less exposed. But honestly in this day and age how can you even feel slightly embarrassed going to a movie that is the spiritual successor to the Lego movie? Millions of folks went to…

No. They knew.

Important? Unquestionably. But he wasn’t the black savior he’s often made out to be. The Emancipation Proclamation was a tactical decision to provide the North with a built in resistance movement behind enemy lines. The Emancipation didn’t even apply to all Northern states.

Also, here’s a white guy who explains why your objections are kinda silly.

Mebbe he shouldn’t have been born black and would therefore be less likely statistically to end up in jail for a crime that a white person would end up receiving a lesser sentence for due to the fact that blacks systematically are less able to pay for bail or lawyers and are forced to use public defenders who are more…

Plus: “[smelling] of marijuana” is basically cop code for “black”. (and goddammit you people, the smell is coconut!)

Only it’s not. Y’all been triggered.

I don’t see bars on their windows...

There is a complexity to bigotry and you’re not absorbing the lesson if you think it can be boiled down to offense taken from the title of a show or movie you haven’t even seen. Watch the movie. The whole point isn’t to target white people. The whole point is to target an attitude that some white people display that…

Silly white wabbits, netflix is for (cool) kids.

Damn you sir, that was an awesomely rad bad movie.

But... NINJAS!

I’ll do you one better: cops in Mexico have to pay for their own bullets. This makes them much less likely to shoot because it ends up coming out of their paycheck. Unless they’re dirty and then it’s bribe money footing the bill. Sad and not a troll on Mexico.

Safer I get but more secure? Cops not having guns makes exactly what more secure?

Because cops in a lot of places aren’t supposed to draw unless they intend to shoot and they’re not trained “shoot to wound” they’re trained “shoot to neutralize or kill”.