I remember going to school and the white kids would talk sooooo much shit about the Indian kids. Damn near a daily thing but the Indians would go out their way to try to be cool with the white kids. I was baffled.

I didn’t leave out anything. I have a word count, and this was specifically about how colorism manifests in India. In the now-thousands of articles I’ve published at The Root, I’ve also written about how it manifests throughout other parts of the world. I even wrote about the video you posted above in July 2018. https:…

Of course it wasn’t. Was Kaepernick the best quarterback in the league? Probably not. Was he miles ahead of fucking Brian Hoyer who the 49ers replaced him with? Fuck yes he is. And Jacoby Brisset, and DeShone Kizer, and all the other shitty QBs that following season whose names I had to look up because they were so…

Which is why I’m fine with no season this year. People can entertain themselves doing something possibly more productive instead of feeding these old MAGAts who are already overstuffed.

It never was about how good Kaepernick is. All those football guys can miss me with their stats bullshit. That argument fell apart the moment teams decided that they’d rather sign the walk-ons that got cut from the practice squad and tried coaxing senior citizens out of retirement after their starting QB’s got their…

Also remember all the hit pieces from ESPN and Fox Sports about “Greedy Kaepernick” and how he was being a “Diva” during negotiations (that never took place). They were always unsourced, but they made their way all around the sports media world.

And corona got out of control because of said psychopathic racist. It’s like we’re letting him dictate all policy..

And for the love of God keep the trolls in the grays. For fuck's sake.

There’s a lot of self-hate and colorism (and racism) in Latin America (am a descendant).

I live in this area, about 5 minutes away from Minneapolis (St. Paul area) and, it's bad people. I never really realize how racist some of my friends are or how many of them really aren't friends until something like this happens. Many of my white "friends" love to use me as their token as I'm in the military, in fact…

I am a black dude that hikes and takes photos of birds and I am a little afraid at time to be out there by myself. My daughter always ask me if I have my knife on me. I am always afraid I will get maced (or worse) by someone that sees my presence as a threat. That’s not even going into my fear of wild animals that…

I skied Nastar in 1975. I was one of the first women to snowboard at Heavenly in 1992. In both places, I was the only black person on the slopes. It’s not really changed all that much in the years since, either.

When I was at Yellowstone (by myself, natch), a tour bus of a multigenerational black family stopped,…

Fox News is running scared from this story for one huge, glaring reason: Christian Cooper is corny. Corny as hell. There goes the narrative that he has a criminal history, dude is about as non-threatening looking as it gets (save for being black).  Educated as hell.  Probably, when he isnt doing something as “hood” as…

That poor dog has to have some serious PTSD. Like it probably rolls over every time it hears the n word.

MacArthur Genius Award.

Sorry, Amy. Someone’s got to take the hit for the team. Coz now what we have is an opportunity to raise an admonishing finger and say, “Ah, ah, ah! Remember Amy from the Ramble*? You may want to rethink this, Karen.” when faced with such a moment in our lives.

The truth coming from ANYbody else’s perspective would wipe out all the white mythology! I had a book about Black cowboys that blew my mind too!

I would like to see more westerns with black people from their point of view, because they are a huge part of the history of the west.

My father HATED John Wayne with a burning passion that I remember from age 3-4! He loved Westerns but he would spend the entire movie foaming at the mouth at all the racist tropes and outright historical lies of each one of them! Honestly, although he loved thoughtful rap, I think he idolized Chuck D for simply…