Since “runaway” often means “groomed by older man and given drugs and eased into involuntary sex work and hardcore drug addiction”
Black Flat Earthers are the worst. A few have admitted to believing in it because “you never know” or a difference of an “opinion” is science is always good.
Being able to see good in everyone allows you to accept everyone’s money - like Badu performing for dictators...
Don’t be shocked. I’ve heard this old chestnut several times. It goes something like: Well since slavery always existed, and since a few places in Africa enslaved people already, then Wypipo can’t be blamed for exploiting something that was already in place.
Who waltzed onto the shores of America and declared an already-inhabited land now belonged to them? Who slaughtered their way across a whole continent and called the residents “savages?”
The sample size of 980 is adequate to represent the overall population and the demographic weighting is adequate to ensure appropriate representation within the sample. Using the cross tab sample of 100 African Americans and using that to represent all African Americans is not statistically sound. You can talk about…
*checks the greys*
The problem is that for white people, thinking about this stuff is optional. Here’s a conversation I had the other day with a white dude while we were watch DACA stories on CNN.
Speaking of conflation: granting legal status to children who were brought to the country is not quite the same as allowing “anyone who can find his way across the border to stay.”
Well, actually...
One side of my family were Eastern European farmers who could barely read and had few skills. We lived in a part of Chicago where they spoke the same language and many didn’t learn to speak English until the 2nd or 3rd generation. We’re doing pretty good now, but we sure as fuck weren’t “the best.” Funny, that we’re…
None.
Right now, the popular deflection from right-wing dipshits when it comes to pointing out how white people conquered an already inhabited land is, “Well, they didn’t have an immigration policy.” It’s said as though it’s the ultimate intellectual checkmate, but with enough tongue-in-cheek, smug douchery to feel like…
I’m an amateur genealogist, and from what I can tell, many of my ancestors (who came here in the 1600s-early 1800s) were trash. Cousin marrying, way old dudes marrying underage girls, a few with money owned slaves and bought Indian lands from the US. One guy tried to fake being a Revolutionary soldier for the pension…
Have billed ourselves as the “Greatest Country In The World”, then outraged that people want to come here.
The woman on the right looks kinda brownish. She might wanna watch her back.
People have ZERO clue how immigration works. It’s not like one person immigrates to the U.S. and immediately brings over the entire family. When my partner and his parents immigrated it took years for his dad to get his grandparents over. They had to enter a lottery just to go through the security background checks,…
White folks who like to call themselves allies please take note. She acknowledged she didnt know shit, LISTENED, then did something meaningful without making it about her.