So often the biases of who it is that’s doing the gazing are left out of the discussion — when I’m not sure you can actually have the discussion without examining them. I had a Puerto Rican man who’s about Ted Cruz’s shade once tell me “I like dark-skinned women so much” which was made even more of a whiplash moment…

Let’s give the incompetent doctors and horrendous sanitary conditions due credit, too!

As a black woman with a white husband contemplating having kids with mixed family members who were born decades before/in the twenty years after/beyond the Loving verdict...that’s a lot of shit to unpack from that lady. Honestly hope you aren’t the only one who participated in her documentary willing to clap back.

I remember having a convo with a few sistas about colorism. Somehow, the “biracial identifier” was thrown into the conversation. Within ten minutes, the good ol faithful “At the end of the day, we all black to white people!” was thrown out there, as an attempt to shut up us darkkies. So, a friend said “True... But,…

I’m a black, not light, but not dark, skinned woman who was adopted by white parents. I’m blackity, black, black, but “white adjacent.” I grew up in a primarily white environment which makes navigation easier, but it never lets me believe I’m anything but black. I just know how, to navigate a PW Environment. THAT…

So, this is kind of complicated. Lincoln was a racist and a white supremacist. Of this there is no doubt. But he was still far more progressive than the overwhelming majority of white people in the United States in the 1860s, and that includes his opinions on race, which were more complicated than just “he didn’t care…

Only thing worse than DC cops is Baltimore cops.

Thousands of former slaves and free men didn’t line up to view his casket in reverence on its way to Washington all across the country because he was perfect, but because he was good and did good when he was finally called to do it on a national scale.

“We recognize that this indictment and subsequent trial uncovered some of the most egregious and despicable acts ever perpetrated in law enforcement,” DeSousa said.”

The North didn’t fight because of slavery, but the South sure as hell did.

I agree with you 100%. There is no subtlety there. My comment was more about how he turns on this bumbling “charm” when it suits him - like when he’s trying to make us believe he doesn’t remember very significant meetings.

Edit for clarity: I agree. I also think it makes him sound like a relative of Foghorn Leghorn, right down to the accent and the senseless blather when he gets flustered.

I imagine it’s the name of the guy in the Looney Tunes cartoon that owned Belvedere.

Watch Sessions - when he speaks or testifies to a “mixed group” (like Congress), he’s all country bumpkin but there is plenty of footage of him speaking to more homogenous groups (like today) in which his true beliefs come out and while his accept remains, he is more articulate, more forceful and more precise in his…

(“Shire reeve” is, I believe, the accepted etymology.)

This is also likely a dog-whistle to the Sovereign Citizen crowd, which believes sheriffs should be the final authority in interpreting the Constitution, notwithstanding the fact that there is nothing in the Constitution to support such an idea.

I always think the name “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III” is a name that would be rejected for use in a Civil War movie as it sounds too stereotypical.

Please don’t insult my son’s soiled diapers like that.

I thought the most important thing our government does is protect our rights? Kinda like it says in the constitution? Where does it say anything about safety?