You wrote “we who are white... are confident that law enforcement will be on our side”. I said “I disagree”. Each time I’ve interacted with police as the victim of a crime, it has been with the full weight of fear that I might cause harm to some innocent people who happen to fit a vague description (which is all that…

I suspect that is more of a woman-problem then a POC-problem. I have "resting bitch face" and I've never mastered the art of smiling in a way that appears natural or comfortable, so working retail was like putting on a performance every single shift. It was exhausting - though I acknowledge it was not as exhausting as…

I have to disagree that all white women will be seen as a damsel in distress. I am Canadian so perhaps my experience is a little different, but when I was robbed by two individuals - it took a lot to simply find a bystander willing enough to lend me a phone to call police. Then the responding officers played good…

Thats good that you didn't have pain. I was in agony every time, so I cried a lot when I tried pumping. It was a miserable experience, and my kiddo refused bottles for the longest time - so it felt like an exercise in torture. I will say, it helped relieve engorgement and mastitis, when baby wasn't ready to eat.

I’m sorry that happened to you. There is no shame in feeding your baby in whatever way you need to. I admit I felt a twinge of guilt when I had to give my little one formula to top up what she wasn’t getting from me. My milk was fine, it just took a couple days to really start producing - then I had an oversupply…

Or if you stay at home, but have trouble producing enough milk at first. You do whatever it takes to make that milk, even if it makes you feel a little crazy.

Moms do whatever we have to do to feed our babies. For some of us that means getting over the ick factor of pumping (yes, you’ll feel like a cow being milked - eventually you might even find the humor in it rather than crying in agony with every letdown).

I guess I didn’t word it very well. My point is that it’s very easy to assume malicious intent, when someone who looks like Elizabeth Warren claims native heritage. Now, I’m not sure it was she who made the claim, I think it was the university she worked for as they were trying to demonstrate diversity in hiring…

Didn’t Elizabeth Warren claim to be 1/16th Cherokee? The optics weren’t great with that one... She definitely looks like a typical white woman. Even if she had some native ancestry, she likely wasn’t raised knowing anything about the culture - just that maybe a great grandparent might have been a native person.

Her lesson plans would likely remain unchanged. Racists don't acknowledge their mixed up heritage, so why would you expect her to be any different?

Same here. I burn a bright lobster red in the sun, so you’d never guess I have any First Nations ancestry... and just to throw people off I have an Asian step-mom. People often “see the resemblance” between us, to the point that we don’t even bother to explain anymore.

You ask "who notices?"... kids notice! They notice that they or their friends are finally being represented in a favorite tv program, and they notice how their parents respond to it (whether positively or negatively). That's why it's important for all kids to see diversity in programs for kids. To have all-white casts…

They needed something to get angry about, and this is recent enough that it got on their radar. I'm glad they haven't discovered Paw Patrol yet. There is a vaguely Japanese farmer, who is also a woman! And a vaguely latino pup named Tracker and his human friend, Carlos. It's not terrific as far as diversity goes, but…

That might work if there was a deactivation when the next word was not in any way related to the racist nonsense that is “forced diversity” (even my phone’s predictive text function couldn’t guess what d-word I was trying to use just now...).

There is a poorly placed scrolling advertisement, inconveniently covering the top of Jenkins’ recounting of events... so it looks like he is describing a scene from his movie - not a real life encounter. Either way it’s terrible, but it might help if readers could all see what was written.

Oh, well I guess that’s good. So you didn’t have any sensory overload issues? Whenever I think I understand what autism is, I learn something new and realize I don’t know anything about it...

I believe the point Monique was trying to make, was that white shooters who’ve done more than simply point what looked like a gun in people’s faces (which is itself pretty terrifying, I can usure you), were apprehended without losing their own life. This maybe isn’t the best example to use to make that point because…

I had nearly the same experience. Nearly-white hair, otherwise-nice Asian tourists visiting my city, decided they just had to touch my hair, and take pictures with me. So somewhere in Asia there is at least one photo of a very scared me next to some folks who probably didn’t realize how uncomfortable they had made me…

I’m guessing the trolls are taking issue with your reporting of this incident, because it’s not a terrific example of police using unnecessary force, against a black person for no reason other than that the person was black. He did a very stupid thing by waving what looked like a real gun, at police. Should he have…

I know next to nothing about firearms. Though I do know pellet guns are meant to have an orange tip so that situations like this don’t happen. Some really dumb kids, and some criminals, will remove or paint over the tip to make it look real - thus inherently more threatening. In a real-life situation, it’s virtually…