My offering of acceptable RNC press attire:

LOL, sure, because everyone else there is dressed so professionally.

Things are changing. The police just said they’re going to stop using “soft” tactics and return to brutal authoritarianism. So we’ve got that going for us.

Fuck it...fuck it...so fucking done with all this. Every week, every day, nothing changes. People keep dying senselessly, nothing gets done, nothing changes. Meanwhile some muppet that’s been left in an oven is running for president. Just fuck it.

Not only that, but given the number of times he had been pulled over in the past (I’ve heard numbers between 30 and 50), of course he knew exactly how to conduct himself. It was old hat.

As a mom i identified with the mother as soon as i saw the video. I know that calm. I was pulled over by a police officer who did not want to let me go. He kept coming back to my car asking more questions. I did not have nor was i on any drugs or alcohol. License, reg, insurance in check. I even had a gold card from…

To me, her “calmness” was very similar to the way a horse trainer speaks to a spooked and dangerous animal. She couldn’t risk setting Officer Triggerhappy off on herself or her daughter.

I was listening to Malcolm X speeches the other day and what he is saying could be applied word for word to what is going on today.

and followed what many of us recognize as unofficial protocol

This woman is a god damn treasure. Since cops don’t seem to want to introduce anything that could cause them to be liable for a fuck up citizen video is the closest we have currently.

it is amazing. she is the definition of grace.

I don’t have a fraction of this woman’s spirit. I watched that video and I’m still in awe of her.

I’d like to think that I’m well-educated in terms of privilege and oppression, and I do my best to open my ears and listen to stories of oppression. I want to signal-boost as much as I can, and I want to help educate the people around me with the privilege that I have. But at the end of the day, I’m just putting…

The problem (?) is that we on the left refuse to justify those means, no matter how noble the end. The tactic itself is disgraceful and, however successful it might be, we refuse to compromise our integrity in that way. Our integrity is the only thing that keeps us from being more successful, paradoxically.

If they are using Star Wars clips they have about 24 hours before Disney sends a C&D their way

If you ever want to stop someone from clicking on a link to one of your stories I would say that putting “they were red like raw hamburger” in the title of some story on Roger Ailes and sexual harassment would be right up there.

Thanks for the support!

This is gonna be one of those comment sections, so I just want to say I appreciate you sharing with your experience and hope things get better.

Agreed. He’s not saying Pokemon Go is bad or wrong, he’s just pointing out that loitering and wandering around with your phone like a creeper is more dangerous for a black person than a white person.

I was gonna write “inb4 all the ignorant and racist bullshit” but there’s already a “fuck off” comment, so I guess I’m too late.