It will forever amaze me that some folks heard the phrase “black lives matter” and immediately perceived it as a threat to them personally.

When the allies keep telling the activists to cool their jets and come up with Real Plans and not “pie in the sky ideas” of course motivation will wither away.

Folks, please don't engage with the trolls.

Fox and the Republican messaging on BLM has been quite effective on conservative whites I know. The constant drumbeat of using BLM protests as equivalent to Jan 6th and the rhetoric of “BLM is burning cities down” and “BLM is a marxist organization” has shifted the opinions of a number I associate with through work…

This is why, whenever I hear about a black person ‘fleeing’ the cops, my first response is “How is that *NOT* a perfectly reasonable and justifiable response for any person of color in *THIS* country??”

What in the actual fuck are you talking about?

How on earth is this out of the grays?

You crawl from sewer to sewer. Perhaps literally.

GAH I had nuns on the mind and read this as Christopher Plummer lol.

Yeah this strikes me as a medical situation

Didn’t she come down with COVID. Don’t dismiss the idea that she may be a long-hauler and just may not want to go through a campaign and/or another term.

Being popular and good at your job can be exhausting.

Maybe she’s ill? I’m surprised the stress of a job like mayor of a large city doesn’t make more people sick.

Yep. This isn’t a heartwarming tale, this is a damning indictment of our healthcare system and the effects of weak labor protections.

All of this because he lives in a country where the cost of healthcare would kill him otherwise. This is all great and warm and fuzzy, but let’s not forget that this would not be necessary in a country with a working healthcare system for its citizens. 

He’ll never believe it and he’ll never do it but Tyler Perry needs better, smarter, more educated, better-traveled, more sophisticated writers.

Stand in the middle ’cause that’s where healing happens. That’s where conversation happens. That’s where change happens. It happens in the middle.

While Black people generally believe that there is bias in policing, they also believe there is systemic racism in education, the criminal justice system, financial institutions, the electoral process, the medical industry and even stores and restaurants.

I really wish we could keep centering Makhia Bryant, Matthew Zadok Williams, Anthony Brown jr., or even the Michael Hickson Act that’s being introduced in Texas rather than focus on that vapid clown’s pandering.

This middle is a fascinating concept. Because it seems like Black people have tried standing in the middle, on the edge, all the way over on the other side, and every damn where else, and cops keep killing!