I mean, I like Biden’s energy. But racially motivated crimes and racially motivated terrorism are pretty par the course for US history. So I don’t know that it’s against the fabric of the country.

Yup. And Tiffany Haddish’s comment about Smith defending his wife was beautiful is also messed up.

This. Exactly this.

Love this show.

Peterson: Neither of us are white.

https://www.gawker.com/media/what-happened-at-the-root/amp

The first ask was to improve contact tracing, have metrics for school or district shift to remote if the number of cases gets out of control or there aren’t enough staff to run a particular school, have adequate PPE, and have increased access to testing.

Teachers were the ones proposing alternatives that are proven to work, but Lightfoot decided no classes were better than online classes, then to blame the teachers for kids not getting an education when SHE was the one who cancelled classes rather than letting them be done online.

Oh go fuck yourself.

To DVDD’s point, I have been disappointed and disheartened this week about a number of personal issues and items in the public discourse (where were the deeper, Black-focused posts on the WI Christmas parade murderer? Or the Family Annihilator or the Atl Homemade Gun Killing?) and have not found information or solace…

I forgot, how many people did he kill?

Noooo NOOOOO NOOOOOO!! I know you’re a baller and a poet, a writer and destined for greatness (while being off the market & married to a doctor!) but I can’t handle change right now! So stop, call it off, come back and keep The Root’s continuity! I haven’t even read your post but I’m upset now for the rest of the…

No “e. All of the Above.” ?

My reaction coming off The Closer was to struggle with the question of “is this transphobic” because I didn’t feel it was a clear and obvious “yes, yes it is”. A considerable measure of that ambivalence comes from his age, and a correlation I draw between how he talked generally about trans issues and his use of the…

“We’re up against the emergence of hate economy.”

Billy Porter liked a comment I made on FB yesterday. Made my entire week!

During the hearing, the reps kept telling the young survivors how brave and incredible they are for coming forward, for enduring sexual abuse while “serving” (winning for) their country. And indeed they are. But it seemed so insincere. “We don’t know what to do with this hot ass mess so we’ll just cover it with…

He said it.

If you replace the word freedoms with the word privilege, you get a fuller picture of what’s being protected.

But she did acknowledge her queerness in the exact same speech, professing her love for her partner, Eboni, in front of the world. Perhaps she didn’t get here in a manner you feel is timely enough but she is making the journey and for that condemning her seems a bit harsh. No offense. It’s fantastic when a celebrity…