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Right! Also, in the audio, he keeps saying "In the old days, you didn't even get time off!" Well, in the old days, they also didn't let black people play. Pull yourself together.

Tyra Banks calls it "creating your own wind." So... farts, I guess? And gusto.

Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot weren't exactly role models either, but I'd expect a decent history curriculum to mention them.

Well, and Jesus.

Nobody loves Mary Wollstonecraft more than me, but, even so, she's an incredibly odd choice to act as the Only Woman.

Also, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks are the only black people to have ever lived.

Gin vs. Rum.

THIS GIF!

TEAM WEED

If we're going to go there, her full props are due:

I remember when there were heated (and then censored) debates in the comments of Snap Judgments on just this issue — publishing pictures of celebs with their kids at the park and whatnot. AFAIK, Jez never officially took a position, but just quietly phased out those kind of pictures, and then even "candid" pictures

Yeah! I went to see Obama speak before the 2008 election, and I went alone and sat next to a guy who was well over a hundred (and in great shape, and he proved his age to me with his state ID). We walked home together. He was black and gave me this massive history of civil rights in our city, including the transition

I just think this whole thing is such a matrix of problems, it's not as simple as "people are stupid ha ha look at the stupid people." Where you live really determines what kind of care you're going to get at the hospitals available to you and there are still plenty of hospitals where birth is treated as a disease and

We really need a better system of certifying and regulating midwives in this country. Most CNMs are prohibited from attending homebirths by their insurance and other types of midwives are largely unregulated and that is terrifying.

My president is Black, my Jesus is Black.

What! She's on a drunk history? Which one? Alright alright I'll google it.

I have the book. I am reading it. I will no doubt be tattooing various parts of it on my forearm.