amazing that the Hemming story originally came out during Jefferson’s life and it still scandalizes people today.

I’ve spent my whole life in the South and believe it or not, it’s a lot more complex and nuanced than people choose to believe. Keep crying, though.

So many times my mind has been boggled by people’s behavior. Like Jacqueline Kent Cooke for example. You’ve just given me some good insight. Thanks.

Well stated, powerful, no lies detected, Nik and this....

Most of dystopian fiction is putting White people in a future that has already come, gone, and is still here for Black folks. Look at books like The Hunger Games where you have White people rebelling against a rich evil class. The Handmaiden’s tale is Black women’s story from all around the world. Their bodies used…

This was a thoroughly enjoyable read and the reverse flash reference is a delightful cherry on top.

I have said this in most discussion regarding “fake awareness” of feminism in the white hetero female population. Let us never forget that African American women involved in the suffrage movement were pushed (thrown) to the side for their own “manifest destiny,” just because their superiors, white men, told them to do…

Great Article 👍

Alternative maths!

Same here. I love and respect my mom more and more, because she never tried to shield us from what it meant to be black and she never suggested that we should be anything other than proud and excellent.

We were lucky.

Signed,
A Mixed Girl Who Has Known She Was Black Since The Early Seventies

I’ll take you step further: Raising white kids who can’t see race is raising white kids who won’t see their privilege. 45 getting elected has resulted a lot of conversations with my boys (6 & 8) about the kind of racist shit emanating from the WH and reflected from all his marching morons.

Flake is a Mormon who grew up in Snowflake (literally), Arizona. Mormons denied black men any part in the lay priesthood and temple ordinances (their cookout) until 1978 when the leader of the Church had a “revelation” and they reversed policy. On the other hand Flake served his mission in South Africa and as of 2016…

I know that people have been claiming that book is coming to fruition for as long as I can remember, but goddamn, it has never felt so congruous as right now.

Late entry:

Again, I will only believe anything that doctor said if they present us with the certificate...

I am going to trademark a new term: Girther. If Trump can start the birther movement we need to start the “Girther” movement.

Since when do people go to their physicians to get physicals and get mental health evaluations. As a licensed mental health professional naw bruh he needs a referral for a proper diagnosis. Anybody can see he’s narcissistic AF.

Funny/sad/romantic end to the story. My Great Grandmother was 2 years younger (so 94). She lasted about two months longer. She lived through that summer and just long enough to see the harvest (they subsistence farmed and sold the rest locally) but died before the crops could be sold. The family wound up cooking…

Bullshit. Of course they are going to say hes fine. We all know hes not, mentally and physically, but its a national security issue to say otherwise publicly. Hes a 71 year old man that eats like hes in his 20's. Hes obviously overweight and his old man on the front lawn rambling interviews tell us all we need to…