Couple things that are true:

I’m a white Christian who has been in evangelical churches for 30-plus years, and I’ve been appalled by the past three.

Old white guy here, the real issue is they are not faithful, they are religious. The faithful live the meaning of the Bible, the religious focus on the words in the Bible. They pick the ones they like and use them to enforce the misbeliefs and bigotry rather than learning to love everyone as you would like to be. I…

Maybe religion was always racist?

What does that have to do with anything? People bring their dogs on trips all the time.

Also, you can’t trust people with your animals. My dog has been mauled by another dog at a sitter and she always either gets sick or comes back with fleas from a kennel. So....nah. She comes with us most road trips and travels…

He just can’t seem to stay out of Troubles.

That’s some pretty damning stuff.  It’s almost as if powerful people were friends with Jeffrey Epstein and his contacts kept him above the law.  Almost as if our entire justice system were fundamentally broken due to corruption; but if that were true then we’d see a lot of poor, largely powerless individuals being…

Every day I grow closer to being a conspiracy theorist. 

How very convenient...

Once in awhile TheRoot and other Kinja blogs really need to highlight and promote certain posts.  Yours is very much one of them, as it brings reason and real thoughtfulness to the discussion at hand.

You are correct. Self funding and bonuses through fines are bad, which is why I want I want the behaviour I want from cops to be incentivized, such as building community Trust through disarming and refusing to wear body armor, while at the same time keeping a bodycam on.

That is just fucking awful. Really, there’s nothing else that I, personally, can say.

He has every one of Hillary Clinton’s negative attributes with none of the positive ones and none of this will matter because for every person on the center/left spectrum radicalized by Trump, there are two or three people who just want to vote for whoever can promise them they won’t have to care about politics again…

Same here. The anguish was palpable as he finished up.

Glaude is spot on...I’ll give the folks at MSNBC some credit for just shutting the fuck up and letting the man speak. More of this, less of the other bullshit.

He also told KTSM TV he showed officers the clip in his gun was full to prove he wasn’t the shooter.

thank you for covering this

So. A country where a mostly unregulated flow of high-power guns finds it way into the hands of white racists led on by a White Supremacist circle jerk of media and Executive power tries to shift blame away from their own causative words and actions.

Important lessons: