I vaguely remember a shoe-horned art project that was mostly just an excuse to see and feel raw cotton.

Maybe I was lucky and figured it out before I got embedded in the system, but my God can all these teachers have enough introspection to know that they suck at their job, need to grow as a person away from children, and quit? I don't consider myself that smart and I figured it out pretty quickly. 

Something deep to listen to while working. Subscribed.

Hey Michael, #6 isn’t fair! We also learned that George Washington Carver was the peanut guy.

Isn’t accountability “the middle,” though? And last I checked, the people that want to meet in that middle are the same people who supposedly “hate cops.” So why isn’t Tyler Perry cajoling those people who are explicitly against accountability? Oh, it’s cause wanting accountability has been labeled as “hating cops....”

Isn’t accountability “the middle,” though? And last I checked, the people that want to meet in that middle are the same people who supposedly “hate cops.” So why isn’t Tyler Perry cajoling those people who are explicitly against accountability? Oh, it’s cause wanting accountability has been labeled as “hating cops....”

Apparently needs about 10 more rounds of the mandated anti-extremism training.

I dont have anything to add, just that that was a good ass article. Has all the reasons I tune out when the people around me even mention 

Wonder if they could keep this up indefinitely? Keep boycotting the playoffs until something gets done, whatever that would be?

I don’t consider myself a particularly good person, but I can’t imagine a scenario where a person from group X slights me, so I empathize with a group whose behavior I clearly recognize as evil just because they are the enemy of X. My people are so obsessed with our slanted notions of fairness and objectivity that we…

“It’s great. But at the same point, it comes down to: Yes, if you allow one, then you have to allow all of them.”

I guarantee you that any white person complaining about complying were the same ones cheering for that chode rancher who led an armed occupation of a federal building.

You know that not helping people you recognize you can help solely because they are mean to you makes you a bad person, right? Doubly so if you openly imply this in public. This is comparable to those “nice guys “ who are only nice to women who haven’t rejected them, and then openly admit to such as if it is ok.

Absolutely agree to getting rid of or severely curbing qualified immunity, but how many of these officers would be judgement proof in civil court? Not a legal scholar by any stretch, so would the cities potentially flip this so that victims couldn't get monetary compensation for police misconduct? 

My goodness, why can’t rich and influential people just be satisfied with using their money and influence to lift up better candidates with actual political experience, instead of flirting with (or actually) running for office themselves?

Offering polygraphs as “proof” that you're innocent of something is insulting to the victim. They're unreliable, and even if they weren't, they are only proof that you sincerely believe what you are saying. People can quite easily sincerely believe a complete falsehood. 

Is it bad that my first reaction to this story was “well, good?” I feel like it should have been much stronger, such as “they can go die in a fire.”

I’m not sure how you got either of those things from that essay.

It’s the same way (some) people are expected to act when interacting with cops: the authority figure can escalate til the cows come home, but God forbid you escalate in response even once. Expecting anyone, much less an 11 year old, to be some kind of Stoic ideal in these situations is beyond ridiculous and obviously…

As I’m sure most of the 30+ replies have said already, this isn't about you or me. And if this article is enough to feel like you're being pushed away, you're not any sort of ally, and you're certainly not with Michael Harriot or any other black person.