You’re welcome to throw your parents into the grist mill. I’m not. Neither are their grandkids or great grandkids.  We ALL understand the odds and the stakes, and we’re willing to put up with a great deal of inconvenience.

I trust her guidance in this because she definitely seems like someone who shops for her own groceries and has worked hard to determine which brand of beans makes the dishes she prepares as good as can be.

Anand Ghiridharadas is a great read on why philanthropy is not only a drop in the bucket, it provides cover for rich people who often then turn around and use their economic power to support politicians and policies that make them richer at the expense of the rest of society.

And yet you read the whole thing and stopped here to comment.  pathetic.

So, again, your argument is that because sometimes people are harmed at protests that gives a driver the right to slam the gas pedal down and mow through whatever group of people are protesting in front of him? Regardless of context or circumstance?

Then stop coming here.  News and current events that involve automobiles will be covered, stop clutching your pearls.

Not quite sure what your point is here. That, because people were shot at one protest, in one location, means that it’s OK to mow down all protestors in all locations in all circumstances with your car?

I know, I know, but if they’re gonna waste time asking questions at all, they should at least focus on this week’s scandals and not rehash old crap.

Counterpoint:

Be honest, you’re not mad that there’s “politics” on Jalopnik, you’re mad because there’s politics you don’t agree with on Jalopnik.

It appears to be a Bimini Twist Knot (a common fishing loop knot) to me to simply to make it easier to pull down the garage door.

Except he is still a victim. No, not with the noose (alleged or otherwise) directly, but with the response. All this needed from anyone was “Oh, it’s not a hate crime. This is good news!”

Instead, a massive response was basically “HA SEE WE TOLD YOU IT WASN’T RACIST THAT BLACK DRIVER WAS LYING NOW TELL THAT BLACK…

A noose is designed to slip on the fixed end. So if you grab it by the loop and pull, you’re going to close the loop around your hand, then you have to wiggle your hand out of it and loosen it again. If you want a loop to pull on, you don’t tie a noose, you tie a bowline.

It’s perfectly fine take away the glorifying memorials and replace them with memorials to the enslaved, or to the union soldiers that fought. We manage to have holocaust memorial without erecting statues of Nazis.

...but those statues were not erected because the person supported slavery. Those statues were as much about celebrating the defenders of States’ rights against the Federal Government’s control

Those statues were as much about celebrating the defenders of States’ rights against the Federal Government’s control as anything.

If only sarcastic cynics with a superiority complex weren’t in short supply.

From the same group just a few weeks ago that was armed and calling for the heads of tyrants because they couldn’t get a haircut.

Repulsive and cowardly, couldn’t fit this administration better unless it also somehow allowed the hunters to sexually harass the wildlife as well.

Your opinion is mistaken, and is a legacy of the “Lost Cause” Southern apologist mythology.