Yep, for centuries white people in America have been telling black people in America to just be happy and suppress their anger and sorrow. Heaven forbid a black person express a felt emotion that might upset a white person. No slaveholder wants a mopey slave serving their juleps.

It is very much a thing.

Oof. The comparison with depression is pretty apt, painfully so. It’s not something you just ‘cheer up’ out of. It’s something that needs to be treated from the root. If the depressed could just choose to be happy, don’t you think they would? If black people could just magically choose to not be treated like an…

Eh, it’s just like depression. Black people just need to choose to be happy and then they will be! They just need to choose success and they they will be successful! They just need to choose not to feel the effects of decades of systemic and institutional racism due to sub par policies and active choices to…

The problem is that when the police talk to African-Americans, the conversation tends to include phrases like “GET ON THE GROUND! NOW!” and “HE’S GOT A GUN!” and “IT’S GIULIANI TIME!”

So people who disagree with police brutality do not deserve police protection? Way to demonstrate that “few bad apples" theory.

Hey, those cops are putting their lives on the line to protect their communities! They shouldn’t have to put up with reasonable demands to respect black people!

Right? They supported and praised the Dallas PD. I don’t know what these dipshit Minneapolis PD officers wanted. For the players to blame the black men killed by police? What a bunch of whiny, petulant assholes.

For fucks sake. I am trying very hard to relate to law enforcement perspective, but I am quite tired of being told to think about how their families feel not knowing if their loved ones will come back after work, and the stress that creates. It amazes me that they demand this while failing to understand how black…

Changing your opinion on something based on new facts presented is something an intelligent mind does. If you were still defending PSU at this point (even before these most recent items came to light) it’s pretty safe to say you’re not in that category.

The shirt even had the Dallas PD emblem in support of them and the players talked about how good the Dallas PD was, and those four assholes were still so emotionally traumatized they walked off and made snarky comments later?

So if you’re an unwavering JoPa supporter, do you:

Always carry a chain for those surly bicyclists!

“But it looks like the (motor)biker here didn’t appreciate it. That or he’s just terrible at keeping control of his bike.”

Never, ever, ever cross the double-yellow unless you absolutely MUST do so. And it should go without saying that being upset because you got passed by someone using pedal power doesn’t ever count as a “must.”

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Well, that's better than things go at my brother's house, i.e. "the older toddler's in it. Earlier today he crapped in the litter box, too."

So, where's the $90 cat bed you bought to go with them?

I’m so damn tired of this shit. R.I.P. to the bailiffs.