I know in some states, it would take a person longer to graduate from cosmetology school than it would for a person to finish in a police academy.

I went through dispatch training once until I decided it wasn’t for me, but yes, you absolutely go through stuff like this.  Even in bumfuck FL they train in simulated calls and - showing the sad state of affairs this country finds itself in - there were simulated calls that were literally active shooter on school…

When I lived in L.A., I called 911 after hearing gunshots outside my house. (Turned out to be the FBI raiding the house across the street.) The dispatcher argued with me about my address and sent no one. I was a cell phone and she just insisted I wasn’t where I said I was. Useless.

“Might”, “could?” They should not only be fired, but face some sort of depraved indifference murder charges too.

I’m at a loss of words...

Can’t take a win can you?

This is a milestone. History was made.

I was really hoping this would be the moment when she unleashed the absolute end-all of primal screams after those confirmation hearings. Guess her husband got to hear that LOL.  Glad this is behind her and she can get back to life.

Alopecia is an autoimmune disorder and can have other factors going on as well other than hair loss in some cases. A person being bald doesn’t mean they have it any more than it would mean they had cancer, so I don’t get where you got the impression that me referencing her disability = “bald people in general are…

Fully support the slap. Tired of ableds pullin’ ish like that. The fact that CODA, etc. was up on the same night their writers chose to make an embarrassing and *high key* ableist joke about a Disabled Black woman’s hair she has been public about for years on National television, let alone through a guy who did a doc…

I mean, honestly, I would have faulted Smith before I saw the damage that hair loss does to women, especially ones who are relatively young, but having seen it up close, and in the long-term, with someone I care about, whilst I can offer platitudes about how “violence is wrong”, I can’t actually fault him. It wasn’t a…

I was a bartender in college. I quickly found that if I treated everyone the same the only people who don’t tip with regularity are white women. But I do remember one time when I had been having fun all night serving a black couple. As I handed them the bill and thanked them for their patronage, another bartender…

I mean, it’s still garbage that people authorized to carry guns and shoot at people have all these protections but a min wage worker at Walmart (who has to get government assistance because WM won’t give them fulltime hours) can be summarily fired and lose the ability to collect unemployment because they call taking a…

... due to lack of oxygen to the brain...

Exactly! As a somewhat unremarkable Black woman (at least I think what I do is entirely normal, although white people seem to have other ideas about that) white people automatically place Black women in a box marked “inferior”, and if you do not behave according to their script, they feel its their job to make sure…

Misogynoir. The sum total of racism and sexism is greater than just the constituent parts. People see Black women’s excellence and just have to take them down a notch.

It is because they have the nerve to be successful while being Black. While it does not fully matter what we do while being Black (more about being the fact that we do ANYTHING while being Black), Black success is the ultimate affront for whiteness and white supremacy. Messages like Campion’s are essentially the…

WTF is up with people giving the Williams sister shit? Maybe I’m missing something, but from my limited understanding: they’ve devoted their lives to being fucking warriors on the tennis court, playing under all sorts of conditions for hours on end, and dominating in the process. What’s the scoop with being dicks to…

Hmm... I’m surprised the black kid wasn’t also suspended for pushing.  That would be more on par with how these things are usually handled.

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