First Trump came for the Latinos, and I did not speak out— because I was not Latino.

Why are we talking about how vulgar and dumb Trump is? It’s not Trump - it’s the rallies full of people who are eating up his overt racism and xenophobia. You have literally millions of Americans ready to vote for the guy who calls for state sponsored internment and torture based on race and religion. This is how the…

David Vitter lost LA Gov race to a Democrat, in a red, red state, despite the nasty, vicious campaign he ran. He’s a powerful dude with mean spirited thoughts and words, and Louisiana said no to him. Sometimes, just sometimes, the more decent candidate gets to win. #Bernie #Hillary #Hope

at this point, who is left?

It’s more like projection. They are internally racist, sexist jerks and so they assume that most people are.

Alternate replacement for “political correctness”: “Treatment that used to be known as common respect until people other than white, heterosexual cismale Christians started demanding it.

I love when people whine about “PC.”

We need a better recruitment/screeningprocess, that’s for damn sure. I’ve known some really good cops, and seen others who get hard-ons just from holding a radar gun and pulling someone over. The police function attracts some real fucking weirdos and assholes.

You are connecting on the right level. More non-black people need to be connecting on precisely that level.

:(

Sorry. I didn't mean to project. I've been connecting to these stories on a parental level and I'm not doing well with knowing people have to worry about the safety of their kids and so many folks think it's okay. Please bake all the pies!

For what it’s worth, I’m black and I’m turning it off for now. I need a couple of days if I’m going to keep engaging with this. Nothing but baking pies and looking and puppies until next week.

Hate Rahm. Love Chicago. And I want better for my city, and the people who call it home.

I had the same thought. And then I grieve the thought that I can turn it off, because I’m white. I can turn it off and it doesn’t touch me. But that isn’t the case for so many, and it is not their fault.

Yeah. I was so so horrified when I learned that.

I vividly remember being home sick from highschool that day, and watching the news with my 1 year old baby sister on my lap. That photograph flashed on to the screen for a long time - it may have been the first time it was shown to the public - and I still think about it all the time, and that little girl, and her…

This is heartbreaking. And how awful for the family that everyone can watch a video of their child murdered (if it was against their wishes for it to be released).

Through removal proceedings in immigration court, something I have an intimate familiarity with because that’s the court I practice in. As the Supreme Court writes:

To expand on what Kenny pointed out, 40% of undocumented immigrants in the country came here on legal visa and then simply never left. These people did not in any way “violate[] all US immigration laws.”

You know that over four million of the people you guys like calling “illegal immigrants” actually entered the country legally, right? That’s part of why the term is so awful, since it’s just factually inaccurate for the 40% of the undocumented population who came here with legal visas and then overstayed them, which…