Margaret Atwood is a very intelligent woman- MA didn’t need Crenshaw’s discourse to ‘attune’ this book to intersectionality in 1986. Don’t patronize MA because you can’t recoginze flaws in someone you idolize.

Not on topic at all, but we keep making redneck/hillbilly jokes about his supporters when a lot (maybe even most?) of them aren’t that. They’re educated. Our CEOs and VPs, and those privileged kids that went to the “best” schools. It’s not just people missing teeth in Kentucky, it’s people that knew exactly who they…

If there was a shirt that said Your Black Friend Thinks You’re a Racist I’d buy it

I’d like to take this time to talk about Thomas Jefferson being trash. Sally Hemings was his dead wife’s 14 year old half sister who looked nearly identical to her and who was part of his inheritance from his father in law. She was away from home and though technically free in Paris, was fully at the mercy of the of…

The only way it could get worse, (and by “worse” I mean “even better,”) is if he were called to pray for him.

I feel like this woman lives in a weird disconnect with reality:
Were you called monkey and felt disrespected?
“yes”
So...why would you be okay with your son being labeled a monkey with an image that will last forever on the internet?
“Uhhhhhhhhh....happy thoughts everyone! Happy thoughts!”

Nobody is asking her to be Rosa…

That doesn’t carry. All you’re saying is that she has a lot of supporters and name recognition, like that’s a negative. You seem way more interested in dissing on Bernie after the fact than having a productive discussion.

Yes, and I have more:

I read your column ‘religiously’. I don’t often agree with you, but the story you told here is so important that I had to comment on it. Your story about you mother reminds me of ‘The Widow’s two mites’ from Luke 21: 1-4. And so often that story gets used by a charlatan from the pulpit trying to squeeze the last dime…

Generally white libertarians are socially liberal on some stuff, usually their vice of choice, but they are likely on the “racist to white supremacist” spectrum and they definitely hate poor people.

“White people invented the drive-by”—my grandmother

Man: “Systemic racism exists.”

In a child custody case.

Corey Lewandowski seems like the type of guy who slaps women around, especially when he has a few drinks in him.

I think this is exactly why The Garner Family are going to speak to black journalists instead. They already received a taste of how “mainstream media” showcases tragedy, with Eric’s murder. I’m sure that they have been paying attention to the way other slain black men, women and children has been portrayed.

Damn. Well done. I think you hit the nail on the head here, and using your own experience to reinforce your point was, I think, critically important in driving it home.

“Sometimes the words you consider to be boorish are the ones that perfectly describe a situation or thing.”

If you need someone to talk shit about John McCain regardless of health status, I’m your person.

That picture you used is misleading. Check out how much bigger the ‘kid’ is now.

Ok. When I said Kumbaya in that comment I was using it as a short hand to describe the dismissive language that tends to come from light skin women when addressing the topic. In the same way, that white people like to say, “There’s only one race. The human race” or white women say, “we’re all women” when we have talks…