No, Dundalk is about 70/30 white/black folks, and the poor white folks can’t ride their dirt bikes, either.

What Caitlin Goldblatt has omitted from her narrative are three key points:

1) The “well-appointed” elementary school that was slated for closure, Langston Hughes, was hardly closed by the Baltimore City School Board - a mixed-race group chaired by a black man http://www.baltimorecityschools.org/Page/24788 - due to…

To: Caitlin

This has been going for years in Baltimore and Philly. Connecting it to Freddie Gray is stupid both for the subjects of the article and the author. Also, it is far from a benign activity. They most certainly do not use hand signals (at least in my experience). It’s usually a 14 year old helmetless kid doing a 50 mph…

Wrong India, Columbus.

This is a clear case of something less intentional than fraud but no less awful. These women needed to use a sperm bank to grow their family; they had to trust these inept toolbags to fulfill their promise to provide the correct sperm, that these women chose themselves.

Yeah, this is not remotely similar to that.

Yeah, no. She and her partner needed to use donated sperm to grow their family. When you use donated sperm, you are paying a hefty price for a service, and it’s NOT UNREASONABLE to expect the clinic to provide you with the sperm of your choosing. Fuck, if she was partnered with a man, she would know and it would be…

Seeing a lot of people calling her racist but she has been open about how much she loves her daughter. She has also been open about the fact she felt unprepared to raise a child with different cultural needs to her.

Not to be pedantic by harping on this point, but again she wrote “who would have known a few days [off of school] would turn into months”. If she wrote it a week later, she literally says she would not have known yet she would be out of school for months. Weeks, sure, but not months.

But August 28th was a Sunday....

I like to give the benefit of the doubt, too, but the “who would have known” is a reflection on past events. Seems like this was probably written 8-28-2006.

Yeah. As someone who was also affected by Katrina, I know that 8/28 was a Sunday and 8/29 was a Monday. So, maybe she meant she wrote it the weekend after? That would make sense, because the devastation made it obvious that school would be out for a very long time. But the dates are still wonky.

Wait...if you wrote this the weekend of the storm, how did you know you’d be out of school for months rather than days? I think your timeline might be a bit off.