As a non-African American minority, I love hearing stories like this. Mainly because it shows the bullshit minorities in general have to deal with in the justice system.

It’s shit like this that makes my blood boil when I mention systemic racism and someone replies, “What systemic racism?”

So what if she liquidate her retirement funds. That has nothing to do with her crime. She paid back $5,000 so the state is out $35,000. The state got back $200,00 - $300,000 from the other person but 2 million is still unaccounted for. In what universe a lost of $35,000 should result in harsher penalties than a lost…

Ah, I’m sure this has nothing to do with it either:

Since when has the structure of the legal system not been set up to screw over black people?

Found the racist!

His name isn’t DaGrownAssManWhoTakesResponsibilityForHisActions

well, 2 Chainz went by the name Tity Boi for years because he drank his mother’s breastmilk into his teens, so i mean, rap names are a wild ride.

As someone with ADHD who suffers very much from time blindness, I can assure you I am anything but lazy and inconsiderate. I am often the first person to anything because I have to overcompensate for it. Please remember that some people struggle with what comes naturally for you.

I love this! “Their wants are their needs” is an excellent way to think about it.

This is one I did as a kid. Apparently, upon seeing an African American man in a quiet bank while my parents were working on loan documentation I felt the need to grab their attention and loudly ask, ‘why is that man a chocolate man.’

LOL, my parents told me that flipping the middle finger meant “go to hell”. And since we were atheists, I knew there was no hell. so I started flipping off the kids in my kindergarten art class, because “it doesn’t mean anything to me”. I’m sure my parent’s loooooved that phone call home.

Waiting in line at the grocery store, my 6yr old son was throwing a fit because I wouldn’t buy him a toy car. Crying and screaming, he caught the attention of the lady in front of us who turned around and immediately my son stopped crying when he saw her. This young lady looked like an obvious meth addict, several…

My mom is a thrift store and yard sale shopaholic. When we lived halfway across the country, she would send us...stuff...she’d picked up. Just all kinds of stuff. We really learned that lesson about “little ears” when our oldest daughter, about 4 or so at the time, told my mom on the phone, “Granny, you need to stop…

When my daughter was about 2, she was sitting in the seat of a grocery cart and grabbed for something on the shelf. I caught her arm midway and told her “no.” Normally she would just pout it out, but this time she decided to get revenge. She gave me that sneaky toddler glance, cringed dramatically and screeched,…

I’m not sure this counts, but ..

When my son was almost 5, we were at the doctor office, making sure he had his final rounds of vaccinations and was all good for Kindergarten. Sitting there reading my book while he played with his toys, he was singing to himself like he often did when playing alone. Looked up when another parent sighed and said he…

My kindergartener called somebody “Big Fat Tummy” on the first day of Google Meet before I had the chance to mute him. I blame it on Peppa Pig and my own big fat tummy.

Perhaps shopping with my then 2-year old in Trader Joe’s, when she asked, “Daddy, are you buying white wine? I like white wine.” Snickers were heard from the next aisle. That, or when playing cards with the same one, I thought she didn’t play her cards correctly and I used the word “cheating” to her. Well her eyes…

For some reason, being with his dad and me seemed to bring out the... erm, “best” in my nephew when he was 2-4. Of note.