NFL players were not even required to be on the field during the anthem until 2009, right around when the military started paying the NFL for “patriotic displays.”

Oh my god, yes. And the white woman’s response under #5. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read that same drivel from some aunt of a friend or friend of an aunt. “We all need to LOVE each other, GOD made us all the same!!! Why can’t people just treat each other with RESPECT? There’s too much hatred in the world as…

The Democratic Party doesn’t get to approve who registers to run as a Democrat. They hated Clarke. And though the city of Milwaukee is largely black, the county gets whiter and whiter the futher you get from the central city. Milwaukee county is surrounded by four of the reddest counties in the country.

Yup, my mom’s ‘new’ kidney is near the front, so when she gets a kidney infection, she gets pain in her abdomen. I took her to the emergency room once and the doctor was all “Well, it’s probably not a kidney infection because of where the pain is.” He was pretty sheepish when he was proven wrong, despite her telling…

I can’t wait to watch every single clip of this show I can manage to dredge up out of the depths of YouTube.

I’m not sure of the exact details, but yes, you can refuse service, as long as that refusal is based on the individual. A restaurant can ban someone who’s being belligerent, for example. You can ban your sister’s ex-boyfriend; you can’t ban all white men.

I had to stop following the only friend from high school I still kept in touch with when she went from mom-and-lawyer to mom-and-Rodan&Fields saleswoman.

Dear fellow white Jezebel readers: We are all at least partly Beckys. It is not The Root’s job to help us deal with that. Please take yourself less seriously.

My standard response (or at least I hope my standard response if ever in this situation) is “What you call ‘political correctness’ I call ‘treating people with basic human decency’.”

Tormund, founding member of the Westerosi Redneck Revolt?

The minute Theon showed up at Dragonstone I said, “Odds John punches him in the face?” My friend said 8 to 1, I said 3 to 1, and when John grabbed him I was like, “Yeah, 3 to 1.” 

I will never understand why her godmother Dolly has never just taken her aside and slapped some sense into her.

Nah, she’d probably choose Hillary over Deval, but good try.

Patrick gave the commencement speech at my sister’s graduation last year. He was only about five minutes in when my (white) mother whispered, “He’s got my vote.”

Read the headline and immediately thought, “NO WAY.”

I just bought a house after years of saving up. As I was walking up to the porch one day, I realized that with a 30-year mortgage over my head, the chances of me ever escaping this dumpster fire and moving to Canada had gone from “slim” to “none.” It made me sad.

I always thought an interesting alternate history would be one where Reconstruction actually continued, and all the freed slaves got their 40 acres and a mule.

I was about to point out that some of those “bums” are probably transgender, but then I thought, “Holy shit, did the commander-in-chief just call veterans “bums”?”

I snorted. Then I starred.

There is a video out there of a black man and a white man open carrying on the same block. White man gets a talking to. Black man is surrounded by cop cars and lying on his stomach before they even ask him anything.