This is like expecting applause every time you successfully wipe your ass. Set the bar a little higher bub.
But when a man says "I can't breath" over and over and over again — you would only keep choking him if your intention was to kill him. Otherwise, you would stop choking him.
"Just plain apathetic"? I couldn't make this up.
Actually, no. If you look at many, many studies over the year of violence and arrests and killings by officers, this narrative really holds up. You're just willfully ignoring the facts to continue in your own bubble.
But these are the most egregious examples. Every day there's little bits of this same system exposed. Black people getting longer sentences than whites for the same crime and with the same criminal background (or no backgrouns). Higher arrest rates for blacks even though the same number of whites engaged in the…
Of all of the really stupid comments in the grays that I read because I hate myself, I want to single this one out because I think it's truly a monumental achievement in tone-deafness to imagine that young black men are being more detrimentally affected by sympathetic Deadspin articles than by being MURDERED.
you know what I find offensive? 18 year olds getting shot and prosecutors intentionally throwing the case
A friendly reminder that Title IX applies to all schools that receive federal funding (acknowledging that this graphic is college focused):
I once saw a very drunk, very confused young man trying to stick a beer bottle up his ass whilst crying. I was at a party and went to an upstairs restroom, only to see that monstrosity. When he saw me, he didn't stop, but just stared deeply and sadly into my eyes. I then gently closed the door and left that house…
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