You can name your kids the least black sounding name as possible, but the second your child walks their visibly black self into the interview, the employer who threw out the resumes from applicants whose names are too black sounding (never mind I’ve worked with white people with such names) is going to throw your…

All right, let me get my surfboard so I ride the wave of wypipo tears that will inevitably result from this.

If an employer will hire Thuy, Nimrata, Svetlana, Noor, and Janosz, but not Honestie, what does that tell you? Please don’t play dumb and act like such an employer gives a damn about the “meaning” of a name or its “proper” spelling.

I did. Magnet schools were common place in my hometown. My high school was home to two magnet programs, one for STEM and the other for humanities. Other high schools were dedicated to arts, vocational trades, even firefighting. I can’t speak for the other schools, but my high school was fairly diverse and drew…

We’re in this situation because our last president had the nerve and the audacity to have all that fancy liberal booklearnin’.*

Nope. Born in Rochester, graduated from Wilson, left to go to college, then again for grad school, and now living in Ohio to attend law school.

But don’t worry, the last word of your comment is still pronounced “shar-LOT” just as C-H-I-L-I is still pronounced “Chai-lye.”

Who does that? This is how you end up looking like the guest of honor at a wake?

Bojangles tastes like a weakened version of Popeye’s.

I’m a Rochesterian who says “soda.”

That’s some troll using digital blackface. Never respond to them.

Insurance covered my reduction surgery when I had it done in 2001. I’m not sure if it’s still covered.

“I Declare War” used to be a favorite game for my cousins and I to play when we had to stay at our aunt’s house as little kids.

Why did they make her look like she just got into a fight and lost her ponytail as a result?

In no other profession would this be acceptable. I used to work in a call center. For those of you who aren’t familiar with call center work, anything that an annoying teenager does to their teacher pales in comparison to what grown adult customers have said to me when I had to be the one to tell them they can’t get…

That chicken is still clucking.

Hello, fellow Rochesterian.

From the grays. I just love racists like these. They call themselves “being allies” or “helping” - although they never show how - but the second we POC show any sort of self pride or fail to praise them for showing basic human decency, out comes the virulent racism.

Fake Edit: This one thinks rhetorically asking “Hey,…

Every time I hear a 2520 use “Nuh-uh! I have black friends!” as a mea culpa I am tempted to ask if their pet black person has ever invited them anywhere. For example: “If this black person were getting married, would you have been invited to the reception?” “Would this black person ever go out for a night out drinking…

Clemson’s a public university, so this is a violation of the Student Vice President’s first amendment rights. Not that anyone in student government there believe the Constitution applies to anyone beside white males who own land.

Because “ I’m a Christian” is a benign way of saying “I wholeheartedly worship the idea, manifestation, and goals of white supremacy.”