Excellent! (And stolen.)

Don’t waste your time on trolls.

We have a tradition...volunteers from the community gather at the beaches the day after a major holiday and clean up trash. I’m glad to see DC doing the same in their neighborhoods..

I had never heard of banana pudding until a couple of weeks ago. Seems Toran Grays opened a restaurant that sells only banana pudding just before COVID hit. Damn it, makes you feel for the guy, right?

Not your average red-neck. Well worth the 5 minutes.

“...there was absolutely no way to believe Beethoven was a black man given the evidence, and that we’d have to re-imagine the entire landscape and history of Western music if so.”

We hold fast food workers to high standards. We don;t let them do their jobs in ways that cause people to get sick or die. Seems like every job ought to have those same standards.

“The department is experiencing a higher than usual number of call outs with the incoming shift. We have enough resources to maintain operations & remain able to respond to incidents.”

““At Publix, we reject racism and believe diversity makes our company—and our community—better. Our focus remains on ensuring a welcoming work and shopping environment for all associates and customers.”

We profited off of slavery for 246 years*. That hurts a lot more than crappy pancakes!
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*I’m not sure the years when many Black freed slaves became share croppers tied to the same dirt growing the same crops for the same masters was such a big improvement over slavery...let’s be honest and call it 290 years, at…

If the “Aunt Jemima” logo had started out as it ended up, a kind of “Betty Crocker” who just happened to be Black because some people are Black, it could have been fine. It didn’t, and trying to wash the racist stink off was never going to work.

Exonerated 5 Member Yusef Salaam Weighs in on Recent Black Lives Matter Protests: ‘This Is Courageous Living’

“Inexplicably, the Confederate symbol still flies in Mississippi as a part of its state flag.”

Interesting conversation.

“Every time you want to use capital b Black solely in the context of America its is equally valid to use African American.”

“I’m Italian, does that make me a POC then?”

I don’t see why words can’t have different meanings in different contexts, and I certainly don’t let a government agency define my words for me.

“I’m not saying he’s gay, but people are asking the question...”

P.s. Don’t hesitate to kick my ass if I deserve it. It makes me a better person.