“Ikeria and Layla won based on a calculation of quality point average or Q.P.A., a system of calculating grades that gave extra weight to advanced placement and dual credit courses. But, it turned out, Dominic and Emma were the top two finishers based on unweighted grade point average.”

A lot of people aren’t really into thinking. They don’t consider the consequences of their actions because there have never been consequences. They just stagger through life operating on emotion, flailing about verbally or physically as their mood moves them. If Black people frighten them or aren’t deferential, they…

Intent is everything.

Not getting the “hate crime” label and the enhanced sentence would be fine if cases like this routinely resulted in a standard sentence punishment. The big problem is that most often, nothing happens at all. If every cop who abused his authority and injured or killed a citizen received a sentence appropriate to his…

“Watch the ring video, there are quite a few kids with no supervision, almost all of them white. I wonder if the guy was worried most about the far larger white kid. Not that he should have shot at all, but I don’t think the parents of these kids should let them play outside on this street.”

Somebody explain to me why a failed attempt at murder it treated differently than a successful murder?

She beat nobody, shot nobody, committed no fraud or theft, didn’t promote racism, ableism, homophobism, didn’t try to steal votes or throw poor families off of support or cage children while deporting their parents...she just didn’t read directions on a spray can then asked for help on a public forum she frequents. I…

She needs the positive affirmation. There are lots of people who deserve an internet ass-kicking, but she wasn’t one of them.

“With Dr. Jones, it’s not the students; at that level she wouldn’t be doing much teaching.”

Langston Hughes - Let America Be America Again”
This poem always brings tears to my eyes.

My opinion of your hair style is worthless and even I know it. What does that say of the shit-for-brains racist in the story’s opinions on your hair?

I was speaking of top basketball prospects. If they all decided to go elsewhere, Chapel Hill would see that as a bigger loss than they see the loss of an outstanding professor or two.

Top prospects always have choices; they can go anywhere. They’d all have to avoid Chapel Hill. That’s tough to organize because the other colleges aren’t really any better.

Yes, buy a police force with 100 officers can’t have them all on desk duty.

“For those that want to claim mental illness, I am calling your bullshit right here and now.”

“Despite some $3,000 in damage done to her store—which I’m damn sure hoping someone whose last name is not Bonnett will be paying for—Bonnett said she has no plans to close up shop.”

“...You black women with your weaves...”

Yes, but the people who are paying the consequences are the thousands of students who would have studied under Nikole Hannah-Jones and Dr. Jones, along with all the people those students would have influenced. Rich white men aren’t the people suffering the consequences.

Seems to me UNC-Chapel Hill would’ve been much better off ignoring all of the white tears and doing right by Hannah-Jones [everyone].

Aside from his lies killing an innocent woman, he can’t do the job; he can never testify in court. Any defense attorney who googles his name will have irrefutable proof his testimony is unreliable. This is one very good reason to open disciplinary files. When entire police departments can’t put a single officer on the…