Back when I was a small child and this happened I would just scream I was going to tell my mom. Then I would hide in the locker room and cry until gym class was over.

I wanna get mad about what you said about Lord of the Rings, Drew. But, it’s hot as fuck, the world is collapsing in a big pile of hut shit and you are actually correct: they are turgid.

Yup, it was stopping pretending I wasn’t that allowed me to make the small amount of progress I’ve made in my life. I will never be able to purge the effect of 400+ years of white supremacy from my psyche, but I can try to be AWARE of it. It helps me not do racist things.

Coin flip is still better odds that any given person of color gets from cops today. 

Well, there are some family trees with no branches or roots. 

Settle down DonEricJr.

This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a douchebro. 

Look, this is a free country (for some of us) you can do whatever you want with your foot skin.

What are the best sports catchphrases of all time? We need a definitive list.

A white person can’t teach me anything about race.

Can I just say this has been one of the most delightful disagreements I’ve been in online in years? Two people politely disagreeing and neither one of us has called the other a name or threatened bodily harm! :)

I admit, I forgot about the Black Breath. I was thinking more along the lines of mystic abilities. I was thinking of this quote from Tolkien “They have no great physical power against the fearless,” he wrote, “but what they have, and the fear that they inspire, is enormously increased in darkness”― The Letters of…

In Tolkien he is pretty clear The Nine have little in the way of “power”, and what Power they do wield is through their Rings. Only the Witch King possesses any real ability to affect mortals, the remaining eight really only have fear as a weapon...a powerful weapon to be sure.  #TolkeinNerd 

“Research points to the academic, social, and emotional benefits to being in a classroom with others who share racial, ethnic, linguistic, and/or cultural backgrounds” explains the student handbook for the 97-year-old institution.

Delicious butthurt down in the greys. 

Truth is, we are in a soft civil war right now. One side is fighting with denying cheese plates and hurtful words on the Tony Awards. The other side is shooting up newsrooms.

I agree, in the end it is OUR responsibility to get off our asses and vote. We got complacent, we thought midterms don’t matter. No matter what, Dem voters did this to ourselves. Say what you will about the GOP, they are committed to their evil. 

I am WAY more willing to apportion Obama’s share of the Shame and Blame to his failure on the down ballots. Under his tenure, the Local and State parties shit the bed and that is why we lost both houses of Congress and have the lickspittle lackeys running the asylum.

I’d really love it if Mitch ate a bowl of dicks.  

This is an outgrowth of white people’s unhealthy obsessions with pets. You do not need to touch every cute being you see!