Anything Ta Nehisi writes is looong. But he is so through that you just to read it cause you KNOW you gonna come away with +10 points added to your IQ.

Collective punishment is banned under numerous international treaties and conventions the US has signed including Hague Regulations and the Geneva Convention.

Ah yes, how dare you not supervise your children the way we want you to. Now, to prevent this from happening we will ensure your children have NO supervision for the next 30 days. You’ll also lose your job and won’t be able to pay for anything. So, we have doubly ensured that your kids will not steal in the future. …

this mother. fucking. horse. shit. cock. balls. damn. FUUUUCKING. symbol. the only use i have for this thing is that it helps me differentiate which neighbors not to invite to the christmas party.

Exactly, and I bet you he sees the skin color of those who don’t happen to be his “friend”.

I always let my white friends know that if they say something crazy. And they reach out to me for a black friend card, when they try to swipe that shit it will decline.

I don’t think of him based on the color of his skin or culture, nor does he think of me based on my skin color or culture. We’ve had the conversation. I see him only as Daniel. He sees me as Mike. This is based on our personalities.

Quick question: Had anyone seen that post before Ray brought it up?

Any suggestion that a candidate is more or less qualified for political office based on their skin color alone

“We expect all students to be treated with dignity and respect, and we deem unacceptable all acts of discrimination and harassment including but not limited to sexual, racial and religious,” Bannerman wrote in the letter.”

“The statements was [sic] made by an individual. They are not indicative of the values and the facts that surround the Cobb County police department and this county in general,”

Fuck every last cop. I don’t give a fuck about the “good” ones down in Texas saving lives. At the end of the day, they still stand for their initial conception of maintaining white supremacy.

That also explains why the deputy was suspended immediately and there’s a distinct lack of wypipo saying, “Well actually. . . . “

Great article. Nothing wrong with hate. Hating one’s systemic oppression is logical. I hate white supremacy. I hate white supremacists. I HATE the fact that white liberal arguments against “hate” (like the one above) are decontextualized and fail to include any analysis of where the location of POWER.

Police themselves? Hell no, not a chance. Police the fuck out a POC’s tone? Damn near instinctual.

It does, because every second counts right now. Even if it’s just 3 minutes of listening, and then deciding not to do anything, it’s a distraction from the ACTUAL IMPORTANT WORK of saving people’s lives.

Looks like SulaymanF didn’t like where that conversation was headed...saved for posterity because I don’t like being dismissed on my own thread:

Black eyes, yes. Just like any white would get if the black fists of 3 black men, rubbed off on her eyes, I guess. Cuz our color runs right off our skin, just like that.

Part of problem is that we hear about people in power who do something awful and stupid. Smart, competent, non-racist principal not really make news, because that baseline expectation of what principal should be.