I agree. (I was being somewhat facetious about the justice system)

I heard the same - and always wondered why it hadn’t occurred to any white person with sense that if you don’t oppress people to begin with, you don’t have to fear the dragging later. Of course, if you want to continue to be a greedy moron in denial, then of course you’ll have to wrestle in your own mind with the…

but sorry, I’m not risking my life for a coat.

“White people invented the drive-by”—my grandmother

In 1880 the was a fire that destroyed 90% of the census documents up until then. I believe that all the docs were in Louisiana at the time.

yes thats the crazy part!! its like did the census taker just skip, were they so rural no one bothered? in hiding? like what happened? lol My grandpa had 7 aunts and uncles gave me their names and everything.. i havent found one in all these years NOT ONE!!! its maddening.. it got to one point i was calling my…

I’m first generation and unfortunately you are right about that. So much so that I personally know some who voted for 45. There are those that believe if they don’t ascribe to that sort of thinking, as that child’s mother said, then racism won’t touch them.

this is great and i hope it helps... ive been researching for 8 years now and its so hard to find people with the different spelling and nicknames, that my dream has changed. I use to hope to find someone beyond slavery like on someone plantation, in a will or something that i hoped to trace even a teeny bit further…

This is so major. My ancestors go from black to mulatto to white or from black to white with no solid indicators of who fathered who. I have found a slave schedule or two, they are interesting but don’t give concrete ancestry information. I want to know who enslaved my family members (and see pictures if possible) and…

Thank you for explaining that perfectly, as survivor of childhood abuse you brought tears to my eyes. Dear God we all need to talk bout this more. You articulated what I could never say.

Yes. This. Thank you. I desperately want anyone (CNN, MSNBC, don’t care), who has one of Trump’s surrogates/administration members on for a story, to just say to them “That’s a lie!!” when they lie, and then shut them off so they are not able to spin it (looking at KellyAnne Conway (re: The Bowling Green Massacre…

Those are the lyrics from a very beautiful and sad song, “Abraham, Martin, and John.”

Keeping the flow going for 2018 from Awesomely Luvvie:

That’s where my mind went too. An estranged would-be partner or even the father of the children (I wasn’t sure the nature of the children’s conception).

Money. They have it and we need it to live.

I needed this today! I was just sitting here thinking, “whew! I’m glad 2017 is almost over. It was a shit storm from beginning to end.” But it really wasn’t. Some wonderful, amazing, beautiful things happened, thanks to the kick ass people on your list. Feeling fortified and ready for 2018. Thanks, lady.

Thats the point of “reality” TV though, to be as messy as possible. If she had any sort of message or constructive reason for being on TV then she wouldnt be on TV in the first place, this minstrelry has got to stop.

Swatting would not be a thing if American police weren’t so heavy handed and violent in response to every little thing.

“The police are a deadly weapon. Once you set the police in motion people ending up dead is just what happens”