Eh. I’m not drinking right now (preggo) and I don’t think we need to shit on drunk people. When you’re drunk, drunk people are great and sober people are less so. When you’re sober . . . vice versa.

Yeah I was hoping for something a little more . . . nuanced and intelligent. For white people who do care about race issues, and actually want to know how to learn and help, this was not helpful.

My hopes is that Republicans will block a SCOTUS appointment and every non-insane person in this country will get their ass to the polls to avoid a Trump appointee. I mean, my god, he would probably hold a reality show-style competition to select the appointee.

That’s the thing though. The official inquiries over the email stuff will end in nothing, but the email thing will NEVER DISAPPEAR for these people. They will just insist that the Clintons have yet again used their powers to sweep their bad deeds under the rug.

Isn’t this the type of thing the character used in Revolutionary Road?

Yeah let me know when the “pro-life” people jump on those bandwagons. Not to mention none of those things are 100% effective.

Nah. It’s well known that Cruz is hated amongst Republicans as well. He’s just a hatable guy.

My (increasingly insane) father was spouting this over the weekend- “Hillary’s finally going to prison!” I asked him the last time he heard of a rich, white, politically powerful person going to prison for a white-collar type of crime. He switched tactics and started proclaiming how Trump’s going to win the general so…

Then why LOL at Mexican food? Or say it’s “simple fare” in another comment? Sorry I must really be misunderstanding you.

I do realize that. I think that person’s point was dumb and the entire argument that followed was equally dumb. I’m also not from Chicago.

That’s really interesting. And sad.

Thanks for taking time for these responses. You don’t have to take on the burden of educating someone (and I’m usually too impatient and pissy to do so), so I think it’s great that you did.

I don’t think it’s a great comparison. Cricket isn’t important. We don’t all need to talk and learn more about cricket so that we can grow as people and improve society. This is a pretty harmless forum to learn about race issues (you can’t google everything) and Meatpudding seems to be responding in a respectful,…

THANK YOU. I’m from the midwest and it annoys me when people shit on Chicago b/c it’s in “flyover” country but damn these arguments are pointless. I’m sure the SW U.S. has a ton of crazy good Mexican food b/c of the huge Mexican population. Chicago also has amazing Mexican food. There is literally no way to win this…

Are you suggesting there is no upscale Mexican food? There are like 120 million people in Mexico. Do you think they all live in huts and grow their own maize?

Well yeah except the great lakes area is chock full of recent Mexican and other Latin American immigrants, many of whom I assume can cook, and like to make money off of doing so.

I think the author was confused about this. They’re not pea pods with rice on them or some shit. They’re mostly rice. The nutritional facts are pretty close to potato chips. But the price is way higher and they SEEM healthy!

Wow you really hate sports.

You’re right. People shouldn’t play sports or form groups because rapists.

Seriously? I don’t agree with most of what politically inept said, but it is a reality in this country that it is more difficult for black kids to get into college, due to a wide variety of factors (I would say mostly socioeconomic). It’s also a reality that the majority of star college and professional athletes,…