I had a sheriff’s deputy pound on my door at 6am at a previous apartment looking for somebody who had been associated with that address. They looked in our bedroom closet (as I stood there in a towel) and then were satisfied and left, but I was shaken up thinking about what if we hadn’t been white and what if we’d…

My advice: Don’t engage this guy. Continue to parent your daughter as you will and ignore the randos. No one knows your kid like your do.

holy shit

I would agree it would make them exceedingly less likely to be able to properly evaluate what a child at that age should be told.

Oh, the one thing I kind of love NK for in terms of its linguistic policy? It only uses hangul, which is an honest to God alphabet, and really straightforward reading. In daily life, SK also primarily uses hangul, but academic writing and to a lesser degree newspapers (except the lefty Hankyoreh, God love ‘em) still…

I didn’t mean my comment to tell you you’re parenting wrong, because that’s a Douchemove™. More to back up your comment about The Talk, and how young children of color are when many receive it.

Sadly very little reamings took place.

I saw a woman on Facebook lastnight lamenting about how she had to have the talk with her son before they’ve even had the sex talk. Guess what talk she was referring to, though? The talk about riots and how to stay safe if black people take over Charlotte.

While I don’t think him not being a parent disqualifies him from forming an opinion on the matter, I still think he or she is dead to rights wrong. Nothing good can come from telling a 6 year old, “Fuck the police!”

Edited to fix my stupid male assumptions

I used to drive an older car that is associated with a particular ethnic group locally. I was getting pulled over about twice a month for non-infractions, and every time they found a white lady at the wheel, the police would stammer some excuse and let me on my way. This magically stopped when I got a new car. I…

He’ll never be able to find it.

But I think we do need to tell our white kids this, specifically because our white kids need to make sure 1. not to do stupid shit that can put their non-white friends at extra risk and 2. To be there as a witness for their non-white friends/neighbors to help protect them.

It’s ok though, cause the Dali Lama is safe in India!

Omg, I just started imagining if we did have to say vows about it...haha...

I can’t wait for the 2017 remake of Brad Pitt’s 7 Nukes in Tibet.

My mother grew up during the rise of communism in Vietnam. She raised me to be afraid of police. When there were assemblies held at school that featured local officers (usually via the DARE program), my mom would preface them by reminding me that I don’t know what they were capable of and that I need to be on my best…

“penises have to fly free or something”

We humans really love trying to remove things we should cherish.

Did you just laugh at your own ‘joke’?

Non African... The Koi and San ( Bushman) folk have been down here at the pointy end of Africa for more than 140 000 years and in spite of the best efforts, to wipe them out, of everybody who ever had some control over any part of this region, they still exist. At the moment it seems that Botswana is trying quite hard…