In spite of the fact that I was raised in MI, where the state joke is, “there are only three spices: salt, pepper and catsup,” I do know about corn bread. But is that like potato salad where if you make it a certain way you may end up in a fight about it?

Indeed. The cops use it as a threat and I’m like, “fine. If that’s your attitude, please do quit so you can be replaced with someone else who better understands the nature of the job.”

I live in the bay area, so I’ve been tracking both cases.  Same guy?  Wow.

I know very little about HBCUs and am hunting for info. Found this doc. Can anyone speak to its quality?

No, at none of the places he applied to was his major impacted. And his SAT was good, not great. You need a great SAT these days and, even then, I was shocked at how many of his friends with objectively great SAT scores (who also had the grades and the sports) only got in to their 5th or 6th or 7th choice. He and all…

“I wonder how many rich white kids with worse grades and the sporting prowess of a giant sloth got in ahead of your son.”

It’s almost like we white Americans hold others to a different standard than we hold ourselves to....

I get it, but as competitive as UC is these days, I think a carve out is totally reasonable.  My son is 19.  When he was applying to UC schools, he had a 4.0+ GPA, a good SAT and was a four sport athlete.  And was considered poor because I was on disability.  Basically, a perfect candidate.  Still didn’t get in to any…

Yes, Port Chicago is just 10-15 miles west of where I grew up. But...I never knew about it until years later when I started looking into black history. You literally have to go looking for information like this if you want to know it. If you don’t, you cant live your life in blissful ignorance and there isn’t anything…

This was my first viewing of Auntie Unfiltered. I just wanted to say thank you for putting your face and your voice out there like this. My gay friends have said that people’s opinions started to change when they started to be...seen. When the sum total of them wasn’t just an argument in printed/digital words. So I…

Yes yes yes. Religious conservatives intuitively understand this concept because of how they make every effort to inoculate their children to secularism. I had it a little easier, parenting wise, because even though I raised my kid in a white (wealthier) neighborhood with good (due to the wealthiernness) schools,…

I’ve often wondered about that. Is the denial due to consciously or subconsciously thinking, “if we relinquish power, they’ll do to us exactly what we did to them”? I wonder if the denial stems from guilt, meaning we actually know what we’ve done, we’re just afraid of the consequences of admitting it.

Yeah, I live in the bay area. Ever heard of Marin City? It’s the only place in Marin County with black people, for reasons you mentioned. Also, I grew up in a town in east Contra Costa county. My town, totally white. Town literally next door (our high school rivals)? Totally black. Guess which one was closer to the…

Agreed. The North/West was/is just as racist as the South. The things the LAPD did would have made Bull Connor blush. The South wasn’t the only place lynchings and bombings and burnings of houses and churches were common. And redlining was a *federal* program, ie, nationwide, via the FHA. Racial covenants were all…

Except (and I wrote another comment in this thread about this) they don’t consider racism a problem the way you do (something that results in an unlevel playing field) because their definition of racism is different. They define racism as a conscious belief that one or more races is inferior to yours. Period.…

“why don’t they broadcasting this medical breakthrough among their own kind? “

All stars for you. People (meaning us white people) should educate themselves about the shit black girls have to grow up with in America regarding their hair. It really is a thing.

Ok, I confess I chuckled at the lady with the packages lip syncing Trump.

Nice Terence reference! I love that quote and this is the first time I can think of anyone using it in an article.

Is there a qualitative difference between “gender” and “gender roles?” I ask because while I know trams people and get where they’re coming from, i don’t know any non-binary people and am still trying to understand.