Sorry, I have to take issue with your last paragraph.

Her mother could be learning challenged, so her vocabulary might be limited. Grief can also tax someone’s cognitive abilities. And for all we know, the victim could’ve had behavioral issues that would’ve complicated the lives of her family. We don’t know.

“...they caused his death by battery or neglect.”

Jessica Cluess needs to change her surname to “Clueless” because she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

I agree. What she did was irresponsible given her following. 

PSA: When you someone say something like this:

Soulless ghouls!

Should’ve said “Lincoln Project-esque-no-holds-barred” propaganda style. They started in December 2019.

There is a predominant strain of moralism in this country that prizes a faux absolute independence mythos that is de facto hubris disguised.

Going to go full evil Devil here and suggest that using the Lincoln Project approach is nearing the equivalent of effective propaganda because:

I think “Defund the Police” needs to be repackaged as “Reimagine Policing” to get the message across that it needs to be re-examined and rebuilt to better serve the BIPOC communities. We need policing for violent criminals, the murderers, rapists, and violent robbers. We don’t need them for quality of life issues or…

Respectfully petition to refer to Confederate statues as “traitor trophies” from now onward on The Root.

They really need to take a page out of The Lincoln Project and go full Willie-Horton on the Republicans, while at the same time messaging to the Progressive voters that they are fully committed to BLM and the full spectrum of human rights from voting rights to publicly-funded healthcare and education, de-militarized…

Now that we’ve gotten on the what-about-other-religions train, by that reasoning, we’re implicating non-Christian/non-Islamic African religions that killed twins that were considered an abomination (recall Achebe’s Things Fall Apart novel had this as a part of the story), as well as participating in forms of slavery…

Now watch their congregations wither down with the impact of COVID in 3, 2, 1...

This is very much the I-am-a-White-Man-therefore-I-make-better-decisions-by-default mental attitude that is frequently seen in our patriachal culture. What in the world would possess you to hire a White Man to do a Black Jamaican accent INSTEAD of asking the WRITER to read HER OWN WORK and thus provide an authentic…

I respect people’s choice in religion.

In vino veritas.

So here’s how that “hoax” is playing out...

When you thought Geraldo Rivera couldn’t get his head up the GOP’s ass any deeper, he goes on to propose this nonsense.