“I prefer my dogs to be mutts, not one of those fancy breeds.”
I’m as big a Patriots hater as the next guy but associating them with the Confederacy is just wrong.
Didn’t know her before she cooned, forgot about her after she cooned, and wishing her well as she goes back to the sunken place.
Until we have more women and more people of color holding high office (& high level positions in corporations) our laws and our conduct will not change.
How unfortunate that so many people are responding to this heartfelt piece with their own biases. Whether or not YOU find a religious congregation worth pursuing, whether or not YOU believe in God or faith is not the point. This writer does, and she should be allowed to express that and her disappointment in her…
beautiful blonde-haired blue-eyed baby ...
I’m half black and I completely get it.
The degree to which white people everywhere are unaware of the normalized racism all around us is one of the greatest obstacles to achieving meaningful and lasting progress. I grew up to liberal parents five miles from Stone Mountain, Ga., and I was basically an adult before it occurred to me how screwed up Stone…
This was beautiful. I hope your former congregants read this! The Evangelical church has become a vehicle for white supremacy, and more people need to speak about it.
God this is fucking stupid. Not you, the former congregation.
Especially white underwear. And I don’t even wear body makeup.
What in the actual fuck?
I’m sure the Black girls, and women, Kelly abused find that a comfort.
Green if you’re Black. If you’re White, green is nothing more than a bonus.
I think this may be one of the only if few instances in history where we have clear evidence over the course of years against a Black man and nothing will happen to him. On the surface this can be unprecedented. But under the surface, the sick reality of America rears its ugly head like the article mentioned: nothing…
R. Kelly preyed on black women because he can get away with it. Period. So long as he can wrap his defense in his black skin (like he did during the pee-tape trial) no one is going to go after him. No one is going to take down a pillar of the black community, someone who “got out” and succeeded despite.