In a similar vein:

I object to the entire notion of a body part being "fashionable." Butts are anatomy, not fashion accessories. The idea that big butts are "in" means essentially that the fashion industry has yet another excuse to disappear black women when butts are "out." The same goes for large lips or dark skin. Blackness shouldn't…

She didn't have to— the state charged him with a felony battery.

On the rare occasion that I'm able to find a brown bra, I buy all that are available in my size and that I can afford. Then I wear the hell out of them until the underwires have come out and the bras have holes in them. One mesh bra was pretty much just straps and the body band by the time I threw it away. Hope these…

I'm not real clear on why we are putting the onus on the NFL to handle this instead of the criminal justice system.

On the one hand, I think the penalty levied against Ray Rice should have been worse. But on the other, why are we expecting his employer to act as a law enforcement agency and punish him for an incident that had nothing to do with the NFL organization? Perhaps the question should be whether law enforcement did enough…

I'm actually impressed. Her voice is true pretty much throughout the performance. No one can credibly claim that she's not a great singer. Liking her music is entirely subjective, but her singing ability is not something one can dismiss.

I actually like everything above the crotch. This would have been really cute as a cocktail dress, but it went off the rails below the waist.

What, if anything, do police departments do to counter attitudes or biases that police have towards the populace? I'm thinking of course of racial bias, but also biases about the citizens of a jurisdiction (i.e., when cops work in one jurisdiction, but live in another), mental illness, other disabilities, immigrants,…

This is exactly my worry in Ferguson. The prosecutor comes from a family of cops and the DA's office has also been accused of bias toward the black community. Worse, his cop father was killed on duty by a black man. People have asked the governor to appoint a special prosecutor, but he didn't.

Why wouldn't this kind of information be captured? We capture statistics on crime in every other way; why wouldn't we capture stats on the people who are actually supposed to be accountable to the public?

People die because of other police involved-violence— chokeholds, beatings, taserings, being hit by police car in pursuit, etc. It would be good to capture those as well.

Alas, another Magical Negro is not magical enough to fix all that ails his field.

Thanks for your input.

Okay.

Yep. Bring back stars and pinks.

Then why did you guys force people to sign in with Twitter/Google/Facebook in the first place?

Thanks for explaining the 3/5ths Compromise. I thought my AP American History course, political science degree, and multiple Constitutional Law classes also gave me a pretty good grounding in it, but you really cleared it up for me. :)

We're not the canary in the coal mine, though. Black people have been under the boot of "authority" for hundreds of years, and that's perfectly okay with a hell of a lot of non-black people. When white people face "the system," the system works in their favor. Cliven Bundy and his acolytes are still not in jail. Open…

Where is your outrage about white people killing other white people?