Yes, *one* (super-questionable) survey showed that Native folks weren’t offended by it. Plenty of others have shown that they very much are, and all the Native folks I know really hate it. It’s not the most important thing, no, but it’s an ethnic slur, and making it less normalized is still good. We just have to make…

The Buffalo PBA is part of the AFL-CIO.

Not just that, but the police union president gave the old “they were just following orders” excuse.

It said, very loud and clear, fuck y’all we are cops.

If I were worried about disrespecting the flag, I would be speaking out against the people who wear a flag patch on their uniforms while they beat an unarmed man to death.

I encourage everyone to loudly shut down any talk of the players contributing to helping out all the workers and stadium employees.

Wrong: Thanks to 53% of white women who chose privilege over progress we live in a world without The NBA, NCAA Tournament, MLB, NHL & MLS. Thanks to white men and fake ass progressives we now live in a world without these things. Thanks to the deranged GOP & their racist, misogynistic, homophobic, science denying cult…

Some of those Jackson State players will end up coaching youth or high school basketball. I hope this event sticks with them.

To this day I will yell out “SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!!!”, for no reason in particular...just cuz.

People forced to take a low wage job are shitty people? Who suck the life out of you?

“I am a father of two. I feel like I should know everything. I don’t know anything.”

I meant that if we’re taught that behaving a certain way is “civilized”, is “proper” then why wouldn’t someone want to behave in that way? Still, you’re right and you’ve articulated something that I had no words for, the fault in the system. Because it’s not about being “respectable”, it’s about having your humanity…

That’s a common tactic among trolls and we’ve got about a half a dozen here who regularly resort to this tactic. And when they get countered, they pull out another and another and another. They aren’t ever looking for civil discourse of course, they simply want to make folks waste their time counter-striking.

They are bitter about the weather, the fact that all the jobs left and that their college football will never be as good as that of the SEC.

You disagree with the ‘what’. You don’t understand the ‘why’.

That man’s supporters are even worse than that because when I read MH’s post I thought the takeaway was simply, ‘You know any bruises you see were caused by a beating, not clumsiness, stop lying about it.’

“Men are afraid of being rejected, women are afraid of being killed.”
Wish it weren’t true.

I miss my grandparents. 

Oh, you’re welcome! I really appreciate your response.

I appreciate how you took the time to re-frame that. I understand what you are saying. Thank you. My apologies.