Christ, thank you, Roo.

It’s not uncommon with a lot of Black athletes who were raised by single mothers (not blaming Mom for that).

He wrote, “So I should settle for a bulldog and act like I’m happy with my life and preach ‘keep it in your race’ to the world as if Dr. King didn’t fight/die for equality, acceptance, all cultures loving one another, and no hate? “No thanks,” continued the 30-year-old basketball player. “That maybe your life but…

I assume a bulldog gave birth to him? I assume a bulldog fed him, clothed him, drove his sorry ass to practice, helped him put lotion on his ashy legs after practice? I mean does this punk know he is talking about the very person responsible for his being alive? So sick of these frauds. Oh the most popular NBA players…

great words Mooney and Nasty. As a Black woman, sounding like a white woman for announcing myself, this honestly makes me think of Black Lives Matter and the internal misogyny that we as women see when we die, when we consider the founders, and when we look at how poorly attended rallies are for the women we lose. it…

Thank you. What also bothers me is that a generation of black women are possibly operating under the premise that it’s better not to report because the police might shoot them, rather than the idea their safety has more value than these black males and their abhorrent and criminal behavior.

Fuck being nice. As a former rape victim, I would have told him, “Try it and let’s see how far you get after I’ve cut your d**k off”.

You are adult men, not feral, hyper-sexualized children.

> How can I look a black boy in his face and tell him he is nothing?

Not that you don’t feel sick, shocked and either blank or flooded with thoughts in that moment; You don’t owe that boy shit. You don’t owe any boy, no matter how much he reminds you of your brother, cousin, best friend from 3rd grade, your safety, your body, or your silence.  Even if he's a Black one, and many are…

I carry a knife, pepper spray and have a concealed carry we emit because I've had too many of these interactions. And I have been taken behind that tree

As a former bouncer I learned a long time ago how trash most of us are but we as men need reminders like this every day.

On that job front you can see why Molly would be reluctant to help her friend level up. She had her moment to bask in glory after putting on a successful fundraiser and messed it up. In the office, she doesn’t seemed focused. At least with Molly, she works hard and plays hard....you don’t see that with Issa. As Black…

I was the only black kid in my elementary school in PA and had no friends because the kids were racist AF. My neighborhood was different. Although we were the sole black family, the community embraced us. They brought so many treats when moved in my mom worried they would go stale before we could eat them. We became…

That family put skin in the game when they didn’t have to. There are a lot of unsung folks just like this.

When my family moved into Navy Officer’s Housing in San Diego in 1966 there were a lot of unhappy white people in the neighborhood. My father was stationed in Vietnam at the time when my mother moved her five children including 9-year-old me, into that all-white neighborhood. I was called “nigger” by more than a few…

I’m sure glad that MLK and dem didn’t wait around for the kindly old White attorney to show up.

I am a middle-aged white lady but I would love to show up and use my “let me speak to your manager” powers for good.

When I saw the title, I closed my eyes and let out a deep sigh.

Absolutely. I can *almost* understand how someone who’s never seen how a black woman cares for her hair, wouldn’t understand the struggle, but I saw it first hand in my basic training, which was coed. As a black man, I didn’t need to have this explained to me, but those white trainees and drill Sargents who weren’t…