I was talking about the last 500 years of history. Next time, feel free to ask me to elaborate before your smug sense of self kicks in.

So what are your suggestions for what we do with genuinely violent criminals- murderers, rapists, etc.?

This is why we should abolish prisons. They serve no benefit but to enrich the already rich and deprive the poor of their freedom.

This is old news if you’re black and a woman. Black American women have been used a sexual playthings for as long as one can remember. Post-slavery prisons for women were often finishing schools for black women to learn how to be maids for white women but the prison authorities framed it as a fallen woman regaining…

our justice system needs reform stat.

That's because all of those things you mentioned perpetuate the same views held by colonists over the centuries. The European has not changed over the last 500 years because, until recently, nothing forced him to change. With the collapse of their empires and the rise of the first non-European powers, India & China,…

As the level of repression in women’s prisons increases, and, paradoxically, as the influence of domestic prison regimes recedes, sexual abuse-which, like domestic violence, is yet another dimension of the privatized punishment of women-has become an institutionalized component of punishment behind prison walls.…

I don’t believe or trust anything white/European people say. I had one the other day regale me about their travels thru Ethiopia. I’m from Somalia, I said. She went outside to have a smoke, alone.

What people don't wish to understand is how the "natives" relate to them. As a Westerner, you cannot go into say Vietnam and assume that you will not encounter hostility. I have had friends who travelled to various countries in the global South and they have complained about "being uncomfortable". I just rolled my…

People use the same language to describe their experiences in black Africa. The idea that we’re close to nature (whatever that means), we’re sensual and in tune with the spirits. This fantasizing is often an outgrowth of the European/Arab inability to understand or attempt to understand the black/African culture they…

One can never trust the European/white artist to properly represent images of the Other. We see this with that I-talian woman who worked with Kanye, this old windbag and (dead) Canadian writer, Margaret Laurence (whose beautiful memories of the Somali created the perfect helpless African the Canadian armed forces…

Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon of Kenya won gold in the 1500m women’s race after pulling ahead of favorite and world record holder Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia

It is considering that S. Africa considers Gandhi a "national hero" of sorts.

Did you change your comment? If so, you're a huge cornball and I'm sad I wasted my time.

According to the book, Gandhi described black Africans as “savage,” “raw” and living a life of “indolence and nakedness,” and he campaigned relentlessly to prove to the British rulers that the Indian community in South Africa was superior to native black Africans. The book combs through Gandhi’s own writings during…

Ironically enough, he published most of his Afrophobic nonsense whilst he was living in S. Africa! I don't understand that country reverence of that man but hey, I'm not from there.

Oh, and he hated black people.

Not only that, they’re going about it in a way that implies that certain people are monitored so don't worry. The reality is that having someone like me, a child of Muslims in Canada, on a watchlist isn't going to stop little Jimmy from Vanier, ON who converted and is planning to shoot up a train station or Parliament.

LOLZ. Please read about this guy at one America’s largest airports. He walked around with a giant war-like gun.

Bahamas is definitely a country I rarely hear about. The few things I even know about the place is that Nina Simone had an affair with their PM at the time.