“imagined as being in a position of power”

Can you imagine the uproar if white people were enslaved for hundreds of years, and after having been freed were still denied basic rights for another century, and then were denied the tools that would allow them to better their overall circumstance like decent education and access to housing and banking, and then…

I love them and I can’t wait for season two. I know there are some Stranger Things haters on here, but like...

If it’s any consolation, I do believe plenty of planned for pregnancies also turn into disaffected teens who shop at Hot Topic.

We’re gonna send that nuke to Taaaaaajiiikastaaaaaaaaaan!!!

So it never occurred to anyone to ask the White House staff how to turn on the lights?

Lee Gelernt is a cool dude and the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project is awesome and deserves all of your support (along with all the other orgs that have filed lawsuits this week fighting the executive order, which includes, in alphabetical order, the American Immigration Council, the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Natio…

Jim Crow. Now there’s a guy who - he’s really tremendous, what he’s done for our country. I really think, and you can quote me on this, I really think that he doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Just a special, special guy.

That’s fair. She did receive more than her fair share of undeserved heat. She as among our most admirable First Ladies. Easily in the top 5, I’d say.

That’s the problem with this country is the Chrispus Attucks. We need to stop these liberal attucks on Chrispus every December and remember to Keep Chrisp in Chrispus.

That’s the thing... Fredrick Douglas is one of maybe 3 or 4 famous black americans that your average person COULD probably name. Fredrick Douglas, MLK, Obama, the peanut guy, and the subway lady.

What’s even more bizarre about this is that Fredrick Douglass is one of like, 6 black people who you learn about in public school (along with Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, MLK, Chrispus Attucks and Dred Scott). Most 8th graders could probably tell you that Douglass isn’t exactly a contemporary figure.

first lady we’ve ever or will ever have

she figured out that, for many reasons, a non-White existence wasn’t going to work.

Michelle Obama is a very classy woman. We didn’t deserve her.

I love knowing he could have rented it for less.

While I generally agree and think she is incredibly awesome, I wish she’d gone big and asked to taze the President.

Lately I’ve been seeing a penis with a light birthmark on it and I think it’s quite cute and endearing. Sadly the owner of the penis does not think so.

I’m very pregnant, and my kid (3.5 years old) knows that there’s a baby in Mommy’s tummy that’s going to come out soon. But the other day he asked me, out of nowhere, with a comedically furrowed toddler brow, “Mommy, how did the baby get IN your tummy?”