Thoughts. No prayers.

although two right turns equal a left turn

This needs to be starred a million times. I just left my hostile work environment because I finally began to stand up for myself after being persistently bullied by white women (the absolute worst) and I was considered rude, angry and hostile. I have had enough of this Sugar-Honey-Iced-Tea!

Someone complained to my manager that I’m unapproachable/unfriendly because I don’t walk around here grinning like an idiot all the time. I’m sorry but your discomfort based on your imagined reading of my “ moods”should not be my problem. Sigh....

I totally relate to your experience.

Well, right? This is a serious case in this story, but in general it’s always like that when black or POC ppl have expressions. I see it and experience it every day at work next to my white female coworkers who will get bratty or downright rude to people and it gets brushed off. Times when I’ve answered plainly or…

“He’s reaching for his bootstraps! I think he’s gonna pull out a knife!”

So we’re not allowed to have a bad day, not allowed to be inside our own thoughts, not allowed to mull over things seriously. Fuck this. I supposed everyone has to walk across campus like this to make their asses feel safe:

“There is thing that happens when a person dies on camera, when they become a hashtag. When their name becomes a battle cry. You feel like you know them, but you don’t. With Terence, you know the sound of the chopper, the voice cutting through a police radio, saying “that looks like a bad dude.” You have seen…

It’s stories like this that make me believe in the power of good. And of evil.

So you ask Tiffany who her brother was, and this is what she tells you: That Terence loved to cook. That he thought he was the “rib king,” and that everyone loved his chicken spaghetti. That their mother called Terence her “compassionate son.” That her family would wake up and Terence would have someone on the couch…

I'm breathless. This is a beautiful, important piece of writing. Mr. Crutcher deserves this kind of legacy. Thank you.

Ever so much this. There is no fucking point system for wokeness. If being a better person isn’t its own reward, then I don’t know what to tell you. 

I just don’t get it.. why is it so difficult to just treat EVERYONE the way they want to be treated. Why is so difficult to understand to treat everyone with basic respect and decency regardless of colour/race/gender? I mean I don’t understand why a class needs to be taught.

And I’d like to believe that if horses had wings, they would fly.

The way outrage works is, you stay outraged until you get justice.

We’re talking full bars on Halloween. Saw it with my own eyes.

It’s Bethesda, so remove an H and that’s probably about right...

or someone was shooting clay pigeons before lacrosse practice...

The Democratic party is now the progressive party that welcomes immigrants