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I’m a white woman in America and I’m so fucking embarrassed for her. She not only ran right over ‘bino’s amazing song and messages, she has no clue what a lot of the truly struggling women in America are dealing with.

So he says he learned so much from his mother.

And here’s Obama’s tweet:

It is important; it’s the kind of evidence we white folks need to help us realize we’re doing it. When something is normalized, it’s really tough to recognize that it’s wrong to do without the help of perspectives from the outside looking in. I wish some otherwise decent white people who are so casually, thoughtlessly

the only way to stop a bad mom with a gun is a good mom with a gun.

I’m a white lady saying this is despicable. Experiencing discrimination because of your gender ought to teach you empathy for those who have been discriminated because of race...I don’t actually even KNOW what the statement she’s trying to make in this is...I guess that she identifies more with what puts her in power

“Dobb Knobbin’” made me LOL at my desk

Veterans get preference when police forces are hiring. It makes sense in a way because the federal government has already invested in getting them trained in weapons and all kinds of other things. Problem is even the worst neighborhoods in America are not active war zones, but that must be a hard mentality to shake if

A witness, named Jaccbot Hinds, told the New York Daily News that the cops emerged from an unmarked vehicle and fired off their guns without warning. “They just hopped out of the car,” said Hinds. “It’s almost like they did a hit. They didn’t say please. They didn’t say put your hands up, nothing.”

And I would rather they wear their bulletproof gear even if it’s *whine* hot and heavy than kill people who weren’t threatening them because they’re afraid of being shot. That way nobody dies for nothing.

Bullies who are given training that tells them that they are in constant danger for their lives and therefore should treat every encounter as potentially fatal, I should add.

It isn’t that cops think that anything looks like a gun. It is just that cops think that anything a black man is holding looks like a gun.

At some point we’re going to need to make cops choose between valuing their own lives above anyone else’s, and getting paid hazard pay. The job isn’t actually dangerous if the default response is to kill anyone who looks remotely threatening, and so perhaps cops should be paid like private security guards.

I just need a quick reminder, they took Dylan Roof, James Holmes, and Aaron Cruz alive right? I can’t really remember if these 3 mass shooters were taken alive.

Crossing my fingers that a rogue yearbook staffer puts her photo back in the yearbook right before the pages go to the publisher (as a former yearbook staffer in high school, sticking it to the administration is a cause near and dear to my heart).