The Root, please ban e_is_real_i_isnt, already. Let him go so that he can go racially concern troll some other site. I’m tired of seeing his shit if even it’s in the greys.

So proud to see this. I know the city quite well and I’m glad to see citizens becoming civically engaged, finally. Specifically, I’m glad to see allies out there, though I want to see Vegas’ black community more involved.

I think the editors should all be fired.

Someone should tell them, too, that adding the word “sincerely,” to their apology doesn’t actually make it sincere.

“Why is this a big deal? BLM is still being discussed. Black people should be happy that this has been given such a forum. #allies”- white people, I’m guessing, judging by another yet slightly similar articles I’ve read today.

You’d think that someone would have looked around and thought, “Hey, hold on a minute...”

Just hearing what happened to that couple sounds corrupt AF and yet you have plenty of people who will blame them for being executed.

The journal also vows to work “harder to encourage work from philosophers and political theorists of color as we have done with women and young scholars in the past . . .

Maybe it’s the Crown Apple I’m sipping right now, but their use of ‘eloquent’ in the apology just...bothers me

We, the editors, sincerely apologize for the oversight in not including

I’m sure someone else has already suggested this, but Probably everyone wanted this guy fired (and more) for what he did to Rice, but no way were they going to do it.

So improper paperwork has greater meaning than a child’s life?

The Guardian reports that Police Chief Calvin Williams stated Loehmann was not fired over Rice’s death, but because of “inaccurate details on his job application.”

Kill a black kid: gets nothing.

Fuck, no, it wasn’t. It was a horrible, bloody, miserable time all around, between the start of the death of the British Empire, depredation throughout Africa, The War To End All Wars, a quantum leap in military capability, the battle for the rights of huge swathes of humanity that led to a lot of violence and murder,…