If you got so drunk that a mugger noticed and decided to take advantage of that, a lawyer wouldn’t attempt to use your drunkenness to get the mugger off charges.

Dont really care about the people involved but there is a larger concept here that is important.

What!? How is this possible.

“I’d love to be in your movie, but you know, I’m just not black enough. Here’s a list of much blacker people you can call.”

This is a really powerful, and well-written article, and I thank you for it. I am saddened by all that I know of this subject, what “Elizabeth” (and so many other women) have to go through, and the direction our politicians seem to be heading: back to the 13th century. And I am equally saddened by your and others’…

Go across the world and see how Western music has been “appropriated” (used as a ridiculous term by narrow-minded people) often extremely badly to a Western ear- by thousands upon thousands of artists. Are Asians, Africans, Middle Easterners, Eastern European etc. etc. being ethnically “mediocre”?

You didn’t come close to answering either of my questions. Please explain how I’ve made the school she is leaving worse.

Every group gets copied. If a non-Italian creates a food inspired by pasta that’s neither stealing nor paying tribute. It’s just building on something that’s widely available. Anyone should be able to take a thing and build on it regardless of it’s origin. Borrowing from other cultures has led to significant amounts…

No, the main reason they perform poorly is because the parents, for the most part, are not actively involved in the schools. According to the teachers I know in New Orleans, that is the NUMBER ONE reason why so many schools are shitty. The teachers spend too much of their time trying to do the jobs that the parenst…