Yes - she “became” black when she felt it was advantageous to her.

She’s kind of a goofball who clearly has some issues.

They should recind her invite and fly in these girls:

I have gay family members and gay friends. I’m a huge advocate for anti-discrimination laws for LGBT+ people. I proudly consider myself an ally.

Sure, but Black people sadly still cape for rapists -especially if they’re athletes or famous in some other way. Remember MJ and Bill Cosby? Remember R Kelly? Cleaver?

I think it’s completely irresponsible to have this just as a comment. Please update the article to fully incorporate this.

Why can’t it be both? I’m sure Penn State treated them worse than they treat white athletes because they’re Black. I’m also sure they raped her. The coverage around this movie will also likely be worse than it would be for the innumerable white rapists with Oscar-worthy movies because they’re Black. I’m still sure…

I agree with everything you said.

Exactly. I’m also that age, and it was widely accepted that if you got drunk and went to a guy’s room, that *was* consent. (Though even then, I think a lot of us would have said bringing his friends in crossed the line to rape.)

Honestly, I don’t know. I struggle hard with things like this and I don’t have an answer. Gandhi was a shithole wife abuser. MLK Jr. cheated on his wife multiple times. Jefferson raped slaves and talked about how great the institution was for making money. So-called “great men” cannot keep their fucking dicks in their…

I ... it troubles me ... okay a lot of things about this trouble me, but what really sticks in my mind right this second is that she was so distraught, she attempted suicide, but all he can talk about right now is how this is affecting his life.

Believe me, I know. I was down in Terrebonne and Lafourche for 8ish years and you don’t get much more oil and gas than that, while at the same time it’s a place that’s literally disappearing off the map because of the influence of that industry! It’s a fraught relationship for sure because so many people depend on oil…

I don’t see anyone challenging you regarding the effects of climate change that will continue to affect many people.

It’s a complicated issue though. I wrote about coastal land loss for almost 7 years in south Louisiana, including covering Isle de Jean Charles, the Native American settlement which is mentioned above. One of the sadder things about Louisiana’s flooding issues is that it’s not a cut and dry climate change thing. The…

We are not below sea level. We are over an hour from New Orleans. All of this peanut gallery commentary about how ppl shouldn’t live here is a ridiculous outrage. Yes global warming is a real problem, but guess what? People have been living here LONG before global warming studies emerged. Everyone should just leave?…

What’s so devastating about this event is many, many people did not have flood insurance. So many homes on FEMA maps that showed high ground, unlikely to flood did flood. Mortgage companies didn’t require flood insurance for these homes. It’s optional. In a state where homeowner’s insurance is hard to get and…

Before more people come in and say “We shouldn’t rebuild! We should have known after Katrina!” I just thought I’d remind everyone how frequently we rebuild areas with other known natural disasters. California in particular has a high number of earthquakes and wildfires (the latter disaster annually, it seems). Florida…

Nor does rebuilding any city in an earthquake zone (ahem - San Francisco), or a hurricane zone (the whole damn east and southern coasts). We do it because it’s the right goddamn thing to do.

The media will be too busy showing dramatic water rescues and pictures of flooded neighborhoods to pause and give the current governments (local/state/federal working together) credit for doing a much better job than those oafs did during Katrina.

At least the current President is actually doing something instead of flying over in Air Force One and waving.