In the Wiz Dorthy is in her 20s and a school teacher.

I’m black too and “our culture” doesn’t speak in unison on these matters. I have felt tremendous pressure to be thin from other black women and from church—

And I’m SICK seeing black women with eating disorders get ignored. One of the reasons I was able to go so far in my 20s was because as a black anorexic everyone…

She goes to the trouble saying that (to her it seemed like) “all the black people” are leaving. Implying that black people/parents care less about the school or are more rude or something along those lines. Coming from the head of the school this is really disturbing. It implies that this is a “theory” she has been…

I agree with you— yet I wish you would not say “white mannerisms” etc. those of us who use those mannerism also contribute to them—

What I often say is that everything I do is “black” so if you don’t like blackness that applies to me too.

Is the only way I can escape racist judgement through renouncing my culture and my history?

I like being a black person, I don’t want to be “raceless” I like black people and black culture and blackness. And it often feels radical to do even that in this country where these things are often hated.

And you know I’m not…

I don’t get how it would even be possible to tell these guys apart, they all look like “Brads” to me.

“agenda?” You’re detecting an agenda here? An agenda for what?

I would like to design an experiment where people use something like “hot or not” but the ratings are skewed to favor people who have some random feature (pointy earlobes? square chin?) the goal would be to see what was the impact on how people vote the more they see others giving high marks (or low marks) to various…

“Hot or Not” was a bugbear for my teen-aged rationalist self. I didn’t ant to admit that racism existed as a teen because it was just so scary. But, I ran a statistical analysis of hot or not by a number of factors: age, race, symmetry etc. The racism was a huge factor, the only thing that had a bigger impact was age…

I really dislike Uber for some of the things they have done, but this seems REALLY unfair to them. Being a driver is not a job where you see your boss everyday, they log-in on the app and go.

But you know who really messed things up? The police! All uber cars have GPS and many have video cameras— by now the tapes have…

These are the kind of people our prisons need money and room to house. But the whole system is clogged by the war on drugs.

What "social commentary" ?

Amsterdam?

Real talk: I get that the cops feel hated right now but they have no CLUE how to reverse that. Doubling down on being jerks is not the way.

Also: I thought they were doing a work stoppage? or is that only for white people doing "crimes"

Listen guys. You might think it would be a good idea to warn young black kids to not do this to stay safe... but I'm told that ALSO makes the police really upset.

I think randomly wearing a *yellow* star could be a bit disrespectful.

When I was I kid I liked to quilt patches onto my backpack. I made a moon and star but the star was shaped like a Jewish star. (it was easy to draw) My mom pointed it out.

I was kind of annoyed because there was a moon right there (context mom) and I didn't mean it to be disrespectful. But I didn't say my mom was the…

The issue I have with both girls and boys dolls is that it is so taboo for kids to play with the doll designed for the "wrong" gender. There isn't anything bad about fashion and being pretty or dressing up, why is it so bad for boy to take and interest in this? I feel that you are implying that the things Barbie…

But that's the most normal color.

True. Provided that it has been away from human contact for 12 hours. Ebola can only live outside of the body for 4 to 6 hours.