I’d say it’s DC, where it’s already begun but hasn’t quite taken over the entire city yet. It is not the same city where I went to college.

Building lots of housing is a pretty obvious solution that most cities lack the political will to execute, because America.

And yes, a lot of it has to do with white people moving back - it would be crazy to deny there’s a racial divide here. But it’s also a socioeconomic divide. I’m white and I can’t afford to live in…

Well, he isn’t bringing home enough money to pay for basic necessities *now*, so if he takes a minimum wage job and gives most of it to his kids, it won’t be all that different for him, will it?

What’s really sad about that is that teaching shouldn’t be a low-paid career.

I totally see your point, though I do think it’s possible these were the only jobs he could get - it’s very hard to get and keep a job with intermittently cut-off cell phone service and no license. In some cities you can get around without driving. In most you need a car or, honestly, you likely just don’t work.

You just survived a fight with SHIA LABEOUF
Normal Tuesday night for SHIA LABEOUF

I love her dress so hard

I feel like I’m the only one who isn’t into it? I like my guys with dorky demeanors, dad bods and professor glasses. I just do. I like it when they fit right in at the LL Bean Store (even if they are not white, despite LL Bean being ridiculously White People). He is not that guy.

Because the practice is irresponsible.

My vote is stupid, or troll.

Placing someone by request in a room next to someone else without asking the first person at all if they know this person or are OK with it.

This is really a no-brainer. ASK. FIRST.

Perhaps they don’t, but that’s on them. They should. If someone, even a family member, asked to be placed next to me, I’d want the hotel to fucking ask me first.

How many of those people semi-openly carrying on affairs “in the before times” were women? Cause it sure seems to me that men got to do that, and women got to suffer.

Perhaps “political beliefs are fair game”.

Also while your personal religious beliefs deserve to be left alone/not discriminated against, if you are discriminatory/bigoted because “it’s your religion”, also fair game.

Seriously. Talib Kweli has a great song in which he calls Confederates/white southerners “terrorists with etiquette who fought and killed they president / their capacity for evil so evident and prevalent” and nobody got their panties knotted up about it. And that was way more confrontational than “I twirl on them…

No but I need that dress.

I feel like ‘in an afterword’ is sort of a cop-out, honestly.

Seems like it could work, if it were based in some sort of truth. But seeing as (from the link above) Hercules actually ran away on Washington’s birthday...maybe not so much.

You wait until they are developmentally ready to understand the complexity. That would probably be sometime after they are too old for reading Scholastic books.

The cultural contributions - yes, certainly, and children can understand that. But perhaps before introducing the complex and emotionally charged idea that ‘some slaves loved their masters’, which is probably true, perhaps those children need to understand what ‘slavery’ really meant for them as a whole, first.…