"Also, please don't say it's important she's naked or it's in the book"

The difference is that there is a long history of black natural hair being considered unacceptable. When someone is saying that no one combed Blue Ivy's hair, they are saying much more than when someone is saying that you haven't combed your child's hair. Although you mention that you understand that that happens, you…

Blue seems like a happy, healthy baby whose parents love her. What more does any child need?

Thank you for this post. Black women who choose natural styles and and black families that select these natural styles for their children (as opposed to treating a toddler's head with chemicals or intense heat that can both literally burn their skin) will also thank you for this.

Look, I'll say it; anyone wearing that outfit (whichever of the two people Tran is in this video), isn't allowed to talk shit about anyone.

I found this all kind of…….. gross.

This is why he won. This amazing tracking shot:

It's amazing isn't it? I completely agree with your smoking gun statement, they are terrible at lying.

That wasn't the only reason. These were people who either a) on the edge for a while or b) people I barely know. I do not need to take negativity or out right disgusting racism, like calling all black people animals as one of the people did. That has nothing to do with this one incident and everything to do with…

Considering that some eyewitnesses claim the officer threw open the door into the two teens and had it rebound into him, they aren't necessarily responsible for the injury, even if it's true. (Also, the police initially didn't even claim it was Brown in the supposed altercation with the police officer, which is…

Maybe they want to believe [so strongly] that the police are good and fair because it reinforces their belief they they themselves are good people: "I have never been in trouble with the police therefore I must be a good person".

I mean just in the last two weeks....

I'm not above anything. As a product of extreme racial privelege, I'm positive that I've done offensive and racist things without realizing it. And I hope desperately that I get called out for it when I do, because ignorance is never an excuse for being a shithead, and even if I'm doing something shitty out of…

It amazes me that people see police abusing our civil rights in photographs, on video no less, and not only ignore it but are only concerned about how hard those police officers are working. Incredible.

That's why I find it so hard to buy any story in which the cop isn't at fault. Almost no person reacts to being told to not walk in the street by attacking a police office. Just try to imagine that. It would never happen. Back-talk? Maybe, but the cop doesn't have to react to back-talk by escalating the situation…

The thing that scares me is that some people (including the police department) don't seem to think that police shooting an unarmed person requires any scrutiny or asking any tough questions. They seem happy enough with "well, he might have been justified".

You mean the ones conveniently leaked a full 11 days after the incident?

John Oliver said it best. Paraphrasing because I don't know the exact quote but something like: "There are some open questions about what exactly happened in the initial incident; however, it is absolutely crystal clear that every single thing that the police have done since then has been utterly wrong."

You know, I don't care what Brown did. He was jaywalking in the street and now he's dead. There is just no reasonable progression by which you go from jaywalking in the street to dead. Maybe it would have played out like this with a white kid, same size and same age, but I somehow doubt it. I cannot imagine a…