Every fucking time I hear “Brothers and Sisters,” I want to put my fist through a wall. Fuck Paul, he was a dick.

Why is there such a cottage industry around “the Kardashians as feminist” think pieces? It’s weird, and gross, and patently untrue.

Once, I walked into my then-boyfriend’s house with a loose shawl around my shoulders. His mother commented that I looked like the عذراء — the Virgin Mary. And I whispered (genuinely confused): is that a compliment?

Wow! Ms. Beacon taught me typing on our family’s Commodore 64 back in the 80s.

How do you not give it to Stephen Fry? :-)

Let’s hope he goes the way of Lee Atwater, bloating up with disease and disowned by his former masters.

Him? No. Young Tim Kaine? Ayuuuup.

Would you have sex with Tim Kaine’s son?

Arrr! Tis a salty brine!

I had a discussion with a white friend of mine about how minorities inherently have it tougher in the country. One of the things he mentioned was that black people shouldn’t sell and do drugs if they want to get ahead. I had to remind him that he sells drugs and we were both smoking while having the conversation.

The socioeconomic issue masquerades as a “chicken-or-the-egg” situation, when it’s really rather clear when you look at the history of different ethnicities within the US.

If it was truly a socio-economic issue, then you would find a comparable level of socioeconomic success between black people and later immigrants,…

I think he meant all the clueless commenters that can’t be bothered to google/read up before posting.. just a guess.

I will (shamefully) admit I used to be the type who was like, “we have a socioeconomic imbalance in this country masquerading as a race issue” but like you, Trayvon Martin forced me to confront that no, actually we have a humungous problem with racism. And it wasn’t just the news coverage - it was people I considered…

His story hit me the hardest watching the 13th. His life was stolen from him and from his mother. Even if he did steal the backpack (which he didn’t), how can anyone say that crime justifies three years in solitary confinement?  

It was Trayvon Martin who really forced me to confront race in America. I remember seeing how his character was assassinated by Fox News and other right wing outlets and thinking, “he was seventeen. He’s a menace to society because he smoked pot and got into a fight? In that case I was Al fucking Capone.”

Blame the shitty haircut for the dated reference.

Why do some white people respond to these essays with :

Watch Paris is Burning on Netflix! It explains it all and is an all time great doc, despite it’s issues of privilege and outsider director that were mentioned above.

I think Gawker sites are now required to force “Woke” into a headline at least 3X per week.

It’s time for the side mullet hair cut to die in a fire.