Come on, give them a break, they’re just ignorant kids from one KY’s largest cities. It’s not like there’s now footage of Covington Catholic students attending a basketball game in blackface that’s straight out of a minstrel show...

Thank you! I will tell her that she has more cheerleaders in her corner!

Please congratulate her for me, and tell her to keep on that degree, and to get her rest because some days she will be tired (retail is hell), and that we are rooting for her :-)

Oh bless you! Thank you so much. I always pray before I write, so I’m glad to know God did the work through me. AND you didn’t even have to get dressed up and slide into anybody’s crowded pew.

Can I chime in as a white women without diminishing what’s going on here? Because this spoke to me too, and I think it did because I grew up poor (real poor, not broke). And poverty is definitely racist, but poverty is not only racist—growing up poor meant that there were no mistakes to be made. I was talented but the…

Get outta my head and heart. Sharing like a mofo with all my friends (and fam) struggling with finding “that thing.”

Feel the fear, and do it anyway. Rooting for you!

I feel like you totally missed the point of the article, since it’s emphatically saying that not having your life perfectly settled by 30 or 40 with the pile of degrees and the fancy shit and the accolades DOES NOT MEAN that life has passed you by. I mean, damn.

This article is so on time. I’ve literally been in bed the last three days struggling with this issue and mourning all the things I feel like I’ll never have. I needed this reminder that it’s not over and there’s still time and that I haven’t wasted my life. The things I’ve accomplished may not be tangible but they…

I’m in tears reading this. It is very much the encouragement I need for this time in my life. Like your friend, I have some ...no...lots, of regrets for missed opportunities. I’m 47. I totally feel like life passed me by. Thank you for this article. I’m drying my tears, grabbing my goals journal and making plans to…

This is beautiful - like going to church on Sunday morning, only I got the word in the comfort of my bed. I needed this. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you so much I definitely needed that in my 44 year-old life right now

I started crying when I read the title. I can’t explain how important this is for me to hear.

Janelle! Girl, this was fucking amazing! Thank you so much for writing this. I’m sharing the link with so many women who need to read this as much as I did. Thank you.

The staccato in her speech made each of those claps exist and not exist at the same time. Sharon Reed just invented Schrodinger’s Clapback and should be up for the Nobel Prize in Physics for that shit.

Everything about this is great. Also if you’ve already watched the original clip previously you should still watch the one posted above.

Second-and-a-half person

That camera angle let me know some shit was gonna go down.

I love a good read, I REALLY love a read with receipts, and I ESPECIALLY love a read with receipts where you just let the other person’s words serve as the rope as to which they can hang themselves. 

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