Thank you for this article, Hani. I greatly appreciate you sharing your pain and insight.

Also, please find me a pair of pants with a back pocket large enough to conceal a folded up t shirt.

Here’s what you miss:

Just want to make sure that everyone’s reading the same thing I am, cuz:

“We’re extremely embarrassed this happened and have taken the immediate steps to remove the manager who was on-duty from her role...“

That doesn’t say terminated or fired and what that means to me is “reassigned”. Maybe demoted, maybe they just…

There was never a stolen t-shirt. From the get-go I suspected as much (how do you fit a fucking t-shirt in your pocket?), but what seals it for me is that motherfuckers made a POINT to interrupt them mid-proposal to make their third accusation. This was literally just to fuck with those people for being black.

There was no t-shirt.  There was only racism.

I know I love to go somewhere with 8 friends, steal a single tee shirt, spend more money than a t-shirt costs on drinks, and propose to my girlfriend. 

That’s a lottttt of energy over a t-shirt to end up getting fired over, sis.  

Nope Kanye and Kim just gave him a lifeline to his supporters and I am angry as fuck.

A sharp, quick-witted journalist would lose this level of access.

This part of his interview with NPR was very sweet: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/742815262/fired-over-too-much-tupac-a-rap-loving-bureaucrat-from-iowa-says-he-hopes-not

He’s just so very sincere in his love. I hope that that sincerity and sweetness translates into genuinely treating all people as people. 

except bake a cake for gays

Only some of us have the power to make our racism federal and state legislation and policy. Only some of us get to manufacture stereotypes at will to justify our racism. So, you’re “we’re all racist” claptrap is meaningless.

I have spent a lot of time reading about the history of the Civil Rights movement, and I can’t help but wonder what this Jesse Jackson

I personally like ‘Trumplthinskin’.

One of my favorite things to do when people use dog whistles like that is to play dumb as fuck. A friend of a friend’s sister commented that she didn’t like how “dark” her neighborhood has gotten and I was pretending I thought she was talking about street lamps. This went on for ages and she kept getting increasingly…

Conway noted that “the Squad… represent a “dark underbelly in this country.”

Uh Jason Captain America beat the asses of those men in The Winter Soldier. As for Kemp this is the main reason there should be an all out economic boycott of Georgia. While we’re at it Florida too. It’s long past due for us to make these states pay some price, literally for the shit they continue to elect.