I had/have white friends ask me this all the time and I typically tell them to start with their own families—harshly. Cut them off. When people are touched personally (like not being able to see grandkids, no one coming over for the holidays, etc) I feel they sometimes wake the fuck up. But of course I always hear the…

And sons.

“Have you lost your mind?”

Ok I must be the only person who took SLJ’s comments as a question about the nuances a Black American w/could’ve brought to the role that a Black British actor may not. I enjoyed the movie but it did strike me as a bit odd that the backstory of the actor seemed so steeped in Blackness yet there was no unease or…

“...because when you’re stepping that hard, why not fetchit...”

Or opt to just not say anything at all to the press.

Here in TX we drink Topo Chico (in glass bottles) and it’s seriously one of the only reasons to live in this state. In a pinch WF 365 seltzer in a can works too.

We were there recently for accent pillows and I got all sentimental going through the kiddie section remembering the stuff we bought for their rooms.

It kind of is when you add in the factor that your local Nextdoor & Craigslist will be flooded in no time w used pieces.

Most of the furniture pieces are not only reasonable (especially starter apts and kiddos), but we’ve had pieces for 20 years that are still great today. Although we can afford other places now, IKEA just does something right, still.  

The John McCain playbook.

I don’t even understand this at all? Browbeating? Anger? I’m so confused.

Yeah, we should just “move on.”

The answer may very well be yes. Who knows.

Equality and access for people who’ve never had it may SEEM like “just beat everyone up” to people who’ve always had access to everything. “It’s not fair” gets thrown around an awful lot when institutions begin to explore ways to make right for their roles in their slave owning past. This specifically is a college so…

I suppose a great place to start is by actually acknowledging the past (instead of ignoring, denying, lying, misrepresenting, and rewriting it.). Then we can start fixing things that’ll impact the present and the future. Then we can move on. Sounds like you want to just skip over everything and get to the moving on…

Gahd. And shrug. I reserve my empathy for everyone caught up in the net if Trumpism while fighting the good fight always. Not just when it hit their doorsteps. And, not for nothing, they voted for Trump, choosing to ignore (and probably support) the hate, but now we’re to somehow have sympathy because their own hate…

Oh god. It never ceases to amaze me how dumb some people are. Not being able to connect the past with the present is a task one should’ve learned on the elementary level.

Thanks Mom!

But the sister? Why was she denied?