I was still a young teen when 9/11 happened, but I remember it changed the way I was perceived. For the record, I’m a black/white mix, but I’m used to being mistaken for Mexican or Latina. After 9/11, I was mistaken for being Middle Eastern or Muslim for 3-4 years before strangers went back to assuming I was Mexican.

“An official wasn’t paying attention when there was a violation against one of our student-athletes? We get that; it happens.”

But OKC was a lone wolf, right?

Your comment perfectly illustrates how stupid, reflexive and racist people don’t ever bother to get even the basic facts before they lash out. Were any of the 9/11 bombers ever reported to be discernably brown like Ilhan Omar?! I recall Mohammed Atta’s picture and a few other just looked Middle Eastern: light-skinned…

Honestly?

Sure, it might sound like only a few dozen protesters, but it takes a truly exceptional individual to stand up there while an entire country boos you.

On 9/11, a friend of mine who was working downtown went to Ground Zero to help out when he saw the Towers fall from his office. A couple weeks later, he was kicked off a city bus by the driver because “I don’t give rides to you people after what you did!” My friend is Peruvian.

I had a similar take.

You have to appreciate how their lawyers/PR people were so drunk on the Kool-Aid that they forgot to pretend the settlement was bad for the Sacklers.

Fiers was the guy that caused him to wear that too. I watched that game and it was brutal. Weirdly he got hit in the face and his replacement would finish that at-bat as a strikeout.

Perhaps. Except for the fact that 99.99 percent of people walking around in the world could never even make contact with a major league fastball.

Fiers, I thought I told you to trim those sideburns!

The moral of the story?

He didn’t get hurt, he was ejected for being a wizard with a mostly invisible black cat sitting on his shoulder.

My bff/best man at my wedding was a year behind Kavanaugh in law school, and knew him as a famous douchebro back then. He believes her. 

Baseball players are superstitious because there is more luck involved than in any other sport. A batter can hit a ball hard, but right to the defense for an out, or they can barely make contact for a base hit.

One is hardly surprised about this. It was apparent during the “hearings” for Boofin’ Brett that he assaulted both women, and that the FBI just shut up about Ms. Ramirez.

Cambodian style Godwin’s law. You bring up khmer rouge in an argument that has nothing to do with genocide? You lost the fucking argument.

LOL Kopmala, her psychopathic fans are gonna be angry about numbers.

lemmy, for starters: