And when I grew up, I thought it was a Scottish song about Scottish things. Because I’m a nerd and I loved Wrath of Khan. So, despite all evidence to the contrary, that was my association.

It’s not. It was written by an English slave trader, but African-Americans adopted/adapted it.

he’s amazing! we’re gonna miss him something awful when he’s no longer president and some boring asshole who can’t speak or govern takes over. like jeb. or hillary.

I teared up more than once watching Obama. Not ashamed to admit it. Everything about today was beautiful.

Wrong, and if you’re going to nitpick, it wasn’t until the late 60s that they were “technically” finally considered really people. Even then, they were/are still marginalized. But good try

Learn your fucking history. Do you know what the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was and why it was necessary?

Fear that tourism will dry up unless they get with the times

I spent five years in Charleston. The “Defenders of Charleston” statue honoring the confederate soldiers is located at the most prominent corner of the most prominent park positioned so that it looks directly over the water at Fort Sumter. Right next to all the replica cannons still pointed at the Fort too. Ya know,…

Somebody’s too cheap to fly.

I need more Maya Rudolph in my life. Hell, AMERICA needs more Maya Rudolph.

I am irrationally happy that Matthew Dellavedova doesn’t get a ring.

Yep.

Every time I see one of these articles where they interview cops, it’s always “wahh I can’t do my job now because I might be held accountable for something.”

I know it’s new and scary to be held accountable for your jobs, cops, but you’ll get used to it like the rest of us.

That doesn’t mean the charge will stick, and I’ll guarantee you the cop will claim reasonable suspicion, and probably be acquitted, because really, if all you do is look at someone in the eye, and they immediately take off running, thats suspicious. Cops are trained to spot that kind of behavior.

I love how these police forces are trying to use pity as a political tactic. It’s hilarious. You signed up for the job, now you hate the job? Time for a new job.

uhhh, no. The cops killed Gray, and thats why they are in Jail (currently out on bond). Just arresting him because he fled (all though pointless to begin with) was not the reason for them being in Jail.

Well, for starters, the bangers killing people in Baltimore and other cities aren’t paid by the taxpayers to keep the peace/enforce the law/not beat the everloving shit out of people.

They never would have been charged if, you know, the suspect didn’t end up dead. Besides, that’s only “reasonable suspicion” - that allows them to stop him and search, not necessarily arrest. And he didn’t have anything illegal when they searched him. Hence, it’s an illegal arrest.

Yeah. I don’t get the complaints. The citizens are merely asking the cops to DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS and protect the population. No one is asking them to walk around on egg-shells. They’re bitching because they’ve developed a culture predicated on the de-basement and unilateral violence of young black men who can be…

They are more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs properly than they are of getting shot on duty.

Right now they can go to jail for following Supreme Court decisions such as Illinois v. Wardlow. The Baltimore States Attorney’s Office essentially overturned the Supreme Court’s decision.