This is basically a Dr. Seuss book...

Trump couldn't define empathy if it introduced itself by pointing to its dictionary entry.

I get misty. Then I get a little jealous (because my father was a garbage father and is a garbage person). Then I get happy again because my husband is an excellent father and my kids are so happy to spend time with him.

It’s a good “dad” move. All his daughters’ lives, he’s been the biggest deal in every room he’s ever been in. I think if I were the first daughter, I would want to have this one day to myself, to be about my graduation rather than my father speaking at my graduation. He’s right to take a pass here, and he did so…

That’s my thought. I can see why he’d want to be there as Malia’s dad and not the President that day.

I love this.

On one hand I was kind of kidding. On the other it’s actually true. Cats weren’t domesticated like dogs, livestock, etc. They just moved in to people’s homes, dropped a “deal with it,” and stayed.

I wish I could have little hens in my (non-existant) backyard! I wouldn’t eat them, only love them <3

Can’t she afford to just BUY a place down there? Why does she have to use AirBNB?

And in the episode before that Phil Dunphy found out he was part black! As an American history nerd I really love this show.

Her reaction is pretty standard for the show. Most of the black guests end up crying.

I went to Hong Kong back in the early 90's. My sister’s boyfriend at the time was the British Undersecretary of Commerce posted there for 2 years. The way the uber-wealthy live, what they take for granted blew my mind. And they weren’t Hollywood new money style, either. (Much more low-key) When I got home I had…

Thanks for the suggestion, we are both always looking for ways to work on our brand.

I would watch an investigative show staring you two

My mother found my great-great grandfather’s freedom paper in my grandmother’s things after she passed away. She gave it to me this year and asked me to get it framed. It’s just a small piece of very yellowed paper with a faded seal. On it is my great-great grandfather’s description as a ‘certain negro man named…

This reminds me- my grandmother survived Auschwitz. A girl I know went on a tour of Auschwitz with a journalism class, and she posted a fucking SMILEY-FACED SELFIE under the “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” sign at the entrance of the concentration camp. I wanted to strangle her for that idiotic behavior.

You yourself put the two key sentences together: “Look far enough back and you’ll see many people were enslaved by others. Then when you look at the actual world today and realise that people are still being kept as slaves.” It’s the looking back that hopefully creates the kind of awareness that this goes on today and…

The effects American slave trade are still felt today. It is, after all, what made America an economic superpower. It wasn’t exactly a picnic for black people when it ended either. It’s still not. Hell, large parts of the south still refuse to even acknowledge the slavery component in the civil war, spinning it as a…

Every day, I wake up and think “Maybe I’ll actually make it through a day without crying about something terrifically sad that I see on the internet...”

My mom, who identifies as Black and Mexican, recently got her DNA analyzed and found a surprising amount of British DNA. We know the black side of our family comes from Georgia and Louisiana (and also Nigeria and Senegal it turns out), but finding that British ancestry kind of shocked her into thinking about slavery…