Another great aspect of the story is that Chastain came up with a project that wouldn’t just break her out of the typical roles she plays, but would also help Spencer get out of “Mammy” jail, where, with some exceptions, she’s been stuck since The Help.

White folks who like to call themselves allies please take note. She acknowledged she didnt know shit, LISTENED, then did something meaningful without making it about her.

Hi “i am Jack’s Smirking Revenge,” your comment didn’t “disappear,” I simply hadn’t gotten to it yet (there are a lot, and I am going through all while also doing other things). Not sure what other contact you’ve had or attempted to have with TheRoot, but I don’t see any insights or Qs from you on the piece under…

Honestly, some of these responses, in tone and content, exactly prove my point.

Uh huh. Agree to disagree. Why did the 6 vote to replace her (if you prefer that word to ‘oust’) is my point? I also note that you’re awfully worked up about this. Why? What is YOUR stake in this? I know what mine is. Thanks for reading, in any case!

Please share how you know that Breed declined/refused to relinquish her acting mayor and/or BOS president’s seat while campaigning for the full-term slot? I might have missed a public or on the record announcement, if she made one. Also re Feinstein, she was approved by a Board majority to be the interim/acting mayor…

Hello “Gibraltar1,”

The many ways white people are trying to twist themselves to come up with counter reasons is proof racism is underlying all their “distrust”.

Uh huh. Is it possible that Breed walked a fine line between a) ‘going with the flow’ of power on the BOS when Lee was mayor from self-preservation (to make sure she would retain appeal to voters beyond her district, which is absolutely necessary, given the dynamism of the city’s population in the past decade, and b)…

Hi — I moved too fast. I am aware that London as a supervisor represents the Fillmore, not Bayview-HP; I have corrected the piece. As for the rest of your comment, thanks for sharing your opinion. I totally disagree. And I am pretty put off by your suggesting I am ‘assuming’ that Breed will be a good mayor just…

Hmmmm, I have to say I have not ever heard of white cops picking up blacks in downtown SF and “dropping them off in Bayview.” Also, Jerry Brown was not CA’s governor back in the 1960s when the funding got rolling for the “Urban Renewal” of the Western Addition.

I’m a black guy who’s lived in San Francisco since 2000.

To be fair though, Franken way more progressive than Gillibrand, and absolutely no harm would have come from doing a full investigation on his behavior, but Gillibrand has been angling for a more politically active role for a while and Franken was an easy, not to mention rising, target. We often talk about how there…

Yeah, I gotta admit this gets some extra hard side-eye after I saw leftist attacks of both Kamela Harris and Corey Booker just a few months ago. How odd that no candidate, particularly those that are women or POC, except Sanders is progressive enough...

Well the same people who are all over Slate crying about Franken are the ones who are all over Slate stanning Bernie.

As a lawyer myself, I’m not really that swayed by “you use to represent bad people arguments.” Any lawyer working in a major firm is going to have some bad clients. It doesn’t really reflect a worldview as completely as you’re making it seem.

But she is also a woman and that’s identity politics.

ALLLLLLLLLL the Bernie Bros were crying when Franken stepped down.

But what evidence do you have that Gillibrand supports any of those things you describe? This thing where people place a label on person and than attribute all the things wrong with that label to the person is ... a shitty form of argument.

Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking that Berners aren’t poisoning the well for anyone that isn’t Bernie Sanders. They’ve gone after every legislator of color, Bernie’s Achilles heel. And they will tear down any woman that dares threaten his popularity.