I drove myself to the hospital with chest pain about five years ago, and saying “chest pain” stirred up the ER like kicking a nest of ants. I was in an exam room hooked up to a monitor in five minutes. Every nurse and the doctor* gave me a long, angry talk about how stupid I was for driving myself in. They kept me…

My compassion is not a finite resource, nor should anyone else’s be. I don’t believe it miserly doling it out to only the people you deem deserving. Life sentences for minors is wrong.

Children shouldn’t get 50 year sentences 

It’s not about justice anymore. It’s about revenge at any cost.

Way too much money and too many resources are being wasted on this. Just let this isht go. Damn. 

They hate it when “their rigged system” lets a nigga get away.

Hey remember when Jussie Smollett convicted and locked up an innocent man? How about when he entered a home and murdered an innocent woman playing video games with her nephew or when he choked to death a father who was selling loose cigarettes?

Precious II (2020).

I don’t know about the rest of y’all but I’m sick and sicked of being sick and tired of white folks.

She must have felt like this after hitting ‘enter’:

LOVE this.

King Trolls of Whataboutism.

SCENE: A mostly black school district. Mahalia Jackson music plays quietly in the background. The classroom is dingy, the windows rain-streaked and filthy on the outside. An occasional clang comes from the radiators struggling to heat the room. An attempt has been made to brighten the classroom walls with posters of…

I just know that wiped out a few of my precious brain cells. SMDH

Came to the comments just for that. Sounds like a wild time.

Clapback Mail is what keeps me alive these days. The ability to strike a perfect balance of shade and education/knowledge is a skill I can only dream of achieving. Please write all the books, sir Harriot. 

For those that didn’t know, within moments of the identity of the attacker being revealed in the NYC attack this site was flooded with trolls demanding an apology. I mean do any of these mouth breathers know how a website with writers works? Burnfart was adamant that The Root address this story within moments of it…

Are you kidding?! He somehow managed to empty an entire lifetime of impacted bowel movements directly into an email. He’ll never shit again (nor breathe, hopefully).

There has to be a medical diagnosis for whatever caused that last idiot to froth at the mouth for the hours it took him to write that verbal diarrhea. SEEK HELP, YOU INSANE ASSHOLE.

Jesus, you’re right. I tried to finish that last one—I really did—but turns out I didn’t even get HALFway through. I mean, I got far enough to know that white people are kind, that all social biases are borne of the same motivations and have the same effect on people, and that you weren’t as affected by the story of…