Right, exactly.  It was pretty shocking to see him reduce Native Americans to “Thanksgiving, you know?”  But this author seems to have a very reductive view of race. 

I was really interested in reading this article but got to you saying Thanksgiving Indian and now I am just so full of fuck you that I cannot finish. It is hard to read when I am rage filled. 

This essay along with the black card one are exceedingly dumb

“And both means we’ve decided not to foreclose on any perspectives while he is in heavy learning mode.” What does this mean?

Which is why he created the family he has.

Maybe if he didn’t have such a basic reductive caricature of blackness as an aspirational model then he wouldn’t feel so burdened and conflicted by it. Fried bologna and spades??? Heckin Woof, bruh. It’s a black thing if a black person is doing it. What is this 3rd grade Oreo coconut “am I still black if I like…

It’s so much bullshit. I grew up in a majority Black neighborhood, and my best friend’s family went apple picking. I’ve never even heard that we aren’t supposed to wear flip flops. My on-the-edge-of-Hotep boyfriend loves Natalie Merchant and is a fiend for punk music. I am a crazy dog lover who refers to her dog as…

There was another think piece on The Root by a black writer who “wasn’t born black” (paraphrase) because she ate kale and liked to go hiking or skiing or something. It felt like weird humble-bragging and I wasn’t here for it..

I do not like labeling things as not for Black people. I am Black but not African American and am always amazed by the way some black people here will label something White that had nothing to do with unseasoned chicken

No. The shooter is simply throwing Candace Owens name among other right-wing memes in a sick effort to treat the entire shooting as a “joke”. In fact, the entire manifesto is one giant, stinking shitpost. Don’t read it. Just support your local mosque and be kind to any muslims you know.

She’s one of those “if you get shot while wearing a hoodie its your own fault” types.

TThanks for sharing your experience. My mom’s sister was in Smith’s shoes. And my uncle made a choice to find companionship when her health got worse. All while he stuck with my aunt. He did not want anyone else to hanger her diaper, bathe, or change her. He bit of a mistrust with nursing homes regarding Alzheimer’s…

If this ever happens to me, I hope that my wife finds someone else, and that everyone forgives me for taking a couple bottles of pills and checking out. Not trying to be this kind of burden to anyone

Perhaps for the countless caregivers out there feeling lonely, isolated, hopeless and destroyed and not knowing how to put in some self-care while they’re taking care of their loved one. I’m sure he knew there would be backlash, but this is an important discussion to have, especially with our aging population.

As a person whos mother has dementia the amount of ignorance being said about B Smith and her husband was stunning. While i might not agree with going public with the new GF. I understood what was happening and that her husband is grieving. Nice to see an article with some perspective on the caregiver and what they…

So that others being caretakers who feel isolated can see a different way. That they don’t have to adhere to societal pressures about what is “right.”

I don’t think her truancy stuff is bad, people are taking that video of her “laughing” completely out of context, Snopes gives more info:https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kamala-harris-homeless-mother/

I think that her truancy prosecutions are HUGELY problematic

I don’t understand this at all. Black people don’t want crime in their community either. I get there are numerous factors that affect criminal behavior, etc, but dismantling the system is not what I ever wanted. I simply want Black and White Americans treated equally under the criminal justice system.

Keep our name out your muhfuckin’ mouth.