Yup. Everyone, whether they realize it or not, knows someone who was raised by two loving, caring and attentive parents and turned out to be a complete fuckup (or worse) and someone who was raised by a single drug addicted parent (or less) and turned out to be a well-adjusted and normal person.

Also, perhaps blame the father as well?

we get it. you want to make sure everyone knows A BLACK PERSON COMMITTED A CRIME. BECAUSE HE’S BLACK. anything i left out?

The racist comments on this story are weird. Like...abuse of women and children is something that men of all races and religions seem pretty enthusiastic about. So claiming his Muslim name or the fact that Jezebel didn’t show his picture (when of course, every link they provide takes you right to his face) is some…

Come on now. Let’s not blame the mother for a grown man being a monster.

Oh boy. I’m a criminal attorney and this is, shall we say......... “problematic”?? That’s the word the kids are usin’ these days.

I have been following ADAPT and Ramp Your Voice and they are incredibly inspiring. Thank you for highlighting their work. They are heroes and we owe them so much!

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Mother Abigail in The Stand also fits the magical negro bill quite well.

Patti Stanger can pound sand. I’m sure Bethenny IS mean but I can’t trust the judgement of someone who forced redheads to dye their hair and made disparaging comments about the general attractiveness of gingers. Nope.

You know what, I hope the Odetta/Detta King wrote never sees it to screen. Talk about a shit storm to have the legless, jive talking, mentally ill person be the main black character?!

Idris Elba was definitely the best fit for the part. He is everything that Roland is - strong, deadly, brave as fuck, an intimidating badass, but still with emotional range. Anybody who saw him in Pacific Rim should be able to see that in a second. The part went to the best actor, period.

Yea, I think “the best actor” won the casting, vice casting a type or race intentionally.

I would pay to watch Idris Elba do anything, including my girlfriend. As soon as they announced his casting I got super excited to see his take on this role. The trailers had me so amped up with his voiceover. I’m still going to see this, I am just going into it knowing the film (and not him or McConaughey) are going…

Which is why I got so excited on the casting and listening to Idris recite the Gunslinger Oath. He’s got the chops to give that character something really great, but obviously script committee decided to cut away so much of what makes Roland who he is, Elba had nothing to work with and did what he could.

Have you tried Dialectical Behavior Therapy? That was a good start for me toward a better approach - because CBT made me feel like shit. The poster above expressed it - I know what’s wrong. I know these feelings are wrong. But I still have them, PLUS I now feel like shit for it. DBT is a little more affirmative and…

And, iirc, the people who end up being hassled in places that try to implement this have not been trans but cisgender people who aren’t adhering closely enough to gender stereotypes. These idiots don’t have a clue what trans people look like and have probably shared a bathroom with them many times.

Are you trying to claim that James Earl Ray was not who murdered Dr. King? Because Ray gave no fucks about socialism, he was a straight-up racist. The idea that MLK’s assassination was about socialism and not his body of Civil Rights work is childish white nonsense.

If bigotry is the result of economic oppression, why are there so many rich bigots?

And do you think she would have told the writer that he “loves drama” if he were a man? This is rude, condescending, and unhelpful advice.