I wouldn’t call it courtship. I’m not sure that there is a word for the sort of predatory behavior on display here. But your analogy to rape is on point.

Apparently the young man decided not to press charges, basically saying he forgives her ...etc...

I’d like to apologize for the person who shares my skin tone being ignorant to you. He’s willfully blind and likely will remain so as I see little effort to understand. By the way, Mr. Rochlin? One, he was nicer to you than you deserve. Two, if you keep saying things like this you’re just going to piss off someone…

Oh my god, I love love love this. Who wouldn’t enjoy a slow-mo montage with Sarah McLaughlin’s “I will remember you” paying tribute to lost jobs?

I didn’t read the article only the title, but from that I can glean its central argument. If there is any case that proves it it would be this one. She is so scared that she blocks him at the door and then proceeds to ask where he lives and the FOLLOWS HIM INTO THE CONFINED SPACE OF AN ELEVATOR and up to the place…

Well, in the case of Philando Castile, saying”I have my properly licenced handgun in this car with me; don’t want you to freak out, Officer” was pretty bad.  

..and he would know she isn’t carrying a concealed weapon because........

There is a solution. We need to make calling the police for no good reason the legal equivalent of pulling a fire alarm for no good reason. It should have the same consequence, a civil or criminal fine. This can be done at the local level, and should be a major focus of black political activist and their allies. It…

What would incentivize the people who have no use of public schools to increase funding or resources in a state with astronomically high taxes?

I love how uncomfortable people alleviate their discomfort by following the thing that is making them uncomfortable all the way to the elevator, get in the elevator with it and follow it to its apartment door. Whew, what a stress buster!

This trash ass prom night reject still called the police on the man after he used his own key to enter his own apartment. Oh, ok. She seemingly had to make the call just to try and convince herself she wasn’t being the racist devil she was so clearly being. That she was still in the right. That she had a right to be…

Well sir, our card says you are OK. Move along and make sure to properly holster your firearm and place your medical cannabis in an enclosed compartment.

When he finally got to his apartment he did something even worse than making her feel uncomfortable, he made her feel stupid. Then feeling stupid made her feel angry.  Then feeling angry made her feel like calling the cops.

Oh bullshit. He’d have been lucky to have walked out in handcuffs.

Why do you insist on talking to me?

“Each of these women is making these calls not because they feel legitimately threatened, but because they need to bolster their deflating identities as “mistresses of the universe,” fully aware of the very real dangers to the Black people involved at the hand of the police.”

I’ll just leave this here.

I really need The Root to make a Jobs in Memorium video for all the jobs lost in the line of public racism duty. There’s the Starbucks woman from Philly, The CVS man in Chicago, the Paul Blart Pool cop I feel like there’s been at least one per week like clockwork.  

Really don’t see why law enforcement can’t put the word out like “Hey if you call us for frivolous reasons we’re gonna give you a ticket. If you have a pattern of said behavior we will escalate from there.” And then follow through on that.

Wait a minute. Wasn’t the dude visiting his sidepiece who pulled on a gun on those college kids also employed by a management company? What is it about that job?