Her intentions were to get attention from like minded friends/idiots. This shit has always been ok in her little world. She doubled down by hiring a lawyer to explain why a nice white lady couldn't mean HARM by such an innocuous action. God this is exhausting.

Lol, you must have missed the memo about the new customer-centric model of higher education.

That’s what F’s are for. If the course really is a requirement, then make them take the course as many times as it takes or until they drop out. Either one works.

This is by design in some areas of the country. In other areas it is a lack of influence by black educators and a matter of not enough time or motivation to do the research themselves. My father ran multiple school districts in his career and I remember him commenting how hard it was to get educators educated about…

I don’t think I’ll ever understand people who think blackface isn’t a problem. A coworker of mine told a story about a friend going as a particular black basketball player to a Halloween party. No one noticed he was in black face until someone turned up the lights and he then proceeded to win the costume contest…

Education (and educators) are a big part of the problem here. Too many white educators have decided that the only way to be avoid giving offense is to totally ignore race. And it’s not just blackface, many kids have absolutely no idea about minstrelsy, Jim Crow, segregation, or that any form of racism survived the…

I grew up in Hong Kong and even then I knew black face was a no-no

My friend teaches a college course that satisfies a diversity requirement for business majors. She says this semester has been terrible, with a large portion of the students utterly refuse to engage with the materials (53%: The Next Generation,) but one did say she understood what it’s like being a minority as she’s…

Yeah, this isn’t a new thing. Blackface hasn’t been ‘acceptable’ in *white* mainstream American culture for like 30 years. Still, every couple of months some idiot gives it a shot and get called out and plays dumb. There’s no excuse for ignorance.

Isn’t there TV stations, cable TV and the internet in Iowa?

Megan’s heat is broken for the families she let down

I don’t know that I’d say it “sucks,” necessarily, but the gap between his quality of music and his generally perceived musical “genius” is easily among the largest out there, comparable to Jack White, Eric Clapton, Eminem...I’m having trouble coming up with other black artists whose respect is so undeserved, usually…

Thanks for the confirmation I got this right. I was a little nervous (not being a veteran, or even American) and can only go on second hand information. But it seems absolutely crazy to me that combat soldiers in literal war zones are held to a higher standard of conduct than domestic police officers who are supposed…

Yeah, that’s what always gets me - so many of these shootings would have been averted if the police had been using the RoE we used in Iraq, where we tried to do whatever we could to escalate only as absolutely necessary despite the fact that there were some very bad dudes out there, because killing innocent civilians…

I’ve read numerous comments by American combat veterans outlining the rules of engagement they were required to follow in active war zones. They had to follow a series of de-escalation techniques when engaging with suspected militants, and could only return fire. Firing the first shot was grounds for disciplinary…

“If his fists were in the air, you could see there was nothing in his hands.” That methodical, measured legal counter to the anticipated,”I feared for my life” police defense is brilliant!

“a medal of valor and named the department’s patrol officer of the month”

It’s amazing what you can get a grand jury to do when you have a prosecutor who actually wants to indict a motherfucker! It is refreshing from the usual song and dance of prosecutors who claim to be bringing charges to the grand jury to consider only to have them act as the defense attorney when they get in front of…

Oh, and you know what this could lead to?!?!? Cops in the Portsmouth area might start thinking twice before pulling their gun our or, even worse, shooting at a suspect who “might” be carrying a weapon!

“If more prosecutors would stop looking at police homicides as something different than other homicides or shooting injury cases.