Doesn’t matter what you think. Doesn’t matter what I think. In popular culture, an SUV is a truck. A Hummer has long been referred to as a truck, even though it isn’t. Escalades are called trucks, even though that only should refer to the versions that have beds.

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The NFL exists for profit. The NFLPA exists to protect the immediate interests of its rank-and-file. Both conspire to work together to the benefit of their mutual interests when both are threatened by such pesky matters as women being beaten by the league’s chattel and the union’s clients.

Just like rape, a domestic violence victim is more-likely to gain justice if she or he is dead than if alive. At least murder is irrefutable and unignorable fact.

Back when I was single visiting NOLA, I got beads, chicks, booze, a little weed, and beignets. Yum, beignets.

In other words, the Knicks.

I don’t know who you are talking about. But plenty of BLM activists talk about legislation. As I mentioned to ajdragoon, there’s Campaign Zero, which focuses on police union contracts that often protect rogue cops. You can learn more at http://www.joincampaignzero.org/. The Movement For Black Lives also has a platform…

Completely understand. But if you are crap-talking customers in the workplace, then you will eventually slip up and say the wrong thing at the wrong time. There’s a lesson one of my old bosses taught me: Keep the gripes out of the workplace and at home. There, you can talk smack about your customers and your…

I get it and the OP probably gets it, too. But among most people, an “SUV” is a “truck”. At this point in life, I don’t even bother correcting anyone about it.

Depending on the neighborhood and the demographic being served, this is possible. A few months ago, when my LG G4 went brick (the second one to do so because of a fault motherboard), I went over to the Sprint store in Largo, Md., which serves low-income black people. There, I was told that it couldn’t be replaced,…

I don’t know why enthusiasts in any field, be it cars or watches, expect salespeople to be knowledgeable? These guys make money off commission, so they have no incentive to be knowledgeable about product other than how to sell them. This is no different than the rest of us in most jobs; I may know plenty about…

Not just legislation. It is also the matter of police contracts and police unions who help craft them. The group Campaign Zero (to which McKesson and Packnett belong) have put together a database of police contracts detailing the protections cops receive. You can find it athttp://www.joincampaignzero.org/. Tackling…

Expecting Kaepernick to be more than just a voice for change is expecting too much. If anything, movements are served best when we have divisions of labor as we do in any aspect of economy and life. Consider this: Martin Luther King was the front man for the civil rights movement of the 1960s. But the intellectual…

It becomes a troop/police thing because there are millions of people who either have been or are currently military personnel and law enforcement. Those folks, in turn, have at least one spouse, 2.5 children, parents, in-laws, and siblings. Essentially, for every soldier, cop, veteran or ex-patrolman, there are at…

Jazz wasn’t just created by black people; white people were also key in the formation of the art form. Same is true for gospel. For both, they had to borrow from the ancestral forms of others (Irish and Scottish music, for example) in order to make those artistic forms a reality.

I wouldn’t call cultural appropriation a form of racism. But it can be intertwined with bigotry. This is because those in the past who did the appropriating often thought the cultures from which they were appropriating were “primitive” or inferior. What they figured they were doing was taking the best of what they…

Pretty much. I don’t care about white people wearing dreadlocks. I care about white people denigrating black people for wearing them, denying them jobs and opportunity. I don’t care about Macklemore spitting rhymes and white people enjoying hip-hop. I care about black lives being slaughtered by those very white people…

How do you feel about churches holding Christian seders? That’s what I would consider appropriation—taking something from another culture and twisting it and claiming it as your own.

Here’s the thing: Without cultural appropriation, so much culture would not exist. Jazz wouldn’t exist without the meshing of African rhythms and the music of Irish and Scottish communities. Gospel wouldn’t exist without cultural appropriation. Hip-hop definitely wouldn’t exist without cultural appropriation.

No. That makes her a human being who values human relationships and the sacredness of them. Especially covenants between two people who then bring children into the world who deserve stable, loving homes.