It’s almost like looking good in a cocktail dress and channeling righteous indignation are not all it takes to have a handle on the issues.

White people must think any Black outrage is outrage for no reason. Emmett’s mother Mamie Till is dead. She didn’t have approval about this painting being made and I doubt any of the Tills were asked about this. Mamie Till had an open casket and allowed for the press(mostly the Black press) to take pictures to open a…

Mamie Till, as far as I’ve read, was okay with an open casket at the viewing and the publication of pictures of Emmet’s body in effort to show the world what racist monsters did to her son. I did not read that she signed off on a white artist, decades later, making art of the image for money. I really don’t get how…

“snowflake feels” makes everything else you say worthless.

Ms.Till shared the photographic image of her son. The painting was appropriation, not a collaboration.

Mamie Till’s decision to have her son placed in an open casket in that time and climate is not comparable to an artist, a stranger, depicting him in the casket now for financial gain .

Oh the people in the first thread are losing their accents so they totes know what you are going through!/s

I’d just like to note - because this story is important and some commenters seem confused - that it’s beyond appalling to compare white communities losing their accents because of globalization to the lingering effects of systematic cultural genocide that has marginalized and disempowered native communities for…

I wish Mrs. The Mooch and her baby well. And by “well”, I mean her lawyers take the Mooch to the cleaners and never look back. Leave him with nothing but his foul mouth and vile reputation.

He’s entitled to his feelings, but he’s not entitled to use his feelings to be a dick to you, which is what’s happening here. I’d recommend that he check out The Art of Manliness, which has a post about supporting your wife through a miscarriage. As for what to say, pointing out how common it is isn’t assholish to me;…

The last residential school shut down in the 1990s. Indigenous people are hugely overrepresented in prison populations, in homeless populations, in victims of crime. They are way more likely to live in poverty, to experience violence, and to have poor access to healthcare and education. Halifax still has a proud…

Plagiarizing myself from GT, because this story makes me so happy:

That would be grrrreat!

We’re finally getting people coming around to the idea that this is legitimately referred to as “cultural genocide.” Of course there are still far too many people who go absolutely batshit crazy when they hear that term - largely because they are ignorant (whether willfully or just passively) of what colonization has…

I want you to think about the many ways your question is stupid.

I have spent a good deal of time working in remote (mostly northern) First Nations communities, and I learned to appreciate the “cultural storage capacity” that language provides. One example was when someone explained to me that the word people said as I was leaving (which I took to be them saying ‘goodbye’ to me),…

Canada’s willingness to force assimilation on their indigenous populations over the past 150 years is a crime against humanity.

My reservation is working hard to create more Menominee language teachers. It’s a struggle to save the language and culture.

I’m one of about 250 fluent speakers of an indigenous language. I doubt that there will be anyone fluent in two generations.

She has a limited time frame to ask questions. If he blabs on and on and gives really long winded non answers, he can prevent her from asking all that she wants to.
So reclaiming her time is actually her literally reclaiming the time wasted. They can’t count his bullshit against her timer.