Fellow La-ian. This made me chuckle

When I was in 6th grade, our school banned shorts for some reason. I got so mad I started to campaign to bring them back.

I’m so sorry that happened to you.

This same thing happened to me before the days of video. My boyfriend “shared” me with his friends in a dorm room after I had passed out from drinking. I only had odd Rosemary’s baby type remembrances, and could very well have thought I had dreamt the whole thing until the next morning, when he actually bragged about…

Huh?! Freedom of speech in America means you may express your views and not get a knock on your door at 3 am and be hauled off to a reeducation camp. It doesn’t mean you have the god-given right to speak anywhere you aren’t welcome. Feel free to criticize the schools or tax-payer funded halls for not inviting white…

How do you feel about people being barred from the debate, and then tear gassed for protesting? What about their right to speak?

And that drives me so crazy in the case of professing Christians because have they EVER read the New Testament? Jesus never speaks or acts out of hatred and he never authorizes anyone else to do it. He says people should consider their own flaws before worrying about other people’s. If more Christians actually…

What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it…

You ever notice how Black people are expected to put up with shit like this for the “greater good” but these same people get mad when their commute or brunch is interrupted by a Black Lives Matter protest?

Are we still supposed to be mad at Mel Gibson? When all that happened, I felt like he was more of a really troubled drunk than an actual bigot.

The older I get, the harder it is for me to feel as idealistic as you obviously still feel. It’s a genuine struggle. I often think back to the scene in Twelve Angry Men when the racism of one of the holdout jurors is finally revealed and a man who had been on his side until he started ranting becomes so disgusted he…

It’s actually Dillard University rather than Dillon.

Oh, for sure. But I think getting into a who is the bigger racist pissing contest is not particularly helpful at this point in our country’s history. I think we have to acknowledge that it’s EVERYWHERE and we have to also be conscious of our own biases, not just those of other people.

Yeah. The South should TOTALLY not get a pass, but I find scapegoating the South for racism to be pretty counter productive. Instead of getting caught up in a Who Is Worse contest, I wish we could acknowledge that racism is imbedded in every corner of our society and start to look inward, instead of pointing the…

I’m going to be that asshole for a second: It’s Dillard University, not Dillon.

Mmmm the South does not have full ownership of racism. There’s plenty to go around.

Yeah...no. I, as a Black person, would not want my education money going towards protecting a person who thinks I am not fully human and should be treated as an inferior, enslaved, or killed. Differing political opinions are fine, but actual hate-group members? Nope. They can speak their views all they want but I…

I’m sorry, but how is it disgusting and disrespectful of black students to say that they can’t abide by this man’s existence? Black people are tough, and a racist speaking hasn’t killed them yet. What is harmful to them is the idea that they are too fragile to exist in a world where this man has a right to speak as…

Why is it disgusting? I would not mind if he came to my HBCU. I support his right to speak and if my campus said we would host any candidate who got 5% or more, then we would honor our word. Even if it is person we do not like or have the same views.

...open Senate seat belonging to retiring (and scandal-plagued) Republican Sen. David Vitter.