Yes, yes, yes and yes. This seems more like a bullshit Twitter rabbit hole. The Root is better than this. 

It also says that this was a racist thing until the early 90’s (and then wasn’t?). So given that she’s 41 now, unless she was tuned into kkk goings on in her pre-teen years and was crowned kkk princess of St Louis while a freshman at Princeton at the age of 13 (possible) it doesn’t seem like there’s much here to link…

There’s really not much of anything here. The headline and the beginning of the story made it sound like Erin from The Office was burning crosses and shit. Nope, she attended some corny debutante ball thing that has a racist past. Most of the US has a racist past.

Am I missing something? I see no connection other than the origins of the festival or party or whatever that would tie her to KKK leanings. If dumbass Black people wanted to join that bullshit, that’s of course their choice but I don’t see where she was personally connected to the KKK or even racism. I also think it’s…

I don’t believe in any Biblical eye-for-an-eye justice. In my mind, there are only three overlapping reasons to lock someone away:

Right, most international students are in fact subsidizing the education of domestic students. They’re often paying the full boat tuition, if they’re at a state university they’re paying out of state tuition, and as a bonus, we’re taking them into our country, during some of the most formative years of their lives,…

I use a pseudonym here because the parents of some of my students would try to get me fired for saying that the people responsible for and who profited from slavery were white, that the legacy of slavery was “slavery-lite” sharecropping, Jim Crow, lower birth weight Black babies, lower Black family wealth, and that we…

Hey there! If you’re white, you may never be ungrayed here. Personally, I’m ok with that. I do not come here with any expectation that my voice will be “heard” and that’s ok! This is not our space (assuming you are white like me - if not, apologies). I like coming here to learn, try to better understand, and to be…

What gets me about assholes like this is they wait until they’re through with school, get a good job, and then talk themselves into being white supremacist dickwads because—-what? They’re bored? Disillusioned with grown up life?

“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent…

“Subsidized” international students? What?!?!?

How it’s done in Norway:
- All regular police officers must have a 3-year degree from one of the police colleges, police staff officers typically have a degree in law. There are no shortcuts for military or otherwise, police college is the minimum, with no transfer credits.
- All police colleges across the country have…

S**t, just remembered that a friend’s girlfriend died after being hit by a speeding LAPD cop without his lights on in the 00's. They lied about it and tried to hide the blackbox too. Cops: The epitome of untrustworthy.

I’ve witnessed four chases (such is living in L.A., sigh...). Three resulted in crashes and injuries and *every one of them* was over a minor speeding ticket or outstanding warrant.

Justice is so hard to define. While my angry side says take the guy out back after the hearing and shoot him in the public square, the other part wonders what could be learned to help identify the next guy having “issues”.

Hell, I quit a job because I was tired of working in a fishbowl conference room when everyone else had desks.

While I get this sentiment, I mean she has to go up against literal white supremist who are doing everything in their power to undermine her. Also numerous other issues from the police unions.

I am reminded of a guideline that a health & safety guy at work used to tell me: for any unsafe operation/piece of equipment that kills a worker, there have usually been 10 - 100 injuries at that station, and for very injury, there have usually been 10-100 near-misses. So for every work fatality, there have been 100 -…

I didn’t take it as a joke at all. I once saw them shooting at a guy for over five minutes, over 200 rounds, in a surrounded public area.
Only a numbskull would believe “that’s just about the right kind of problem solving needed!”