wait a month.

Bottom line: Everyone was wrong on this and there’s no reason to choose sides.

- The original account was that the kids swarmed Phillips who was minding his own business. The video shows that he walked over and got in the middle of the kids, who were already acting like idiots. This is the action that most people…

So...he only started protesting because he’s psychic, knew he would be blackballed, and knew that Nike would endorse him several months or a year later? Sure, that makes sense.

So you’re equating the NFL trying to silence people of color with Kaepernick having a Nike endorsement. Interesting. 

So you’re simultaneously confirming that you did actually see it and then pretended not to? Interesting defense.

“It actually makes sense they’d bring the Trump 2020 sign, totally outside of racial context, if they knew the other team was protesting the anthem.”

Back to my point about an Obama 2012 sign at a suburban, white school. Would that have been a racial attack?

No one was bringing “an ‘Obama 2012' sign to a suburban basketball game in 2014" because there would have been absolutely no context for it. It didn’t happen (and wouldn’t have happened) as it would have literally MADE NO SENSE to bring a political banner to a HIGH SCHOOL basketball game.

Trump is at root a white identity supporter, and so are these voters. The whole theme of the evening was and is “we, the God fearing White people of this town, are the US and you aren’t”. This is of a piece with the entire outrage over protests of the anthem and its roots in white identity politics. The protests are…

Um, excuse me I’m a refuse collector and I take issue with this statement. I am not the thing I pick up. Stay in your lane (so you don’t hit the trash cans on pick up day). #notallgarbagemen

Husky, you “hi-yella”, “piss-colored”, “paper bag looking”, “you ain’t all black”, “light-skinned are at the bottom of the black race”ass nearly negro, you!

Light skinned Black men catch absolute Hell too. They are usually characterized as being “soft” and “feminine” . I can absolutely see Dre making fun of Junior by called him El Barge or Christopher Williams for being “flimsy”.

Hm, I really question our ability to have a nuanced conversation about colorism. Most I’ve seen end up in darker skinned folks complaining that lighter skinned folks benefit from colorism and don’t own their part in it. Lighter skinned folks complaining that their Blackness and experience gets discounted by other…

I think you meant ringworm

My dude, unless you are in Nevada, every time you hire a prostitute you are breaking the law. No one’s going to shed a tear when your latest lot lizard takes you out.

Could have been shortened to “I met a lot of interesting people.” If you’re keeping a running list of the few instances you’ve interacted with non-straight white people, then I don’t recommend choosing this hill to die on.

You’re absolutely right and everytime I generalize about Indiana I picture the mural in downtown Indy of Kurt Vonnegut.

Oooo this does look like a modern adaptation of “Beloved”

Maybe decline going over to someone’s home for dinner if you know they like to say grace and it’s such a problem for you.