“... there is no place in our community (or any other) for this kind of hatred and violence.”

Let me take a break from celebrating with my family to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to My Fam at The Root!

It’s driving me nuts seeing those who are also LGBTQ complaining about people saying he’s “not gay enough”. It’s usually white gay men of a more conservative bend complaining about it. They keep deliberately missing the point. Throwing up shit about stereotypes and all kinds of other arguments no one is making. The…

“Buttigieg exclaimed. “I’m here to help you!”

Stick him in a short-sleeve collared shirt and chinos, take pictures of him in black and white, and he could easily blend into the cast of literally every slice-of-life-suburbia TV show from the 1950s. Hell, he could have been the lead in Pleasantville and nobody would have batted an eye.

you hear the voice that asks Target supervisors if they carry Herbie Hancock LPs.

“He talks like an old”

Yeah. Kids say shitty things to get a rise, and they’ve got a real knack to finding the buttons to press to get under your skin, but part of being an adult, particularly an adult who works with children is learning to tune it out and not letting the kid press your buttons. It is part of being a functional adult, and…

Pre-trial settlement of a civil-rights lawsuit might make it good financially. Making it good psychologically for the poor kid is a different question.

People who feel the need to be cops or security guards for some reason are sometimes the easiest to bait.

I meant in general, but yeah specifically, cops are irrational man-children.

“You’re a violent, intellectually stunted man-child who has no restraint.”

And paid leave. As in, almost killed a kid and now chilling at home binging on mallomars and Live PD episodes and getting paid for it. While the kid is in a hospital that is going to bankrupt his parents...

You’re not wrong, but this is also what it looks like when these institutions take something seriously.

If a child saying something shitty to you is enough for you to fly off the handle like this and almost murder said child (and yes, even if this child has had a “history” of talking back), then you’re worse than whatever “bad behavior” this child was exhibiting. You’re a violent, intellectually stunted man-child who…

“...we don’t know what the child said to cause such an reacti—”

Could Face? Could Face? Is this for real? This dude should be in jail. What in the name of John Brown is this shit?

Lots of vague “concern” going around. No direct words of sympathy toward this boy and the brutality he endured. No outright condemnation of the officer’s actions. No firing. No arrest. No charges. Just a paid vacation until the smoke clears. This is the world black children are born into.

This motherfucker needs to be in prison.

He’s got to go. By any means necessary.