She is not 'parading around,' she is walking. You know, as human beings are wont to do.

Tis only a 2nd amendment flesh wound.

My gf said she's gonna get 8 cats and call them her "pussy posse".

If he's black, he'll be tried as an adult.

Ede & Ravenscroft sounds like the kind of place that would have a store in Knockturn Alley.

I realize it is completely inconsequential to the meat of this story but Holy Shit if that doesn't just add another layer of WTF.

Ugh. Tyler Perry seems so sketch that I wouldn't be surprised if he was just doing research for Madea goes to the Hospital, due out Summer 2016.

...No, it wouldn't have been "racist" if they'd actually thrown out a "scrubby looking" beggar bothering customers. Except:

I understand wanting to be green, but as my uncle would have said, they'll waste more wood on your coffin than they will on that brown paper bag.

"Destroying a waitress's life". Hyperbole X 100 dontcha think? Why all the profanity?

He was probably being "green" and not being wasteful. He might even be well known in that shop so he feels safe doing this.

Even if he had been homeless and bothering the women, the answer isn't to yell at him from inside the building. Homeless people, panhandlers, and, yes, even black people are human beings. Seriously, what the fuck is that?

You know what's fucked up? Reading this, my first strong reaction was "Kamau, you can't buy something and not get a bag! You know better!!" As a black man, I can't stress how often my parents and older siblings drilled into my head the fact that I could never, ever buy anything without getting a bag and, if possible,…

That the book is obviously about Loving v Virginia-a civil rights case on interracial marriage- is the icing on the cake.

how easy is it to get citizenship in Candyland where there is no racism and sugar makes your teeth stronger?

When we had breakfast that morning, there was a white guy with dreadlocks sitting directly across from your doorway spare change-ing everyone who went into and out of your restaurant. And I could understand if a business thought he was bothering people and if that business had asked him to leave. But he was there the…

He was dressed in normal human clothes! Do you need to be wearing a tie to be treated with respect?!

Truly. Millennials seem to think that we've hit the post racial period by now. But, really. What's so hard about going outside and offering the man a seat in case he wanted to join that party? And THEN asking him to leave (nicely) if it turned out he didn't know any of them?

Err on the side of kindness, people! >_<

Bell writes that he felt like a dog being punished—except he's ass grown man standing 6'4" and 250 lbs. The waitress assumed, because he was black and his wife and friends were white, that he was either begging for change or trying to sell random wares to strangers inside Elmwood.

"I sell monogrammed coffee thermoses"