Once you understand that merit = money and/or social capital the equation balances.

It’s not the moat, he’s just not feeling threatened.  Odds are he’s wondering what the hell drugs she’s on.

That’s what I’ve been arguing from the start.

Man, we need the jesuits for this.

I have been diving since 1989 and I will be god-damned if I let a bunch of smarmy shits take this away. 

No, you’ve got it backwards. No juvenile, ever, should be subjected to the criminal justice system.  Our goal should be that the black child isn’t arrested rather than that the black child is.

That’s the thing: The angry hoi polloi can say whatever they want because we don’t pose a real threat to the power structure. Elected officials are supposed to lockstep support “our law enforcement community” because they have some degree of authority.

Don’t you love how, when it’s a cop, everything is soooo hard but when it’s anyone else we hear about personal responsibility?

There are between 14 and 20 thousand “school resource officers” in the US, arresting ~50,000 students annually. They haven’t stopped a single mass shooting.

The ever popular “Some of my best friends are black” excuse.  Nice.

So much to unpack here.

I completely agree.

That’s irrelevant.  The point is that the court saw fit to sentence her to five fucking years for this bullshit.

AYFKM?  Warren single handedly created the CFPB and Sanders is the only reason we’re talking about M4A right now.  

Either he just leaves that shit lying around because nothing can happen to him or he placed it out specifically for a black family to see.

But OKC was a lone wolf, right?

Gamers still misogynist trash.  News at 11...

Why should she have?  This whole thing is be from top to bottom.

Ad you're in a state that permits that in the first place. Not all do. 

Each state does it differently.  In property tax funded states each district is a kingdom into itself and won't spend money on outsiders.