For fucks sake. I am trying very hard to relate to law enforcement perspective, but I am quite tired of being told to think about how their families feel not knowing if their loved ones will come back after work, and the stress that creates. It amazes me that they demand this while failing to understand how black…

She doesn’t condone body shaming yet she participates in it. That makes sense.

White America and its Republic was designed to keep black (and other people of colour) in check. I don’t understand why white people keep deluding themselves into thinking that everyone has the same rights as they do. SMDH.

I am a male bartender and I believe that it is good advice for all people to not get so drunk that you are no longer in control of yourself and what might happen to you. I recognize my male privilege that I can more easily get wasted and toddle back to my sketchy neighborhood. But even so, I can be assaulted, mugged…

Black woman here. I usually get nervous and try to remember to breathe and smile enough to make the officer feel comfortable. That usually works because I’m middle class and moderately attractive. I’m usually more concerned about being sexually assaulted that shot. That almost happened once on a lonely dark…

Starring this feels like a weird thing to do because this shit is so fucked, but that’s how Kinja works, I guess.

So this week, by tomorrow, we’ll have one cop fired for posting a video, and zero cops fired for shooting black men in scenarios escalated solely by the police involved.

I read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me recently, and was struck by his purposeful use of the word body, over and over. To have your body taken away, to have black bodies stolen. That was a strong reminder that this is a violent physical thing that happens to real people, and not some abstract thing from…

“well spoken”

No record, no mugshot, no criminal past, legally permitted weapon, complete cooperation, all on video.

Wade didn’t commit any acts of “self-sacrificing loyalty.” He left money on the table in exchange for rings.

Agreed. There are good people who are cops, but there are no cops that are good.

My mother taught me to respect cops, but to NEVER consider them my friend. Treat them as you would a wild animal:

Give them room,
Give them respect,
Move out of thier sensory range as soon as safely possible.

There are no good cops. There are plenty of good people who are cops. But on duty there are no good cops. They are built and designed to kill you if you are black/poor/POC. They do their job very well and like the radio guy says, they don’t speak up when their pals murder. There are no good cops.

You know that “us versus them” mentality the #alllivesmatter nitwits go on about every time a POC calls out racism? That’s what the police actually have now. They are so far removed from being part of the community they are supposed to protect and serve that they literally see every person as a “them.”

Can we get more of this please? Like Jessie last week, other celebs, known personalities actually saying something. Using their platform to say something? Rather than just nod about how tragic it is?

I understand the thin blue line. I understand that cops think, “That coulda been me. Mistake made. Gotta support my brother.” But I’m a public school teacher. If I found out that a teacher was fucking a student, there’d be no way that my knee-jerk response would be, “Well...you have to understand that...” Give me a…

1. Joe Johnson was better than “decent” in his prime.

Isn’t the point though that at a certain point a lot of a money is a lot of money?

I will most likely vote for Clinton, but all I can think of is the scene in Animal Farm where Napoleon kills Snowball and then presents Snowball’s plans as his own

1) This is exactly why no one should go after Durant for his choice to play with GS. Loyalty only goes one way here.