I think his point is that we can’t generally deride higher education.

I hope Yanez never has another motherfucking moment of peace for the rest of his miserably protected life.

The first thing that comes to mind watching this heartbreaking video is the final scene in Fruitvale Station. Oscar Grant’s surviving girlfriend and daughter are standing quietly together in the shower and young Tatiana asks the mom, “Where’s daddy?” The mother never answers, staring back at her, and the picture…

Jesus. That broke my heart.

Y’all telling me that the jury saw this video TOO and still acquitted Yanez and didn’t charge any other cops?

Yeah. The men-must-always-be-fucking-assholes gene is definitely passed down from dribbling fuck-stick to dribbling fuck-stick.

Well, I mean he’s not lying. If you’ve got certain genetics, you get paid less, so I guess in that sense it is genetic?

I don’t comment here as prolifically as I may on other blogs - bc The Root does such a fantastic job of leaving nothing else to be said.

Everything Allyson just wrote is the Truth. We are devolving as a society. It is both terrifying and exhausting. I am exhausted.

We really didn’t have a students who didn’t want to be there problem until recently. We used to be an upper level university until a few years ago. That means every one of our students was a junior or senior transfer (usually from community college) or a graduate student looking to finish a degree or get a higher one.

Allyson thank you for such an incredibly painful yet powerful piece. I have not yet watched the dashcam footage because I am scared of what I might do out of anger to others. I feel like a failure to Philando Castile, I cant explain it. We watched him pass. That has stayed with me. How we watched him pass. I believe…

PREACH

Great article about such a horrible thing.

Thank you for this.

I’m not even clear what the problem you’re referring to is. Is it that tuition is too high? Or that people aren’t seeing a return on their education like they were expecting?

Thank you, Monte. I’m neither the only one nor in the worst shape, but it’s ... been a really rough day and season, right?

We’re part of large system. The main campus (the one with close to 50,000 students) has a football team and all the other stuff. There are 3 other independent campuses each with close to 10,000 students that don’t do any of that.

You could get a payday loan, blow every penny at the dog track the same day, declare bankruptcy and all is forgiven. Try to make yourself and thus the world a better place, though, and that stain will follow you permanently.

Here is how American politics have worked since the passage of the Civil Rights Act:

What I really don’t understand is why people with this kind of money want to spend their time burning down federal regulatory agencies. They are filthy rich, with big houses, multiple vacation homes, private planes, etc. If I had that kind of money, I would be spending my time traveling the world, fishing, sailing,…