Bernie Sanders Is Trying to Get Race Right

I’m reading these posts and shaking my head. What the heck are wrong with folk? Not voting because you don’t like Bernie Sanders? Please write a letter and tell that to Congressman John Lewis whom got hit upside his head for you to vote during Bloody Sunday.

This motherfucker is going to run in 2020, and I’m going to be forced to vote for a goddamn 79 year old man, aren’t I?

We bought our 12 year old niece fantasy books for her birthday (Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom series - it’s amazing) and when she told us how she spent the rest of her birthday money on a follow-up to the series I never felt more proud.

Saying this as someone who lived the life Extrava-adjacent and during this period...this is not his story to tell. I’m glad it is the

Genuinely laughed out loud this morning on reading this. It explains so much.

I tried to watch Michael Rainey Jr.’s movie on Netflix, but he pissed me off so much as Tariq on Power, I couldn’t even watch it.  

I wish Junior LaBeija announced my life

I wish they were better able to capture how straight-up terrifying New York was in general, and Harlem was in particular, in 1987, and how somehow that contributed to this general vibe of ‘Fuck it, the world is on fire so I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU CHOKE ON THIS.’ Everything about the balls felt SO fucking risky. People…

I’m down, as long as it respects the og queens themselves.

I don’t think the police need LESS budget in response to this. Different budget, perhaps. Make sure they have continued anti-bias workshops. Several times per year. Even if antiblack racism were no longer a problem.

As an Asian, I feel like I should support this movie because Asians are not believed to be able to lead movies ...

This was my favorite book when I was a kid, which was back when we rode our dinosaurs to school. I’m so unbelievably excited about this adaptation especially Storm Reid! The goosebumps I get watching this trailer are intense.

I am so excited for this movie. Even though I know it will probably be quite different from the books in many ways, it will still be its own amazing work of art. I hope the differences don’t put too many people off the movie. I want sequels.

Race is way more than skin color, let’s not pretend that’s it’s just about hue. Race involves cultural, historical, and socio-political factors that are way more than skin deep, so to act as if there’s no baggage that comes with interracial coupling is off base. I’m a WOC and I don’t interracially date because I have…

Really? You’re going to ignore population spread and go with that? African Americans make up ~14% of the total US population. Moving on from that, let’s link to actual info. Yes, but no.

Man, FOH. The NRA and its members protest in the goddamn streets when police so much as make verbal contact with anyone open carrying. When an officer asks to so much as inspect a weapon to ensure compliance and safety they act like it’s a national outrage. STFU with this bullshit.

Also, because cops don’t shoot white…

You beat me to it. Why the hell isn’t PRick Snyder under indictment?

Rick Snyder sez he’s not suspending any of his people that have been charged which makes me wonder....why hasn’t Rick Snyder not been charged/suspended, yet?

Just last week a mayoral candidate in Meridian (not far from Jackson) was found dead of a “suicide”... Things are regressing quickly in MS. He was a white libertarian, which in Mississippi typically equates to gun toting whack job. They found bomb making supplies and a flame thrower in his home.