I can't exactly say I support harassment, but I won't shed any tears for her if she is.

Please don't forget the accelerated classes.

It is absolutely behind-the-scenes and being done, at least in my circles. The group I work with does a lot of marching and we had a die-in, but we also lobby for the creation of a civilian review board to oversee the police, as well as a People's Platform that we want to see our elected officials pledge to. Other…

OMG you have a Beemer AND a lawyer husband? Wowzers!

You're right, kids these days do SEEM to have a lot of problems. It's the same way that violence SEEMS to be on the rise, even though it isn't. You can't just declare "poor science" and call it a day, you know.

you should have tell it to that dude Thom

95 percent sure this one's the same troll as yesterday, they brag about having a good life and act like a dick.

Privilege is important to me because I have a white son. He is in such a privileged class in every way — so by talking about and explaining it a great deal, it keeps him aware of it.

He even pointed out privilege in his classroom (he's 6). There's a very bright, spirited girl who is basically just like DS. But because…

I can tell you from experience that using fear to keep kids under control only backfires and is a terrible way for them to learn anything. It only teaches them to hide things from you and feel like they can't trust you.

No, that's the world that abusive parents have created.

"helping people who need it"? Are you for real? Their help is contingent on your whiteness. If that doesn't chill you to your bones, you haven't been paying attention.

Except not. Because guess which people didn't get a say in the system's creation, and which people the system was never designed to protect? Nicer police officers isn't going to do jack shit if they're tasked with enforcing a racist system.

It definitely has that truth. This is privilege.

But there is also the fact that voting when you are a majority is useful — assuming elections aren't rigged.

But, with this, having a viable candidate for whom that majority would vote — again, another issue of privilege (as you say, there is unlikely to be a viable…

And what a lot of the over policing of black communities does is create a system that disenfranchises black people while they're young, and disqualifies them for voting or public service. It's no coincidence that the US is so strict about felony disenfranchisement and they just so happen to have such a…

The best way to change a system is to be the system.

Yeah, it's cool. Cops are still murdering people, but let's see how we feel about it after they've had time to get away with murdering some more.

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to…

They hoped to keep the issue in the news and accepted the consequences of their actions.

OMG ARKANSAS!!! Lol

This is actually giving me the feels. I never get the feels. Ever.