“in 2002 Debra Brown was convicted of selling coke and subsequently sentenced to 20 years in prison.”

It’s in the last ten seconds of this video.They were performing the Super Bowl halftime show together & at the end he “shockingly” ripped off the cup pad of her costume revealing her breast. Whether or not it was planned, SHE got a ton of shit for it even though he was the one who actively exposed her. She just stood…

I love John Oliver and all, but America’s 240th is taking a back seat this year when it’s this girl’s (ahem, woman’s) 18th...

oh yes. i was in denial about needing to be on meds. like years and years of denial. i didn’t realize how bad i felt until i felt better. poor mr pooslie, dealt with my full blown toddler meltdowns like a champ.

thanks Lexapro!

Borderline Personality disorder is not in the DSM, anymore?

And the neighborhood!!!

Selma Blair is so classy and I hope things only improve for her.

Agreed. I was very impressed. This is how apologies are done.

Agreed. No non-apology BS, just “I fucked up and I’m sorry.”

I think its 3rd stage, 2nd is ice cream and wine and Golden Girls.

Aren’t unsolicited dick pics the second stage of relationship grief or something?

i felt this *exact* same way while reading the article.

That’s true of just...SO many things. If you want to change minds and perspectives, derision and mockery toward those who are maybe just now kinda coming around to understanding your POV is suuuuuuuper counter-productive.

This is a rare feeling for me, but does he really deserve this level of vitriol? Like I get it, his tweets were incredibly naive and definitely speak to the cloud of privilege he must have lived in his entire life, but also the fact that he was disturbed by what he saw suggests to me that he has at least a shred of…

because the death of Matthew Shepard was not about straight people.

I mentioned my interest in African American history not to be congratulated for it but because it's been one of my interests and passions for the last 20 years. If you don't want to congratulate me, that's okay. You don't have to.

No, but this article WAS about us (white people).

It's not about us ("good" white people.) It's about young kids getting murdered because of their skin color and the perpetrators getting away with it. However, the article was about us and that's what is being discussed... I think.

Would you have said the same thing to the white Mississippi freedom riders? They were good white people, too, and they paid the ultimate price for their decision to stand up for justice. Or the straight folk who mourned the death of Matthew Shepard? Or the men who fight for equal pay for women? Or the able-bodied…

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.