This appears to be a GoFundMe page set up for his tuition fund:

This is one of the reasons I read and enjoy the Root.

This young man should have scholarships coming out of the wazoo. 

My face reading those beautiful beautiful tweets:

The word ‘Bum’ is finally getting the traction that it deserves.

*adds chucklefuck to dictionary*

If you all keep mining (no pun intended) rural Appalachia the Root is going to post a story like this and it’s going to be someone I am related to.

As Becky tries to explain why she isn’t racist, the driver tells her “if you’re not about that, you need to stay away from people like that”

The incident in which two black teenagers taunted and assaulted a disabled white teen was all over every national media outlet for several days — and rightly so. I’m fairly certain they were held criminally responsible too.

Cops are not public servants. They are executioners meting summary sentences to the powerless. I’m a white male and they frighten me. I can barely imagine how minorities feel about them.

Recently at the library where I work we had a younger black man get his phone stolen, and he was angry about it to the point of storming around threatening to get a gun and shoot people, decapitate the person who stole the phone with a knife, and other threats of death and grievous bodily harm. There were 4 security…

White, whiter than white, whhhhhhhhhite, or nearly translucent?

Also, 8 pm in the middle of the summer it wouldn’t be that dark outside.

So I googled the road that the boys were walking down and this is what it looks like:

“He disrespected the flag and wore pig socks! That is obviously the same thing as beating a woman unconscious! And if that doesn’t work he’s uh... he’s bad at football too!”

For real. I honestly don’t think kids owe their parents much, if anything. Why on earth would you bring a child into the world, and then vote AGAINST that child’s best interests, and still expect your child to accommodate you? Being the bigger person is great and all, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit there and…

I know it’s not shocking, but it’s heartbreaking to hear someone talk about how their own mother chose whiteness over their children. And wanting to take you to a step-family’s Thanksgiving? Just gross.

He’s from round my ends in East London and we have a few mutual friends and please do not underestimate the amount of personal strength it has taken me not to ask one of them to hook us up, especially as my partner has expressed his understanding for my undying love for Mr Elba and I’m sure would be absolutely fine…