I can definitely vouch for the landlord piece. A while back I lived in a duplex and my landlord owned and was selling both units. The person who bought the house had me as a tenant for the duration of my lease, and prospective homebuyers who read me as ethnically ambiguous tried all kinds of verbal acrobatics to…

Unfourtanately, I suspect that at least another 20% of white people are liars.

Oh yes, that’s why I said at least 28%. That’s just the numbers we have on white people who are garbage enough to admit to being garbage to other people.

This. Some people do not understand that covert racism is a thing. A deeply ingrained, dysfunctional thing.

Correction: 28% will admit it. The real percentage is likely higher. Define “innundation”. My guess = two non-white families.

I made a sandwich for lunch today that was about as difficult as this Osiris you speak of.

Am I the only one who thinks Amy Schumer is overrated?

It’s the flag of fighting for slavery. That’s it. Stop pretending it’s not.

I hope you’ve never said “But when’s *white* history month?!” during February, because that would make you a big fuckin’ hypocrite.

The flag is offensive to some, and not to others.

They’re sad that someone is associating the Confederate flag with racism, and therefore also somehow demonizing all white people. Their feelings are very very hurt by people talking about racism and so they’re crying about it.

Hundreds of years of political policy in the US, and especially the South, can be summed up with ‘you may be poor, uneducated, and exploited with no oppurtinity to escape your circumstances or have your children escape them, but at least you ain’t a n****r.’

The Southern Strategy. Use race to divide and polarize, give the white majority an other on which to blame the country’s problems, win elections, steal the nation’s wealth. That’s what Fox is: The Southern Strategy Network.

Unfortunately it seems that Elysium, in other words Star Trek for a few and Mad Max for everyone else, is becoming the more likely scenario.

I am a highly educated, incredibly literate dark-skinned Haitian-American lawyer who has family currently living both in P-a-P and in the countryside. I am fully aware of who DR’s president is currently and who has been president of DR over the last 15 years. Not to mention that I was at the inauguration of Haiti’s…

Comeoncomeoncomeon...

Especially the part about the magic engines that get them out of the wet & wavey planet gravity well. That will prep kids for the future.

So flying into a black hole is feasible? The time differences I get but showing that love overcomes dimensions and time and space seems a bit much. Are there no better sci Fi films to educate with that don’t include pseudo babble??

As long as they don’t show it in screenwriting classes, we’re fine.