Yep. And Yep.

I wonder if he’d ever do something radical and have his character pursue and date an Indian American chick. Like, the type of chick that in her own Netflix show would be dating a white dude. It would be interesting to see.

I’m sitting here with my mouth agape like in a goddamn comic strip. For real?!!!

Why are you looking for innocence? Like, really?

I think that’s the point. The “I’m not them” folks are still thinking they’d be the abolitionist and not the slave owner or complicit neighbor. They’d be the allies and not the good Germans or Nazi guard. They’d be the Freedom Rider and not the picnicker at the lynching. Those lies folks tell themselves can really be…

I’ve literally paid for groups of students to go see it JUST so I could finally talk to all of them about it in class.

I hope whoever loves him can see him for who and how he is.

“If we can’t have a slick, shaken-but-not-stirred Jane Bond, this is a very happy compromise.” Except with that title, tho, the likelihood of future color-blind casting is even lower than with James Bond.

I got a two-car garage in the center of my face. JUST learned to love it.

It’s only a trend if it’s accepted by the mainstream ON mainstream people.

Add “nappy hair” and “brown skin” and you’ll be celebrating with my black ass in 2017. I spent decades with those three things NOT being “en vogue”.

Say what you want, but I have a Brandy station on Pandora which inevitably plays Chris Brown. I despise the dude, yet I jam my ass off when his shit comes on. Can’t even help it. And, to my shame, his candid dance videos STAY impressive to me. Let me reiterate, I HATE who he is as a person and truly thinks he would…

I couldn’t articulate exactly what I felt about this and you just went ahead and did it for me. Thanks.

See? That right there...

I remember having to write a paper. I told my teacher I’d written the paper. I told her it was in my backpack. She stood there while I rifled through my backback. I checked notebook after notebook, opened folders and shook them out so that errant slips of lined paper fell to the floor. I opened the side pocket of my…

Yasssss. It’s a thing. Sibilant phrasing— “lisping” — is considered effeminate. The semantic markers of gayness have been studied ad nauseam. Other characteristics that have been coded as gay have been noted as well. Mileage varies, of course, but game recognize game.

But if she ain’t with her ghostwriters, what she gon’ do?

Had to pick my eyes up from across the room when they rolled away from me...

They know. They let him in anyway. He had a 4.0 gpa and, according to his indignant father, a “bright future” ahead of him. I’m assuming admin didn’t cave and strike the suspension off his record, but I doubt it.

Just had a conversation with someone that allowed a boy to get into the National Honors Society after giving me (a black teacher) a Nazi salute. She goes, “I’ve thought about it a lot. I sat that boy down and asked, ‘What were you thinking?’ and he said, ‘I wasn’t thinking’ and —-”