Racism is first and foremost about power. White people are in power—politically, economically and culturally. Black people are not. That’s why we have words like “N****” but no word remotely to describe white people that carries the same resonance. No word says “You and your entire peoples are worthless, lazy, and…

There may not have been slaves over the past 50 years, but there was segregation over the last 50 years. Just remember, your grandparents or parents were alive during that time. I know because mine were and are. They still remember. That makes it pretty recent. I even grew up myself (I’m 41 btw) remembering my parents…

Good god, why do you think poverty is so endemic in that population? Systematic denial of liberty, rights, educational, and economic opportunity over hundreds of years didn’t just go away at the signing of the Civil Rights Act. Something like that would take many generations, and while progress is being made, it’s…

Holy shit. So you actually think that you just made a valid historical comparison? Because there was slavery that involved white Europeans and not Americans? What exactly does that have to do with the United States? Those slaves were not made into a permanent underclass, nor was it in any way equivalent to the chattel…

“imagined as being in a position of power”

Can you imagine the uproar if white people were enslaved for hundreds of years, and after having been freed were still denied basic rights for another century, and then were denied the tools that would allow them to better their overall circumstance like decent education and access to housing and banking, and then…

I get this, I really do! You have a life that is unaffected by this, and you are incredibly fortunate this is so. I hope that you and your family will never worry the government will deny you entry to your home, or hold you in violation of the law. I hope you grow old healthy and safe, your children have great…

Apparently this also happened yesterday. For those unfamiliar, Sikhs have a tradition of offerings free meals on a daily basis at their temples. Large temples pride themselves on being open to feed people 24 hours a day.

Not sure which March this is from, but I thought this was worth sharing.

The speaker system wasn’t the best! I could hear if I strained my ears, but at least the Warren speech is online now. Healey’s is definitely worth a listen if it’s up, too. But yes—such a wonderful day. The organizers did a fantastic job, and the MBTA and BPD were such a great support.

“Write a note to yourself about what you would never do. And when you come to the line, don’t cross it.”

When everything’s made to be broken, they just want you know to know who they are.

A pastor in California is part of a faction of Christians upset about Octavia Spencer’s role as God in the movie adaptation of William P. Young’s controversial 2007 novel The Shack. Spencer is black, you see, and God is a white man.

Well, here’s how these conversations feel as a person of color. A white person reaches out to you sometimes - as the only POC that they know. “Hey, can you explain this one thing to me?” Like, I’m Mexican-American, so they might say, for example, “Hey, can you tell me why people think Speedy Gonzales was a negative…

This does not surprise me in the slightest. There are just certain people who you can tell are like that and Swinton definitely has those vibes. It’s like when Taylor Swift touched the weekends hair, or when Tina Fey had trouble naming  latinos in show business, or when Sherlock Holmes (aka animorphs face) used the…

Well Depp apologists, here it is. The proof beyond any shadow of a doubt regarding what happened. The root of domestic violence and violence against women is about control and power. She is a survivor and moving on and he can’t handle that. Fuck him.

You don’t see any vagrant squeegee guys harassing drivers on Qatar now, do you?

“It’s what we are conditioned to believe — that if we speak up, our livelihoods will be threatened; that standing our ground will lead to our demise,” she writes. “We don’t want to be kicked out of the sand box for being a “bitch.” So we compromise our integrity for the sake of maintaining status quo and hope that…

Who knew that Kim was actually the intellectual Kardashian? In comparison to what the other Kardashians have been posting, her tweet is a like a treatise on being a celebrity in the moderne age.

Any parent who just hands their child to a stranger should be ashamed. That child did not want to be there. This is why sexual assault is such a big problem - children are repeatedly taught that they don’t get a choice in where/how/from whom they receive affection.