The word he was looking for was “hanged.”

I’m gonna come out and say it: he’s the second coming of James Baldwin.

Not that it would excuse anything but the kids have a pretty good chance of getting some money in a settlement with the truck’s insurance carrier.

That’s the best reality.

He couldn’t have been going that fast, or these kids would be a lot, well, deader than they are.

When can we get a Henry Louis Gates Jr monument?

Oh god, this this this. Having The Root (and now Very Smart Brothas) right next door via Kinja has been so valuable to me, too. I suspect learning to just sit quietly with my kneejerk emotional reactivity (#notallwhitewomen!) and not post a comment right away until its underlying self-important self-justification…

That’s funny as hell! I saw Becky Beatdown.

Oh, look! a bigot in the grays is calling you names. Right on schedule!

Yup! All the way down to presenting him with two options you’re already okay with and letting him think he’s making the choice when he picks apple slices over baby carrots at lunchtime!

Yup. The only crime here was filming in portrait.

She’s probably dating a Hotep.

Same. I felt offended a few times before I realized it was time for me to take a step back and think. I don’t agree with everything said in that blog, but I consider all of it because it is important. If I ever make anyone feel marginalized on an ethnic basis I totally apologize. I’m an idiot sometimes, but an honest…

I feel ya. My wife has extremely painful ovarian cysts and can menstrate for a month at a time. It sucks. She is miserable during. I just hate that we are at the point in this country that someone is more worried about a chair. Than someone bleeding enough to ruin that chair. I hope she sues and gets all she asks…

No, I am not “new” here. The race of the teacher and student really is irrelevant to the story. Yes, I have seen the video, they are both black, but the desire to have that pointed out in the article seems to me as simply an excuse to say, hey look at those blacks beating up their teachers. This is not a crime where…

The trick is to not get defensive. Even if you disagree with the person accusing you of racism you can self reflect on it. People are entitled to their feelings and if you make someone feel that way you need to apologize and reflect on it.

Ok, whew. For a minute I thought it was me not being able to tell white people apart.

There’s also the fact that I’ve found that white people tend to be repeatedly taught throughout childhood and beyond that racism is bad without being explained what racism even is. So when they see people explaining that someone is racist, they assume it’s meant only as an “insult” to that person and not something…