I insulted him to his face at a concert. Really small venue event for charity. You were never more than three people away from the stage. The show started two hours late and after standing outside in stilettos waiting to get in the venue, I was not in the mood. I was standing dead center in front of the stage, being…

I was there too and want to add how he played like an hour past his time and got fined like a million dollars because he didn’t give one fuck.

I was privileged to have seen him live, at Coachella in 2008. He brought out The Time and Sheila E and I thought I had entered nirvana. Then he launched into Radiohead’s “Creep” and I just stood there, mouth wide open, doing that laugh/cry thing you get to do only a few times in your life. If the world had ended at…

It’s hilarious you’ve contorted yourself around to believing this. He was defending the crime bill because of those dangerous gangs of black kids, then when asked to clarify he called a protest group of you black people “dangerous” but he definitely meant it in the context of how conversations are frequently…

But people have been protesting Trump, why are you acting like they have not? People have shut down his rallies and have been assaulted and racial abused by his supporters.

The Clintonian identity politicking has always been fairly racist. It involves shouting, “We can’t get rid of racism, until X happens.” Which, paradoxically, involves, “We can’t do X, until we solve racism.” It is a series of impotent centrist triangulations meant to delay social democracy indefinitely. It is a…

You can understand why it seems a bit tone deaf thrust in the direction of a POC writer in the context of an article about a white former president shouting down a BLM protester about mass incarceration?

The apologetics now:

Both those things are true, but let’s not ignore the power dynamics at play; the war on drugs was something that the government created to justify a crack down on minorities and other political agitators, and it evolved into a profitable “forever war” on the backs of those communities which fed for-profit prisons. A…

Yeah, Bill. BLM is an example of “the danger facing this country.” Good call, not tonedeaf at all.

That’s condescending as fuck homie.

It’s a good thing this crime bill happened because murder used to be totally legal before it was passed. Then Hillary was like “murderers, cut it out” and that was how Scruff McGruff the crime dog was born.

I’m 35 and a woman. I was alive and do remember when this bill was passed, even if I was a child. Please don’t assume everyone who is pro-Bernie is some “young kid.”

I feel for your loss, sincerely, but why is killer or criminal not a strong enough word in the first place?

The “super-predator gangs” fear of the early 90s was largely a result of (now-debunked) reporting about the Central Park Jogger “wilding” case, in which a group of black teens were (falsely) convicted of gang-raping a white woman. The burgeoning cable/syndicated TV news industry, such as CNN, Current Affair and Hard…

To be fair Clinton ran on a promise to “end welfare as we have come to know it”. And ran largely as a centrist. That and Bush’s breaking of a few key promises arguably did a great deal to get him elected. So I’m not sold that he didn’t support it at least in what it’s goals ostensibly were if not the full measure of…

Because of more black people in prison, who weren’t counted as unemployed or in poverty among the general population.

Yep. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act was incredibly harmful and based off legislation proposed by Newt Gingrich.....

Yes, because the black community never talks about it. Ever. It has nothing to do with white people only paying attention to the back community when they’re involved in the discussion.

The excuses from the Hillary supporters on facebook and twitter today have been pretty funny.