Her reaction to first being told that Obama was the current president is still my favorite thing ever:

Of all the crazy shit to happen in the many seasons of that show, the slave-owning severed head of Kathy Bates crying while watching Obama be sworn in is the craziest.

I was a kid in NYC at the time and I remember Trump’s ad. I also remember my mom taking me to protest rallies as well. “Bensonhurst, have you heard, this is not Johannesburg!” Jones Beach, Howard Beach, Central Park 5 and other episodes of black people being unjustly killed was my youth. It seems that will be my…

Here’s the problem - if they got rid of the racism, they wouldn’t be able to keep their base. Remember, the white “Christians” who make up the modern GOP voters only support the GOP’s dismantling of the social safety net because they are convinced that the ni- I mean, thu-, I mean ‘welfare queens’ will be screwed over…

Sigh... I’ve been saying this, it’s actually applicable to many other minority groups. Glad to know I’m not alone on this.

And we need to wise the fuck up about this shit. I have little patience for conservatives in our community these days, as you said, take away issues of racism, and lots of us, especially in the south, sound just like a bunch of bigoted ass, ignorant, closed-minded, white conservatives.

Then, there are the posers who scream Jesus just so no one pays attention to the fact that they show up in church smelling of booty and Hennessy. That’s Trump’s base.

This is why I’m not here for any black person who voted for Donald Trump but particularly not for black people her age (43). If you are a black person in your 40's you are old enough to remember the Central Park Five. And you are old enough to remember that Donald Trump took out a full page ad in the New York Times…

Like you said though, not everyone was down with the movement. I remember reading something like only 10% of Black people around at that time participated in a Civil Rights Movement protest. Even when you consider sympathizers, they were a bit of a minority and often an elite of sorts. Taken from that realm, it’s not…

“Voting for a racist, sexist demagogue who literally hates everything I am was worth it so I could tell other women what they should do with their God given autonomy. Because God hates women who have abortions, but he loves serial molesters who walk in on underaged girls in dressing rooms, grab women by the pussy, and…

I don’t think there’s any such thing. When’s the last time there’s been a Black Republican who wasn’t shucking and jiving and basically being the token for these racist white Republicans?

My vote is you decline the invite. Showing up is normalizing this man and an administration that has deliberately disrespected HBCU students and their families.

That look when you know the house is more comfortable than the field.

I wonder how the invitation should have been handled? Does one actually go into the lion’s den and hope that he actually benefits rather than mauls you? What do you do when you are there and when you leave? Do you refuse the picture? Do you say something like “We are glad to meet with the President of the United…