Yeah, bull fucking shit. The “us vs them” started with the inhumane corporate abuses of the industrial revolution and unions were created to give workers an ability to stand up for themselves.

Or he’s willing to take Katz, the alleged victim, at her word. Doesn’t seem too crazy to me...

Yeah, I’m legitimately surprised he did this. The only thing I can think of is that he reassured his paymasters there was NO CHANCE it would pass, so it burnishes his liberal creds while not actually endangering his constituents’ profits.

http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/people-involved/enslaved-people/enslaved-africans/africa-slavery/

Exactly this, I had a pitch fought debate with a jackass who was arguing this same point a few months back. The chattel slavery practiced by white Europeans and then in the America is not the same as the slavery practiced by Africans among themselves.

Yeah, no, it’s way beyond just “we cranked it up to 11"

What you are trying to do is to equate something like indentured servitude to the horrors of the slavery invented by Europeans. There’s no turning it up to eleven. One system was used to pay off debts and such the other equated humans to chattel and lesser beings.

American slavery was noticeably different than the slavery practiced throughout history. Yes, Africans sold other Africans into slavery at the hands of Europeans...but they had no idea the kind of slavery they were selling them into.

When the root broke down the DOJ report about the Baltimore PD a few years ago, one of the many fucked up things was one man had been pulled over 30 times in one year and never cited with anything. I don’t think I have been pulled over 30 times in my life.

Do you know ANYONE that was pulled over 52 times for legit purposes and kept their license? <- ANSWER THAT QUESTION before you reply to me...if your answer is yes, I’ll back down. Most likely the answer is no. No one gets pulled over that many times for actual reasons and keeps their license. Phillando was targeted…

I don’t disagree with the substance of the article other than the really shaky use of the victim’s lawyer’s opinion about her relative innocence as the anchor, as if he’s speaking for society at large. He’s her advocate and should be expected to say those types of things as part of his advocacy. All attorneys do…

But you don’t need to invoke your right to not say anything

Is it just me, or is Melky applauding Freeland right at the end of the last clip? I want to believe that’s the case, because that’d be a good way to start the week.

In a mere 5 paragraphs you’ve managed to perfectly encapsulate this discussion in a manner that is not offensive to biracial people, nor to those in interracial relationships. If you were able to do that so easily, why the hell couldn’t the author of this post?

Sure, but he USED brown women to be easy laughs - the butts of the joke, caricatures. Kind of shitty if you ask me. Love whoever you want. But don’t make your jokes at the expense of someone else (in this case South Asian women), completely belittling and trivializing them. Poking fun at their accent and/or culture.…

Personally I’m tired of people attacking interracial relationships. I hated when Jill Scott did it several years ago and I hate it now. Because underneath the rant about interracial relationships is the hatred of biracial people. We get it, you don’t think we should exist.

Well, of course their paid less. Scott Caan is the son of someone famous and Alex O’Loughlin was on that vampire show that lasted a whole half season.

Yeah, why aren’t their co-stars sticking up for them? We’ve actually seen it work where the co-stars also refuse to work when their co-workers are not being treated fairly. So I wonder what the story is here.