They won’t wear masks, not even for selfish reasons and certainly not to protect any community. White anti-maskers know that COVID kills Black people at thrice the rate and LatinX at twice the rate that it kills wypipl, and the wypipl it does kill are their elderly who they’ve shunted off to nursing homes. Getting…

Is this some sick White supremacist shit to kill all the readers of The Root by making them choke on their laughter?

Some food banks are removing the letter, rightfully concerned about jeopardizing the relationship of trust with their communities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/01/food-bank-trump-campaign-literature/

Agreed, no way I would go to this doctor. But how do we tell from the outside which ones are racist? This is the argument I have with people who object to ACAB. Perhaps not ACAB, but from the outside, how do we tell which ones are and which ones aren’t? And what difference does it make even if we could tell, people…

No, this is a joint strategy to get them all off. Distract the prosecutors (as if they weren’t already on the side of the cops) by forcing them to come up with a consistent storyline they can present in all 4 trials, different parts of which will be contested by the separate defenses.

Not well for justice, but it may work out well for the criminal cops. Demanding 4 different trials with contradictory evidence probably increases the “doubt” in establishing any one cop’s guilt. Prosecutors will be fighting on 4 different fronts and may end up with 4 contradictory storylines, thus a mistrial in one,…

How well did a preemptive Nobel Peace Prize work for us (US and the rest of the world) with Obama?

In India, city and traffic cops are usually not armed, at least they don’t seem to be armed with the 18 different ways that US cops have killing you. The traffic cops are usually looking to extract a bribe or “tea-water money”, with “You can pay the fine here in cash or come down to the station”. But, and this is a…

Thanks, just shared it with my daughter who is a street medic for BLM protests.

Legacy Admissions: Affirmative Action for mediocre or incompetent white boys.

You are right that Obama was never about Black Lives Matter.

There are studies, as some of your respondents have pointed out, that have a larger “sample size” or otherwise demonstrate that the race based bias in large scale and widespread. However, I think we need to avoid playing the right wing game of trying to prove “intention” and falling into their trap, whether it is over…

Some years after moving to the US I and other Brown immigrant friends visited what we thought was the “Civil War Museum” in Gettysburg. This is what remains in my memory:

Not to mention that cops have 18 different ways to kill you in addition to the guns, outnumber the civilian at least 4 to 1 with back-up on the way and wear protection and body armor that makes it well-nigh impossible for anyone to harm them with scissors.

You have something against pigs? 

“waking up to yet another, um, story of a Black man or a Black person somehow being dehumanized, or hurt, or killed, or falsely accused of something”. So I must have missed the data that shows that Black people being dehumanized, hurt, killed or jailed reduced dramatically during 2009-2016.

Not to mention his recent statement that “law enforcement is under-resourced”. yes Biden needs to shut up so we can get Twump out, every time progressives start imagining that yes they can hold their noses and vote for Biden he goes and opens his word-hole.

“Go back”? What do you mean? Did anti-Black racism of the Asian-American community as a whole ever stop? In the South Bay, there have been a few rallies in support of BLM, organized by YOUNG Asians (high schoolers and college students, mostly East Asians with a smattering of South Asians occasionally) and centering…

Austin, and other Kyles and Karens who have forever “insisted he(she/they) was not being racist”, can submit to a very very simple test. The same shit they just pulled on a Black person, can they provide a single documented example where they have done that or something similar to wyppl? The expected response could be…

I did this for my daughters when they were younger and got around the problem of “preparing dinner at 3 PM” by phase-shifting: feed them food cooked the previous day (leftovers, if you will) at 3 PM , then go outside to play for a bit, cook while they are playing/helping/doing their homework at the kitchen table and…