They are denying it because they were in on it, or feeling guilt about what they did and didn’t do about the situation.

My grandmom carried a straight razor...just in case some Jim Crow (or, every once in a while, Grandpa) flared up with the stupid.

I find it funny that some men(AKA boys) are responding all butt hurt about this. This ad gets me in the feels. This is my dad all day long. He taught me to “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” This means to me that roles don’t define you but how you act in those roles do. He taught me that being a black male…

You have to be deeply invested in your trash ass behavior in order to feel personally affronted by an ad encouraging you to be a better person.

“I would never ever condone, or justify anything that he’s been accused of doing,” she says. “But locking him up in jail...it’s not the answer...he’s sick.”

The #butwhatabout(insert name of accused celebrity) is already here, I see.

Nobody can disappoint like family.

People don’t need to be rich for this shit to happen.

Your argument is undercut a bit just by the Gothamist article, where long term residents even say they hate the noise, one even saying if you know a quiet place to live let me know. Most people actually like to be able to sleep through the night. 311 calls on dumb shit like people selling loosies or just being there?…

“Pretending POC are just as bad erases the damage white people do when gentrifying.”

Let’s be real here, if this was middle class black people moving in, you would still have some of the same issues. I can’t speak about Harlem because I’ve never lived there, but I can speak on the city in which I live. Like in other cities, 311 is used to report code violations, noise complaints, etc. A survey that…

I too am a black person that left Brooklyn only to return as what could be called a gentrifyer. I don’t believe myself to be a part of the gentrification not because I’m black but because upon moving back I patronize the establishments that my community offers. This means I shop in the neighborhood. I don’t leave to…

Who the hell are all these people who want quiet in the city? If quiet is what you aspire for your environment to be, THEN THE CITY IS NOT FOR YOU.

You can be conscious of your class privilege and also not trying to actively push “others” out. Gentrification isn’t just inflation causing prices to go up. It’s the re-molding of the neighborhood that literally forces people out because they’re not only priced out but also made to feel unwelcome. The long time…

Harris, a 6-feet, 5-inch, Afro-clad, fashion forward, 29-year old Martinsville, Va. native, admitted he never factored in such backlash from his own community when developing Slave Play.

That’s completely understandable. My wife has a pretty wide list of food intolerances (lactose, tomatoes, most fruit) that will mess her up pretty badly (a bit of orange / pineapple juice used in some chinese takeout once made her throw up immediately, a bit of unexpected butter in baked goods gives her an awful…

Nah, the guy she’s cheating with.  

If I were a betting woman, I’d say a boyfriend she has on the side hit her and she wanted to explain her injuries to the official boyfriend. That she put black men at risk wuth her lies was the last of her worries. I know she won’t get 5 years but can she at least get some jail time and five years on probation?

Do you want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the diners at adjacent tables?

Here is a relevant bit from a piece in Psychology Today