This is really great.  Thanks for sharing it.

There’s a documentary called “Strike A Pose” that’s about Madonna’s backup dancers from the Vogue video and tour, and where they are now. Spoiler: she ditched them all, the ones with HIV/AIDS didn’t feel like they could be out to her despite her public stand, and now most of them are barely able to survive. When I…

I’m just so grossed out at the reminder of how much power Manchin has.  If only nothing important in the entire world depended on him.

This broke my heart in fifty places. They should have reached out to her and asked what she needed, how she was doing, how they could help. They punished her instead. The way Black women are treated in this world defies any sense of reason. What a fucking outrage.

I too am suspicious of what this training entailed.  Can The Root investigate for us?  

I’m pretty sure he bought exactly what he wanted.

This, 100% this.

“And then, Kellyanne Kanye turned off his MAGAbook Pro, pedaled his clown car back to the “unpaid employees”’ quarters on the Mar-a-Lago Plantation where Lil Wayne advised him that he’s got the stepping part down but his fetching needed a little more work.”  Kellyanne Kanye!!!  You are a genius.  I am on the floor.

THIS.  One million times THIS.  Fuck all of this healing and let’s just admit that this kind of embrace of blatant racism cannot be healed and must be crushed.

You’re so right. Kids go through rough patches, they act out. That doesn’t land white kids in jail.

So... I agree with your point that this would have been entirely different had she been Black and had her message been clear, but word on the street here in Portland says she isn’t actually white, she’s Asian American and has been out there protesting every night for weeks with no social media influencing or other…

THIS.

I appreciate what Tarana Burke had to say here.  She’s right on target with what we should expect and how we should think about this.