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Saint J Valentine
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The actors and actresses in the documentary were calling themselves that, so if someone gets offended in 2017, should we bleep the words?

I saw an interview with some of the midgets that played the Munchkins and the main thing they remarked about is how amazed they were so many other little people like themselves existed. So they were hooking up left and right. Many of them found future husbands and wives because of the film.

“I have a high regard for the facts, but I want you to see some of the other facts that we’re doing,”

I’m very happy to have raised awareness

I remember this.

that’s how it feels

ahh, back when our fright seemed staged.

I want to laugh, but these people are our government. Sob!

One of these men is now President, and one is in charge of HUD. Let that sink in.

We don’t need no education, we don’t need no birth control, mom leave us kids alone.

I love how the states with the worst school systems all voted in favor of the worst cabinet pick.

I am a public school teacher. I am sitting at my desk, which is in a classroom in a public school full of minorities and SpEd students, and I am weeping. I have about 9 minutes left on my lunch break, and I don’t know that I can pull it together in time. I am crushed, absolutely gutted. I am afraid for my students, I

One of my cousins (Ecuadorean side of the family) is *the* single most openly racist person I know. She’s also misogynistic AF.

How is that a Latino thing? Nobody wants someone parking in front of their house.

One of my “learnings” as an Anglo working in a Latino nonprofit was how anti-black many of my co-workers were, from dissing each other for being too dark to wondering aloud about how American blacks could be so poor even though they’d been in the US for so long (verdict: laziness). The other Anglo guy in the office

I mean, because us black people are pretty familiar with this Latino stereotype. Not that funny, but, like, I’m not really that offended. Setting this up as him “telling a racist joke” seems to take this out of context.

Be fair. After all those years of marriage, he suddenly realized something was missing from her.

Anti black Latinos always confound me. Like you realize they half your team right? Like Afro Latinos are a significant portion of the Global population. But, ok girl. This is why I also enjoy a good laugh when white Latinos tell people they don’t have race/color issues. 

Third rule in Latino families: leave your wife after she donates her organs to you.