“While in hindsight it may appear to be an easy call, it was not that simple in the moment.”

2/10 homophobic troll. 

If you get caught yelling racist slurs they make you superintendent.

She is phenomenal. Have you heard the orchestral album?

Can we please get more Progressive candidates like this? Pretty please? Pretty pretty please?

I mean how often do we see stories in The Root and elsewhere about “white people are getting rich off of selling pot while black people are still sitting in prison”.

Am I being too generous by thinking she was using the term “reparations” to mean making amends for the unfair drug arrests specifically and not how most Black people use the term (which is a reference to making amends for 400+ years of rape, kidnapping, murder, and unpaid labor)?  

I’m adding AirBnB to my list, “Things I Don’t Understand Why Black Americans Do It”, in between “Visiting South Africa” and “Hanging Out With Michael Rappaport”  

Plus he’s got that fine tan suit and we know how that works them up.

Damon, there ain’t enough hours in the world.

My feelings on this are strong as hell, so don’t take this the wrong way: Fuck that pastor.

Thanks for sharing this with us. A few months ago the NYT did a lengthy writeup and what was missing from it was an intersectional perspective. POC were peripheral characters and felt like their stories were added for diversity.

Her first day probably went a lot like this.

I would not pay $23 for a plain T-shirt under any circumstances.

A...vehemently racist anti black....hip hop song.

But he was such a promising young man. Locking him up wouldn’t have done him any good!

This type of compassion and decency doesn’t even come at the expense of the letter of the law; it elevates the law.

You’re 100% right and I retract my nomination

Absolutely not. We her, and need more people like her, in lower courts, where day-to-day decisions get made.

My friend went into a Target yesterday, and saw a bunch of onesies that said “Future President” in with the boy baby clothes. There were no such onesies on the girl baby clothes side. She took half of them off the rack and moved them to the girl side, which is why we are friends.