You know, you're right. Shooting unarmed Black people first and asking questions later is always safer. And more sane. Very, very sane.

Go fuck yourself. "Drunk, loud woman". Uh-huh. Of course you have to find reasons why an unarmed 19 year old Black woman who has just been in a car accident must be at fault for some asshole shooting her. Yup - you need to fuck all the way off.

Ratchet is another way to say "ghetto". Which is what lotsa people like to call Black people, no matter what we are doing. Make no mistake: This is not ok.

Blacks can be prejudiced and bigoted. Blacks cannot be racist. I used to behesitant and uncomfortable about educating people on this point, but fuck it. Racism must have a system to uphold it. This system is white supremacy. There is no other comparable system. I can hate white people all I want in my…

Um...ok. Cool.

Lol, it really doesn't have to be so negative and argumentative when people disagree. I don't feel the need to curse or namecall or any of that. And I do believe in a person's right to have an opinion. *shrugs*

Yeah...not the same thing. But you, like me, are entitled to your opinion.

OMG, are you ME??? Lol. I don't want to sound like a grumpy old lady, but seriously - I hate hipsters. I hate W'burg. I hate how that area came to be what it is. And I especially hate that now when things are written about some trend in Brooklyn, the people interviewed are white 26 year olds who have lived in…

Thanks! Lol

I haven't assigned fault to anyone except the racists, as well as the racist system that this country perpetuates. Talking about what the mother could have done differently and why other white parents may want to re-think the reality of raising a non-white child is not assigning blame to the mother or calling her a…

I refer you to my previous post where I reiterate that I never said she "should have just moved". I can't imagine advocating that the answer to a racist neighborhood is to run away from the racists and let them curtail where you live. - Me

I don't think it is good for minority children being raised by their white parent to live in a majority-white, hostile area like this child, where the child will experience a high level of racism coupled with a lack of other minorities to commiserate with and look up to. It is a mistake to do that to a child if you…

Sigh...I certainly didn't say that this mother should be told she should've just picked up and moved. I can't imagine advocating that the answer to a racist neighborhood is to run away from the racists and let them curtail where you live. But are people really so [not sure what word to use here - blind? naïve?…

Hey guys, is it at all possible to calmly discuss the point that was made without the anger? I don’t necessarily think that this person is saying that the mother is the problem and the racist people at the school aren’t, but rather pointing something out that may not be immediately apparent to people who don’t have…

The atheist thing is the worst barrier for me, a Black woman who prefers men of color. It is very hard to find someone who doesn't have a big problem with that. Sigh.

Yup. That's what all studies about dating, Black women, marriage, and Black men will tell you. It's what EVERYONE will tell you. Constantly. Over and over.

I read the full article and they quoted this woman from Bushwick and another from Williamsburg. (The Williamsburg hipster phenomenon has bled into Bushwick, which is undergoing rapid gentrification.) So they only quoted younger, hipster women. They (of course) didn't bother to ask women from Bedstuy, Crown…

Well, that's one way to be able to date online right under your gf's nose...well played, lol.

I live in Brooklyn, and my last round of dating was absolutely HORRIFIC because I have these impossibly high standards. Like, I want a man who can actually compose a basic sentence in English, if that is his first language. I want a man who is employed. Not rich, but employed at a job where he makes enough money to…

Thank you for this. I'm starting to get annoyed that people think atheists must have a fixed set of beliefs or something. Even when I explain it to them, people seem to have a hard time with the concept.