Thanks, I should have clarified that in my original post. Its just something I hear at work that I did not even think would be a word most people thankfully do not get the parole meaning of, because they do not regularly or semi-regularly interact with parole officers.

Sorry, term makes more sense if you regularly deal with probation. Violation means they formally state you have violated your probation and your probation can be revoked, which often means going back into legally mandated confinement.

Part of that is the problem with education in parts of this country. We tend to excoriate Japan for, excuse the term, “whitewashing” their role in World War 2 and making themselves out to be the victims, despite being massive aggressors. It is the job of history teachers (something I have taught) to make sure students…

I am super white. I recently completed a doctoral program and the majority of my classmates were POC. In on of our summer course we were supposed to do some sort of cultural assignment. I do not recall the whole thing, but I do remember bringing in a segment of either the video below or something like it. (Video is…

Ok, I teach. I have had probation officers contact me about what students were doing. They do make it a major point to students that doing their work is something judges consider very important if you are on probation. I had a student who was constantly on house arrest and eventually left the school because the judge…

Yeah, arbitration reform is necessary, but these are good first steps. I am a mandatory reporter of child abuse in my job, and it should be like that for police, except mandatory reporter of police corrupt acts.

No threats of violence, but the drive thru is still pretty nuts at the Popeyes in Crenshaw of La Brea. Other stores, not so much, but that one is always popping.

I think you are underestimating how much people really did not like Hillary as a factor. My parents voted for Obama and did not want to vote for Hillary because they did not like or trust her. The ONLY reason they voted for her is because they knew Donald Trump was just a worse choice. They live in Florida. Many…

People generally are not swayed by childhood stories. It’s the “boys will be boys” defense. I am more interested in what she says about him as an adult and closer to today’s time. That may actually change a few hearts and minds that are not already locked in.

Frederick Douglas may have (pretty likely) cheated on his wife with multiple women and certainty ditched his original wife for white woman down the line. No one is immune to a moral purity test because we are all flawed humans. If people wanted to claim a “moral reason” to take down the statue they could dredge one up.

As someone who is half Italian, we are ready to claim Beyonce. We also will take JLO who played an Italian in the Wedding Planner.

Hot take. Some people are stupid. Some people are racist. All racists are in the first category as well.

Lots of calls to recast the character at this point, men are pigs, etc. This may very well be the case. He is not going to be fired unless this independent investigation turns up evidence that the allegations are substantiated. Allegations do not equal crime/reprehensible behavior. Allegations equal need to…

It is just so sad that Republicans knowing that black people voting makes them less likely to win elections motivates so many to support voting suppression tactics. I have gotten more and more annoyed over the years that there seems to be no real likely path forward for D.C. to get the congressional representation it…

That is probably not the restaurant training, but the manager just being racist. I have worked in the restaurant industry and you are always taught a variation of the L-A-S-T method when dealing with an upset guest. Listen to their problems. Acknowledge their concerns. Solve whatever the issue is, aka fix things to…

Let’s talk about Canadians.

I live in Crenshaw. There was a relatively small BLM protest in front of the YMCA down the street from where I live. I walked by it, but not into it because people were not social distancing and only about half were wearing masks. They could have, they could have spread out and at least do social distancing, they…

Burr: The president has now fired you.

Just for for fun, I wanted to throw out a founding father who was not tainted by slavery, Sam Adams. When his wife was given a slave as a gift the Adams family accepted the gift, Sam said she could not enter the house as a slave, freed her, and then paid her to be a servant.

That is true. There are a lot of variables here. I am simply stating not to underestimate the impact of 10% of funding on driving policy. We would not know the actual impact unless such a plan were implemented.