See also: urban explorers, neighborhood trailblazers, urban trailblazers, and early buyers

You also forgot ‘polite society’.  Fuck, I’m getting old.

They like "Salt of the Earth" too. 

Unbiased observers.

I have a white friend who went to NCCU on a tennis scholarship. I can confirm this is true. 

Yep. I know people who played varsity sports and had been offered scholarships to other schools to play and still couldn’t make certain teams at our HBCU b/c they were completely made up of white foreign nationals. (By senior year, one of my classmates made the tennis team, though. That was a break through.)

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Trash throwing what he calls trash in the lake and he didn’t jump in, afterwards?

I’m not trying to throw water on what you said because there is some truth to it. The way to amass true power within a company is to own close to 10% for your vote at the annual shareholder meeting to mean something. My 20 shares of Cisco gets me into the party but not the VIP room.

What I don’t get about any of these racist ass racist wypipo blow-ups is this;

Even as a traveller overseas, I cringe sometimes when I see my fellow citizens from home behaving like idiots. It is embarrassing (and galling, as you so eloquently state). But, it is what it is. That is what made Tony such a special human being. He had an open heart and an open mind. He accepted, did not “tolerate”.…

He was interested in other people and other cultures, and not in a condescending “look how cute they eat without silverware” way either. He was fascinated with travelling and more importantly getting out of your comfort zone. You won’t win too many trophies for being a good citizen to the world, usually the only…

Exactly! He always showed such respect and compassion everywhere he went. It wasn’t just that he traveled the world eating food (which would be my dream job). It’s that he was never “I, Rich White Man, Am Here: Accommodate Me” about it. He was always kind and genuinely interested in learning about other people. He…

Me too, especially his daughter.

There are two qualities to Bourdain that I try to emulate everyday:

...and this whole situation was caused by a fuck up by the store in the first place (forgetting to take off the security tag).

an apology and offered a $100 gift card

Do you remember Let Them Hoes Fight? That was another good one

I heard the judge in that case got voted off the bench recently.

The issue at hand is that people have been advocating for Alice Marie Johnson long before Kim K. even knew her name, and it was only through her white privilege that she was able to get an audience with the President. That she did a good thing is commendable, but that she will get outsized credit for doing so is part…