Only 25% is going to his charity, which is actually pretty pitiful as far these things go.

Well I'm not sure how philanthropic he is considering he said his "presence is charity."

When I first moved to the Bay Area I was definitely opened to the idea of being in an interracial relationship, especially since it seemed to common here, but I quickly learned all the BS that can go into it around here. I met a white guy who works in the same building as I do and agreed to go out with him after work…

I'm sorry but I'm a black woman who lives in Oakland and works in SF and Berkeley, and that rosy picture you paint of the race relations in San Jose and Northern California is completely false. Its just that there is a lot more passive and there is a lot more racial fetishism. Speaking from the Black community, the…

I live in Oakland and work in SF and Berkeley, so I can appreciate all of what you are saying. I've encountered a lot of very passive and veiled hostility when I say that I'm looking for another Black person in my romantic life, mostly from people in SF or Berkeley. I know the Bay Area prides itself on being "diverse"…

I live in Oakland, and from what I've seen nic10 is 100% correct. Also thank you for your well crafted and insight about interracial relationships, you too are 100% correct.

Here come of the flood of comments criticizing the price of the bag she was trying to buy....

Because they want to and can.

Oh dear God, you are confused.

She had been discharged from the maternity section and en route to the pharmacy in a different section of the hospital to pick up some medication and check in with a doctor. A nurse saw her on the way there and thought "black women with a white baby walking "quickly" from where the maternity ward is, must be stealing…

What exactly are you saying?

I'll just share this quick story with y'all; I have a light skinned cousin who had a child with a white man, and the baby ended up looking "white." As she was trying to leave the hospital with her newborn child, a nurse accused her of trying to steal the baby, took the baby away from her and called the police. The…

My cousin works placing children with foster families and she told me that a few years ago (about the same time Angelina, Madonna, et. al started adopting Black children) that there was a rise in interest from white people in fostering black children and it became "a thing." The rule used to be that they would try to…

As an ESL teacher, I can say you are 100% correct.

No, that's not universally agreed upon. Science and technology are giving us the ability to support more people in ways we couldn't have imagined (i.e. food, transportation, etc). There is really no way to figure out what our carrying capacity is, given rises in technology and changes in resource use and management.…

It's actually not universally agreed that the world is overpopulated. There is nothing to really indicate what the maximum carrying capacity for humans is. I think humans actually produce an over abundance of food, the issue is that its just not evenly distributed. Most ideas about the overpopulation of humans are…

You have no idea how much this has entertained me.

Conversely, my chihuahua used to sleep in a bed made for a cat.

No, South Asians are well represented in US media. They might not be everywhere, but given their percentage in the overall US population, they are well represented.

If we're talking about South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, etc) I would say they're actually well represented, if not over represented. I think people of South Asian descent make up only about 1% of the US population, but I can think of several prominent South Asian media personalities; Aziz Ansari, Dr. Gupta, Mindy…