Sometimes forgiveness is about the person you are forgiving. But mostly forgiveness is for yourself. It can be an act of kindness. It can also be an act of self healing. I’d say this hug was not to make this woman feel better. It was probably a way to help let go of the hate, so the healing can begin.

Imagine having a deeply personal, emotional release at the end of a painful trial. And then to have your reaction lead to a thousand woke HOT TAKES. These articles pretend to be hypothetical, but they serve as a direct swipe at Jean and that makes me livid. Arguing about what society expects POC to do by making an…

I was thinking about this earlier and I figured I would come out of my Kinja semi-retirement to post my thoughts.

so a few people have asked for my opinion about the actions of the judge and bailiff, and I didn’t say anything about them because i assumed the take on them was obvious.

anyway, there’s the 35 word answer: i have difficulty imagining a black person convicted of murder getting hugged and his hair braided by agents of…

Americans have too much to lose to want to die to remove / preserve a president who tweets dumb shit.

Good for you. Brandt chose to do something else to heal himself.

The Jean family can grieve any way they choose, and if forgiveness helps any of them cope, I have no objection to it.

The judge going to comfort her, and the police officer later are another story. That was too far. After so much evidence was presented about he lack of care for the victims well being. How little she…

He doesn’t have to turn the other cheek. He chose to. Why are we taking away agency from his brother? He asked for a hug. He gave forgiveness freely. That’s his business.

That’s a pretty brutal thing to say to a person who’s suffered miscarriage or stillbirth. I’ve suffered more for my children than most women who have carried to term and given birth. I am definitely a mother. 

Trump really needs to be careful though because the some in the GOP will only be quiet for so long.  

i do wonder if this will be a big payday. mad men was an acclaimed and enjoyed show, but it never struck me as a ‘friends’ or a ‘law and order’ (i.e. a show you’ll want to throw on and either binge some comfort food or have running in the background while you do laundry.) how long is the tail on people clamoring to…

Mother doesn’t give a fuq. She needs no beard. She’s just withholding and getting off on it.

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Thank god you have your priorities down. Not the abhorrent racism and abuse. But that they didn’t endorse Sanders!  The nerve!  What names shall we call them?

For fuck’s sake, thanks for proving my point. This thread is a dumpster fire already.

I got called a centrist for saying I supported Warren over Bernie. There’s no reasoning with children.

Tesla’s are not self driving cars. And the autopilot feature is definitely not better than real drivers.

This is not a true self-driving car, though. The Tesla “Autopilot” feature is nowhere even close to full-on whole-car autonomous driving systems being tested by Google, Uber, and others — and those more substantial systems have still had their fair share of accidents.

Yeah, it was fun to watch, but it wasn’t some kind of revelatory documentary piece. It was a behind-the-scenes look at a concert with allllllll the filters on.

People just want Omar to ‘pay’ for September 11th because she’s vaguely brown, Muslim, a woman and wears that headwrap - she’s an easy target. Attacking her somewhat satisfies their bloodlust to “Get them Moozlems!” who perpetrated the attack since there was never any real September 11th Trial, the pursuit went on and…