List of Black Oscar Winning actors and the Role They Won For:

1939 - Hattie McDaniel - a slave who helps the white heroine

The race to the bottom continues. Come move to the west coast everyone. It’s great, we have weed and tacos.

The media won’t. You how the exchange goes:

It’s a marathon, not a sprint. There’s no instant gratification to this.

What’s even more bizarre about this is that Fredrick Douglass is one of like, 6 black people who you learn about in public school (along with Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, MLK, Chrispus Attucks and Dred Scott). Most 8th graders could probably tell you that Douglass isn’t exactly a contemporary figure.

This is what fascists do. This is fascism in action.

Not saying it’s a coup....(but it’s a coup)

she believes it is the role of parents to teach what privilege is.

dear wealthy white town,

So the town took a philosophical question personally, buried its guilt deep beneath a giant mound of self-righteous indignation, then clutched its pearls and claimed that the real problem is people asking this question.

You know, every time online someone has said “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” I have rolled my eyes, because despite loving Zoolander, nothing that actually weird is going on.

Probably 50% of the upper middle class and wealthy women I know voted for Trump. Actually probably 53% did. We are not wealthy or even upper middle class and they hem and haw about it, but I know they did.

Let me tell you a story about an old white guy from Long Island who teaches at a middle school in Queens. Four years ago, there was a little black girl in his class who was his favorite student. Her average was consistently a 95 or above in that class, just one year after a sudden move and an ill parent meant she…

If you feel moved to stand up for something, just do it. Do it in spite of the anxiety. And follow the Women’s March Twitter account for your city; apparently that’s a good way to hear about marches. Just figured it out myself!

I guess I just need to have the courage to show up. I’m currently just letting what-ifs stand in my way. Thanks.

Fun fact, that quote is pretty likely going to get used by a whoooole lot of lawyers suing Trump right now! It’s like, discriminatory intent 101 not to say publicly that you had an discriminatory animus behind a facially neutral bill; courts love calling people out on their bullshit!

I guess the betrayal can come from a misplaced sense of hope that maybe this time that colleague/neighbor will see your humanity.

Let me explain how that might happen. Say you have these lovely relatives: maybe your mother, or your aunt, or your best friend from grade school on, or your father-in-law. Say that you are always vehemently feminist and anti-racist in their presence, that they “like” facebook posts in which you say political,…

Never understood this perspective that Trump is secretly a good guy just being manipulated by nasty underlings. I guess people have always felt this way; even the most tyrannical kings were always loved by the people, who blamed “corrupt advisers” instead.