I'm sure the Pulitzer people will be waiting with baited breath for that contribution.

Apparently, it’s not the fact that the unemployment rate for black college graduates is twice as high as the unemployment rate for white grads. Black college graduates are paid 80 cents for every dollar a white person with the same education earns. White people leave college with lower debt and higher earnings.

Dgs: you're not getting out of the greys on my account, but you could measure success thusly: Mr. Harriot is a professional writer who is paid to tell compelling stories. You're a sad bag of shit who's reduced to creating burner accounts so you can spend the evening hours trolling folks on this website. Congrats. It…

Because white news reporters are literally color blind but have extra fine perception for beige scale.

Michael, I'm also a product of the Palmetto State, albeit not from Hartsville. Every time you tell your story, I'm struck by how much your success seemed to mean to your community. It really is an incredible story.

higher education is a lonely place as a minority. When I was working on my PhD, I was the only ethnic minority (I am a brown guy, incidentally) in my entire program.

Seconded. Thin does not equal healthy. I am thin. I can’t run a block without getting winded. I used to faint a lot. If I get a brief gastrointestinal illness it can take days for me to recover. And my cholesterol isn't great.

When I was losing weight from chronic illness, I was occasionally told “well, on the up side, you LOOK FANTASTIC!” 

I’m glad your cousin was able to be an honest outsider and that you got help. I hope your recovery continues and you don’t get back there again.

“People love the way I look in that series, but I was very ill,”

This was the kind of thing me used to talk about in my office while he was running (the job required we be up-to-date on politics goings-on and save for one dude, we were all liberal). We weren’t worried about legislation or policy because any Republican will get you basically the same thing there. We were discussing…

I don’t think that would do a thing to his numbers. After 2.5 years of interacting with his dipshit cultists I can’t imagine much they wouldn’t excuse. Eating a live baby? Video of him bottoming for Putin? What would shame or embarrass people without shame? Hitting Melania would be pun by Kellyanne and her Gang of…

I know there’s no bottom with this monstrosity. I’ve known there was no bottom for a long time. Yet, I still experience a bit of amazement when new depths are reached.

Trump hasn’t been sincere about a thing in his life, and the fact that this guy thinks he’s going to be the one to get sincerity out of him is proof enough that nothing will change his opinion. Trump’s rhetoric got his brother murdered, and Trump spent his visit to the victims talking about his rally’s crowd size,…

El Paso is my beloved hometown. I just flew back from there yesterday.

he surely has all 3 of his newly orphaned nieces/nephews

Look we know the President is an idiot who would totally think this is appropriate - none of what he does surprises me - but that family! Why would they do this? Days after his sister in law is dead this guy is using the child she died protecting so that he can grinning photos with the president whose policies…

It’s weird living in a time where people actively avoid meeting the President of the United States.

I thought (and still do) George W. was a wiener who was a shill for Big Oil and who got us involved in a forever war on a false premise.

I still drove a couple of hours and stood around with a bunch of Tea Party people t…

There’s also the footage of Trump yelling in the car before reboarding the plane out of El Paso. He clearly turns to Melania at one point and tells her to shut up. Every morning I wake up sad that he didn’t die in his sleep.