How did they manage to pick the most bland names ever?

“I now declare this regal and magnificent tiger shall henceforth be known as.....Joanne.”

Ooo...

You go Miss LaBeija.

Yep!

Is that GIF from Paris is Burning?

Tell ‘em Pepper.

Ohio borders Kentucky. It’s not unusual for people from the southern part of Ohio to have a southern accent.

So you think Ohio is throwing shade at New Mexico????

She appears to be supportive of him. After the allegations, there were pictures of her going bowling with hm and other family members.

Honestly, her reaction to this reallllly determines whether or not I will ever support her again.

If legislators care SO DAMN MUCH about black and brown babies, they could, you know, address the poverty, lack of educational opportunity, lack of parental leave and affordable childcare options, shitty sex ed and access to contraception and reproductive care, and myriad other factors that actually influence into…

And now they’ve called me a faggot. Yes, clearly we are dealing with a brilliant and not-at-all-bigoted mind here.

I’m going to ignore the stupidity of everything else you wrote and focus on one thing you mentioned: black on black crime doesn’t exist.

It’s amazing that in 2016, someone could purposely not understand the meaning of an article with that title and why switching it to “Good Black People” would necessarily be a very, very different thing.

I mean, did you even read the essay?

Except that mindset leads to the assumption that all members of these groups are immediate threats even when they aren’t. Which in turns can lead to police being more aggressive and more likely to go for the gun.

Believe me, the people who live in the communities give a fuck. Unfortunately, unless a baby, pregnant lady, senior citizen or other sympathetic person is killed, it’s not going to make the news because it’s frequently dodgy people killing other dodgy people. Unfortunately, there’s all kinds of horrible shit happening…

And communities that are systematically disenfranchised commit more crime. Which came first - disproportionate black criminality or systematic denial of human rights to black people/exclusion of black people from the legal market?