“And by holding up the Bible, he was showing us that it teaches that, yes, God hates racism...” Bwaaaaaahahahahahaha!!!
“And by holding up the Bible, he was showing us that it teaches that, yes, God hates racism...” Bwaaaaaahahahahahaha!!!
Trump ordered that the gassing and non-lethal shooting of peaceful protesters to not talk about God’s love in front of a church while holding a Bible that’s not even his.
This. Just because *I* don’t need Ashton Kutcher to tearfully explain why it’s important to say Black Lives Matter instead of All Lives Matter, doesn’t mean that he’s preaching to a choir and simply virtue signaling. He might have followers who genuinely need to hear that. It might also be virtue signaling, but …
I could be unfairly giving Ellen Pompeo the benefit of the doubt here, but it seems to me that she specifically posted this to call out the racism and hypocrisy of having excess police presence/militarization at a protest about black people dying due to racism and excessive police force. This seems like an…
I feel like it was pretty clear that Ellen’s question was rhetorical...
Yeah, I think in general you shouldn’t change children’s names (unless they’re named Huxley...). That’s the last thing their birth parents ever gave to them. Not to mention that children can understand human speech and their name is one of the first things they learn.
The little seven year-old in Star Wars pajamas who lives inside me isn't crying, YOU'RE crying.
It’s all the other people who shouldn’t have careers after this. The criminals, the screw-ups, the apologists, the fundraisers, the lobbyists, the whatabouts. Shun them all. Let them start their own businesses. I shouldn’t have to sit through annual anti-harassment videos next to these bigots, and no customers should…
Honestly I find it so messed up that they got him when he was 2 and I haven’t heard a single reference to the name he presumably had when they adopted him. You can’t just rename a kid like you can an animal. My cat doesn’t really care what I call her - that name was part of his heritage and if they really cared they…
In my experience, the easiest way to test whether or not someone understands Rev. Dr. King, and agrees with him, is whether or not they can remember any quote from him that is neither “the arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice”, nor “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a…
Agreed. At a certain level, I am always pleased when an alcoholic admits that he has a problem. I am less enthused when an alcoholic confuses the first step, namely, admit you have a problem, with all twelve steps. As is, our political structure suffers from a perpetual underpants gnome problem. It’s always willing to…
I used to think the hippie parents in the town where I grew up were the worst. They named their kids things like Rainbow and Dreamcatcher. However, at least they meant it sincerely -they wanted their kids to be colorful dreamers- instead of just throwing together a letter salad to be special.
And so many white people use his words to justify their mediocrity. Every time I see a MLK quote from some jerk I grew up with (who 9/10 whined about Kaepernick taking a knee and cheered when it ruined his career) I want to remind them that he was despised when he was alive and was murdered anyway.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a…
Unfortunately with King, I think the issue is less that the rural whites are starting to question white supremacy or pine for reps who meet the lowest bars of political decorum — they’re farmers and relied on King to represent their agricultural interests in the House. His overt racism (specifically questioning why…
Well, there is an obvious downside: there’s only so much you can do about the Iowa 4th District, because it’s rural, white and has little in the way of college education. Put that together, and you’ve got yourself a Trump District Cocktail. As much as I would like non-college educated rural whites to see their…
I’ll take the wins where I can find them these days.
I used to have a beautiful black Great Dane back in the late 90s. Her name was Onyx (and she was truly the best dog ever...she really thought she was people). I would never dream of naming a person that, though.
Can’t think of “Huxley” without adding “Aldous” in front of it - I loathed Brave New World when we had to read it in school :/
It's all very "I'm going to wear my crisp clothes and glasses for my court date" hehe