Thank you. The romanticization of an institutionalized human rights violation is horrifying to me. Those people are gross, and they should be told as much.

because who cares “my wedding theme is gone with the wind fabulous” makes me want to punch people.

I think it’s disgusting that people get married at plantations. My dad’s family lives in Nashville, and there are MANY historic plantations, and people love to get married in them- those antebellum mansions sure look good in a photo, I guess. But, I mean, HOW could you? HOW? Reminds of Reese Witherspoon’s lifestyle…

I remember a case similar to this a year or so ago, but I think they were infiltrating environmental activist groups. The guy even got the woman pregnant, and then bolted. It took her two decades to figure out how duped she’d been.

But why are the Metro Police even investing so much resources into investigating a pro-union anti-racism activist group? I would be livid that my tax dollars went to pay for spying on a completely legal, completely benign group.

When White people are happy, we’re ALL happy!

“Fuck ‘yo cake.”

I think the kids were too busy working the fields from dawn til dusk six days a week to care about baking Washington a fucking birthday cake.

A slave who smiles at his child or looks happily at a blue sky is a different thing from “the only thing that put a smile on Hercules’ face was when Lady Washington walked into the kitchen” (approximate quote). The book shows slaves taking pleasure in their masters’ happiness as if that was their purpose in life. It’s…

Comments like these blithely assume that all people consider slavery inuversally terrible, and a deeply shameful part of American history, but this isn’t the reality at all. There are politicians who talk about the good that slavery did for black people and black families (!!!), and George Washington in particular is…

You know, maybe it’s just me being the parent of a two-year old, but I don’t think that any complex issue is really going to work well as a children’s book. I have a hard time getting my toddler to understand the importance of bathing; issues about slavery are going to be well beyond her.

One of the weirdest things about this whole controversy (to me), is that an extremely similar scandal happened just a few months ago. Another picture book, named A Fine Dessert, also depicted slaves making desserts in a way that many found objectionable. You would have thought that Scholastic would have noticed what…

Can’t wait for Ganeshram’s next story about those great blankets the white man gave the Native Americans.

“‘How could they smile? How could they be anything but unrelentingly miserable?’ Ganeshram wrote. ‘How could they be proud to bake a cake for George Washington?’

She might be out of her depth.....Or she’s a racist asshat. Yeah, I’m going with racist asshat.

Oof, looked the author up and her day job is writing about food and culture. This appears to be her first foray into writing childrens’ books.

Yet.

There must be some who do that, sure. Like how pedophiles seek out jobs with children. Or people with homicidal tendencies join the armed forces. The majority are intending to do good, of course, but...

How can he not understand.....

I take total responsibility for the hit and run (went to court and all that, never went into my record because my insurance covered the all of $150 damage I did to the paint of the other car). But I did get more hysterical the more he told me I didn't need my neighbor. When the non cop neighbor came home and I asked…