Ugh. I know you tried.. but a sentence or two isn’t sufficient data, etc., on the effects of systemic racism faced by black women. I think the attempt to understand gets lost by willfully omitting the majority of black citizens in this country - black women. And basing and a study that fixates on marriage/two family…

Dude, how you get internet from prison?

What EXACTLY are these good ideas? Please, point me to them. I beg of you

It’s far easier for black academics and media pundits to point out that water is wet than it is to start rethinking this American experiment. (We’re the lab rats, fyi)

It’s crazy because he ended up being the best teacher I had in high school (and one of the best overall). Fucking racism man.

Yep, the expectation of African-American men being dumb and violent is pretty deeply ingrained.

I grew up middle class and went to good public schools. Will never forget walking into AP Calculus and having the teacher ask me if I was in the right class. Then expecting me to need extra help.

Michael, One thing I did not see addressed (correct me if I’m wrong) is what the response of the “race realists” will be. Won’t this report simply reinforce their idea the black people are innately less capable to compete based on “merit”.

Hey I went to school near where Aaron grew up and had friends that played with him in high school. He was violent long before he reached college. He supposedly brought weapons to school multiple times and had a crew of dudes who would go around and beat the shit out of people. However since he was so good, the schools…

You are right, but someone always has to be the first. Usually, they are given hell for being a trailblazer, but with the passage of time, they are remembered as heroes. Who knows, maybe Drake and OBJ will make their bromance official? No one can doubt either of their talent, and hip hop is often as homophobic as…

Well, of course he did. Macho men of color have as much trouble with homophobia in their own communities as they do with WOC who are straight-talkers even when they’re also straight women.

Supported him? He loved football and played in a sports industry that would have never signed him if he were openly gay. Why are there no openly gay football players in America? Says a lot. Homophobes destroy so many lives. They are so, so selfish.

I wish he had surrounded himself with better people who would have supported him, instead of being so internally tormented to the point of taking another life, and then his own. Supportive friends and family makes all the difference.

This is such dangerous bullshit

This is the harm that toxic masculinity wreaks on our culture.

(When you and “Bill” are the only black people in a large group. You and Bill have nothing in common)

My mother in law texted my husband to say how offended she is about my latests posts (e.g. “white men continue to be the biggest terrorist threat in the US”, “THIS WHITE ON WHITE CRIME HAS TO STOP”, and “white people need to stop using Oujia boards in horror films”), calling them racist against her and her family.…

Chiming in from the Native community - the biggest red flags (pun!) when a white person is trying to prove how not-racist they are:

“What about black on black crime?”