There’s a reason black trans women’s life expectancy is something like 36. Those women go through it.

Disagree. The Root has always been straight forward. The article speaks the truth. And sometimes that truth hurts. We gotta do better for all of us for all of us to do better.

Why is talking about the reality of what Black women face anti-Black male? We are always told we’re being divisive when we talk about what’s going on. It’s a great way to silence us and nothing has to change. This has nothing to do with white people and what they want.

You know which group is playing the game of life on hardcore settings? Black transwomen. Those women get the knocks from every direction. I wish I had half their strength of character and sense of self. I do wish that indeed. I’m glad that I don’t need it though, that I have enough privilege to duck out on most of the…

Omg this article is fucking perfect.

Let me find my seat real quick because the umar stans are coming.

I agree on immigration reform, and I get your point about “clumsly stated” but I just don’t think people realized how “real” shit was going to get (and is getting) under Trump. It’s fine to say “let it burn” when you’re house isn’t close to the fire. Trump was not a “necessary evil.”

There’s the whole thing with climate change and how that impacts minority communities. Gutting the EPA so Trump can finally get Wall Street to like him again is dangerous.

I don’t think POC- especially WOC- were under the impression that Clinton would have actually saved us. That’s a white liberal’s fever dream. But damn, she would not have done these heinous things (on a nearly daily basis) that Trump and the people he put in place do.

I totally understand Crystal’s argument, I do and I truly agree with her. But I just see what this Presidency is doing to people on a daily basis and it breaks me apart. The funding we got to house new people is pitiful. Absolutely pitiful. I remember sitting in a meeting and our HUD rep not knowing how to respond to…

Yes! This is why my leftist ass cannot fully jump on the “Trump could inspire change” bandwagon you see in some circles. Also, thank you for your work, Hachi.

Hi Crystal,