Thankfully my FB friends know better than to express those feelings and those that do are probably just quiet for fear of Internet reprisal. But yeah, I just want to be black and live my life without the knowledge that someone could shoot me dead tomorrow and it'd take 12 days of violence in the streets to even get a…

I grew up as a solidly middle class white girl in a suburban city in Northern California. I went to a private school. Not elite, but parochial - our education included Chick Tracts as required reading in science class. I had to take a Human Evolutionary Biology class in college to even understand what the theory of…

John Oliver said it best. Paraphrasing because I don't know the exact quote but something like: "There are some open questions about what exactly happened in the initial incident; however, it is absolutely crystal clear that every single thing that the police have done since then has been utterly wrong."

You know, I don't care what Brown did. He was jaywalking in the street and now he's dead. There is just no reasonable progression by which you go from jaywalking in the street to dead. Maybe it would have played out like this with a white kid, same size and same age, but I somehow doubt it. I cannot imagine a…

I've already defriended three people in the last week over this horse shit. They keep posting about how cops have hard/dangerous jobs as if that gives them the right to execute people in the street and abuse protestors.

Alternate Title: White People Continue 1,500-Year Tradition Of Being Humanity's Biggest Assholes

I'm following the story from Europe and there is such a disconnect between the view of events here and what I see Americans posting on Facebook and Twitter.

I'm from a rural area 100 miles from Ferguson, and my Facebook feed is 80% very concerned about the long hours that the police are putting in. The general tone is that this is over and we just need to move on. Luckily, there will probably be another police shooting soon to distract everyone.

If it is true that he attacked the officer, my opinion on the initial incident may change slightly.

You're missing an obviousness (which I can understand, since it delves into the lack of supposed humanity in humans).

Come the fuck on white people.

I've added a new internet rule after this case: I now assume that if a white person says "this isn't about race" (often accompanied with "it's about class"), that they do not actually know any black people.

The alleged "witches" of Salem were hung, not burned. (Listen, I hate being this way, too. But I used to live there, and you can't buy a coffee without seeing a damn plaque or diorama)

Wait, Lana Del Ray makes facial expressions?

Fifty Shades of Beige

"So what's the whole 50 Shades thing about?" "It's about a rich guy who has total control over an impressionable pretty girl, and she likes it that way." "Nice! Perfect! Sounds very in line with our valu-" "Oh and they have tons of kinky sex." "Ah. Well, let's scratch that pesky part and just go with the whole first…

"Free-spirited woman" is now Christian PC for "loose woman"? Did I catch that dog whistle? Anyway, so the plot is about a free-spirited woman who decides to bind her freedom in the service of a "higher standard" — because the divine Kim Il Sung promises that in exchange for your freedom he's going to score you some…

I cry out the Lord's name every time I'm getting rammed and spanked from behind. "Jesus!"

You mean to say that a Christian corporation doesn't actually give a fuck about the children they so loudly and repeatedly claim to care about, but instead they're just a bunch of self-serving, greedy capitalists!? I'm shocked.

So, for those keeping track at home: Hobby Lobby cares deeply about protecting the unborn when it comes to denying women contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Hobby Lobby does not care deeply about protecting the unborn when it comes to ensuring that mothers are capable of providing for their new…