Sushi doesn’t go with crackers.

Nah, she should stay gone. Sleeping in class is disrespectful and wrong, but putting your feet on and humiliating someone because of it is doubly wrong. She probably didn’t even try to see if there’s a reason they’re sleeping.

Lose her job? I’d like to kick her ass, and I’m Buddhist.

Is it Republican Jesus? It’s Republican Jesus, isn’t it?

Yeah it is. Is that why this shit enrages me? Is my white half coming out? Or is this rage that seeing so many injustices happen and I’ve little power to stop them. At best I can say, “Hey, knock that shit off asshole.” I dunno. I’m tired. Time for Capt. Power to take a nap.

“Maybe instead of embarrassing him in front of the class, try talking to him afterwords about why he’s sleeping and what could be done to prevent this in the future.”

That’d be too much life compassionate. Not enough violent racism.

Check who they’re praying to, at least. It might not be who people think.

He looked tired. Maybe instead of embarrassing him in front of the class, try talking to him afterwords about why he’s sleeping and what could be done to prevent this in the future. Even if it’s a repeat problem, she has shown that she’s not spent 1 second to even ask why? He could be out ‘thuggin’ or maybe he’s…

I’m not a teacher but I can think of a dozen ways to deal with a sleeping student without turning the scene into a Ren and Stimpy sketch. And these prayer marching fuckwits can’t even acknowledge that Houston crossed the line and at the very least was unprofessional when she attacked that student?

...I’m pretty sure that’s the point...

Just when I thought I was numb this hits me right in the gut

#Fuck WalBucks

Thank you for making sure that the images I have of this man are those of a loving father. These pictures of this man are not the ones I will likely find in other outlets’ reporting on this lynching.

“Calling the police is the epitome of escalation, and calling the police on black people for noncrimes is a step away from asking for a tax-funded beatdown, if not an execution.”

I don’t think it’s so black and white. I think it’s possible to identify with the victim and the abuser and still grow up to be an abuser (or not). This shit is complex.

Now hear me out. This gets kind of complicated.

A lot of people simply have an empathy problem. They don’t give a shit until it effects them. Especially since white male is the default in America, they oftentimes don’t learn to put themselves in other people’s shoes. Women and minorities, of which I’m both, learn early on to view the world in different ways, we…

Oh, male privilege definitely plays into it. I think it’s also terribly myopic to not look beyond this issue into the deeper implications that affect everyone. I suppose it’s a lot like white-privilege, in that sense. Like, how can you not see that cops killing unarmed black people is bad for everyone?

This is the last thing this kid needs. He and his brother have had a very rough life (parent’s death, new family, who knows what) and he feels guilty about not stopping his brother (as if he could).