757 in da house! Although my mom’s from Philly (Girls’ High), I grew up on the plantation where my father’s people were enslaved. Great-great grandpa bootlegged food to the Union Army at Yorktown and bought the plantation with Northern gold after The Woah. The first time I saw a grown-up cry was at The Museum of the…

It’s cute when people don’t know the difference between the two

I am from VA also ( born in Germany because you know Military), my father grew up in Nelson, County and my mother is from Culpeper. I spent the majority of my childhood in the 757. I went to college in Richmond and moved back to the 757 after graduation. VA is home, and I say it is the south without question. It’s not…

This is going to sound like I am Stretch Armstrong-ing it up... Being called a ‘female’ is annoying. But being called a ‘female’ while non-Black women are being called ‘girls/gals’, ‘women’, ‘chicks’ or even ‘ladies’ (which is said by the same men, who will call me ‘female’) is pretty-fucking-infuriating.

Did you also major in being an asshole? Because you are next level.

It’s amazing how people who won the lucky sperm lottery only because their parents birthed them on the correct side of an arbitrary border (ie USA) they are somehow “more gooder” and worthy of being American than someone who in some cases literally walked thousands of miles through war zones for the *chance*, the…

DACA doesn’t qualify anyone for a green card.

Did they start flooding in because DACA? Because DACA would not have actually offered those kids protections at any point, because DACA was fixed, not rolling. So you can’t conclude from DACA itself that migration would increase because it was incentivized. Of course, some people could have been misinformed about…

but here’s a few truths.

You know what accomplishes nothing? Hoping Congress does comprehensive immigration reform. Almost as if Obama had to do something not totally ideal because that’s the only way anything could get done. You know?

As someone who has lived in Virginia (non-DC suburbs) and Philadelphia it’s proven to be 1,000% true. I knew people who’s racist-as-shit grandparents grew up in Jim Crow south and talked about how they were practically raised by black housekeepers. It’s weird.

And there has been a reverse migration over the years as well as Blacks move from the North and Midwest back down South because of jobs and cost of living. Learned that bit from a professor years ago.

I’ve never thought of it that way before. I’m going to end up spending the weekend chewing on this.

I tend to repeat myself but I always explain race relations like this: “In the south white people are fine with POC as long as they don’t get too high. In the north white people are fine with POC as long as they don’t get too close.”

Scientology isn’t a religion. A religion likes to explain to you how it views the world, it’s fundamental purpose, its secrets. Judaism tells you to follow God’s commandments and you’ll do well. Here’s a bunch of books where you can find them at your convenience. Christianity tells you to worship God and Jesus and…

I remember learning about the distinction between cults and other religions a while back. I can’t remember them all, but some of the things include a limitation on who can be saved or reach the ideals of the religion (cults usually limit numbers of how many people can go to heaven or reach a certain state of grace or…

“Our goal is to facilitate positive discussion among solution-oriented people who believe in the power of sharing ideas and personal connections.”

“But I kept wishing that, unlike the book, the entire film was told from Lacks’s perspective and set mostly in the ’40s and ’50s.”

? Immigration to slavery? Like the deportations or what are they talking about?

And he didn’t even throw the note away! But I thought the point still stood - the doodles Clay left for her made her feel cared for. And now she didn’t have that