“According to a police summary, Crawford was in the back seat of a car. Two women were in the car with him. The car was heading east on Salisbury, approaching Blair Avenue near Hyde Park, when the gun went off.”

Hmph. Conflicted on this one. That seems like a razor-thin line to walk, and I’m not too keen on the precedent it sets.

This. All Day. ChickenMcBooty gets it.

However, the sexual assault during the Red Wings game did not occur between periods.

Best way to avoid accidents with guns... Get a good gun safety education and get your CHILDREN to gun safety classes. the worst thing you can do is treat guns like an evil boogyman and only use scary words. Children absolutely need to understand a gun is not a toy, and that you only point it at things you want dead…

It does pay...in spades. Everyone should strive for excellence, that’s not a “white” value it’s a human value. Speaking properly without give-away intonations, expressions and speech patterns which allow people to automatically discriminate against you before they even see you is important. It will certainly get you…

Isn’t island prison... Australia?

As a black male teacher, this disgusts me. I am PERSONALLY charged with the health and safety of my students, first and foremost. To see these young men, especially our children who have special needs, abused and violated makes me angry. It also steels my resolve in choosing my career path knowing that I am doing the…

How so?

2.0 is a C average.

A lot needs to change in terms of the wealth distribution in the Big Apple. Within less than 25 square miles, you have the wealthiest part of the country and some of the least-wealthy parts of the country, and one definitely isn’t sharing fairly with the other.

I suspect that this has much less to do with gentrification than it does with the 2008-09 recession and the subsequent slow recovery in business formation of all kinds. Black folks always get hit harder in downturns and recover more slowly during booms, of course.

likely.

As always, well stated. It’s a shame that it’s been amended to the constitution there can be no middle ground or pragmatic approaches to problems anymore under punishment of having the other half of your brain returned and having to think for yourself /s

i think the point of her being on a committee for something your family cant benefit from is more irony than privilege.

but overall i agree.

this might work, also:

It’s amazing what kids can do if you have high expectations, encourage them, and give them access to opportunity.

Probably a giant version of this:

Always crazy that. Its like women who say that all women should defer to men, and that feminism is bad. Or children of immigrants complaining about immigrants. It always boggles my mind when people embrace the symbols of their oppressors. Its like “respectability politics” os maybe Stockholm syndrome. Its Just…

Charter schools are incredibly competitive to get in to. Many times, hundreds to thousands of families are competing for as little as 50 to 80 spots for all grades opening up the next school year. I remember seeing parents camping outside the schools in Philly for days, just for a chance to get one of the few lottery…