In normal times, this would an assignment handed out in the first semester of a master’s in public policy course. The prof makes everyone present their policy proposals in class, and when the dumb kid from some no-name southern college reads his “sponsor an immigrant” proposal, everyone in the class picks it apart and…

Yeah, but then those immigrant kids would take all those sweet school janitor “jobs” from the poor kids in Newt Gingrich’s school improvement scheme.

I think you’re absolutely right. I know a number of white women (and I am also a white woman) who fetishize their status as “educator/hero” and use that status to bludgeon people into agreeing with them. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen facebook posts that start with “As an educator, I see xyz” that…

SUCH a good show. “Chy chy rodrigwez” still cracks me up to this day.

I am so torn. Geese are the worst. But so are assholes who refuse to pay local taxes. Can’t we get rid of both?

OMG I am dying. But you know it’s more of a Michael Buble situation, not Luther.

I agree with everything The Brown Dahlia said, and will add that adding people of color to your “list” doesn’t delay or detract from progress. In fact, it might actually speed it along if people like you could get behind a definition of human rights that includes all people, regardless of religion, color, gender or…

And you would have been right to—she still looks amazing.

Add concern for people who are not you to your list. Is that constructive enough for you?

I think you need to re-write your list.

I’m ready to believe anything he’s accused of because of those pants. Yikes.

The Root did. It was pretty good.

Wait, are we supposed to feel bad for her? Because if karma was a thing she would be doing far worse than “comparably far lower payday.”

I am a white person who reads The Root every day, and I want to thank you for this series and all the other ways this site educates me. Even though I grew up in an inner city with many black teachers, I learned almost nothing about the Memphis strike. My kids will be watching this series, because I know they’re not…

You got my first out-loud laugh of the day. Nice one.

It was very difficult to type. Then I had a moment when I got nervous, thinking “what if someone thinks I really don’t know the difference?”

its a gift.

I hope there not to mad at the printers.

I wonder if David’s Bridal knew Joy Villa was buying that dress for this purpose.

Shit. read this article this morning, did some other stuff, came back and it was cross-posted— and look what happened. Yikes.