I ate at an Applebee’s in December for the first time in god knows how many years because the hotel I was staying at across the street gave a decent coupon and I was feeling cheap and lazy. I’ll never understand the appeal. The place was full. I scraped down my just-less-than-mediocre plate of…

This isn’t some low class restraunt, like TGIFridays.

All y’all are awful people and I love it.

Sooo many great lines in this one:

So you guys all subscribe to the same newsletter or something? The two share no commonalities beyond the name. What you mention wasn’t generational, chattel slavery. Even if it was, you conveniently leave unaddressed the other points I made: the long-lasting effects of Jim Crow, redlining, blockbusting,…

Societal power, not power of an individual. Clearly, a black billionaire has more personal power in sum than the vast majority of even well off white people.

Racism is first and foremost about power. White people are in power—politically, economically and culturally. Black people are not. That’s why we have words like “N****” but no word remotely to describe white people that carries the same resonance. No word says “You and your entire peoples are worthless, lazy, and…

There may not have been slaves over the past 50 years, but there was segregation over the last 50 years. Just remember, your grandparents or parents were alive during that time. I know because mine were and are. They still remember. That makes it pretty recent. I even grew up myself (I’m 41 btw) remembering my parents…

Good god, why do you think poverty is so endemic in that population? Systematic denial of liberty, rights, educational, and economic opportunity over hundreds of years didn’t just go away at the signing of the Civil Rights Act. Something like that would take many generations, and while progress is being made, it’s…

Except the reason they are where they are is due to race and unfortunately as this election proved, plenty of people are racist still. I’ll agree that the solution is multi faceted though and needs to be attacked in a variety of ways, some of which do require work in the community itself. But none of those ways…

Holy shit. So you actually think that you just made a valid historical comparison? Because there was slavery that involved white Europeans and not Americans? What exactly does that have to do with the United States? Those slaves were not made into a permanent underclass, nor was it in any way equivalent to the chattel…

I used to think like you until maybe 15 years ago when I started realizing that the decades and decades of substandard education and institutionalized lack of access to capital will take decades more to overcome. Sure, things are better than when we kept slaves. Things are better since African Americans were given the…

Can you imagine the uproar if white people were enslaved for hundreds of years, and after having been freed were still denied basic rights for another century, and then were denied the tools that would allow them to better their overall circumstance like decent education and access to housing and banking, and then…