My mum works as a law librarian for a government department. Over a school break when I was...14? I think...she desperately needed help doing some filing. So I went into her work with her. Half way through I decided to start reading the files - that was the day I discovered she worked primarily on immigration and…

This was the late 90s in the heart of the Clinton economy. My brother worked for a trading firm. He got me a summer job on the floor of a stock exchange doing data entry. I did not know how to type. It didn’t matter. I had a job doing nothing. I worked a 7 and a half hour day. I would maybe do 45 minutes of work…

Packing cinder blocks.

I’ve been very lucky— I wouldn’t call any of my jobs grueling. But this reminded me of my first day of one of my favorite summer jobs at a chain bookstore. I got oriented with a bunch of other newbies and after the few hours of HR paperwork and training videos, they set me and another young dude up in the back of the…

Pizza Hut. I got hired and the manager went out on a major injury, so they decided to train new managers by putting them in charge of our location for a month. Every month new rules, new ideas and the new manager would get mad if you were following the old rules. Also filled with the weirdest idiots, one was kind of…

dropped out of school, and worked in a pizza shop. That was pretty cool. Then I went to Alaska with a couple friends. The trip was really cool, we bought an old car and drove from the East coast.

A summer gig circa 1985, folding scored VHS boxes in a warehouse in Southern California. I was 15. I got $3.00/hr.

Since you read the article, please point me to where “they told her she didn’t have a case for rape charges.” Quote that part of the article. If you point out where that is a thing anyone besides you says that happened, we can then discuss whether that constitutes a “huge ethical issue.”

Thanks. I also read the article. I would be upset if a client I was representing in a high profile potential sexual assault lawsuit filed criminal charges for that same incident without consulting me (although potential filing of criminal charges is a conversation I would have with them right out of the gate, and it…

Neymar’s people got to her first attorney and they flipped on their own client and sold her out for money. They were the ones who leaked the (faulty/incorrect) docs to the public to change the narrative.

Thank you for admitting you’ve never had amazing sex

I’m looking forward to watching all the dumb ass white folks burning up their money!

Here’s the thing: There are certain intonations that differ in what’s generally thought of as “Black” or “White” speech. And it’s fine. My cousins who grew up in a 2% Black neighborhood and school sound different and over the phone may sound White. Others sound obviously Black. However, good diction to me is that,…

I can see the calculation behind affecting a certain speaking style.  I’ve known more than a few white people who, on hearing a black person with a foreign accent, immediately change their assessment from “lazy black person” to “hardworking immigrant”.

I don’t want to diminish anyone’s experience, but I feel like I see this narrative a lot.  Like, a lot a lot.  I’ve even had people push it onto me (I’m mixed) but the truth is lots of people don’t struggle with their blackness.  I’ve never, not once in my life felt like I wasn’t black.  Nobody ever made me feel like…

Nope. Iam also of Carribean heritage. So I know exactly what you mean. Ive seen it also.  

Oh yea, I know about it quite well. I share a Caribbean heritage and i know damn well those who affect a certain speaking style to distance themselves from Black Americans; its a fake sense of superiority. In some cases they avoid socializing with other black folk in general.. for some black males they don’t date or…

To be fair while there are Black immigrants who have this bigoted attitude towards Black indigenes, the reverse is also true. However, the writer’s issue is one I’ve seen/heard from Black folks of all stripes and definitely African-Americans/Black Americans among them. From grade school on up. We definitely have…

I think this is an age old problem if you are Black in America. Hughes touches on this in a lot of his writing and poetry for example. I don’t fit the description either. I can spout of a lot of things that aren’t supposedly what Blacks “like”. Thing is, I am still treated as Black. I still experience discrimination,…

I learned a long time ago that in some venues (not the ones I most typically choose) : the revolution is a popularity contest and beauty pageant; that my right to speak on my experience as a black American was expected be pre-approved and qualified with the right “folk”; and that more often than not, many will…