One of my favorite quotes I like to post for complicit-ass white people:

You sound like you’ve been snapped on for being annoying before and are just mad about it, which isn’t surprising, given that you’re displaying the same kind of behavior here.

I have paid $13 for a BLT with avocado. Granted, it’s about 8-10" long and it was the best damn BLT I’ve ever had, but still...$13.

Lucky you, but you realize that you not having had an experience doesn’t mean 1) that it doesn’t happen or 2) that everyone else who has is ‘doing it wrong’ and you’re a superior creature, right?

Nah, I’m from the South and I don’t really like small talk either - not in situations where social interaction’s not really expected. A party or networking dinner? I can small talk with the best of them. Standing in line at the coffee shop? I don’t want to talk to you!

Shyness is different from introversion. I’m not shy but I’m pretty introverted - conversations, especially with strangers, drain me. They take energy. Extroverts gain energy from talking to people.

I have to agree. I’m a Southerner myself and the only time I see the “Northern liberal elites!” rhetoric come out is when (mostly white) Southerners want to do something racist (or sexist, or homophobic, or otherwise fucked up). The rest of the time they spend trying to prove how modern and cosmopolitan and educated…

My advice is to stop worrying what the hell other people think and do what you want. You don’t have to be unique. If you want to do Mason jars and burlap sacks go for it! It’s the struggle to do something “unique” that one’s guests will remember that stresses couples out during their planning process. Just do whatever…

Well, the mothers of one of the women he harassed when she was 16 responded by saying that her daughter was “lucky” to be getting attention from a man more than twice her age, and that he was “good marriage material.”

This. If white women couldn’t even get up in arms about him outright claiming he sexually assaults their own kind without repercussions, why on earth would they care if he calls one of us a slur that they think in their own heads all the time?

I got some third and beyond cousins that are just cousins...I got some cousins I’m not even really sure how they’re still cousins, but they from my dad’s people, so they’re cousins.

I just think blackfolk descend from more collectivist cultures than white people. African peoples pre-Columbus generally had more collectivist, it-takes-a-village kinds of values anyway- clans and tribes were interdependent, and achievement and goals were set for the entire group’s social good rather than on…

My mom always says she’s probably got a Korean half-sibling or two, based on my granddad fighting in the Korean War in the 50s.

Then what the fuck is the point of their statement? “Oh, no, but Al was always nice to me!” is completely meaningless, since Nice Guys molest people all the time.

Teach the children.

Rice is like the next easiest thing to boiling water. It’s easier than pasta, fam.

What is the point of making a whole other chicken broth from scratch when you can stick the stuffssing inside the bird and get the same effect? I’m from the South too. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from growing up there it’s that there are many ways to “properly” do Southern anything.

Scratch, no question. That out of the box shit is trash.

So my mother in law actually makes really good stuffing. The turkey tastes incomplete without it. I also have a white friend I do an after Thanksgiving with who makes delicious pineapple stuffing. So I dispute this assessment.

I don’t care what you call it as long as you make it right!