I don’t think it’s so black and white. I think it’s possible to identify with the victim and the abuser and still grow up to be an abuser (or not). This shit is complex.

Black women are often left to be the hands and feet of our civil rights movement while men get to be the lionized, sanitized leaders.

Being in church ain’t the only way to worship.

I’m a black woman and I’m with my sistren: I don’t do overflow rooms. If I’m gonna sit in an overflow room, I might as well be watching it at home, so nope. I go to church pretty rarely anyway - pretty much just on Easter and if I’m visiting my in-laws - and I’m not religious so I go for the experience (this is…

Out of all the pop-culture characters available to her, would Lena Waithe’s Aech (who, both in the Ready Player One book and in reality, is a black lesbian) really choose white male robots and cyborgs as her avatars?

A long time ago - since at least the middle of the 20th century. The 2020 Census was going to add an option for “Middle Eastern or North African,” but went back on this.

No, the best solution is not leaving it blank. Communities receive support and resources and funding based on the Census. It determines a LOT of things, both private and public. (For example, some private companies use Census race data to determine diversity targets for recruitment and employment retention).

Most people (including myself) likely use maple syrup-flavored corn syrup at home, too. Aunt Jemima, Mrs. Butterworth’s, Hungry Jack, Log Cabin, alladat is corn syrup. So they won’t really know the difference anyway.

Not just someone. A bunch of teenagers who just watched their friends and teachers die in gunfire a mere few weeks ago.

Let’s put aside the actual fact that marching on Washington, bringing attention to issues that are out here killing people, and asking lazy-ass corrupt legislators to do their jobs actually IS doing something. It’s how we effected a great deal of change in the United States going all the way back to reading the…

Yeah, physicians have been coming for him all morning.

...but that’s how this works. If you make a claim that you think is factual, especially if it contradicts the science in this article, you back it up with other science. A.A. Newton didn’t conduct the research; they found the science that backed up their claims. You are of course not obligated to do that, but then…

Because first of all, those things are very different. Social research shows no connection between violence in video games and real life violence, but there definitely is one between the portrayal of gender and people’s perception of women and sexuality in the real world. I don’t know why and researchers are trying to…

Excuse us women for not wanting to be treated as “passive sexual objects” who are fully dependent on men.

This is something between a distortion of the facts or a deliberate twisting of them.

I read the article and I couldn’t even finish it because...what the actual fuck? This terrorist blew up and killed multiple people and were reading about how his poor grandma is grieving him and how sweet and church going he is? No shade to her but I don’t give a shit about his family’s feelings. What about the…

I was just thinking the same thing. Police always claim that they fear for their lives. But how often are police officers’ lives actually in danger? I’m talking about beat cops like these who are catching neighborhood prowlers and solving petty crimes. How often do they actually get guns pulled on them? Are the…

I was wondering if I was the only one thinking that! Why did you have a police helicopter engaged to look for a single dude breaking some car windows??

I mean...depending on the context, that IS kind of transphobic. What’s the point of conveying that information? What were you trying to say?

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