There are PLENTY of historical examples that we can use to educate people on how institutions (such as the post office) can be racist. I mean, tons and tons and tons. That’s not really an obstacle to educating people.

But getting unreasonably nervous around young black men is racist. It doesn’t matter if it’s unintentional; it’s still racism. Racism doesn’t require intent.

If you’re willing to abandon the cause of equal rights and begin to deny people’s humanity and inalienable rights because someone hurt your fee-fees on the Internet, you were never a real ally anyway.

Implicit bias and institutional racism are not the same thing, though. And racism does not require intent.

THIS. I wrote about 30% of my dissertation in Starbucks cafes in New York, and while I usually bought a cup of coffee there were PLENTY of people who would sit in there for hours and not buy anything.

Yes, they do. There was an article written about it in a prominent newspaper in 2009. Starbucks wants to consider themselves a “third space” where people can get work done, where the first and second spaces are home and their workplace.

It’s kind of weird that people say that, though, because Destiny’s Child second album - The Writing’s On the Wall, their big mainstream breakthrough - came out almost 20 years ago and people definitely remember those songs. I mean, “Say My Name” - the first song in the Coachella set that she performed with DC -…

Entertainers have been including political messages in their work since the dawn of time. They’re people just like anyone else.

Um, there were a ton of articles written about Winnie Mandela’s passing, both here and elsewhere in the media.

Yeah, I’m not boycotting Starbucks. Not yet, anyway.

Yeah, actually Sheetz coffee is pretty good. We don’t have any out here in Seattle, but we have plenty of other coffee spots that aren’t Starbucks if I were so inclined to boycott (which I’m not).

Get Me Bodied has a special place in my heart because B’Day came out when I was in college and that was the universal “me andmy girls getting ready to go out” song at that point.

How do you barely remember Destiny’s Child at 35? I’m 31 and Destiny’s Child dropped their first album when I was in middle school...prime music consumption years. They were part of the soundtrack to my teenage years.

THIIIIIS. Every time a white person tells some black activist they should be more like MLK I want to scream BUT Y’ALL HATED HIM WHEN HE WAS ALIVE AND THEN KILLED HIM

Bell pepper? The hell?

Not only education and training, but they are literally responsible for our entire next generation of everything. Our scientists, lawyers, doctors, engineers, philosophers, artists, writers, mathematicians, economists...their quality is determined by how much we invest in teachers today.

This is a Republican strategy. Cut the state’s education budget, then when the schools are failing, say that public education fails students and use it to push school-choice, vouchers and the privatization of the educational system. Profit.

It is true that one good outcome of this is that I promptly added “September” to my Jams playlist on Spotify.

Don’t do it. I only listened to the first third of the song, and now I’m listening to Earth, Wind, and Fire’s original on repeat to cleanse myself.

The Internet tells me it’s the day she began a relationship with her most recent boyfriend.