I came here to say this. The book was really good. It’s YA lit for sure, but it avoid a lot of the traps of YA novels - it doesn’t shy away from nuance or depth and actually endeavors to teach a lot of the more 201-level racial/race relations concepts (like Starr’s code-switching between her prep school and her home…

Good Samaritan laws don’t require people to provide assistance; they provide legal protection for people who choose to provide assistance. For example, let’s say that you attempt to administer CPR to someone and accidentally break their ribs; the law might protect you from liability. Florida does have Good Samaritan…

I don’t understand these wypipo who gentrify in from the suburbs and then expect the city to turn into perfect copies of the suburban neighborhoods where they grew up. If you want complete and total silence, go move to rural Vermont or Eastern Oregon or something.

What the actual fuck? I especially like the ‘selling at 57th and 5th Ave, one of the wealthiest and most touristy parts of NYC even then, is too much for my precious babes...let’s just force the help to subsidize their business’ thing going on there.

Have you ever actually lived in an apartment building in the city? There used to be grown ass men on the street selling bottles of water for a dollar on hot days. Folks with sit outside on the stoop with a boom box, have impromptu dance parties, play jump rope and baseball in the street...not everyone wants to live in…

There what is?

So personally I prefer if people call me by my name, because i think it is pretentious to be called “dr” if you don’t have a medical/health degree (MD, DDS, etc.). But

I’m being genuine when I say this and it isn’t directed only at you; you just happen to be the most recent person who did it. But why do people do this? Leave the greys in the grey. We ain’t got to respond to them...they’re grey. And I sure don’t want to see their hateful rhetoric in the comments, which is why I…

Mariah’s shade is also funny as hell, so there’s that.

I loved this movie. I saw it in theaters and I thought it was hilarious and sweet.

Yes, this is one of the things that annoys me about black-ish. They still do better than most other shows - Rainbow isn’t constantly doing chores, and she is demonstrably bad at many things that women and moms are stereotyped as being good at. But Andre is so annoying and useless - and in more recent seasons, he’s…

Spelman isn’t a religious college. It started that way, as many colleges did (see also Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.); it was founded as a seminary in the basement of a church by two Christian missionaries. That wasn’t unusual in the late 1800s, especially not for HBCUs - Howard, Hampton, Morehouse, and Xavier all…

MLK wasn’t a colorblind apologist, despite how (mostly white) historians like to cast him. He frequently and pointedly called out race in his writings and orations. In fact, in the very speech that you’re semi-quoting from, he mentions race all throughout and makes it excruciatingly clear that he was agitating for…

The Civil War was about slavery - arguably only indirectly, but still.

K.A.K.: There are children’s facilities all around the country. Typically but not always, the youngest children are ideally going to be placed in transitional foster care, so they might be transferred to New York or Michigan or elsewhere along the border where there are families and, in some cases group homes,…

If you want to have an “actual conversation,” it might be better to start with your actual argument/premise, or at least clarify why you are asking a question that you can easily verify by reading one of the many news stories about this all over the Internet (including here - I’m pretty sure Michael wrote one).

“Performative sobriety and objectivity” is my new favorite euphemism for “hate hate hate hate hate”.

That’s a perfectly reasonable opinion/stance to take.

Why not both? Diversity hires can help ensure that those startups get funding when they need it, get contracts with companies that they do business with, and get good deals when they get purchased by bigger companies.

I work at one of those companies, in one of those places (and I’m a black woman). One big reason is the salaries and benefits. At even medium-sized tech companies and startups, they can be out of this world compared to what you get in other industries. I don’t pay health insurance premiums; I have emergency back-up…