What the fuck is your point?

Slavery did not “become a thing” in the 17th century. Slavery has existed throughout human history. And Africans were not like ‘any other indentured servants’; although they may have had contracts that ended and granted them some land at the end, they were captured/kidnapped from their native lands and forced to come…

It’s possible that’s what you learned in school, but that doesn’t mean it’s historically correct. K-12 history classes have a way of presenting history as a ‘done deal,’ a parade of facts that Happened, when in reality we often don’t really know the full story and historians differ. In this case, historians do differ…

Slavery has existed throughout human history. The brutality and the longevity of chattel slavery in the Americas was kind of new, but the concept of slavery definitely wasn’t new. It’s not like the hapless Europeans were signing contracts for years before they one day say “Hey, you know what, we could just kidnap…

I felt the same way as you did initially, and probably would have felt the same way if Northam had simply apologized and acknowledged that what he did was heinous. But his denial, his doubling-down and the sheer caucasity of his statements here (really, only the blackface-wearing white dude can heal Virginia?) ruined…

Fuck. You.

So how do you propose solving the problem of a racist police and justice system? For all of us to stage a grand exodus and hope all the racists figure it out themselves?

While I do not preclude the possibility that a white man from Texas could be more pro-black than a black woman from Oakland...I do side eye it. Really hard.

Yep! She also contributed to dropping elementary school truancy by 23 percent, which translated to nearly $400K extra for the school district.

“if this weren’t a black sweater, would it have been seen as potentially racist?”

But it’s not reaching, because the backlash was swift and strong. If this many people can see it and feel offended by it, it’s not exactly a reach! A single focus group or even a single black.employee could’ve saved them a lot of money and bad PR.

Perhaps he is mentally ill. That doesn’t make what he did any less wrong or any less terrifying! There are plenty of people with mental illnesses (myself included) who don’t go around hiding in people’s closets, potentially for months. People with mental illnesses can still be held responsible for their actions,…

Um, yes, people have criticized all of those people for all of those things.

“My point is I respect people who boycott the NFL, and in fact, I even see some of the positive impact of not watching, but that’s not where I want to make my stand.”

What I’m curious about is why people are so quick to say they KNOW that Janet absolutely, 100% planned this...but are also quick to absolve Justin Timberlake of any blame by claiming he may not have known, or she didn’t loop him into her plans, or he was just kind of a bystander, etc. etc. It was his damn song they…

Have the elevated traffic accidents been linked to marijuana? Because otherwise that’s just correlation, not causation.

No, half of the murders in the US *that we’re discovered and prosecuted* had blacks convicted for them. We also know that black communities are policed more heavily than white communities and that black men are more likely to be convicted - they’re both more likely to be convicted falsely when they didn’t do it and…

The men are the worst. You have no idea what you are talking about, my dude, stay the hell off my scalp.

RIGHT. There was nothing wrong with her hair before; it was gorgeous always. 

Actually, she did, because she actually cared about the French people - or was at least a savvier politician - and probably never said that line.