It could be both, but I think what’s different from other communities is the explicit denial of opportunity. Decades of preventing us from creating wealth through preventing us from working, learning and owning homes that appreciate in value. These are the things I feel that need to be remedied and I’d want my…

I agree. I like the idea of reparations through wealth building programs as opposed to just cutting us a check.

You know, they could just brush a cat, slap the fur on a set of trucknutz and hang them over a baggy suit and red necktie on Fox and the MAGAtards wouldn’t even know the difference.

“We cannot get swept away in fear,”

There is a decent population of Russian Orthodox villages around AK that, holdovers from the purchase of Alaska from Russia, still speak a (probably bastardized) form of Russian among each other. They even occasionally talk shit about people using the language (tone is universal to read, I’ve found) but you know what…

True. I’ve been the person nobody expected to know their language too.

Worse still, his repeated opposition has only served to embolden his support base to ignore CDC guidelines too, leading to scores of run-ins with law enforcement and videos of their adult tantrums going viral online.

Yeah.  No.  We’re definitely not.

Lately? He’s been a complete asshat for years.

And I firmly believe that the next time I step foot in Somalia, the United States will have regained the respect and reverence that led my family to risk everything to migrate here thirty years ago.

Oh. No, there was nothing wrong with what you wrote, it’s just that Indigenous Peoples’ Day is already that better replacement. If I wasn’t so busy being clever, I might have just said they were there first.

That’s Tim Scott, trying to ice skate uphill. Except while he recognizes the existence of vertical inclines that may hinder his forward momentum, he refuses to call them hills.

One of the compilations of the first weeks “policing” during the protests show an attractive young white woman standing on a corner filming the protest on the other side of the street. A cop comes up behind her, grabs her by the breasts, and squeezes. She hits backwards, breaks free, and is quickly assaulted by 4…

Not hardly. Trying to fit in has never worked. Paul Revere and the Raiders sang about The Cherokee Nations efforts to try in the 60’s. That effort ended with the Trail of Tears. The BIA tried to enforce “fitting in” for decades, resulting in poverty, alcoholism, and drug abuse on the reservations. And it doesn’t…

That has been the story of this country. Hell, she’s not even the first white person in these protests to be caught starting some shit that the media will continue to blame on Black people. I still can’t be arsed to give a single solitary fuck about these damn buildings and the people who clutch their pearls over them…

I hope the President gets what he wants: a huge gathering of mask-less Republicans shouting and cheering in a confined space.

Let’s take this a step farther. Even if he did grab the taser, the cops were the ones who escalated the situation by tasing him in the first place. This is a guy drunk enough to pass out in a car in a drive thru. Even a sober person who gets tased is liable to fight back. But a very-drunk person isn’t in the right…

I’d rather see the staties go than municipal cops. Maybe in other states it’s different, but the CHP are the worst cops I’ve had the displeasure of dealing with, and they have the least justification in terms of creating safety in their jurisdiction. They have the least ability to develop community within the areas…

NASCAR will still wave the Confederate flag to signal the start of the last lap though, as is tradition.

Of course, I’m also the kind of person to only use “decimate” to mean “destroy roughly a tenth of when a tenth is still a lot,” and consider my allowance of “roughly” to be quite liberal, so maybe I’m unusually strict.