I have a real non ironic question, Damon. What’s this obsession with over arching hyperbolic labels for people? People are nuanced and complex. Is that unsatisfying? Real question. Is life too complicated and the way you cope is by sorting people into trash and not trash bins? That’s terribly intellectually lazy…

Everybody wanna teach somebody when their own house isn’t in order. How about let’s tell the truth and stop with this myth of financial meritocracy. People don’t have less because they don’t know how to get money. Having money is largely a matter on luck. I know, I know, the church of secular prosperity gospel says…

If someone says they are fine with it, give them the respect of believing they know what they are fine with.

HOW MANY TIMES CAN I APPLAUD THIS?!

I’m not with self appointed Black people whisperers trying to preach money “wisdom”telling others what to do with their money. Mind ya business. People know what they’re doing. Grown ass Black folks are grown are grown ass Black folk and don’t need to be lectured to

I’m gonna be charitable and pass on by this post with two of the things I hate the most. Fear celebrating and negative generalizing of Black people. Most of the things on your list don’t scare me, but I wasn’t raised by parents who thought cultivating fear was cute. Carry on.....

It was me, bitch. Backpedal your ass right on out.

You’re trying to tell a Black woman?! Someone whose very life is at risk of being ended by a cop or vigilante or scared white person dialing 911. My death would see NO justice in this country that MY ancestors BUILT. Why? Because STATE SPONSORED GENOCIDE of Black people is happening in THIS country you think I’m so…

There is no such thing as the Easter bunny and there is no such thing as an immigration policy that doesn’t exclude “good people”. That would be a refugee camp. Except even refugee camps exclude “good people”. Don’t matter what it says on the nice metal plate. We can’t take in every person that wants to be here. …

Your congressional representatives have phone numbers and email addresses. You don’t have to click your heels together. Calling them is more effective than yelling online and in the streets.

I practiced immigration law for 10 years and lobbied congress for comprehensive immigration reform. I am more qualified than you or anyone commenting here could ever hope to be. I also majored in philosophy which involved logic, which you don’t seem to be familiar with.

We had very rational discussions on the old vsb site..... you must be new to vsb.

So if you don’t let every kid who gets here have a green card then which kids you gonna deport? Which kids in college? Which ones who work at Walmart? Which ones? Even DACA has a 2007 cutoff. So if you were brought as a 10 year old in 2008 and you’re valedictorian, you’re shit out of luck.

Obama also sent those Central American moms and kids back who were showing up at the border and sent word back that they would be detained and deported. Why? Because word had gotten down south that if they could get unaccompanied minors to the border they could stay......... and they started flooding in.

I know it feels good to be upset about DACA ending, but here’s a few truths.

You know how some people get mad when fat women feel proud of their bodies? What’s it to them, you ask. It’s not about health. Has zero to do with health. It’s about disrupting social hierarchy. It only works if everyone believes in it. If fat women love themselves, plain thin women have no status to stand on.

target = scapegoat paying for the sins of the community

Being the contrarian risk taker I am, I usually do the opposite of what paranoid Black folks do. Just to be contrary. Plus it makes life more fun. I go all kinda places alone and at night. I leave my purse in the shopping basket and walk over to the cucumbers with my back to my bag. Sometimes I don’t lock my door. I…

Panama, you have a face that says “I will be tolerant and patient when bullshit shows up”. Not your fault. Damon, on the other hand, has a face that seems to be wishing a nigga would. Not his fault either. We all have our cross to bear. Apparently my face says I really need unsolicited advice because I don’t know what…

Community narratives matter. They’re how Trump got elected. You fight community narratives with stronger community narratives.