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Crystal Marie
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Good stories are my jam. Professionally, I help major brands tell their stories. Personally, I write (true) stories on uncomfortable topics: faith, politics, race, relationships, and current events.

California, the biggest Biden win, we're only 33% confirmed racists. Next to LA County is San Bernardino County where they still have the Klan and the Hell's Angels were founded. 

Or, and this is crazy, mail a ballot to every eligible citizen and have them fill it out and return it at their leisure over a 3 week period of time. Chicken or sausage optional.

I’m glad you finally got to see him in September and that his journey home was safe. Isolation from loved ones really sucks. I get Damon’s point, too, though. He has two very young children and a wife. I know of 2 men who died tragically (unrelated to Covid-19) and left behind young families. If they could’ve

The whole song where she burns her letters was symbolic of the fact that we don’t really know what she did. They stayed married because that is what people did at the time but for all we know she never forgave him. Even the work she did after his death could be scene more about preserving their family legacy and

Well, I doubt she had a lot of options given the time period.

I think it’s more tragic than that. I think he thought he was accepted by the whites, and that provided him with a sort of inoculation. Being Black helped Covid-19 kill him, but his belief in white supremacy gave him the coronavirus.

I was gonna clown on you for this, but then I remembered sending my friends several texts passionately defending Paris Hilton’s “Stars Are Blind” (which turned 14 in June).

Just remember, you’re buying/fixing it for yourself. Every repair means a nicer house that you get to enjoy. And every month you pay the mortgage, you’re paying yourself a little bit in home equity.

My biggest thing is why this song at this time? This is the critical issue that J. Cole felt needed to be discussed while black women, children, and men are being killed, brutalized, hung across the country? I will never forgive him for it. And like you, I also never thought he was as transformative an artists as his

Yeah, i know he’s gone after other folks. This seems especially odd, and is sizably punching down for no apparent reason other than he didnt like how she approached her activism. That is different. and the thing he’s criticizing her for, others have said teh same thing. Why her? Why now? it’s okay to leave some shit

If the CBC asked, I think they probably were right to say yes

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The CBC has done stoles before:

Looks like the CBC handed them out, but can’t find confirmation.

how the hell do you even know? if she gets paid from four different places, thats four different jobs. she didn’t say she worked 120 hours a week. ive had points in my life where i had three paying jobs at the same time. all with varying levels of pay. calm yourself.

Word up. Playing “doctor” or “house” didn’t teach us anything except power and control over women. Like they’re dolls or toys or something.

People even talk girls/women into invalidating their own feelings: “I don’t like or am not attracted to him” “Well, give it a try, what have you got lose, you’re too picky”. Sigh.....

Obviously important to teach boys to ask for consent, but it is just as important to teach boys how to react when you do not get consent.