My mom would have beat me, then made me go on national TV and apologize, then took me home, beat me some more and planned my life until I was 18, weekly beatings included. 

They’re scared.

Everything the others responses to you has said is true. But most white people haven’t examined history, or their own lives, to anywhere near that extent. Privilege is just ‘normal’ and anyone advocating change is messing with a world that seems to work, or even could be served to tipped a little more in their favor,…

“White supremacy” and “Donald Trump” in the same paragraph ought to tell us all something about “white supremacy.”

I can’t know what was in the artist’s mind, but I see a confident black man moving forward, looking over his shoulder to make sure we’re keeping up with him.

If Donald Trump is the last hope for your people, you’re truly in a world of shit. White supremacy is a hell of a drug.

This sculpture isn’t about the past, it’s about now and the future.

My 2 cents as an Indigenous woman is maybe he’s saying Black excellence is contemporary, is all around you, and is dynamic. I say this as I am taking a break from prepping for a talk to my son’s 6th grade science class about my own career in science. In meeting with his science teacher, I’ve let her know my main…

Because that’s not where his interests lie.  His focus is on depictions of contemporary ‘everyman’ figures from Black communities.  People we don’t typically see raised up and celebrated.  He juxtaposes them against the very common long-dead White guys that we are so used to seeing. Same with his paintings.  You will…

Intersection of colorism and racism at work. Japan is incredibly racist in general. Being largely ethnically homogenous doesn't help with that. 

After less than 5 minutes continuously punching someone I’d get tired and wander off. Twenty minutes leads me to believe they worked in shifts on that poor girl. Those girls are old enough, they should know better at that age. I wouldn’t feel sorry for them at all, getting a juvenile record for something like this.…

They’re also in India and are big in parts of the Caribbean.

Color-ism is a world-wide problem. Almost every country on earth has wide spread issues with people who have darker skin, and unlike the west where we have been forced to confront that racism in law and in society, many eastern countries have done extremely little to combat the perception of dark skin as dirty, or…

It seems like the NAACP has a very poor disciplinary system, as there was a big story earlier this month about a regional NAACP chair in NJ having an antisemitic (and anti-Hispanic) meltdown and not being punished or ousted because the state or national head was out on vacation and evidently hadn’t left anyone in…

What did the other side do?  She was the punching bag. 

Of course they’ll be treated differently than an adult criminal because there is hope for them despite this. If they were adults the assumption would be that they knew what they were doing and they’d go straight to jail for a few years and get out with a permanent criminal record to follow them for the rest of their…

While I do agree that at this age there’s still the possibility that all these children need is therapy, counseling, etc. I’m not mad that they were arrested and I hope they get a juvenile record so that if they assault someone again before they’re of age, it will be known that they’re recidivists and should be dealt…

it’s got to stop on both ends...make it a teachable moment.”

That’s what gets me too. The earbuds, the ice cream, the Gucci Main book- he just wanted to relax in his own place.

I don’t give a shit if she is a cop why the fuck did the police department allow her to be around a crime scene? If this isn’t further proof of the “blue wall of silence” I don’t know what is. This is gross on so many levels. Nothing makes sense. Why are you banging on a door that is your apartment?