For this ONE Black American, today, not being Trump IS enough to get my vote. This is the same subtle, slow-burn type “reporting” the New York Times did when Hillary was running, culminating in the legitimacy it gave to all the email bullshit.

Some days the NYT is like a once favorite cousin who steals your weed and flirts with your lover. You still love ‘em because of the good old days, but you’d be a damned fool to let your guard down when they’re around.

Black America and other people of color are going to let shithole cake walk back into office?

Progressives, conservatives, centrists of all races will come out to vote.

I hope you are, but I'm not sure, though. This protesting group is engaged, and they know they are making history right now. Not only do they have their own technology, but their parents are telling them things like, "I've not seen people this mad since King was assassinated."

Because of that, I think Biden and DEMS need to listen and try to move towards what protesters are seeking. Some of it is actually low hanging fruit. They are asking for things like, "A cop can't be rehired at another station once he's been fired for misconduct," and "There should be a review of all cop contracts after 5 years." That doesn't seem so hard.


Even if it's lip service, DEMS need to get in front of this. They should promise sweeping changes and should start demanding them now.

but then, don't we all?

And the yellow haired peckerhead is intentionally trying to jackup the violence,

Why? I don't know for sure...

Joe will have a hard time satisfying the rioters demands..But eventually a choice will

need to be made and I can only hope the turnout for mr. B...is as strong as it was for

obama...

Back when I had a little money [ pause for nostalgic sigh ], the advisor talked about playing yo-yo while walking up the stairs. The idea was that certain stocks might go up and down in the short-term, but that they would slowly trend upwards in value over the long term.

So, racial tensions may flare and subside regarding individual interactions, but one would desperately want to believe that things are slowly, measurably getting better. We did have Obama, right?

For all my pride and excitement, I never believed that Obama's election indicated that we lived in a post-racial world. But I also dismissed the idea of coming race war--a sentiment that I heard expressed by both angry white people feeling threatened in their privilege and angry black people who--in my mind at the time--could not acknowledge the progress that had made.

Well, I don't a war within my own country at all. But I have a lot more respect for the perspective of the those angry black people. Pointing out to them, "But we had a black president!" sounds as about as lame as "Hey, at least you're not slaves anymore."

No, black people aren't technically slaves anymore, but their movements and actions are being tracked and monitored and judged and punished in a way that makes it very clear that they should still "know their place" and not encroach in the spaces of "decent white folk".

Living in fear is bondage. Knowing that you can beaten or killed by officers of the law for being black in the wrong place at the wrong time is the opposite of freedom. I can't claim to truly understand what it is to live under such oppression, but I can at least try to sympathize.

For those black folks who want perfection then you'll have to die and go to heaven. Human beings are not going to be 100 percent to your liking


ITS AN EGOTISTICAL, SILLY NOTION
GROW UP

Unfortunately, we're going to have murders, and injustice to some degree before God, the universe or whatever finally somehow cures humankind of all those loathsome elements of selfishness and greed and ignorance that weigh down the back of humankind and degrades us.

All we can do is try to evolve to be better human beings and fight for justice and the downtrodden, the poor, and those denied good.

But STOP demanding everyone think like you and demanding a perfection you yourself cant live up to