Fact Checking The Root, “When Racism Slips Into Everyday Speech”
Some phrases really are racist
Bad Teachers… Are More Influential
Even with all the kind and great people in this beautiful world, a rotten minority can ruin it. The lesson is to ignore the rotten people and focus on the kind. I must have missed this lesson.
ExMas -- Tales of Exes Past
Dating is what you make of it.
Repost: Hannah Arendt, "On Forgiveness"
“Forgiving, in other words, is the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew and unexpectedly, unconditioned by the act which provoked it and therefore freeing from its consequences both the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.”
Repost: Stephen Katz, "How to Speak and Write Postmodern"
“The instability of your question leaves me with several contradictorily layered responses whose interconnectivity cannot express the logocentric coherency you seek.”
Repost: Deadline, '{Atlanta writers} Address Criticism That FX Series Isn’t For Black People'
On Atlanta, Projection, and the Art of Overthinking Sodes
Repost: Middle East Forum, "{Islamist Mayor}’s Bigotry and Apparent Voter Fraud"
"Ghalib mocked African Americans following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police."
Repost: Rolling Stone on Mashrou’ Leila + Egypt (2017)
A fantastic Lebanese band proved fame turns people into posers, first disbanding out of Islamist pressure, then joining the Islamists.
My "SWAT Story" revisited (after another massacre)
I had seen guns before… There was the time I witnessed a man shot, at my temple. Still, none of my experiences compared to five minutes of my sophomore year.