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KC Complains A LotMichael Harriot
2/21/19 12:10pm
There is something to be said for teenagers being shitty and immature and not knowing the consequences of their actions...but the whole point is that when you do get in trouble and suffer the consequences of your abject shittiness, you learn from those mistakes and become a well adjusted member of society.
What these writers are advocating, and what this kid’s asshole parents are saying, is *he shouldn’t have to learn a lesson*. He shouldn’t have to suffer the embarrassment. He just made a mistake! How can one boy be defined by one mistake!?!
How many people of color end up with felony and misdemeanor convictions that follow them forever for one mistake? We are not afforded the luxury of not having our mistakes (let alone the mistakes of other people who's only tangible similarity to us is the same-ish skin tone) define us for our whole lives, and we don't get to file multi-million dollar law suits to argue they shouldn't, either.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZKC Complains A Lot
  2/21/19 1:06pm
  There’s an additional point here
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  hexed13KC Complains A Lot
  2/21/19 1:44pm
  They are not just saying *he shouldn’t have to learn a lesson*. They are saying that *he should gain from his mistake*. The kid was a jerk and is now going to be a rich jerk. It’s some f-ed up universe where apparently “the worst thing that ever happened to him” is really, “the best thing that ever happened to him.”
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hillratMichael Harriot
2/21/19 11:29am
Man, you had chuuuuuuch up in here today!!!!!
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZhillrat
  2/21/19 11:57am
  He does that.
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  Blaqntelligencehillrat
  2/21/19 12:25pm
  I don’t even bother diluting this man’s words with commentary. I just give my most favorite shit he writes a standing ovation.
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Vanessa FutrellMichael Harriot
2/21/19 12:24pm
My parents sent me to Catholic School because the public schools in my neighbor were not teaching shit. I was one of two black students grades 1-8. And the only-only in high school.
I was a brilliant student throughout. Hell, on high school graduation day, I was awarded a plaque for being an “Outstanding Negro Student”. I don’t mean to brag, but the bar was pretty high because I was running against myself.
This total immersion in schoolhouse Whitelandia taught me that the majority of white people are mediocre at best.
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  Achillobator55Vanessa Futrell
  2/21/19 1:45pm
  Hate to break it to you, but the sad reality is that almost all people are mediocre at best. Note that I am not arguing your point, but the more time you spend in more communities of different types of people, the more you realize that people really aren’t all that special, irrespective of their color.
  That’s why Mike’s point is so well-taken, for me anyways. People typically aren’t exceptional, but because white people don’t face barriers based on their immutable characteristics, they only need to be about half as capable to get twice as far.
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  MssaywhatitisVanessa Futrell
  2/21/19 2:06pm
  Sis!!!! Yes!!!!!!
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Dave Michael Harriot
2/21/19 11:16am
I wish I could condense this article into pill form and slip it into the drinks of my dense white kin who simply CANNOT understand what I say when I try explain the concept.
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  KimJong LetMeHearYouSayUN nanananaDave
  2/21/19 12:32pm
  “White privilege is the absence of racism”
  That is it. That is the distilled pill-form quote.
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  JonsLegionKimJong LetMeHearYouSayUN nananana
  2/21/19 4:30pm
  Exactly. Some people might require the whole article, but really, anyone that stops to think about it should get it from that right there.
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CoronerslabMichael Harriot
2/21/19 12:03pm
People will narc on Malia, but no one on this fool.
You know this “Innocent secondary school child” is anything except. Be interesting to see how far up he can fall from here.
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  Nunna Yorz (Greys get dismissed with prejudice)Coronerslab
  2/21/19 1:03pm
  At the rate he’s going, I see a supreme court nomination in his future. My only question is: Does he like beer?
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  reflectioneternalCoronerslab
  2/21/19 1:35pm
  Oh they are definitely hoping this will be settled and not proceed to discovery because I am sure this boys social media has more nails than the defense would ever require.
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ThirdAmendmentManMichael Harriot
2/21/19 11:22am
To have the confidence of a mediocre white man/boy.
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  MssaywhatitisThirdAmendmentMan
  2/21/19 2:03pm
  mediocre at best.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZThirdAmendmentMan
  2/21/19 5:46pm
  These dumb trolls really do bring it home, too
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cdwag14Michael Harriot
2/21/19 11:31am
Those articles in USA Today were salt in a gaping wound that has been opened by police, people like George Zimmerman, Permit Patty, the fucking bitch ass president(one more time lower case intentional) and too many more to mention. The lawsuit is just one more log on a fire of indignity that will burn until the end of time. I hope that under those articles those two got their asses handed to them, but I know better.
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MishaBitesMichael Harriot
2/21/19 11:38am
Nailed it, as always.
I only wish I had a way to force other people to read your words.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZMishaBites
  2/21/19 11:58am
  You can always hand them out. Forward links.
  That doesn’t force them, but it does encourage them.
  (And you can quiz them afterwards and sometimes shame them into doing it later if they’ve flaked and haven’t done it.)
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  roccitMishaBites
  2/21/19 1:30pm
  I print these things out and hand them to people. I consider it required reading.
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BlackMage2030Michael Harriot
2/21/19 1:25pm
godDAMN that’s some powerful shit to read today. Unless every black and brown person hard-rode within the media gets an apology the kid doesn’t merit a fucking penny.
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  BlackMage2030BlackMage2030
  2/22/19 8:00am
  And yet you keep reading.... fascinating.
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BlaqntelligenceMichael Harriot
2/21/19 12:18pm
One of those things has to be true. Because if Powers of Strauss believed their bullshit attempts at proactively pardoning all white kids, while watching black children receive a perpetual kick in the teeth, they wouldn’t have time to apologize...
They would be too busy burning this whole motherfucker to the ground.
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