Rockabilly was invented by black people so like maybe cutting out the confederate flag crap would be nice, it’s like taking another kid’s toy and then licking it so they don’t want it back but with an additional history of genocidal violence…

The fact that we as white people make fun of black people for naming their kids things like Shaniqua, which sounds lovely, I mean that shit sounds like some kind of rare and ethereally beautiful butterfly “the northern shaniqua” you can just picture a northern shaniqua fluttering its dainty gossamer wings, flitting from flower to flower.  I mean it just sounds pretty.

And then we go around naming our kids shit like Fletcher which sounds like a kind of abscess you get on your dick from late stage syphilis seems particularly fucked up to me.  Seriously say it out loud “fletcher”.  “that dude had a fletcher on his dick, I nearly puked when he took his pants off, it smelled horrible”.  It just sounds freaking gross.  We have zero room to make fun of anyone.  We’re ridiculously bad at this.

Like I’m aware of what each one means, and actually fellow white people why the fuck are you naming your kid “arrow maker” in the first place?  I mean I know we have our problems, but I thought we’d kiiiiiind of recognized the obsolescence of the long bow?  Have we not progressed since like… the 16th century?  Of course we fucking haven’t.

IDK man, I just DK, that shit seems fucked up.

Why I didn’t call the police when I saw two black boys with guns next door

My husband’s instinct was to call law enforcement, but that didn’t seem like the solution. Especially after Tamir Rice

The fact that black kids can’t enjoy playing with BB guns without the possibility of being murdered is fucking awful. The BB gun is a classic childhood toy, it’s like not being able to ride a hobby horse without someone assuming you’re a fucking cavalry charge.  Like the “just don’t give them toy guns” solution A: doesn’t work, because cops think cellphones and lollipops are guns apparently and B: what kind of a fucking grinch are you to think that little kids should have to stop playing with their toys so that people don’t murder them?

Why I didn’t call the police when I saw two black boys with guns next door