July 2022 – monique judge

Jay Ellis got cyber-bullied over his marriage, and that’s not OK

As I watched this, I kept wondering why people felt the need to attack him. …

Conversations about racism should not be getting stuck on ‘not all white people’

Anyway, the other subset of people were white people who generally agreed with what I said about Bodega Bro, but they were given pause because in my headline I said “Bodega Bro is the epitome of everything white people do wrong on a daily basis.” They all got stuck on the “white people” part, and they all wanted to lecture me about how I shouldn’t lump everyone together in one category.
Selective offense and ‘not all white people’: We shouldn’t have to keep coddling y’all

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Why is Josh Hawley always being a goofy?

At this point, he should have realized he was in over his head, but you know white people, they gonna keep pushing it. He didn’t even really have anything “good” to say back, so he just stammered, “Uh, so, uh your view is that the core of this right then is about what?”
Josh Hawley messed around and found out, or how to ‘professionally’ read someone who is playing in your face

theGrio Things I've Written Elsewhere

Black people with guns is scary business, apparently

Except as we all know, people’s attitudes about who should and shouldn’t be able to bear arms and carry them in public tend to shift greatly when it comes to Black people owning guns. And we all know this is due to the implicit bias buried deep in this country’s DNA that causes white people to view Black people as some sort of ongoing threat.
Why is open carry only an issue when it comes to Black folks?