A Nice Thing

This doesn’t happen very often, so I wanted to share.
I currently have a friend that, due to some circumstances that shall remain vague, I am sometimes constrained from saying certain uncomfortable things to. This is part of my overwhelming stress at the moment — nothing is more crazy-making within me than to feel a thing, [...]

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The NY Post Cartoon

Okay, here we go.
Whenever SUPER RACIST EVENT happens in this country, I tend not to get too whipped up. I mean, it’s no shock or surprise to me that SUPER RACIST EVENTS still happen at a fairly consistent clip. And, the thing is, I tend to view the SUPER RACIST EVENT to be on the [...]

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Africa does not apply

We recently had an event for our transracial adoptive families. Transracial means a lot of things, but for the program I work on, this means families — pretty much exclusively white — who have adopted African-American kids. Or, as one of our moms — in an unparalleled Midwestern show of euphemism — puts it [...]

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A thing that bothers me sometimes

I’m Hispanic. About a fourth, maybe a little more, maybe a little less (my family hasn’t kept very good track). My maternal grandfather, who I never knew, came over from Spain with his parents when he was a child. My grandfather was a race car driver who knocked up my grandma when she was really [...]

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What is the whitest thing

I need a small break today. The program I work on is gearing up for new events, and it’s just constant nose-to-grindstone craziness. I’ve discovered, to my chagrin, that I have no anger management skills. I have so rarely actually gotten angry in my life, for good or ill, that now that I am healthier [...]

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