More like hit the dick on the head.

"I'm just saying what everyone's thinking!" says only person thinking that.

Amazing, it’s like you didn’t read a thing I said.

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Just do what Ford did and take all the heritage pages offline! That'll work!

Shes not wrong I've been to a convention the smell is powerful.

What happens if you disable that? Does the car refuse to run?

No, you just can’t pay attention and make any effort to understand nuance and perspectives outside of your own.

100% wrong. The vote last month was about whether to add the dry cleaner building to the historic register - a process that was already in the works when the new tenants did the paint job. The county took no action about the paint job because it legally could do nothing about it. The family that owned the site and a restaurant next door were hoping to develop the site into something that very likely would have been housing. Something that would have been impossible with the completely unwarranted historical designation forced onto them by stupid people who think it’s their inalienable right to look at old buildings no matter the cost.

If you’re in love with the dry cleaner so much then BUY IT. Don’t use the to coercive powers of the government to maintain it at someone else’s expense. That’s morally reprehensible.

It was in the early 90's.

Got it, white peoples baaaad! They are so powerful and they ruin everything :(

I’m calling the FBI on all whites I know.

Long ago. 88 Honda Civic at the mall. Probably, 1995?

Yeah yeah yeah, I’m sure in your tiny brain you’re the only perfect one who gatekeeps all that is righteous and good. Thank you for taking the time to speak to a sinner like me.

PS. I liked your post so much I gave you an award.

This isn’t even a debate about the plot being used for housing, it’s about the hideous paint job the new tenants put on the building. Just because the planning board denies it being put on a registry doesn’t mean it’s not worth saving.

Yeah, and a lot of black people didn’t allow their children to have natural hair. Where do you think that all came from?

And doesn’t your own point refute your argument? Styles change. So it’s largely his parents who didn’t keep up with the times.

Though there are exceptions, the perception that cornrows are thuggish is overwhelmingly a white perspective rather than a black one and that’s what’s at play here.

You know you make it super easy to tell you're a bigot when you get this uppity

It’s not your fault, that’s how insane things are these days.

Oh my gawwww it’s so troubling! The mods need to shut this post down immediately!!! Jeeeesus Christ calm down. The only “troubling” thing here is you saying “problematic”. Kaepernick is a little cry baby who’s talking shit about his own parents for some fame in this current race obsessed culture - that’s “problematic”.

How many executives have cornrowso or mohawks?

It wasn’t just white peoples who thought cornrows looked thuggish, and years ago that’s what they were associated with. Even a white girl wearing cornrows looked a certain way. Tattoos used to carry a certain stigma too, not anymore. Styles, attitudes, and culture change all the time. It’s not that complicated unless you’re trying to make it something it’s not.

Your blind spot is that cornrows in the black community are generally not seen as sloppy or thuggish. Your comment seems to indicate that you feel it is. That’s more of (some) white people’s perceptions. So it’s literal racism when telling a minority group to conform to the dominant racial group’s perception of acceptable appearance - especially as it relates to hair where there’s obvious genetic and subsequent cultural differences. I guess you could argue he should’ve accepted the status quo - but that’s hardly a case for proving it isn’t problematic. By that measure, all black people 50 years ago shouldn’t challenge to having to wear a form of straight hair.

I understand that parents from all types of backgrounds correct their children in their appearance, but this circumstance demonstrates an example where adoptive parents need to be culturally sensitive and aware. I’m sure they did many things right and cared for him - he even says so in the article. But it doesn’t mean they were right in this circumstance. They, like anyone else, don’t have to be fundamentally racist in order to still have underlying racial biases and blind spots.

Exactly. And worst part is if it were any different time he wouldn’t be saying shit, but our current braindead culture applauds him for bashing his very own parents. Pathetic.

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Don’t be absurd. That building is completely worthless as an historical place. My county’s own planning board denied the application. Had it gone through, it would have imposed significant and costly restrictions on the unwilling owners and been a net negative for the surrounding community. Turns out preserving debatably pretty looking building don’t help people.

It’s absolutely sickening people valued that building over housing people of my generation. I do not trust the values or basic morals of anyone who thinks that.