Misc.

Auto-correct doesn't like you so much as it likes to laugh at you.

We already know there are fewer Oscar buzz films with people of color in key roles than there were last year. So when the nominations come around, let's not complain. A simple shrug, a roll of the eyes, at most a Well, what did you expect? Of course they dug in. Hollywood's not liberal at all, you know.

Then back to work. We've got stereotypes and stigmas to destroy. Bring me my 50+ year old female action heroes.

If the horrific atrocities perpetrated by law enforcement (as captured via cell phone and body cam), are not representative of every police officer,

Then why would every Syrian refugee seeking to escape the bombs of Assad and the terror of ISIS be representative of ISIS-sponsored terrorism?

Are you sure you believe All Lives Matter?

It wasn’t until Season 2, Episode 3 of The Librarians that I realized the character Ezekiel Jones is British, not Australian. Unless he's really Australian. In which case, never mind.

If armbands or ID cards for Muslims are enacted, best believe actions segregating and identifying others will follow. Given this recent rhetoric, Trump sounds like the Hitler of my high school text book. First Muslims, then who?

Sikhs, naturally, because everyone's afraid of turbans. Buddhists so as not to anger China. Catholics, to reinforce the notion of a sectarian society. Remember when Trump made fun of Ben Carson's religion? Could certain branches of the Protestant tree be included? Latter-Day-Saints, definitely, and 7^th Day Adventists, for sure. Perhaps Southern Baptists, just because, and Pentecostals, because they're too loud anyway.

And after the IDs? Are back to redlining neighborhoods and forcing people to live in specified areas? And after that?

You know the McDonald's commercial with Mike Ditka & Jerry Rice? Why isn't Ditka wearing Bears gear and Rice wearing Niners gear? Ditka in Packers gear does not look right. At All.

Was it this bad after 9/11? The rush to political punditry? Or did the absence of Twitter (and my failure to regularly check my Friendster account) allow me to grieve and process in peace?