Wtf. What does preboarding have to do with the Starbucks incident? Ugh. I am totally against people who try to board before their group but that's for gate agents to police, not random folks.

I assume the complaint is that now anyone can get early boarding, including the unwashed non-white masses.

One of the downsides of staying at a hotel is that they have big mirrors in the bathroom so I end up catching glimpses of my naked self, where of course I can see every.damn.flaw.

I mean, I look down at my naked self and I'm OK with what I see. I look in a mirror and ugh. I can't reconcile the two reactions.

I was inarticulate with rage so all I could come up wth was "you're what's wrong wth America."

That sounds plenty articulate to me.

As in the people traveling with small children, or the people with medical issues who need extra time or help? Grrrr.

Or the people sitting in first class? (See Nikole Hannah-Jones on twitter [link] )

Personally, I am never all that anxious to get squished into an airplane seat. I board last.

I was inarticulate with rage so all I could come up wth was "you're what's wrong wth America."

I'll use this one the next time I have occasion. IJS

Wtf. What does preboarding have to do with the Starbucks incident?

I assume the complaint is that now anyone can get early boarding, including the unwashed non-white masses.

Yeah, I was assuming the people who were preboarding had the bad taste to be POC, and therefore shouldn't actually be allowed to preboard, no matter what their excuse, because of course it's an excuse and not a legitimate reason, because only white people have legitimate reasons for needing to preboard or be at Starbucks.

I mean, I look down at my naked self and I'm OK with what I see. I look in a mirror and ugh. I can't reconcile the two reactions.

Yeah, same. I think it's that I catch sight of myself in the mirror without meaning to rather than looking at myself on purpose?

I have an old friend who is a six foot tall, elegant looking, Tony-award-winning actress. Her parents are both doctors, and she went to the UN International School in NYC and a Seven Sisters college. She is friends with Glenn Close. Everything about her looks and manner screams "I fly first class." And she's black. So people routinely question her when she gets in the first class lines.

ION I just cried at my desk because my coworker sent me a picture of her six year old in the recovery phase from today's thoracic surgery to remove a lesion that may be a recurrance of the cancer he had as an infant (they found the lesion on his FIVE YEAR SUPPOSED TO BE ALL CLEAR SCAN) and fuck everything.

Oh, man, flea.