So, The Consumerist, Yahoo, Huffington Post, etc are running with this story involving Adrian Peterson. The story, as reported, goes like this: Woman let’s Adrian Peterson use the bathroom, at 3am, at the McDonald’s she assistant-manages from. She then, like a week later, got fired.

Here’s what happened, probably:

1. This chick works at McDonalds.
2. This chick blows off like a week of work.
3. Chick shows up to work at McDonalds.
4. Chick gets fired.
5. Chick makes up a story.
6. Local news reports the story.
7. Chick gets her job back.
8. National news reports the story.
9. Chick loses her job again.

One of the last classes I took at university was Black Power. It was a pretty good class. I learned a lot about the roots of the black power movement, African history and present-day class struggles plus my professor wore a dashiki. Along with useful information I was also taught some crap; all white people are racist, black people cannot be racist and that once upon a time black people were considered 3/5ths of a person.

While I disagree with the belief that my skin color makes me racist I don’t feel like arguing that point. Mainly because it’s a… Read the rest