And it seems so disingenuous to ask this of crap anyway. The message has been getting broadcast for years already. How long ago did James Baldwin write? Or Ralph Ellison? Or any number of writers, poets, orators, musicians going back for however far back you care to look?

Seriously. Google “How to be a good ally.” Then stop trying to make the people you’re trying to help do all the heavy lifting for you.

I hate that shit. It’s like punching someone in the face and then telling them, “You have to show me how to not punch you anymore!” No, asshat. It’s your job to educate yourself. Stop making others do the heavy lifting.

You do it by:

Because you’re not saying “there are terrible white people” you’re saying “white people are terrible. I hate us.” I’ve never met a black person who would say, “white people are terrible.”

Maybe just shut the fuck up and listen for awhile.

Especially nowadays when so many of their brethren are coming outta their closets in full KKK garb...they think that just because they aren’t marching with those dweebs in white polos that everyone else is supposed give them a nice pat on the back.

But white people don’t suck. White supremacy sucks. Saying, “white people sucks” allows you to act as though there’s nothing you can do.

Fellow white person here:

Step 1.) Shut the fuck up and pay attention.

SuperDevil is a bad ass mofo who doesn’t need any advocates.

For starters, don’t come into a Black-oriented forum and complain that the articles don’t speak directly to you.

Not to mention, uh, the Devil clearly has enough advocates. I don’t need anyone to try to rationalize racism to me, when I live through it and encounter it everyday. Advocate for someone who actually needs it.

#11 “this list is not productive nor a good conversation starter” guy

#8.5: The “if you’re not talking directly to me and giving me specifically individualized instructions on not being a piece of shit, then you’re being counterproductive and I’m just going to keep being a racist (but I always was going to just keep being a racist anyway)“ guy.

I have wanted to smack so many people over that one. If you are genuinely arguing something you are not the Devil’s Advocate. The DA is trying to help the person making a point craft their argument, not change their mind, beat them in an argument, or show them up. So many people act like calling themselves that is a…

Don’t forget the “Devil’s Advocate” white guy (figures the devil’s advocate would be a white guy). Or are he and Debates guy one and the same?

And every goddamn bit of the officer’s account (of accosting, threatening with animal attack, detaining, assaulting, and allowing an animal attack on an innocent woman) is written up to imply guilt, of something, on the victim’s part, right down to describing her act of ‘trying to go home from the store’ as fleeing…