I hear your point. But I'm also a pragmatist - which is what I think some other people are getting at. The thing is, black folks want to be safe in their communities. Yes, we also want conversations about our safety not to be co-opted as another time to spotlight whiteness, and we want good schools for our kids, and…

Well, White Trash Parties are an old college tradition:

Actually it is. There is no "black progress." No "black issue." This is an issue of how white people treat black people, it is a white problem. White people ARE THE PROBLEM. You aren't going to get a solution without white people talking about it.

Here's the thing about #crimingwhilewhite - it completes a data set.

So to talk about this in a different frame, saying "cops treat PoCs differently" is the hypothesis. Showing a lot of data that says, "PoCs are treated like X" only invites people who would say, "Man, but white people are also treated like X,…

Here's the thing about "IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU." It is about both sides. It's not piggybacking, it's not appropriating, it's bolstering the argument. It's absolutely relevant and related. The suffering of black people doesn't happen in a vacuum. It's caused directly by white privilege that maintains a broken system that…

I'm very confused when you tell a white person "IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU" when talking about an issue that is very much rooted in racism. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I don't understand how you can discuss racism while leaving out one half of the equation :/ How can things get any better if white people don't acknowledge…

I'm very confused when you tell a white person "IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU" when talking about an issue that is very much rooted in racism. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I don't understand how you can discuss racism while leaving out one half of the equation :/ How can things get any better if white people don't acknowledge…

"I know a lot of people think that white people will be more willing to listen to a message if it's coming from someone who looks like them, but that doesn't make it right and it doesn't mean that's the approach you should take. Force a change. Force your white friends to listen to POC."

"Why do people need white folks to tell them this shit is real when black folks have been saying it forever?? It's like when someone finally takes the issue of, say, street harassment seriously after a man explains it to them, despite women complaining about it for what seems like forever."

All sincerity, no snark: do you want white allies or not? What are we supposed to do?

I really don't want to sound terrible, but society is mostly run by white people. White people have to engage with these issues, or they won't get fixed. Sort of like how straight people have to engage with LBGT issues, men have to engage with women's issues, etc. It sucks, but the group with the power has to be…

It would be nice if we could force other white people to listen to PoC, but I'm not sure it works that way. People can't understand what they're not willing to understand. When it comes to male allies whose voices are more legitimate in the eyes of sexist white men, I think those allies have a responsibility to both…

I enjoyed listening to the press corps gradually downgrade from amused to audibly uncomfortable as it became clearer and clearer that Torii Hunter was not just joshing with his buddy Mike from the Pioneer-Press.

Deadspin is not your freshman philosophy seminar. Just FYI.

When asked about defensive metrics at the same presser, Hunter said:

Yep, you're right! I am definitely intolerant of Hunter's bigoted opinions.

This is like expecting applause every time you successfully wipe your ass. Set the bar a little higher bub.

Last I checked, gangsters have committed to a life of crime. Cops have taken an oath to uphold it.

Of all of the really stupid comments in the grays that I read because I hate myself, I want to single this one out because I think it's truly a monumental achievement in tone-deafness to imagine that young black men are being more detrimentally affected by sympathetic Deadspin articles than by being MURDERED.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL! "Convenient" how you have to go all the way back to 1994 to find a case where a black guy was acquitted!