Again we are talking past each other. Neither MIA nor I am asking for help or support from African-Americans.

Let’s start this conversation again as friends. Compare these two examples:

Ex 1: African-American says white people benefit from inherent structural privilege. White people respond with arguments attempting to…

You don’t get it.

“ I already suggested that the black community has a long way to go to being a better ally to the Global South.”

Nothing the African-American community can do can strip them of their privilege as Americans vis-a-vis the rest of the world.

Asian-Americans also have that privilege.

Again no one is asking…

Neither MIA nor I am asking African-Americans to take the lead on this issue.

All we are saying is that African-Americans, like ALL Americans, should take a second and realize the insane privilege they have vis-a-vis the rest of the world.

African-American activists standing next to Palestinian activists are like white…

Many white people can’t see their insanely privileged position in American society in the same way that you can’t seem to see Americans insanely privileged position globally.

American supremacy is the same as white supremacy. And you can’t even bring yourself to admit your privilege.

“Dummy, the violence that is perpetrated against African Americans is a part of “global violence.””

That’s where you made your All Lives Matter argument. That’s where you conflated BLM with the global resistance to American imperialism.

The thing is while you “have shit at home to take care of” we’re still watching our children be droned to death by America.

Why can’t you recognize your access to American supremacy?

Again you’re basically offering an #alllivesmatter response.

African-Americans as carriers of American passports and creators of American pop-culture have the massive privilege of moving across borders and having their cultural production move beyond borders in a way that is completely inaccessible to those of us from…

“I think this statement is worth an examination, but I would argue that, as underclass members of broader American society (most of us), we don’t benefit those questionable benefits (safety, monetary profit, ignorance of our negative impact) in the same way.”

When African-Americans are shipped overseas to kill and…

You still don’t get it. Because in your mind all you can think of is white people having power over black people.

What you don’t reflect on is how black soldiers had power over Japanese and Vietnamese civilians. Power used to torture, rape and murder.

It’s your inability to even see those below you that MIA was pointing…

Your attitude is exactly what MIA was talking about.

African-Americans are as often as not the face of American imperialism on the ground. And there is just complete denial about their role in American atrocities from Japan to Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan.

Yeah ha ha, Obama and Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice and Susan Rice have had no input in your foreign policy.

Its amazing how African-Americans can pretend they aren’t a core part of American imperialism.

It’s like the Irish claiming “we were also victims of the Empire” and refusing to acknowledge that in Asia and…

It’s adorable because all of you Americans missed her really good point.

i.e. While Americans are talking about ensuring that black Americans’ lives matter, they still are doing shit all about the massive American military violence killing brown and black people all over the world.

She’s too woke for you.

African-American…

This is such a misguided reading of the Talese article.
I was incredibly skeeved out by the article in the New Yorker. However unlike Joanna I was not under the misapprehension that Talese understood Foos’ voyeurism as having any sort of scientific value. Talese saw literary value in the Foos’ voyeurism and a sort of…

The Republican Party leadership is embarassed by the open racism of Donald Trump. Whereas in France the Socialists compete to pass the most racist laws with the far right. And in Germany everyone is very sweet, but still doesn’t get why black face and bones through the nose are offensive.

Except that the gentrifiers in SF are disproportionately South and East Asian, but don’t let actual facts get in the way of a simplistic race-baitey argument.

Why do articles on gentrification in the Bay Area so agressively ignore the large Asian component of tech culture?

Asians are a disproportionate part of new tech hires. I find it aggravating to have us glossed as “white” when people want to make simplistic arguments about the Bay Area “losing” its diversity.

Maybe they just married into a family of terrible cooks. Or their region of Cuba has terrible food? The only thing I can eat when I’m invited over is the fried yucca.

My cousin married a Cuban. It’s just meh rice with meh chicken.

Has Jezebel ever managed to correctly cover a campus sexual assault story? What makes Jezebel think it’ll get it right this time?