Yes, that magazine cover exists in a vacuum and does not resemble any overtly xenophobic/racist imagery at all.

I can't believe you are asking this question. Were you in a coma during Hurricane Katrina? Or when twitter lost it's fucking mind when the adorable Rue from the Hunger Games turned out to be OMG A BLACK GIRL? Or during the media coverage of Trayvon Martin's death? Or like two days ago when a black woman was SHOT IN…

What you are not getting is that this reaction isn't about racist PEOPLE. This graffiti and the dark makeup on the DWTS girl are problems because of racist actions. We can point to these actions and say, "By the way, kids, this is a really bad idea." It's not about condemning justin bieber. As in the Halloween costume…

Buzzkill pt. 2 for anyone who watched Firefly: Jubal Early

For sure! I thought you (and anyone reading) could probably tell, but I just like to be super clear. And yes, I hope that this conversation is one that becomes more common, so that there will be a lot less defensiveness.

Just in the name of fact-straightening, I'm white.

Look, when the vast majority of posts express the sentiment "I would never (shoot a person who rang my doorbell, open a door if I was afraid, own again, lock my door, live in Detroit, ask for help from a stranger, refuse to help a POC in trouble)" that is not addressing privilege. That is placing BLAME for this…

WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO YOU for people to stop and acknowledge the good ones? FUCKING HELL. If a generalization is made about a group you belo0ng to, ask yourself, is that true of me. If not, how am I different? And if it is a negative generalization, ask yourself how to help the people closest to you exceptions as…

And read the fucking comments yourself. I'm not offering up another example so you can contradict it, or take a piece of it out of context and ask me to re-explain. Engage or disengage, but for god's sake STOP NITPICKING.

You are mistaken. The generalization is absolutely true except, as I already said, in cases where a white individual actively challenges THEIR OWN racist thought, and challenges others when they say racist things. The evidence of this is all over this comments section and you are trying very hard to disqualify it, but…

Amazing, thanks for the heads up!

...I don't think words mean the same things to both of us. By "being right" I meant you are trying to discredit anything I say, because I strongly disagree with your assumption that hardly any white people have the problems outlined in the OP. You don't seem interested in what anybody has to say about white…

How is one supposed to feel that they can make the world better when something like this happens? To be a black woman in America is often to have NO good choice. Saying that she will gleefully watch the struggle of a white person(who, implicitly, would not help the OP when she needed it) is just an expression of…

You're an idiot. That thread got derailed into the "was Trayvon partly responsible for his death" conversation almost immediately and that is a white conversation. In this thread you'll notice that there are a lot of white people eager to point out that they'd love to serve tea and sympathy to any black in distress.…

Also HOW NICE to have the choice to NOT live in Detroit. That entire thread is just no.

This isn't an attack and it's not "in the same way" whites slandered (and continue to slander) blacks. It is an accurate description of the current state of America. Where were the days of coverage for the Mother's Day shooting in New Orleans? Why was that less newsworthy than Aurora? White people literally are…

The fact that you think that list, presented without comment, contradicts what I said is dumbfounding.

Hoo boy, hope you've got your "dismiss" button good and warmed up.

Jonathan Ferrell. This was North Carolina. The police are refusing to release the dashcam footage of the incident GEE I WONDER WHY

Yes, Mos Def wrote "The industry is just a better-built cell block", and that is my appeal from authority. I guess I should say in the public imagination, sports and hip hop are the two things that actually have positive associations with black faces.