The fact that she's concerned that her interests aren't those of black people (no matter how misguided or ridiculous that concern may be) completely contradicts what you're saying. If she didn't care about shared interests, she wouldn't worry that her interests may not be "black" enough to sustain an interracial…

Fair enough. Then a person who finds they only have white friends, and who seeks to broaden their horizons, if you will, should leave you alone. I respect that.

Diversity in schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces is nearly universally lauded as a good thing, and procedures are put into place specifically to ensure that blacks, asians, etc. are represented.

Patti gets a pass on it just like Elvis Costello more or less got a pass. Both of them have politics that are reliably leftist, and neither is from the American South. By and large, outrage about racism is very selectively employed.

Is the "N-word" the one that ends with "r," the one that ends with "a," or both?

Why is seeking out non-white friends for the purpose of having more friends who aren't white racist?

Was Zimmerman in his car when told not to follow Martin? You say yes. And yet, here's the transcript. Read it yourself.

Hope she didn't drive home drunk again, praying to God all along the way she don't kill anyone. How funny that a fat white southern chick who spoke and behaved this way would be ridicule GOLD at Jezebel, but as long as she's black, she becomes the most authentic, sweet, kind-hearted cracka-hatin girl in memory.

All the accounts of what happened are problematic. You only seem to think one side alone is. If you are so ideologically blinkered that you can't see the weaknesses and strengths of both sides, then have fun with that. I am not that way, but I've been trained in formal logic and law, so maybe that has something to do…

Ah. The New York Times said so. I guess that settles it.

He was already out of his car when he was advised against following. The level of ignorance about this trial on the part of people who are commenting on it is brain bending.

Oliver doesn't appear to have much familiarity with either the applicable law or the facts established at trial. But he's a comic, not a lawyer or a serious journalist.

The Gawker/Nick Denton empire is about getting $. This is only accomplished by getting clicks. A headline that expresses concern about a woman's emotional and personal decline, with a suggestion as to how she might improve—well, most folks won't give a shit enough to read it.

You don't understand the sui generis moral code of the Jezebel world. Consent is a privilege and/or right that does not extend to white males, at least not those hatefully wealthy ones not named Nick Denton. Nor is it something to be entrusted to the foul skanks that fuck loathsome white boys outside of the Denton…

Generalizations about Asian culture are every bit as idiotic as the generalizations about white male culture that one will find in some Internet echo chambers. Shout if yer proud, Jezebel!

Cannibalism is uncommon too. Does that mean we shouldn't think about whether or not it should be criminalized? You'll have to do better than this.

Query: how do you know this guy is white?

Hm. A thousand-word rant by a white girl wherein she excoriates a black man for telling a story other than the one she wants to hear, and you can't find "a single instance of a white person explaining at a black person about what kind of story they should tell."

Bleh. If the woman had been selected for a position with Republicans, and the criticism of her "not-blackness" had come from a black person, you guys would be all nodding in agreement. True, deal with it.

Um. Check your privilege? What right do white people have to tell black people how they should tell stories? Haven't white people been creating the narrative for too long?