Jess is such a fucking home wrecking skank. Bitch got me drunk on pinot grigio, put me to bed, and then fucked my husband Ken! Girl has issues. And she's poor.

Nearly all of my friends are middle to upper middle-class, professional, progressive people, so you may have a point. My husband is white, and he is from a shitty, shitastic area. He is not like this. His friends that are from a similar background aren't like this. You could call them out if they said something…

"..FYI, it could be seen as a version of the old, "He's so articulate and clean!" As if unexpected in a black person..."

When is White History Month? January, March, April, May, etc. Actually fuck it, it's really February too, so we can talk about how we used to own slaves. I fucking hate those people who don't think we have it easy. We have it so easy it's goddamn ridiculous. If you want to support the people dealing with racism, do us…

because the death of Matthew Shepard was not about straight people.

Just a quick thought here- I sympathize with the context problem- you meant that it was good diction for gawker instead of meaning that it was good diction for a writer of color, even though this writer of color was specifically writing about race issues and thus merited a much more though-out response.

Again, it's not about white people's intentions. Think of it this way; if you were trying to explain misogyny to a man and he kept interrupting you to explain how nonsexist he was, saying #notallmenz. That's what "good white people" do to black people. That's what you did in reaction to this excellent and extremely…

My point is, how do I even go about doing that if I can't say anything for fear of drowning out those voices? I'm not trying to disagree with this whole premise, but it's frustrating to be told you're doing something wrong and then have absolutely no solutions presented. "Just do better" is not a solution, but it's…

There's nothing well-intended about #AllLivesMatter. Don't buy that bullshit. It's the classic deliberate misunderstanding of something the user doesn't want to get. It's right up there with "When is White History Month?"

THANK YOU. I'm white, but gay, so I feel like I have this unique veiw into being a minority and also not being a minority. When my straight friends post things on social media about going off on a homophobe or something like that, I think great. Awesome. It makes me feel good that people out there support me even…

"Nice diction" is not unexpected in a black person. It is, however, unexpected in a Gawker media blog post. I think Mini is pointing out the same thing I feel, in that this piece stands above just about everything else written on this site and should be praised for doing so.

If if you've ever read any of the other essays Gawker posts, you'd realize why his choice of words was used. In the context of gawker, complimenting an author's diction is just complimenting the author's diction.

Every time I read an article explaining how white people who think they are helping really aren't... this is the response from so many white people. "I don't know what to do then, maybe I should just do nothing?" If we stay inactive with the excuse of "not accidentally making things worse," we're letting the racist…

Yeah, I think that we, as white people, HAVE to step away from the idea that racism is something intentional and conscious and deliberately cruel/prejudicial/harmful. It's so much more than that narrow set of racist actions, and it's absolutely true that we are ALL racist in that we have all internalized these ideas…

Willful ignorance is a term I've used a lot in the last few weeks. In trying to get a handle on why I was so angry at 'friends' commenting on Facebook about this, I realized it was the willful ignorance of these individuals that enraged me. I can forgive stupid, but this I just couldn't get over. You just can't…

Your assumption here is a problem. You assume that the commenter is looking for a prize. They aren't. They are saying they don't need to apologize for sympathy and empathy which is offered without reward to all walks of life. That the automatic assumption (on your part, it would seem) that they are saying these…

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.

Didn't someone once say that he who is wisest is him who admits he knows nothing? I've found, equally paradoxically, that, as a white person, I may contribute less to the system of racism the more I recognize just how racist I truly am.