As a non-racist white person, I appreciate your post and sharing your experiences. I intellectually understand them, but I've lived a lucky enough life that I don't have anything I can compare this too to put it into perspective for me. A couple that maybe sort of run watered-down version of parallel, but are simply…

Thank you for clearly explaining how wealth and high socioeconomic status does NOT protect blacks in America from racial profiling. It's frustrating to regularly hear people make statements that well-off black people do not have these issues. For educated folks such as us, spending more time with white people means…

my respect for him dwindled to almost nothing. Like, wtf Jimmy?

So well said!! Even though I'm Kenyan you come to learn that to some cops you're still a n***a!! Pardon my french but its true!!

This is brilliant. I hope everyone reads it.

This post is amazing on so many levels. Some people think that only poor blacks get profiled, when really all black people do. No matter how, "proper", "well-spoken", or"well-dressed" you are you will be profiled some point in time. I will never forget seeing my high school track coach being pulled over in New York…

I'm pretty clueless about race issues, being a white woman from a country with a less fraught (but still troubling) history when it comes to race. But this Trayvon Martin thing has really gotten to me. I think the white privilege penny has finally dropped.

I wish I could recommend this more than once.

Well said.

Watched this live. Had a think. And then I cried.

Insightful and nuanced and personal and moving.

"I believe he played a huge role in his death. When George confronted him, he could have walked away and gone home. He didn't have to do whatever he did and come back and be in a fight."

In other No Shit News, water is wet and my hair is still nappy. Once again, let's remember:

Yeah, dude? Not the fucking time or place to be talking about your hardships as a white woman.

What tayhdanicole said!

As a black woman, I hate that damn documentary. It made us look again like we are nothing but a mess. We get enough of that from Tyler Perry thankyouverymuch.

I wish non-black women didn't feel the need to cheerlead whenever articles about black women and their hair came up.

I kept thinking, well, maybe your wife could take out her weave...but it was annoying b/c it was a man trying to tell a woman's story and honestly, as a black man with a black wife with a weave, Chris Rock was acting all kinds of brand new about black women and their hair.

Just so you know, that doc is really controversial and lots of people have issues with it around here.