I rarely put “some” before white people but that’s usually what it means. There are a number of commenters here who I’m pretty sure are white who didn’t automatically make excuses for the lady. It’s not really necessary to do the #notallwhitepeople thing. We know.

Yo, maybe instead of flashing your “pretty much every minority you can think of” friends like pokemon cards, you might want to think about why a whole bunch of PoC think what you said was shitty and racist. I don’t claim to know you or what’s in your heart in terms of if you are racist, homophobic, or whatever but if…

You’re really just stating the obvious, but you stating the obvious diminishes the fact that this woman’s grief played out in a way that unleashed her inner (or outer, whatever) monster in a fucking typical but exhausting way that affects black people and that will never, ever affect you. The thing you are missing is…

To repeat: you went from “what else do you expect a grieving person to do” to “the presence of media disturbs people” to “media provokes people deliberately” to “that must be what this reporter did.” And not at all deftly. Very ham-handedly, in fact. You say you’re in the meedja, eh? Yeah, you can tell.

If you’re unsure if you’d resort to racial slurs in this situation, you best be thinking on yourself and why those words would even be an option for you. Sounds like some latent racism.

A lot of commenters are really missing the point that the mothers of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin*, Eric Garner, Mike Brown, and on and on and on managed not to attack any reporters even when they began flocking to report on their children’s deaths. There is another factor besides grief here, and it’s called whiteness.…

Sweet! The “my best friend is Black!” argument. I had a feeling it would come up eventually.

How would you feel?

Ah, yes, here it is. *adjusts glasses* “Shouting racist bullshit and assaulting” right here after denial and before “Blame Obama".

I never said racist things, but I can understand how people can lose their cool.

I am super interested in the Jez community reaction to this. People seemed divided into camps: she was wrong but this wrong is able to be ‘explained’, and she was wrong, full stop. I am a full-stopper. Someone, not a joke, please explain to me the reflex that makes you feel compelled to ‘explain’ on her behalf. You…

She was reporting on a threat to the community that had to be taken out after he pointed a gun at cops.

It’s amazing how he has become ‘her child’ on these comments.

Did I miss when they added “shouting racist bullshit and assaulting someone” to the stages of grief?

She didn’t call a Black woman a nigger because her son died. She did it because she thinks we’re subhuman.

people often don’t like to see reporters at the scenes of tragedy, feeling like they’re vultures.

Poverty and nationalism.