Cool, I didn't know that 

Yes

I mean... If trusted black voices were telling me to reconsider that movie, I would listen to what they said and think about it. But random blue check twitter people? I dunno. Obviously the small town white people were the butt of the jokes.

Yes. Nothing untoward has ever happened in a men’s room. 

I missed people coming for Blazing Saddles. The racism was the butt of the joke,  as I recall. 

Running with Cops was a good listen. As a recovering addict I can't imagine having wound up on one of these shows in my darkest moments. 

How deep is her bigotry that she would choose this hill to die on? Did she just find the most vulnerable group of people to murder and decide she wouldn’t let them get away with feeling good about themselves for a single moment longer?

As if self worth is a zero sum game. 

I was thinking that. Both can be true. 

I wish her well. I usually look sideways at anything that feels like exploiting a person’s private moments for humor, but this was funny. Once I realized he wasn’t going to kill her. But I still feel a little weird about laughing. As a recovering addict myself, $50,000 could have saved me or maybe killed me. 

Oh no. 

I spent the 80s in perms (the curly kind) 

As a teacher I’m familiar with the way strong unions can keep really awful people in jobs that are much too important to be done badly.

Just so grateful you weren't more seriously injured. Scary stuff. 

Oh yeah. I mean that she’s grown beyond that and come to understand that blackness should be celebrated rather than ignored. She was someone very much like the female character in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" back during that era,  but she's worked hard to grow from that as consciousness has raised. 

It helps me to think of racism as a cognitive bias coming from cultural influences. I certainly do have it and am influenced by it, and being aware helps. But I don’t see myself as “a racist” and I don’t see racism as being something in my heart or part of my essential self. And yes,  keep hating the unfairness of it!…

I can relate to the happiness in seeing your parents do better. My mom is 80 and was always an "I don't see color" person. She's worked really hard to grow and it's wonderful.

I don't mean to give the impression that I'm not white too! I am. I am from rural areas and my life is full of white people who have never seen this as "their problem." I hope that is changing.

I felt funny seeing white people use the black power fist BLM logo as a profile pic. The black squares were weird too. 

I have felt like this was my struggle since I slapped a girl on the playground for saying the n word. She told a joke with the word in it - only other white people were there. It was small town North Dakota in 1986. She was surprised. I See anti-black racism as the original sin of American society. The white people I…