Well, the talent is muscular control, not the boobs. That doesn't come from cosmetic surgery clinics.

Who cares, if it helps? Ideology and helpfulness don't always line-up. I wonder sometimes why people with good intentions even try to help.

Amazing - first you can't talk about white people because you're white. Then you can't talk about white people because you're not white. What a titsucker.

WE were having the conversation, yes, but white people weren't until #crimingwhilewhite. It's not for us, it's for them. You won't be using the hashtag, same as 90% of them won't be using #blacklivesmatter

I can't help but read this as in contrast to Chris Rock's recent comments about how we talk in america about black progress when we should be talking about white progress. To me, that rang really true and it is primarily white people who need to change to fix racism. I'm not arguing that the conversation should be…

Ok. I was reading this thinking that I totally get your point, but that I did think #CWW made a very stark point about how cops truly do have the ability to behave differently, that their hands are not tied per se, as they so often claim in these cases. It at least highlighted how much discretion there is for cops.

They all seem to end with an implied "#prettysweetamirite."

I hear your point. But I'm also a pragmatist - which is what I think some other people are getting at. The thing is, black folks want to be safe in their communities. Yes, we also want conversations about our safety not to be co-opted as another time to spotlight whiteness, and we want good schools for our kids, and…

Wonder how many of them experienced a Freudian slip and accidentally tweeted "on" instead of "with."

"Why do people need white folks to tell them shit is real?"

Oh, yes, sorry poorly worded (I'm emotionally exhausted right now). I don't mean to imply that criticism is silencing, but that it may be misdirected and derailing. I'd rather have the issue of oppression addressed awkwardly than not at all. So ya, method not substance! :)

And I don't think most of the white people reading it were thinking to themselves 'ah, my white privilege!' or anything like that so much as maybe more of something along the lines of 'oh, dude, I never noticed it was so common'. And that is what I'm getting at. It was not FOR people who even know the words white…

Yeah, but most white people do need that. Most white people aren't reading Jezebel or engaging in social justice. They don't have to and they don't need to and that is the reality and for things to change, white people have to make changes and that is why it is important for white people to talk to other white people,…

White silence is white consent is white oppression. If this hashtag helps expose that...then I'm freakin' down.

I agree, but at the same time there are some white people who should recognize these issues if they're the ones immersing themselves in (and profiting from) black culture.

Yes it is, and I think you might be missing that some of this is to explain to the multitude of clueless people what this privilege is. It might bother you, but honestly if there are people who read these, and finally get what is wrong, then I don't have a problem with it.

If it weren't so, we wouldn't have so many people defending racist cops in the first place.

The unfortunate reality is that many people of a majority group tend to only take the struggles of minority groups seriously when a majority ally says it. This happens in feminism all. the. time. See also: how many people cared about gay marriage when only gay people were talking about it?

The acknowledgement of white privilege is a long, drawn-out process that takes several calm, open-minded conversations. I know, because I've gotten a couple of people in my life to acknowledge theirs after denying it for a long time. Twitter isn't the forum for it.

Whenever my white friends told me about how they smoked pot all the time, all I could think of is what my dad told me:
Don't do drugs. Don't break any laws. Don't do anything that the police can arrest you for, because they will have no mercy on you.

White kids don't feel this way. They blatantly would smoke pot in…