Seeing the reaction over Tamir Rice kind of broke my faith in humanity. He was a 12 year old boy. That’s a 6th grader and people are talking like he shouldn’t have done this or that specific thing. Little boys are dumb sometimes, it’s part of the deal. Yet so many people were chastising a child for behaving like a…

I have already accepted that the 10 year old is smarter than me and my only strength over him is I have more experience being a person.

Hmm, wypipo complain when an ad about “the talk” comes out, they complain when an ad with an interracial family comes out, they complain when an ad with a black cast comes out. I’m starting to think the issue isn’t about equality, you guys...

when it rains, it pours

In some places, part of the Black ‘the Talk’ is about not getting beat or murdered because of sex or accusations of sexual interest (see: Till, Emmit)

I, too, become immensely angry at videos made for the benefit of people with issues I don’t have to face.

Race is part of my identity because it informs how people respond to me in this world—same as my gender, same as the clothes I wear or words I say. And as you allude to, it sometimes puts an onus on me to “fight against stereotypes.” It is impossible to separate the two, and foolish to suggest that I should do so.

Didn’t you hear? Jim Crow isn’t a thing anymore and to say that it is is to not know how good you’ve had it compared to others in history and is disrespectful to those who blah blah blah...

I think the reason stupid white people recoil at the thought of white privilege is because they’ve squandered theirs. It’s easy to dismiss something that you never took advantage of as never existing, because then you don’t have to reflect upon yourself and your life choices.

Affirmative action helps white women more than any other category of people...

Well, they’ve been doing it with their kids for how long? Having all sorts of versions “the talk”.

I know Proctor & Gamble (used to?) test on animals and stuff, but if they don’t back down from this, I may intentionally buy a product or two.

Exactly.

I am pretty sure most white people have never thought about “whiteness” for one minute of their life. 

You’ve been telling yourself that you didn’t get into that school because a minority “took your spot” instead of you being an aggressively mediocre waste of space, huh.

I would argue that most people treat people based on their character.

Not really. The cops didn’t judge the character of my Filipino friend and his father when they were arrested going into the new home they bought in a tony white neighborhood. Boarder control doesn’t judge my character when they pull me aside for questioning just because I’m Venezuelan (which is every time I’ve entered…

“It is only a problem if you treat your race as your identity instead of what you think or how you act.”

Except that as a minority, that is pretty much your entire experience in mixed society, and the only people who say shit like “It is only a problem if you treat your race as your identity instead of what you think or how you act” are people who also “never thought about ‘whiteness’ for one minute of their life.”

I wish I was smart enough to know how to screengrab a Tweet, but Clara Jeffrey astutely said this morning, “If universities have to get rid of any remaining affirmative action programs they should have to eliminate legacy preferences too.”