“But as tragic as his loss is...”

No loss. The guy was a menace to society. The sooner he leaves, the better.

I know! Think about how many retweets she must have gotten!

I try to find the silver lining in things. If Trump gets re-elected, at least they won’t have to take a crying baby on the plane when they leave the country.

“...I’d say the person who greenlit this shit is also someone who has never successfully clapped on the 2 and 4 their entire life. That person has definitely engaged in a tense online debate about whether washing your legs is even necessary. This person is absolutely confounded by the fact that raisins in potato salad…

Michael Brown’s was a life snuffed out too soon. He had so much left to do—so many people left to rob, so many shopkeepers left to assault.

You don’t just go around erecting statues without approval. What if you don’t know what you’re doing and you don’t install it properly? Is that thing even anchored down or is it just sitting there? Hopefully a strong wind doesn’t come by. Someone could get crushed.

I hope they catch the black people or democratic operatives who are responsible for this. Not a bad strategy: target an important swing district to make them fear that klan activity is on the rise in their area and in Trump’s America in general, and hopefully it’ll motivate them to vote for Biden.

Most people would be better than a Root commenter in his shoes. Low bar.

Fuck the system! Fuck the rule of law! Burn it all down! Dismantle everything! Oh...wait...it’s being used against a white person this time? In that case, let the legal system do its work.

Interesting. I never thought I’d see someone arguing for consistency on the Root—other than one of the greys.

No. White people aren’t just saying that to get away with extrajudicial violence. They legitimately feel threatened by us because black culture is violent af—and unpredictably violent at that. No one does random violence like we do. We’ve perfected it. Turned it into an art form. We’ve given his county good reason to…

Who’s us? Black people? If all of us left, America would be just fine. Considering how much of our community lives near or below the poverty line, our absence would significantly reduce the need for social programs and free up money for other purposes. All of the jobs we hold would be filled by other people, so…

In other words, the city is pandering to the protestors. “Hey, maybe if we make a sacrificial lamb of this woman and a few other people, those savages won’t destroy any more of our city, and they’ll stop spreading the coronavirus by gathering in large groups.”*

I agree. The black people in that video were behaving horribly.

He knows that. He just doesn’t care. Zach is a propagandist. Sins of omission are his thing.

You’re just realizing this now?

As we’ve been told by many people on this website, intentions don’t matter in determining whether something is racist. All that matters is whether black people feel that it’s racist. So, yes, this black man and his friends who put up these ropes as exercise equipment are racists.

Yes, but it’s too politically useful to be honest about it.

Also black: Babe Ruth, Jesus, Albert Einstein (he had vitiligo), Issac Newton (albinism), the guy who secretly wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays, Orson Welles (he didn’t put on makeup to play Othello—he took it off), Socrates (why do you think they killed him?), Thomas Edison, and that four-year-old “Asian” kid on…