Well, I’m not white, I’m not upset, and I can’t go back to a website I’ve never been to.

“Back to Jezebel with you.”

“Russia wanted to start a race war.”

Yeah, exactly. Every time they name a street after one of our people, even a relatively decent one like MLK*, it seems to be a street where a lot of shootings happen. I don’t know if it’s because it was a bad neighborhood in the first place (maybe they won’t give a black person a street in a nice neighborhood) or if…

I’m black, and what you said is not true of me. Instead of saying this:

So in years to come, the line we’ll be seeing in obituaries will be “shot in front of a convenience store on Christopher Wallace Way.”

The greys shouldn’t even be a thing. It would be one thing if people using racial slurs and hateful rhetoric were being silenced—which they rightfully are—but it’s also being used to silence people with different or unpopular opinions. And a lot of them are civil, thoughtful people. As a matter of principle, anybody…

Dumb.

“Amandla Stenberg (who uses the pronouns they/them/their)”

I love thinking about how much money in interest the lenders lost when all those loans got paid off in full.

“Of course you latch onto the talking down and ignore the people who resorted to tackles and improvised weapons.”

Of course, you have to wonder how many times these acts of bravery resulted in someone getting killed. And how many of these events were undocumented? If the would-be hero got killed, if the shooter killed himself or was shot by law enforcement, if no one were close enough to witness it, and if there were limited or…

No, you just need to have a former Division I football player who is currently a security guard standing nearby. All schools have one of those, right?

Harriot, your response to Julie was pretty awful. You didn’t have enough information about her to say any of what you said. You don’t know anything about her or the god she believes in. I’m sure you thought you were a badass when you wrote that, but all you did was embarrass yourself.

“It’s truly astounding that you can acknowledge that the police profile and then also blame black people at the same time.”

“I’m not going to even going to address the mess you’ve written as though it is worth anything.”

It’s like a bunch of people collaborated on a shitty version of a “Shouts & Murmurs” piece. It has the form of great literary humor, but it doesn’t deliver. None of the submissions were that great. They almost get there, but something’s missing. But I’m just happy to see that we’re taking a stab at sophisticated humor…

“Lol, k. Now, I know you’re not black...”

“No, I don’t want equality—I want equity.”

Make your own argument. Don’t just send me a link to an article. Summarize it and relate it to your point.