more ice bucket challenges

Considering that some eyewitnesses claim the officer threw open the door into the two teens and had it rebound into him, they aren't necessarily responsible for the injury, even if it's true. (Also, the police initially didn't even claim it was Brown in the supposed altercation with the police officer, which is…

White people never think it's about race until it involves some well aimed words at their discriminatory behavior and bigotry. Then it's all about their fee fees and how you're being racist against White people.

I wish I had more than one star to give you for that, you put it perfectly. I especially like "get comfortable with being uncomfortable," that's the best description of a person becoming aware of their own privilege that I think I've ever heard. Hope you don't mind if I use it next time this comes up!

If those "reports" hadn't been leaked by the very department that still refuses to release the police reports and didn't directly contradict eye-witness testimony from strangers to both men who literally live-tweeted Brown's death, I'd take them seriously.

I am Facebook friends with someone who is incredibly liberal, and until the release of the convenience store video, was at least questioning the police response, if not outright disgusted by it.

About half of whites (52%) say they have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the investigations,

i have. i have noticed that. i have noticed that many times.

Have you noticed that whenever POC appear to be the aggressors in a widely reported crime, the national tone is one of condemnation, but when they're apparent victims of white people, it becomes "we just don't know all the facts" and "but what about due process for the accused?"

I grew up as a solidly middle class white girl in a suburban city in Northern California. I went to a private school. Not elite, but parochial - our education included Chick Tracts as required reading in science class. I had to take a Human Evolutionary Biology class in college to even understand what the theory of…

You know what could relieve that "stress"? cutting down on the hours all together. The police in my suburban town fill their days writing tickets. #wastesOfSpace

my mom had the fucking audacity to say 'we don't know what happened' and i wanted to be like WE LITERALLY KNOW BECAUSE THERE WERE LITERAL WITNESSES TO HIS LITERAL MURDER.

Some white people still think the Civil War wasn't about race. This isn't surprising.

Whenever I'm confused about whether something is about race or not, I check Fox News. If Fox is saying that something isn't about race, then there's a 99% chance that it is about race.*

Alternate Title: White People Continue 1,500-Year Tradition Of Being Humanity's Biggest Assholes

I'm from a rural area 100 miles from Ferguson, and my Facebook feed is 80% very concerned about the long hours that the police are putting in. The general tone is that this is over and we just need to move on. Luckily, there will probably be another police shooting soon to distract everyone.

Of the blacks polled 80 percent felt Brown's shooting raises issues around race while 18 percent did not and two didn't know. Of the whites polled, 37 percent felt the teen's death raised issues about race while 47 percent did not and 16 percent didn't know.

To acknowledge that Michael Brown's death had anything to do with race is to acknowledge there's an issue with race in this country in the first place. If my fellow white folks admit that, that opens the door for a lot of other uncomfortable admissions.

/sarcasm (in case that wasn't evident)

I've added a new internet rule after this case: I now assume that if a white person says "this isn't about race" (often accompanied with "it's about class"), that they do not actually know any black people.