The question of whether they're white comes down to whether the police would treat them like they treat black people. In other words, racial taxonomy aside, I'm betting they're white enough to benefit from coding as white.

I think it probably was intended to protect minorities from white/hetero/cis people—it’s just not narrowly tailored to do ONLY that. And I’m not mad—I don’t live anywhere near Connecticut, or wherever in New England this is a thing—but nevertheless, it is unconstitutional, and if it weren’t, it’s naive to think it…

Which is precisely why the law is shitty. In essence, the law (as written) recognizes “reverse racism” as criminally actionable behavior.

The law is unconstitutional, and you really wouldn’t want it otherwise. As written, it takes a “color-blindness” approach to disparaging statements and conduct—as opposed to the more new school approach of ‘black people can’t be racist towards white people because of the power dynamics at play there.’ In other words,…

Edit: first paragraph answers my question. 

Are there figures that reflect the percentage of interracial relationships in which one partner is white, versus the percentage of interracial relationships in popular media in which one partner is white? In other words, are we missing the target by a lot or a little? 

At an absolute minimum, he’s brought attention to a pretty unacceptable set of circumstance. And frankly I think this is a good use of his privilege; if he’d been black, they would have already pinned some drug charges or an implausible homicide on him.

“You just wrote a whole bunch of nothing. Paragraphs of word salads.”

I can’t wait for this primary to be over so we can get to the very important business of agreeing, one and all, that those of us who CAN vote will be voting for [Dem Candidate]. 

“We dragged Mayor Pete to holy hell over his lack of connection with the community, and Amy has even less of a connection.”

I always thought “Friday” had a lot of saturation to the white youth culture of its time. This is purely anecdotal, but I typically find Friday held up as a stoner classic alongside “Half-baked”.

How could it possibly be surprising or inexplicable that Seinfeld, Friends, the Office, and Big Bang Theory would fetch such high prices? When they were on, they were some of the highest rated shows on television for their respective times, and I know that Friends and The Office were the two most streamed shows on…

Ironically, someone did bring it up: YOU. 

It sounds like you just don’t know what the word means.

At what point has he ever been in a situation that might obligate him to learn how regular adults behave? He's been rewarded for acting like this marijuana mascot caricature for so long that I wouldn't be surprised if he really couldn't modulate this bizarre affect. 

People shit on Oprah for not going after Russell Simmons, but then other people shit on her for trying to destroy black men. What kafkaesque horse shit.

“[I]n the ‘80s, picking up weed from the ‘weed man’ was a whole-ass scene. Sometimes people would come by just to pick up and other times it was a social space where folk hung out and sat in circles, talking. There was music, drinks, endless shit-talking over a card table of Spades, Tonk or Bid Whist, food, so much…

Shit, I like Little Women the book, and thought this was the superior adaptation—and, well acted, directed, and edited to boot. And bears worth noting, particularly well-acted by Saoirse Ronan. 

I recently relocated to SC for my wife’s job, and I gotta tell you, these people sure seem to love them some Lindsey Graham, though, in no small part because of how much they fucking adore Donald Trump, and correctly assess Graham as being an unquestioning Trump toady.

Right? Both parties are going spend shit loads of money and run up the national debt—so the question is more, would you rather spend that money on cops, bombs, and tax cuts for corps and the rich, or food and other aid for the marginalized and needy?