First and foremost: It’s “lose” not “loose.” You lose the extra “o” because it came loose.

I hear you. But his off duty prejudice is now documented.

Because people that are so cavalier about race on their own time, more often than not, bring those same types of biases onto their jobs. If he has a gun and has to sometimes encounter black people, things can easily go wrong due to how he thinks on his “own time”.

I veered off the road, trying to figure out the difference between ethnicity vs race.

If I may quote Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October, “There is no going back..”

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No, no, no... these clips go viral, and do more to spread the truth to some folks than if they were to watch an entire day of MSNBC. She allowed Jen Kerns to sit there and wiggle in the flame long enough to toast her backside without it seeming like overkill, which is exactly why she didn’t allow the other panelist to…

So if a Black principal posted the lyrics to “Fuck the Police” that would be cool with you?

As a last technical detail, those “mobs” wouldn’t theoretically be vigilante justice as they were groups of citizens deputized by law enforcement in order to make the arrest/killing. With small populations and meager social services, these temporary law enforcement groups would fill in for a nonexistent police force.…

So, giving her ALL the benefit of the doubt.... let’s assume the lyrics were about wild-west lynchings: lynch mobs chasing down bank robbers like in the old westerns and not KKK lynchings....

Nope.

Good piece. You have a lot of patience to lay out and substantiate things as you have. Kudos for that.

BLM rally:

I mean, he’s not gonna be marching anytime soon, but he’s not gonna be comparing BLM to the KKK. Progress is progress.

I finally got my Bonus Dad to understand BLM when a friend of the family posted a “Blue Lives Matter” post and I posted All Lives Matter. Her response was, “of course all lives matter but right now I’m talking about police!” I told her, “I’ll remind you of that the next time I post about BLM”. My Bonus Dad got it. The…

Are you dense?

Hello_America is not saying to hire an unqualified POC over a qualified white person, and if, with all this discussion, you took that comment to simply mean “disregard merit,” then you are in denial at best, continuing to be willfully ignorant at worst. Or you just didn’t actually read the comment. And, no, I’m not…

you can, knowing you and others you work with may have implicit bias, make a point to interview people of color and hire them when qualified

From what I have learned, as a white person: If you want to be helpful, read a ton of things all over the internet written by people of color about what they want in an ally. You’ll get variation but the themes are the same. One of the biggies is to educate yourself (rather than demand education out of those around…

Don’t pull the ladder up behind you. Acknowledge the accident of birth that had you born in the “right” skin tone and begin waging class warfare.