I’m an old white lady, so WASPy I squeak when I walk, and those terrorist motherfuckers scare the hell out of *me*. I cannot even imagine how they make black people feel. Ditto for the fact that they enrage me -- I can’t imagine how much more they enrage black people.

I will be preferring Delta from now on. I hate to fly, but knowing I’m on an airline with concerns other than just making money would help.

Call them what they are: racist participation trophies.

I was unaware of him until I read this article, but had to look him up, and he is one very handsome man. Also brave as hell.

Glad he got rid of one more racist participation trophy. Can I donate to the fine fund?

Biden also spent 8 years willingly working as a subordinate to a black man, a black man with whom he, by all appearances, has a genuine friendship as well as having had a congenial working relationship.

Bernie treats the Democratic Party like a booty call.

This. Thank you. I’m so tired of the Bernie supporters blaming it all on some eeeevul DNC cabal. Democrats didn’t vote for Bernie. That’s all.

I have my own copy of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and Hymnal. I grew up in a family with cut-crystal finger bowls. We have a fucking *family crest* for gods’ sakes. Yet I don’t come close to this degree of entitled whiteness. At least, I hope I don’t.

Or moxa, aka mugwort. Moxabustion is part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and it *totally* smells like weed. I worked in the same office as a Chinese doctor, and one night, coming out with a client, I sniffed and said, “Chi is burning moxa again.” My client said, “Is that what it is? I always figured you guys just…

I will admit this here, because it’s way, way past the statute of limitations: Back in... I’m going to say ‘82, my father FedExed me a pound. He FedExed it because using the USPS would have compounded the felony. The best part of this story is that the return address he used was James Watt, Ronald Reagan’s Sec’y of…

Dear Michael Harriot: I love you. In a totally appropriate, “I’m an old white lady who greatly admires your perspective, writing skills, and sense of humor” kind of way.

Also: This sort of thing is why I am so against tort reform laws. This boy’s mother should get a lawyer and sue the shit out of these people.

That anyone couldn’t/can’t see that Trump is the personification of corruption is boggling. That evangelical Christians can’t see that he pretty much ticks every box for the Biblical description of The Beast is strange, but, then, that was part of the prophecy. (Please note: I am not a Christian, though I grew up…

Not true in my experience. Over Thanksgiving, despite a ban on political conversation, I had to ask two rich white men to please stop their talk of how “all the people coming now just want to be given stuff.” They were clearly talking about Latino immigrants. I refrained from asking about them “taking American jobs,”…

I genuinely do not know: Did even a single black man receive land under the Homestead Act? Talk about government give-aways - and of land they’d stolen in the first place.

Every white person exploits it in some way, they just don’t realize it. All you have to look at to realize this is look at all the stupid calls to 911 for Existing While Black. If you can grill by the lake without having the cops called on you, if you can fall asleep in the dorm lounge while studying without someone…

“I agree with this sentiment, but the reality is The Whites don’t have to make WP work for themselves, it works for them regardless. In fact, they can be openly antagonistic of WP, and it will still work for the.”

Truth. It matters not at all how I vote, to whom I donate, who I’m friends with, what causes I espouse.…

“Perhaps its easier to believe that black people are genetically predisposed to violence, ignorance, and laziness than to accept the fact that a country that has fulfilled all of your white dreams can be so cruel to others just because of the color of their skin.”

It is bitterly funny that the descendants of people…

The clearest illustration of my own white privilege is this: I have never been afraid of the police, not even when I was *breaking the law* (bag of weed in my pocket). Hell, I’ve had a cop draw a gun on me and two friends (one black, which explains it) and it never for a second occurred to me they’d actually shoot. I…

Heck, when I was living in Chicago in the ‘80s, there were still neighborhoods where most shops sported signs reading “Wo wimy po Polsku” — Polish spoken here. (I may have the spelling wrong.) The major influx of Polish folks had, of course, been during WWII, 40 years prior. Yet I heard not a word about “Why don’t…

As a wypipo, I see a lot of bullshit about the meaning of “racist.” People say outrageously racist shit followed by the magical incantation “... but I’m not a racist” (or preceded by the magical incantation “I’m not a racist, but...” I have finally figured it out: A lot of white people think that they’re not racist so…