I want to see a movie about this wedding.

YOU WIN.

I've shared this story before, but I was an usher(-ette, as my friend and I called ourselves) in a wedding that had the craziest "after party". My roommate from college and her now husband had a beautiful wedding and reception in his hometown. It was about an hour away from where she grew up, though, so most of her…

Hat-Themed wedding.

My cousin's second wedding took place in a local park. There was no seating. A few homeless people wandered through and didn't look too impressed. A friend beeped out Here Comes The Bride on a small Casio keyboard.

I'm not married, and I've never been to a total horrorshow wedding, but at my parents' wedding, my mom watched a woman in a polyester jumpsuit (apparently the date of a friend) stuff an entire wheel of cheese from the buffet table into her purse and walk out.

White guy here, I was a bit racist this morning. I was asked what I thought of the Alibaba IPO. And damn if I didn't say I questioned the financial claims and documents coming out of China.

This comment is so everything. I wish there was a way to make (white, conservative) people understand that "being racist" =/= "hating all black people." You can have black friends and be racist. You can BE black and be racist.

Nicholas Sparks explaining the difference between love stories and romance novels is like Vanilla Ice trying to explain how that bass line in Ice, Ice Baby isn't a ripoff of Under Pressure. Sit down.

Now I'm just picturing the same arrogance from other hacks.

I was a communications intern at my university's library when I was a student and we brought Nicholas Sparks in as our guest speaker for the annual fundraising dinner one year. He was the most self-important asshole I've ever met. Wasn't outright rude to me or my co-workers, but he had an aura of complete superiority…

I'm a woman of color and even I have thought racist thoughts because the "white is always better" message gets to some of us too. I have never accepted this in public though. It will just give ammunition to the white racists. They usually say: see? Even they are racist among themselves.

THIS. white people are SO afraid to actually examine their own prejudices. it's not fucking easy to do. it's not fun, either, to be aware of your racism. and i am talking from my own damn experience.

No one is 100% completely "not racist".

Not just white, I genuinely think we all hold unexamined racist beliefs by the simple fact that we live in a racist society. It's important to realize it and try to get better instead of flipping the fuck out every time someone calls you a racist.

Amen. I was raised by liberal, open-minded people but even in the last 25 years elements of our culture and society train you to think a certain way. It would be ignorant and delusional for me to say I've never done or thought anything racist. The key is to acknowledge it, learn from it, and do better. Hopefully in a…

And these people have the nerve to tell Native Americans that they're the overly sensitive ones?

White people are so afraid of being called racist that they can't take a step back, look at their own assumptions, exercise some self awareness and say to themselves, "Yes, I am also kind of a racist, because I live in a society that, until less than 50 years ago, was trying to make white supremacy work, and my…

Funny how all the distant NA relatives all happen to be Cherokee.... It's almost as thought that's the only tribe they've ever heard of!

I would hate to say anything that would offend anyone so I'm going to apologize in advance before I say that Dan Snyder is a walking, talking, giant bag of dicks.