Did you go to college? Getting a mortgage is like that test of endurance smashed into a few months. It’s expensive, you need lots of info, money, help, paperwork and it feels like when you finally have it together, some rando can just decide you need one more thing to do. Or like a game show about patience. It…

Haha. Getting this raggedy mortgage was the epitome of political theater. That’s like, senate-level politicking. Running a business meeting/conference call with a group of self-important Well Actuallies is your local election. What’s the presidential level?

They better get ready!

I accept all that you said. I just wanted to know what they think they’re signing up for when they declare themselves allies.

They want Trump. Remember how they loved to hate Bush II? They want him in office so they can feel superior for not being as bad as he is- outwardly. They love to feel smarter and better than someone with more money or a better job. That’s why Oprah, freaking monoymous Oprah, is still unqualified in their eyes. Why…

I love your name, btw.

Yes ma’am. It’s indeed working. And working on our nerves! Great article. White Supremacy is at once timeless and branded for the times.

Lort!

She said something brusque to Alyssa Milano that you did not like. Calling it an attack frames it as a bigger action than it was and gives fake allies an excuse to fceel justified in their decision to continue to do nothing.

Agreed. But they do it anyway.

Very helpful explanation. Thanks.

I’m all for growth and I understand feeling displeased at being reminded of your past. The part I’m having trouble with is the ‘attack’ wording. Why so dramatic? To those of us who have been truly verbally, psychologically abused and or physically attacked, leaving the fight because of a peeceived semantic sleight…

We’re actually not talking about Rose being complicit. We’re talking about what determines who is an ally and who isn’t, and if you were ever really an ally if you are capable of using some semantic offense to justify you declining to help. You’re deflecting. Our discussion is on being a good ally *despite*…

Respectfully, I don’t understand your comment. Of course some people there are survivors and not allies. No one said she is the only victim.

It’s just weird to me. When I was a kid and she was on the tv everyday, White women claimed to love her dirty draws. They did what she said. I wonder how Trump would have faired if Oprah was still holding court in their living rooms everyday.

Hey, friend. It just kills me how quickly they strike. The article on her winning goes up and it’s like the hater squad already has drafts of take-down comments ready to pounce.

Yeah, they’re on some other shit over there.

Um, okay. You got me there.

Always! It’s that good old intersectional strawman. Instead of just letting her live, introduce a competition you want her to lose to feel comfortable that she’s not good enough for something, anything. 

It’s just such an automatic, knee-jerk reaction to a Black woman shining. She has given a lifetime of good works. She is everything and, en masse, White women claim to love her. But the moment she becomes a threat to their thoughts of her just being mommy’s sassy Black friend, she must be immediately shoved back into…