You just stated part of the challenge of being black in America. The second we show humanity in response to their constant dehumanizing treatment we’re stereotyped as angry, etc. So the challenge is to find ways to keep on keeping on while not letting this double standard bullshit break you. Its fucking taxing.

It is the difficult balance of being angry about something and demanding change while simultaneously not letting it fully consume you. Most (white) people end up just being indifferent to it all. People should be outraged that this is normal.

So, your counsel is “don’t bother doing anything, because eventually Jesus will return and save us all”?

The real tragedy is that the Senate is so white that specific ethnic groups have to push for representation while women struggle to gain adequate access to legislative positions on all levels. All three potential appointees were excellent and obvious choices for the seat. Karen Bass, Barbara Lee and Alex Padilla…

All the damned time.

It’s sad, but it’s EVERYWHERE.

I suppose it’s fortunate that even I get an occasional dose of white male supremacy, when my ~63 year-old coworker once in a while asks me about something he knows nothing about, then VERY soon after I start to answer, he normally ends up telling me about these things of which he knows nothing and I know plenty.

So does Proud Boys.

As old as I am I too seem to have to prove that I belong as well everyday. Ever notice the dearth of Black people on the news except early on in a civil dispute? There ya go!

I’m sure White people aren’t, but not for any reason that speaks to our awareness of the deeper underlying issues. The death rates are high for American Indians and Latino/as, too. Most White people probably think they’re all drinking and crack-smoking themselves to death and COVID-19 is just pushing them over the…

Personally, I don’t think we (speaking as a white person) have any right to question the use of the word by black people. We haven’t earned that right. We need to stay the hell out of it. It’s not about us.

Probably not but you can question the rationale behind the use of it by Black folk. As I am around folk that use it more often than I’d like to acknowledge, I get into conversations with them about the why (understanding the mental conditioning that continues to be a factor today that promotes it. Would it solve all…

I am saying the same thing. I don’t own it. I don’t want it. It’s their (white people’s) word. Let them have it.

Mask up people! And stay away from gatherings and events!

Sure. But racism is profitable for an awful lot of people. Johnson's aphorism about who turns out their pockets and why. 

It is disconcerting how slim the margins between this distressing event with some measure of justice following, and all the other far too common tragedies really are. If Patricia Compton had been just a little more ready to shoot, a little more bigoted, a little more scared... If she had been just a little slicker,…

You know what that say, you can take the trailer park trash out of the trailer park, but you can’t take... Well you know rest.

You know how white folks have trailer park trash?

All of these: Enkidu, rubysubmarine, a formerteacher and sybann. I’m 2/3rds the way through White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about race and wow is that a wake-up call to just how many, myriad, hideous ways white people are indoctrinated into being racist while doing nothing but just *living*…

I had to learn that the quickest way to mark myself as one of the white people who aren’t was to hush up and listen.