both of them. Ebert was a very interesting interwebz essayist; it’s his page that his wife and some other critics have continued after his death.

Well, white guys who jump into conversations like this wholly ignorant of the basic facts and related histories are prone to condescendingly dismiss many things as “silly” and “weird.”

I was already just clinging to life with this comment. But “pet a cat backwards” produced this gem.

It’s not at all, but I understand reading comprehension can be tough when your state doesn’t care about education. Sorry about the massive inferiority complex though.

Well said.

the debate was had. you lost. by a score of roughly Sherman’s March to the Atlantic to nil. your flag commemorates hatred, treason, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of americans in the name of preserving white supremacy. Dylann Roof waved it knowing that you and the entirety of South Carolina stood behind him…

Pat Hines and his League of South, CCC buddies are delusional. What fng “white southern culture” is he talking about? Can someone name anything positive that is UNIQUE to “Southern white heritage” that isn’t also linked to people of color?? BBQ? Nope. Grits? Nope. Blues and Jazz? Nope. Seriously, what “white culture”…

A: No one is suggesting that we take confederate flags away from individuals.

Don Lemon is CNN’s minstrel show.

I am white, and the high school attended was officially 0% white. Some people were shitty to me because of my race/ethnicity. But even when I was 14 fucking years old I wasn’t like, “Today, I know what it is to be black in America.” Because I fucking didn’t, because everything in our entire culture reaffirmed that…

When black people tell you something rings false, best to take them at their word.

Thank you. Next time remember, when defending Caucasian fuckery, hold your fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

There isn’t even anything sociocultural about which to comment on this case, anymore; it has reached surreal levels of absurdity. I. give. up.

So much for the legitimacy of that “transracial identity” issue that so many TOTALLY NOT TRANSPHOBIC people were bringing up.

Wait, what? She sued Howard because she thought they were favoring African American students over her, because she was white, so now she’s pretending to be African American and has risen to president of a local NAACP chapter.

The court opinion also noted that Dolezal claimed that the university’s decision to remove some of her artworks from a February 2001 student exhibition was “motivated by a discriminatory purpose to favor African-American students over” her.

The court opinion also noted that Dolezal claimed that the university’s decision to remove some of her artworks from a February 2001 student exhibition was “motivated by a discriminatory purpose to favor African-American students over” her.

@Batousi: as someone who likes to draw manga myself, i can tell you that there's a very simple explanation for all of this.