You don't see a difference between familial disapproval of a boyfriend and social, cultural, economic, and political SYSTEMS that govern a country and fundamentally devalue and punish people who are not white?

Right, but I think you'd have to admit that the historical and systemic context of white racism (not individual hate but SYSTEMS that punish people of color for not being white) has always looked different and continues to look different than within races or between groups of people of color. I often hear people say…

You don't see a difference between familial disapproval of a boyfriend and social, cultural, economic, and political SYSTEMS that govern a country and fundamentally devalue and punish people who are not white?

The Fu Manchu mustache is just too much I cannot.

Right, but I think you'd have to admit that the historical and systemic context of white racism (not individual hate but SYSTEMS that punish people of color for not being white) has always looked different and continues to look different than within races or between groups of people of color. I often hear people say…

HOLY SHIT

Fuck your colleagues. It's hard to have self-pride in the face of systemic hate.

Yes, your lived experience doesn't count unless I can completely understand it within my own narrow context.

I don't know any people of color who have had the experience you say you have had. Well, I hope it continues for you then!

So...you're white?

I think people who use the phrase "rape" as a metaphor are idiots.

Yes.

I always click their name and comment history! It works wonders :)

It refers to anyone that isn't white.

What? Stop. You know what person of color means and what it doesn't mean. Saying "white [or beige] is a color too!" is a very poor reaction to someone actually trying to make a comment about race.

Another commenter wrote that white people (I would say men only, but okay) are allowed to DO something in a movie and Black people are only allowed to ENDURE something in a movie.

That's a great point - it's not just what stories are being written, but who decides which ones get a prominent platform and where they are shown.

Yes! I think sometimes even watching adults eat that "weird green stuff" can be helpful for kids! They're learning all the time, so it's dope to teach them behaviors and actions about food that might be different from what they normally see adults eating. My kids just cannot with hummus - they love it but they don't…

Just looking at the movie recognized, I notice that a lot of them are based-on-true stories about real Black men. That makes me think:

When women don't desire you, do you get angry? When women don't desire you, do you think they are inherently flawed to pursue the people they do desire, instead of reflecting on what you can do to be desirable? Here's the difference: when women aren't desired, they get low self-esteem and engage in self-destructive…