I hope that there was at least some pause from Rich on whether or not to publish this interview knowing that the comments were going to eat her alive, but ultimately deciding to publish because you cannot make up this kind of camp. This is an instant classic, and I am grateful for it.

I’ve never understood actors who say they don’t watch tv/movies. Like, in what other industry* could you get away with that? “I’m a doctor but I don’t read medical journals.” “I’m an aspiring civil engineer but I don’t travel on roads or bridges.”

She strikes me as the type of person that many in the Splinterverse will roll their eyes at, but if those same people knew her personally would instead be like, “Oh Valerie? She’s awesome. Fucking love Valerie.”

VALERIE SEBESTYEN: Do you follow numerology at all?

+1 for using the phrase “+1". Let’s bring it back, for the glory of Deadspin.

Omg thank you! I agree. It’s amazing that the racist taunts just get pushed aside when its realized they didn’t start the incident. It’s amazing that the folks in the indigenous March managed for an hour to ignore the assholes, but the white school kids (with adult chaperones) can’t do the same after a few minutes??

The worst was some journo on Twitter claiming bragging about confirming, but not releasing, the name of the boy, stating that we were all shitty as teens and he shouldn’t be shamed for it.

THANK YOU. I looked back at this smug, shit eating grin every year of my childhood. I know what a bully looks like.

The only thing any of the new videos changes for me is that I now see that the MAGA kids weren’t aggressors (although they definitely wildly escalated both confrontations). That said, I still think they’re smug, racist chuds.

totally agree with the parental angle. that’s what i saw too: a bunch of prick kids who were raised by maniacal trump supporters and forced to go on a pro-life march because that’s all they know. apparently no adult was around to keep these little fuckers in line. 

Where I grew up you could not get that close to an elder of any race w/ that face and not get your ass kicked by anyone and everyone around. 

“This black man walked into our drug store and sat at the counter right next to us. We weren’t being aggressive or threatening. We’re the real victims.”

If they are FSU fans that makes me hate them even more 

I’ve lived in NYC for 21 years, and been harassed on the street by the Black Israelites literally hundreds of times in that period. Weirdly, I never felt the urge to do anything other than walk away. Strange how easy that is. 

I can’t evaluate if doing “the chop” at Native Americans is racist without knowing if the choppers are FSU fans. How can I be expected to peer into their very souls?

We would have gotten details of the weed they snuck with them on the trip.

The teens’ version of the story leans so heavily on believing what was in their heads or relying on their limited perspective of a large mob...

Without questioning whether the kid acted as awfully as portrayed, I must say that the lead speaker in the “Black Israelite cult,” without a doubt a fully grown man, comes off as the most vile, inflammatory person in the video.

Not gonna lie. I now have no idea what actually happened.

White privilege is the media falling over itself to apologize when it thinks it misread a situation. If these were African-American kids, we never would’ve seen alternate video or explanations.