Not intending to scare you in the least, but this is TRUTH:

Thanks. That’s a huge compliment for me. Because between him and Toni Morrison there aren’t much bigger footprints to try and walk in when it comes to telling “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”. (Although Harriot seems to be doing his absolute damnedest to “set some folks free” too.)

I’ve seen so much idiocy over the years that my reaction is just kind of a reflex. Poor Gretch has to obliviously walk right past so many mountains of death, destruction and pure carnage inflicted on black folks in order to be outraged by a figurative wadded up candy wrapper tossed at a single white person...

Being from relatively up North, a coworker from Mississippi taught me the real meaning of that phrase several years ago.

Hell, it’s been the number one qualification for getting people elected President for the last 240 years.

To the people who’ve been endlessly covered in blood for five unbroken centuries, any distinction between one group carrying daggers, while another carries long-handle swords is effectively irrelevant.

As I just got through saying to someone else on this site earlier today:

That brings us back to where I started. We’re still staring endlessly at how to address the symptoms, and not looking at the original disease five centuries ago that those symptoms are still very much connected to. White racial segregation is never random, benign or incidental. It is literally inseparable from the…

THAT is the penultimate reason why whites like you MUST be the ones (and not as has been long presumed, POC) obsessively trying to get other whites to understand! Because, as this world gets more and more diverse, it is very specifically the children and grandchildren of white racial segregation who will pay the most …

From just a very short time after Columbus and his men arrived in the Caribbean, and bragged about their taste for pre-pubescent boys and girls, making it all the way to age eight before encountering racism would be considered borderline miraculous throughout the vast, vast majority of our American history!

That’s precisely how we gauge ourselves when it comes to racism!!!

Major hint.

We’re still asking so many of the wrong questions.

“...the arc of the moral universe...” is all up in that ass though!!! Meth, opioids, mass shootings, suicide rates, gun deaths, rural poverty, “white-on-white crime”, drastically declining birth rates, etc.

They’re not. Look at the statistical trends on alcohol, drugs, suicides, etc., for whites. It’s just that their white victims are likewise too blinded by the same addiction to see it.

Since Ralph Wiley just happens to have been my favorite writer when he was alive, my side-eye for Whitlock began many, many years ago. It goes back to his years writing for the Kansas City Star. Where he regularly made it a point to quite unmistakably try and mimic the writing style of Wiley. And not all that…

In very stark terms, they are now down to less than 9% of the world’s total population (using the original, Colonial-era, fake-assed definitions of white). And between drugs, alcohol and a host of other self-destructive impulses, (in direct involuntary response to dehumanizing others for 5 centuries on end) that 9%…

As my unabashed hero, James Baldwin, so eloquently pointed out half a century ago, your analysis can definitely afford to go one additional step beyond the deep (foundational even) and clearly continuing psychological need for whites to not just have arbitrarily created a thing called “blacks”. And then having ruthles…

With that stable genius Trump at the wheel, the whole superiority thingy is taking a pretty serious beating on a daily basis period.

Interpolate what that potentially means for their kids and grandkids in the near future if that same arrogance-induced intellectual laziness translates similarly to their sense of their overall need for education period.