The people getting their knickers in a twist in responding to you seem to be, uh, pretty much proving your point about the whole thing. +1

YES! Like that damn NYT piece of shit article wanting dems to reach out to 45 voters cause “no one will date me, I have to lie about voting for him and they’re forcing me to militantly support him”. I AM TIRED OF NONSENSE.

Or to put even more succinctly, people of color have suffered under white supremacy since the beginning of this nation while certain white people, who know it’s wrong, did nothing, preferring comfort over human rights.

Starting to?

Not All Woke People!

Do you think she made this video because she is now aware of institutional racism and wants to encourage her white fans to think about it or do you think she’s performing her “wokeness” as a way to focus attention on her? As many times as PoC have been screwed over by fair-weather allies, I’m not surprised when people…

Performative “wokeness.” Stop the planet, I need to get off.

“Well gracious! I wasn’t sure about whether systemic oppression of underclasses and minorities and disadvantaged groups was really a problem, and I didn’t really take the urgent outcry that the Black music community has been putting out for the last 40 years seriously, because all that hiphop rap music just promotes…

YES

First of all, I’m not stupid enough to think that anti-semitism had disappeared from the earth. This was a very visible crime, probably committed because of the current political climate. The fact that anyone would do this, on this scale, and believe they could get away with it is what shocks me.

Thanks for that lovely sentiment, anonymous internet commenter! I guess if my children are brutally killed you will have shown me *groan*

Um, no. This idea that “yes sir”-ing and “no sir”-ing cops is a REQUIREMENT and that one is at least partially responsible for the fallout if not followed is deeply problematic. Do I tell my kids to be respectful of all people, and act in responsible ways that are appropriate to the situation? Hell yes. Do I teach…

Understand this goes both ways, when I do follow these tenets as you lay them out and the cop is still a jerk, “then don’t expect me to bet my life that you’re just a run-of-the-mill asshole cop,” and teach my kid accordingly why they shouldn’t trust you.

Didn’t Philando Castile do everything right and end up dead? He had his hands on the wheel. He alerted the cop to the fact that he had a licensed firearm on his person and that he was going to get it to hand it over, and then the cop shot him as Castile reached for the ID he had been directed to produce?

Listen, I…

For anti-racist feminists this is also not a new question. Not even close.

This is well and good, but I’m still in a no-win situation. I’m black. My son is half and of course looks it. Cops scare the SH!T out of me and I’m a law abiding citizen with nothing to hide, didn’t have alcohol till I was 21, never smoked, etc. It feels nearly impossible to teach him “cops aren’t bad and should be…

A black man could get lynched for saying something like that in public about a white woman now, figuratively and literally.

Giggle: I saw this for the first time yesterday.

“Meatloaf, should I run for president?”

What part of dressing a white woman up and presenting her as a geisha, as a Japanese woman, isn’t yellowface?

I don’t know. Thinking another race’s culture is yours for the taking kind of implies that you think their people are beneath you.