"If you can't accept what appear to be genuine apologies, you can have no reasonable expectation that anything will ever change."

"Ignorant coddled athlete given a pass his ENTIRE life,"

Ok, so we've established that you didn't read the article *by the first sentence of your comment.*

"How about his family"

Again, covered in the article.

"his crappy schools"

You're veering off the rails...

"the excuses never solutions culture he was steeped in"

Speeding…

football got him into an elite college, something that happens to a very small percentage of hopeful but underprivileged kids. even a gpa of c+ no doubt involved some coddling, however the kid DID graduate and overcame all sorts of hurdles to do so. he wasn't nfl material so went on to a CAREER IN EDUCATION. he…

rotten old college dropout

As a nation, we're much more comfortable with that than with the prospect of black folk getting ideas.

It's not a bad apology, as apologies go, but that doesn't mean that the people affected are obliged to accept it. That's against the whole point of offering an apology. It's not unreasonable for Global Beet to choose to reject it.

Well, shit. I found it. HIS DISSERTATION WAS ABOUT SHOWING FAT ALBERT TO KIDS. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/…

"And when a white person apologizes for racism, you blacks are supposed to find it in your hearts to forgive them!"

Certain white people who liked his non-threatening image and his angry berating of other black people. Cosby says things they think but are afraid to say out loud.

This breaks my heart even more than the original post. Maybe I'm generalizing based on my own experiences, but there are those good and bad moments in our lives that we crave to repeat or struggle to forget. I don't know if anyone saw the movie 'The Loneliest Planet", but there is a scene where one of the characters…

Meh, he can take his apology and shove it. This dude is emblematic of so many other oldish white dudes. Even when a black person (espeeeecialy a black woman) earns a modicum of success, they have to, in some way, put them back in their place. It's almost as if generations of white supremacy has conditioned them to be…

I wanted to add: I'm sharing this article, if you don't mind, in my geeky Feminist/human rights group on facebook. I think the members there can really appreciate it.

I don't really understand the problem with that article. Bigotry and racism is ingrained in western culture so badly that we take it in from birth like AIR. WE ALL have racial prejudices, the only difference is some people admit and acknowledge it and work to retrain themselves to think differently and work to make…

Thanks for another thoughtful comment. I have already starting reading articles on Autostraddle.

Thank you for the thoughtful reply and recommendations. It is my hope to purchase several of Leslie's books at the beginning of the next pay period. Our local community, southwest Utah, lost an ally who tried her best to challenge the classic heteronormative (and white supremacist) paradigms that noobs like myself…

That Autostraddle article/response is about 70% of why I stopped commenting regularly, and have been, um, let's say "off my game" as of late.

What intheweeds said. Please, PLEASE, with all of my queer little heart, do not think that Jezebel is a good place to learn queer issues. They are, in many ways, actively worse than reputable liberal-but-not-feminist media outlets (e.g., NYT).

Pretty sure that guy's used to disappointing after a couple seconds of 'scrutiny.'

You do see my point though, yes? There is nothing inherently ridiculous about those syllables. As I said before, there are loads of words in English that aren't actually English, that sounded weird and foreign when people first started using them.

At this time last year, if you had tried to talk to me about issues of social justice and inequality, I probably would've brushed you off and told you the the LGBT community is doing pretty well for themselves. At this time last year, if you were to ask what I knew of transgender issues, I couldn't name one. I…