Ummm he had nothing to do with the Tea Party....

I don’t blame young people for being angry. I understand it. I’ve been there,too.

i’m a white dude, not a woman. nice assumption though?

I hate the term “white allies.” It just annoys the shit out of me. White people are not some monolithic group that you seen on TV eating bon-bons and drinking Mountain Dew. Even as we grow up in a culture steeped in white supremacy, black and white people can and do reject that dynamic. When that happens white people…

Nothing Spike said was untrue. But young people have to learn everything again. So it shall be.  

Lets stop acting like all white people are the same. All black people aren’t the same. Some white people fight for justice. I’m not sure how this can be argued.  Its not about getting white people to love us. Its about recognize that there isn’t some uniform hive mind out there that they are all plugged into. 

being paid? are you fucking kidding me? i live paycheck to paycheck and give my money to my classroom. commenting here, asking you genuine questions is a problem? dialogue is a problem?

My genuine reaction to this is sadness. I don’t know where to start, or how to start, or even if I can. But it is defeating.

Dear Angela,

He did say they couldn’t accept it. He just (tactlessly?) gave the reason why they couldn’t accept it. When she got offended by the reason and started demanding names, filming on her phone, etc. that’s (according to her story) when he got agitated and rude and she started following him around and *then* that’s when…

Nah, because:

And they’ve learns from those who’ve gone before them. NPR had a story last week about how some of the parents from Newtown were supporting and helping the Parkland students.

So, I see that the author deleted the line about ‘17 white lives.’ Without explicitly admitting to the error, he then added a postscript about how he recognizes the victims weren’t all white while implying that anyone who questioned the ‘17 white lives’ statement knew that the ‘real’ reason people cared about this…

I don’t see this as necessarily “moderation”, but more a process of chipping away these problems in manageable parts, which increases the likelihood of overall success. It DOES mean you have to actually continue the work.

I’m not seeing that attitude from liberals, not on any kind of scale. Definitely seeing that with conservatives, who don’t give a shit about anybody who’s not white.

If you really meant it - a reasonable start is dead simple sewing. Take a rectangle of fabric. Fold over each short end and stitch to form a tube on the non-velvet side, about 1/2 inch wide. Then fold in half with tubes you just made on outside (velvet side on the inside.) Stitch sides, but not all the way to the…

Thanks! Mostly I’m hoping I can help the next poor sucker. It is no fun being heavy, watching yourself get heavier, and not know how to reverse it. At present I’m taking off the pounds like 10 times faster than I put them on, and there is hope to be found in that. (Probably more than 10 times faster, but I don’t have…

I think it wouldn’t have an impact for another reason - the vast majority of white people never themselves colonized anything, so the immediate reaction is going to be “what the fuck does that have to do with me??”

I imagine the depression and despair that led him to seek solace in food (or food-like substances) are far bigger problems in his life. Cyber bullying might be a close second.

When Dylann Roof shot up that church in Charleston, SC, his actions caused a cascading effect that led to the removal of Confederate war monuments, flags, and streets and buildings being renamed.

My point to these students is this: don’t give up, you never know what the tipping point will be.