Good white people? Really?

"literally NO ONE I have seen is criticizing white people who respectfully showed up to rallies and followed the lead of the people in charge."

Exactly. I'm not even a white person. I'm a non-black person of color. I showed up for a recent protest in DC. One black person thanked me for coming. Another black person said I shouldn't be there because I couldn't possibly understand the issue. So I left.

THANK YOU. I'm white, but gay, so I feel like I have this unique veiw into being a minority and also not being a minority. When my straight friends post things on social media about going off on a homophobe or something like that, I think great. Awesome. It makes me feel good that people out there support me even…

Yeah, I think that we, as white people, HAVE to step away from the idea that racism is something intentional and conscious and deliberately cruel/prejudicial/harmful. It's so much more than that narrow set of racist actions, and it's absolutely true that we are ALL racist in that we have all internalized these ideas…

Your essay makes me uncomfortable. I honestly don't know how to help or be an ally. I work with kids in the family court system, either through abuse/neglect or juvenile delinquency/incorrigability. I want to fight for these kids, the majority of whom are POC. How do we do that without becoming a "good white person"?…

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.

This is a great piece. One thing I will say, in my experience has someone who is half white and half brown, is that the same system that keeps people of color "in their place" after all of these years is the same one that blinds a lot of white people who mean well. Is this an excuse for their behavior? No, maybe not,…

One of my pet peeves of meeting a girl from tinder or okcupid is when we meet and first hug, she'll always say something like 'It's so great to meet you' and I'll be like 'QUIET! Now people are going to know we met from the internet ahhhhh'

"I don't want children walking near 'internet people' meeting."

Does anything else really need to be said?