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"?…

Right. I don't want a prize, but also, don't basically tell me to shut up. That doesn't do anyone any good.

I am a good white person. ... And do you know what? I don't see a need to apologize for it.

"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.

I guess the question is "How can white people be supportive of the issue without seeming to demean or take over the issue? " If white people don't talk talk about what they do in the situation, then the narrative is that white people are ignoring the issue (which so many do). If white people talk about the issue,…

Not talk about it. You can just do the right thing without telling everyone. That's not only for issues of racism, it's also just a general rule. You shouldn't need positive reinforcement for being a decent person. Just be one.

I just re watched and noticed when the one son says "we love you mom!" She says "and I love...I love politics." She didnt even say I love you too in response. So great. Also I secretly hope the conservative's son is the one with autism because it adds so many more layers to the story.

This is even better than the time a woman called into Car Talk to discuss her (then) husband's driving and identified herself as "Ashley." Turns out it was Ashley Judd. And her former husband is a racecar driver.

Oh, she's not embarrassed about the politics, but the fighting! For a certain kind of southern lady (like my grandmother, and my mother, and, maybe a little, me) having familial discord made public is an agony worse than death.

My (very southern) mother used that same threat! "I will snatch you bald-headed if you come into this dining room again. Get back to the kids' table and stop pestering the grownups!"

She's about to snatch them both bald, yessir.

This is every parent's dream.

I'm sad I'm at work and can't watch this!

Exactly. "I will not HAVE the Junior League thinking I condone these boys yellin' at each other on the TV. I will not have it."

This sounds like a dream come to life.

In the spirit of Doge:

"What was it like, raising these two?"
"It has not been easy." and then later, "I know we have to take responsibility for them."

I'm ROLLING.

She's so embarrassed by those two. That's the glorious part of all this. You can just picture her sitting there watching this, afraid the neighbors are all seeing her children duke…

LITERAL BEST MOM

I remember years ago, a woman called into the C-SPAN morning show because she wanted to talk about conditions for injured soldiers at Walter Reed and how she was in Washington and had gone in to see them and was appalled at the state of the hospital. The host asked her some more questions and deduced (correctly) that…

"it's mom..." I can only hope to embarrass my kids, on that level, at some point in their lives.