Oh, but they were murdered months ago! Can't they just get over it and go shopping like the rest of us?
At 15, civil action was filed against Wahlberg for his involvement in two separate incidents of harassing African-American children (the first were siblings, and the second incident was a group of black school children on a field trip), by throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets.[11] At 16, Wahlberg approached…
The worst is the stuff that blames it on outsiders and people who don't live 'here' (here being whatever city is in question).
I know, right? Especially when it is Christmas season! Can't these people just be murdered in a different month?
Yes. I am also sick of people speaking about violence and anger when it is righteous, justified indignation, accrued over centuries of civil rights' violations.
Also, you know what was peaceful? those protests!! Also, how the fuck do these people think their Jesus would feel about the cold blooded murders of John Crawford, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice? Take your damn heads out of the sand!!
You forgot "ruining my commute." The most insidious aspect of white privilege is how it conceals itself, most people who possess white privilege don't even recognize that they do. But being able to be sad that the tree lighting ceremony is ruined is not commensurate with people being sad, scared and outraged that…
I think you're slightly misunderstanding the racist mindset by thinking racists recognize the system of institutional racism. Unfortunately, after Obama was elected a lot of my family unearthed whatever racism they were hiding within themselves, and I've gotten a good look at it. While you have the straight-up white…
Exactly. The time for peace was before black men and boys were murdered.
Usher's brain at first glance: "Damn, that's a long tampon string."
And a lot of people would probably feel differently about these things if it was, say, a pretty little white girl getting killed by cops. (Kind of like how people tend to care a lot more about missing persons cases when it's a pretty little white girl.)
And I'm sure that he suffered horribly from indigestion while eating his foie gras later because having to see the edges of some of those protests probably upset his delicate constitution something fierce. I'll bet nobody suffers as he does!
Thank you. I'm white and I've been, over the years, trying to explain things to friends/family who don't seem to get it. I get all the "Well I haven't seen that happen.." crap and they don't understand that just by being white, they are the default. Even the poorest, lowest white people have great advantage over POC…
There's a lot of competition, but #PeaceAtChristmas may be my most hated hashtag at the moment.
I had a former colleague who was SO inconvenienced by the protests in Ferguson because he had to take a slightly longer route to his country club. Might have added 2-3 whole minutes to his trip each way. To this day my heart bleeds for the horrible tragedy that has befallen him...
Mark Wahlberg wants a pardon for his 1988 assault hate crime conviction.
which is starting to become a trend with Lenas.
"Lena Marquise, the artist, had inserted a battery pack into herself and attached a power cord to it, allowing observers to charge their iPhones as a commentary on how we've become dependent on technology."