To be clear, I am speaking from a white perspective. While I was rubbed the wrong way by some of what the author that interviewed Carolyn Bryant Donham said, I agree with his quote “White supremacy is the water, and we are the fish.” I can open my eyes, but does a fish even know it is in water? There can be a vast…

Let me explain how that might happen. Say you have these lovely relatives: maybe your mother, or your aunt, or your best friend from grade school on, or your father-in-law. Say that you are always vehemently feminist and anti-racist in their presence, that they “like” facebook posts in which you say political,…

There is a whole lot of ugly defensiveness by white feminists that needs to be thought through and addressed. I would say the only thing I don’t understand about the above post is “They deserve space to say that they feel betrayed by the 53 percent of white women who voted for Trump—and the silent accomplices smiling…

I text her daily to check in and she calls me when she needs to.

Look. I can’t fully put myself in your shoes and I’m not going to try to pretend to. I’ll tell you what I said to someone earlier - which is that for the past five years I have served on the board for a NPO on the South Side of Chicago - the only white person, I’ll add. I wanted to learn as much as I could and make a…

So you’re just going to choose to ignore the fact that the black voter turnout for Obama wasn’t the same this time around, huh?

Not to mention how often we’re gaslighted when we talk about the racist shit that happens to us. “Oh he was only joking he wasn’t being racist.”

I’m so sorry you went through that- that’s so fucked up!!

I call bullshit. Everyone knows that the only real ethnic slur for a white person is “racist.”

It’s funny how some white folks try so hard to play victims of racism. I actually have experienced Islamophobia and racism, but it’s not something I want to talk about in “real life” because I feel awkward about it, I don’t like having people feel “sorry” for me or pity me. I got food thrown at me in school and got…

My favorite was when they brought Janeane Garofalo on way back in 2003 and she proceeded to wipe the floor with Brian Kilmeade.

Kanye West doesn’t care about black people

I’ve said this before: it’s like us black folks are in a nonconsensual BDSM relationship with white people and there is no safe word.

This is the last I’ll say about this - as I’ve clearly caused more trouble than I intended.