Whatever way you describe it and where ever the point of impact was supposed to be, he was still leading with his head. He launched himself leading with his head. Period.

"Why would someone pick up a phone and dial all those numbers when you could just hop on your horse and trot over to their house to tell them what you want to tell them?" —You, 100 years ago.

People can say what they will about Keanu, but these kind of movies are right in his wheelhouse, and unlike a guy like Jason Statham, who does mostly shit, Keanu's action movies are legitimately fucking good. He doesn't have a lot of range, but it means he can play both stoic hero and icy villain with equal aplomb,…

"The fact that you managed to be offended by this piece is a testament to just how much you don't get it"

I think you'll find the "Good White Person" of this essay is much like the "Nice Guy".

Then why did you write that comment about what a good white person you are, and not once but twice "refusing to apologize"? Treating all your students equally and teaching them to respect each other is what is expected of you, not something that you need to be rewarded for, or that absolves you from needing to listen…

Did you even read this? Nobody is asking you to apologize. This isn't about you. The fact that you managed to be offended by this piece is a testament to just how much you don't get it.

You have some work to do. If you think kindness is the limit of what is needed to stop mass death of Black teenagers, you have some work to do. If you think the primary meaning of this essay was that you should apologize for something, or was even about white people, you have some work to do. If you don't understand…

It's not always about you.

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

I think we should delete the trolls, and be outraged, but also be quiet about it.

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.

Somehow, this response, and the similar one to the Rams players, say a lot more about what's wrong with policing in America than the killings themselves.

So there are good cops. There are also terrible cops. It reflects the makeup of good/bad on balance when they have people like this speaking for them.

I'm not totally comfortable with this article.

I don't know Darren Wilson's religious background, but I know the white, racist Southern Baptists with whom I was raised. Some white people think the mark of Cain refers to skin color. As in, Cain was "cursed" with dark skin after he killed his brother, and therefore his descendants are black people (whose skin color…

There's none so blind as those who will not see -

I meant in a way that detaches the body itself from the humanity associated with it. If I said "black people," that adds a personality, but "black bodies" distills the intimidation that many white people feel down to a purely physical level.

I've used that exact phrase "it's not like Darren Wilson woke up and said 'I'm going to kill a black boy today'" following it up with a "but" and basically what you said here when trying to explain to friends that it CAN be racism without Wilson screaming "Die N-word Die!" as he shot him. It's fallen completely on…