This is belated but your commentary was a master class within itself of awesome sauce on how to discuss this powder keg of a conversation. Flowers. 💐

I’m not going claim to know her mind but I don’ find it hard to believe she got a good feeling from doing something good. Getting Alice Johnson out of jail wasn’t that hard for her. It didn’t require her to sacrifice anything and if she gets to feel good about it, plus it potentially raises her profile then why not?…

“If Tyrion was black, they would have fired him a long time ago.”

Unless you want to end up eating hot mayo soup.

Right? No one elected her grandparents Anec-King and Anec-Queen. Lots of people’s grandparents, black and white, think this is bullshit, and many of the people without grandkids will someday have them, and become someone’s grandparent who thinks this is bullshit, so who cares?

Well said.

My grandparents treated people of all races politely to their faces and said awful, racist shit among whites. It doesn’t make their ugliness any less horrible and in fact might make it worse, being two-faced and all.

Oh come on, next thing you’ll be asking us to get rid of The Star-Spangled Banner! That’s....oh wait....

It's especially notable that the poster's grandparents were limited to lower-level jobs at that club. Racism all around them. Liking a song or singer seems irrelevant, and we can't know their motivations for keeping her records around.

Thanks for posting this. Every time something blatantly racist pops up, out come the anecdotes of “well I know a black person who isn’t offended by it” as if that makes the racist sh!t less racist or not racist at all.

Yup I literally can’t understand the authors description of aggressive and cruel.

Songs For Rafael

Listen, THE AUDACITY.

but there are extenuating factors here that don’t justify his aggressive and cruel response.

Exactly!! Trump is not and has never been smart enough to be Cersei. 

I definitely support this. But I gotta say, I wish the discussion surrounding colorism would branch past eurocentric beauty standards, dating, and media representation. Don’t get me wrong, that’s important and it matters. But colorism goes far beyond that. There’s been countless studies that show how darker skinned…

I partially agree, and yet...

Love that. "Empathy, try some."

Er. Understand your ire but not enough said. And the source of thus resentment is what? Right. Unearned privilege. A meritocracy inside black communities that demonizes dark skin. Yoy are cirrect: it is not fair to be evakuated as a human being based.on the color of your skin. Darker skinned people did not create this…

Did you just #allshadesMatter up in here?