I have been commenting since Jez started and I’m down to a dribble, between some sort of Kinja glitch I get logged out and have to go back in through the Kinja main page, the articles have been mediocre lately and the conversation isn’t there anymore

I wash my hands about a hundred times a day and haven’t really been sick this year.

I was on Pennsylvania Ave in front of the Trump Hotel, and during her silence a group of pro-life counter-protesters were chanting and trying to disrupt the silence. So I was watching her up there, and absorbing the resounding silence, while simultaneously hearing blurred yelling and insults. It gave me chills and was…

You are referring to GenZ; iGen is utilized in work environments to refer to an intergenerational workforce.

There is nothing more difficult than standing in front of a group of people and letting silence be. (I know this from my teaching career...). It’s interesting to see the audience reaction - silence makes people so uncomfortable! Some feel the need to fill it - cheering, chanting etc - until the silence sinks in. …

Shut up.

Being Black: If all else fails, simply stop being black. I’ve never seen anyone do it, but it’s worth a try.

I understand, and I appreciate you trying to do what you can.

Don’t mind that dumb troll. We all need to learn new things.

If you read this aloud to white people they still wouldn’t get it or give a shit. Oh in case people forgot human jello mold George Zimmerman ignored a police dispatcher who told him not to leave his fucking car the night he murdered Trayvon Martin. Waiting for the day when they push us too far, shit it’s coming. Soon.

Bro.

I used to think that’s what we were fighting against, but now I just see people telling people with white skin...

“Someone has to be the bigger person”

This is good on so many levels and helpful to someone like me who thinks they somewhat get it but can’t always conceptualize it into a cohesive explanation.

Actually, the hate you’re describing is called bigotry and prejudice. It isn’t racism until you develop a social, economic and political system of denying someone their rights as a human being because you hate them for various illogical, irrational, or unconscionable reasons. That’s why American Black people cannot be…

“That’s OK. You should know that I absolutely believe that black people can be racist”

I look forward to tomorrow’s Clapback Mailbag. This is going to be good.

The thread I see through this is that white people are reacting to how things make them feel while minorities are reacting to how things affect their lives and livelihood, and that is how such a power disparity plays out. Is that a fair thing to draw out?

It’s funny how wypipo conflate the idea of Racism with Bigotry and Prejudice as if they aren’t different things. You would think they could tell because they’re three different words, but here we are anyway...

White guy here.
Thank you for writing this. It helps me understand.