It’s not the job of the many lawyers who showed up uninvited and worked pro bono - while maybe it is an ACLU lawyer’s job, it wasn’t the job of the immigration lawyers who showed up to work without pay.

As a lawyer, I can say with a lot of authority that this is NOT every lawyer’s job AT ALL. I wouldn’t have a clue how to do what an ACLU attorney does or how to suddenly be an immigration attorney. It would be like asking an obstetrician to do brain surgery. Many of the lawyers who showed up at airports went in…

Well, they probably can understand a lot better what it is like to be white from sheer exposure.

I saw this as well. As a white Latina, people say this sort of shit to my face all the time because they assume I’m team white girl. It took all of my goodwill not to yell at a “friend” going to the march who told me before that she hoped other groups would keep all of the in-fighting to a minimum. By the time these…

This isn’t about having a tantrum. These are valid concerns which have been brought up over and over again, only to be answered with “why don’t we address that after we fix this way more important shit”. ‘This way more important shit’ always seems to overwhelmingly improve the living conditions of the white women,…

Choosing order over discomfort is the way people try to neutralize all progress; us doing it to women of color puts us in the position of the oppressor trying to experience convenience over all else.

No. This was at the Women’s March in DC. If you saw the look on this woman’s face and how she was acting before hand like I did, you wouldn’t be saying this. Also, not included were the other people around me being rude as hell. I was tried too. I was standing on my feet since dawn AND did volunteer work. If people…

#notallmen

If you show up, genuinely willing to help, and not trying to make it about yourself, no one will reject you. Black people have a long history of letting non-blacks into the club, sometimes even to our detriment.

And it’s always like, “infighting isn’t helping!” followed by an implied, “so people of color need to shut up.” Never “so white women need to adapt to be inclusive.”

I KNOW!!! LOL! It’s a fucking farce in the worst way. I also enjoy the “But this will divide us!” Hon, it’s been divided since for fucking ever. And I am not building the fucking bridge. You do it. I haven’t got time for this Mickey Mouse bullshit, I am here for changing the system.

I’m so sorry you get that feeling from The Root (as opposed to Jez, where I actually no longer comment in great part because I went through this kind of thing there once and I was like “I not only never feel like doing this again; I’m literally not sure I have the extraordinary levels of fortitude it requires” … and…

You are confirming my point. I took in your words just fine, and again, you are way past a devil’s advocate. You are mistaken: Slavery was not a black social issue, it was a gross, sociopathic violation of human rights. It was suffrage that was a white social issue. There is no debating this, it is completely…

Caution: Opus forthcoming.

This is one of the most disturbing comments I’ve ever read. I am not joking and not trying to attack you. I’m only replying now to let you know you can get some help if you want to change.

Thanks so much. I woke up with a headache this morning -I was honestly stressed and sad so many people are still against logic. Help us! I am super interested in how your background influences your perspective of all this. I grew up in Oakland and went to a school that was the equivalent of an episode of sesame…

You don’t like assumptions? Cool; then I accept your apology for you behaving as if your critical thinking test is THE critical thinking test. And as a concession I’ll reiterate my facts without the flowery language so you can find another way to dispute what is accurate and well known. Let’s do it your way and focus…

Thank you for all of your brilliant, articulate arguments. I have read everything and felt no need to jump in because you are perfectly on point. I am a Creole/West Indian Black girl who grew up among mostly white folks. We are TIRED of explaining and being nice. I have cut many close, white, women friends out of…

Holy shit, Rooo. Not five minutes after you told me everything I ever needed to know about this place it had completely devolved into The Lord of the Flies. You’d think they were the underserved minority. All this heat and no fire. I’m reading your posts and I see nothing but truth. But isn’t THAT the theme of this…

It keeps happening, right?