melissanievera
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It’s always baffling to me the disconnect between how Jezebel commenters view themselves when it comes to race, and how reliabily racist they are EVERY SINGLE TIME a black woman writes her opinion about racism on this site. I never see the commenters more rude, dismissive or patronizing than in the comments section of

Dealing with white people in customer service in general is fraught with not knowing how any one white person will react the way the last one did, because they’re all special and deserve extra special treatment and it doesn’t matter if you can do it for one person, you should make an exception for them.

Plus, they call their parents by their first names

Tonight, after my Zumba class, I honed in on a white woman telling someone about her trip to NYC, and how she and her fellow husband in white visited “North Manhattan” and how cool and culturally diverse it was. She started talking about taking a tour of the Apollo, and I blurted, “You mean HARLEM???” This heifer was

Trump’s election finally got me into serious activism (first time post-college). I started showing up, keeping a low profile, and listening more than I talked. I wanted to defer to the people in charge because, y’know, clearly they had more experience than me.

But what about SuperDevil’s Advocate?

For starters, don’t come into a Black-oriented forum and complain that the articles don’t speak directly to you.

Who said this was about helping a cause? Maybe we just want to have a laugh at your un self-aware ass.

#11 “this list is not productive nor a good conversation starter” guy

#8.5: The “if you’re not talking directly to me and giving me specifically individualized instructions on not being a piece of shit, then you’re being counterproductive and I’m just going to keep being a racist (but I always was going to just keep being a racist anyway)“ guy.