My cousin's second wedding took place in a local park. There was no seating. A few homeless people wandered through and didn't look too impressed. A friend beeped out Here Comes The Bride on a small Casio keyboard.

All of them, because you're upholding the patriarchy. You conformists.

I know this won't win because it actually ended up being a great wedding, but I went to a wedding about five years back that the pastor just didn't show up for. It was at one of those country venues made just for weddings, not a church. Luckily, after searching through the crowd, they ACTUALLY found someone who was…

So my friend gets engaged. She is amazing— sweet, smart as hell, filthy sense of humor, eyes like luminous pools. She is mixed race and her fiance's family is super country. At the rehearsal dinner, they make lots of comments about her mixed race and stick the microphone in her face with questions like "Tell us why…

I have so many questions, Ziggy.

Yes, this joke is fine for Family Guy, but totally inappropriate for The Simpsons.

This comment is so everything. I wish there was a way to make (white, conservative) people understand that "being racist" =/= "hating all black people." You can have black friends and be racist. You can BE black and be racist.

It's like we need a flow chart that breaks "racism" down into separate elements - "stereotyping", "bias", "hatred", "prejudice", "tokenism", "fetishism", "hate speech", etc.

so well said! There is such a knee jerk reaction to the word that it makes people unwilling to look at themselves. A lot of people hear "racist" and think KKK, think "well I'm not like that" and refuse to look any deeper.

1. I can't get mad about this because damn, they really missed the joke.

I agree... but it's not limited to white people. Everyone is a little racist. I am black and I'm a little bit racist, too. I'm racist against certain black people (maybe even more than any other race!), certain white people, and the list goes on.

I'm a woman of color and even I have thought racist thoughts because the "white is always better" message gets to some of us too. I have never accepted this in public though. It will just give ammunition to the white racists. They usually say: see? Even they are racist among themselves.

THIS. white people are SO afraid to actually examine their own prejudices. it's not fucking easy to do. it's not fun, either, to be aware of your racism. and i am talking from my own damn experience.

No one is 100% completely "not racist".

True story, man. I catch myself subconsciously committing micro-aggressions sometimes and I have to back up and ask myself why did I think/do that?? The first step is being aware that you're doing it.

I was reading a story about Aryan Nations and various other white power groups the other day and thinking pretty much this exact same thing.

Not just white, I genuinely think we all hold unexamined racist beliefs by the simple fact that we live in a racist society. It's important to realize it and try to get better instead of flipping the fuck out every time someone calls you a racist.

Amen. I was raised by liberal, open-minded people but even in the last 25 years elements of our culture and society train you to think a certain way. It would be ignorant and delusional for me to say I've never done or thought anything racist. The key is to acknowledge it, learn from it, and do better. Hopefully in a…

I'm a Washington native and a life-long relatively die hard Washington fan, and these people are the dumbest of the fucking dumbest. There is an odd, nostalgic part of me that will feel the loss of something from my childhood (when I was a kid, I thought the name had to do with the color of the football, actually),…

yes yes and yes.