People’s sense of time is all fucked up. If it didn’t happen in the last ten years, most people think of it as occurring at some vague point “in the past.” If it happened before about 1990, it’s ancient history.

But she doesn’t look white. And so far as I can tell, the only evidence for her so-called belief that she is “white passing” (gods I am tired of typing that out) is your own belief that such is the case. Period. All she wrote.

False. She doesn’t look white to me at all, don’t project your expectations on others. Statistically she is likely to be racially mixed, and her features indicate the same to me. I didn’t lecture on white passing, I said race is conceived of very differently in the majority of Latin American countries, and people from…

I get that, and I think I made that quite clear. My point is about a specific sentence that minimizes the impact a non-white person has had on the national stage. The article is excellent, and I’ve got nothing but support for the larger point, which again, I made quite clear. That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for…

I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said here except the idea that Emma is “white or white passing.” I don’t know Emma Gonzalez’s genealogy, and I assume you don’t either, but if we’re just going by skin color and features, her recent ancestry is almost certainly not reduceable to “white.” The strong likelihood is…

This whole thing about the student newspaper publishing an “All Lives Matter” piece and then preventing a public rebuttal during, of all things, a Black history presentation is about as clear a double standard as you can get.

I made that mistake. It’s as painfully bad as you think it is.

The fact that you think baseball teams aren’t in this discussion might be an indication of your preferred sport. I’d argue that until very recently, the Cleveland Indians were in that conversation. The Toronto Blue Jays, the Tampa Bay Rays, the Marlins, the Padres, for a long time the Pittsburgh Pirates - and maybe…

This

Exactly, I was thinking the exact same thing reading this. Dude said all he needed to say - makes no sense for him to go about rehashing his fuck ups, seems that the implication is: This guy is getting blackballed for doing the right thing, so don’t compare him to me (SUBTEXT: I was out of the league because I fucked…

Excellent article.

Man, I’m with you most of the way here. But maybe this is Corey Booker living his best life. Maybe the issue isn’t that this is inauthentic; maybe this IS Corey Booker.

I can understand the concern with the use of ritual combat to decide succession in the context of a highly developed civilization that presumably would have long since standardized some sort of non-violent, merit based system for deciding leadership. But then again, Wakanda’s adherence to old ways is part of the…

“The wakandans are supposedly a technologically advanced nation, the most advanced nation on earth it seems, and still they dress and act like barbarians”

“...most Fox viewers/Reagan apologists believe African Marxists were greater threats to US culture than apartheid ever was.”

I guess that’s a good point because they slide under the radar and get the benefit of the doubt.

So, because I disagree with you and felt the article didn’t do enough to demonstrate one of its central claims - even though I can accept that the claim might in fact be true, and even though I directly accept the role of anti-Asian racism in American history and contemporary society, I am illogical in my reasoning,…

Well, that was nonsense, grammatically and logically. We’re done here

1. You didn’t read what I wrote. I explicitly said there is racism towards Asian Americans and that it’s a problem. So nice try, but try harder. I was talking purely about the music industry. For quick reference, read the final paragraph.

This is a disgusting, if deeply unsurprising, story. There seem to be a rash of stories in the last few years about intense anti-Black bias in American fire departments. Is it any wonder that a profession dominated by white men and a culture that glorifies male bravado is increasingly revealed to be intrinsically…