"America has its issues, but we do not, generally, murder religious minorities - and not under the color of government authority."

If the primary difference we can cite is that there is one specific method of execution we won't use in violently enforcing our cultural paradigm, I think we might still be in trouble

"that America is a "small-minded" and "dirty" place that is becoming more and more "like Isis.""

"the dog, unfortunately, is still missing."

I'm a little confused, who exactly are they petitioning and for what? Like are they petitioning the government because of some law requiring men to duct tape their legs together on public transit (which actually sounds kind of fun and kinky)? Or is it just a petition to nowhere because their feelings are hurt that…

oh my god. I just put my legs together at my desk and fell out of my chair. I just like tipped over. that's insane, I never realized that would happen to me before

While the vocabulary might have been different, Martin Luther King Jr. Definitely had the ability to critique the approaches, intentions and lack of understanding of white privilege among white allies. Here he is talking a little about that in regards to the anger felt by people of color and inaction by government…

I wouldn't put it past some landlords

That is true in most places, or at least landlords are required to give some type of notice and cannot just enter your home without your permission. I've had/heard of lots of landlords who like to ignore it though.

The ability to be unaware of the benefits of white privilege is, in and of itself an aspect of white privilege

It's astonishing to me that you apparently believe that previous civil rights leaders never addressed the issue of language and white privilege and the various ways white people tend look down upon people of color. Clearly this is a failure of our national discourse to educate people about history.

Have you ever read much of what Frederick Douglass wrote and said? Or Marcus Garvey? Or W.E.B. Dubois? Or MLK? There is a clear and distinct line of discourse that extends from those generally well regarded or even valorized civil rights leaders and what people of color are saying today, and there is a clear and…

Yup, the civil rights movement that's been around for like a century sure ate itself alive and fizzled out.

"What I keep seeing though is this notion of "keep out of it, it's not your business, it's not a white issue" and I simply can't rectify that with what I see as an everyone issue."

Not really. The article is about how the author feels about us and her attempts to processes a piece of the complex interplay between how we profess to not support the system of racial oppression that has benefited us our whole lives at the expense of others and how we continue to benefit from that system,…

Not really. The article is about how the author feels about us and her attempts to processes a piece of the complex interplay between how we profess to not support the system of racial oppression that has benefited us our whole lives at the expense of others and how we continue to benefit from that system, sometimes…

Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing, teaching no-talking.

I just threw up a little in my mouth there

This is really a thing. At work some coworkers and I had to take a client to an important medical appointment. My coworkers, two other men, really wanted me to drive. I had just taken the agency's defensive driving course the previous week and they had stressed over and over again that if I was found to have driven an…

The answer is obvious. All of it