That is fucking awful, people shouldn’t have to explain their NAME and be punished for it.

THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, OMFG A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!

You’re saying that your organization makes sure that they have diverse applicants, and that they still hired you, a white woman, and in spite of that you still feel that they have too much affirmative action?

I have the opposite problem; my name, especially my last name, “reads” as black, but I’m white. So I rarely get the initial phone interview.

It’s my biggest worry coming from an HBCU. My name is generic, my job experience is varied, but my school is a dead giveaway what race I am. Let alone the fact that HBCUs are often discredited as not being on par with PWIs.

Starring this NOT because I like it, but because it happens to two friends of mine as well, friends who live in different states who don’t know each other. Different occupations, different ages, different sexes, both Black. Does Not Matter.

I used to get the weird look when people met me in person after they had spoken to me on the phone (not just interviews but any situation that led from a phone call to a face-to-face). I have a French first name, English last name but most certainly am not of European descent, plus I have a typical New York accent…

tl;dr poor people are gross and deserve to die.

Every time I read or listen to something about ‘Upward Mobility’ it inevitably and inescapably makes the presumption that moving up as a POC or a woman or any other minority in a rigged system designed for cisgender white men has a positive connotation; that it is something to be proud of oneself for and aspire to.

It’s because she wants to run for governor in 2018. She can’t do the right thing because she’ll lose every white suburb. Wish it weren’t so, but that’s what it is.

We are a nation that literally lost its shit when a COMMERCIAL for disgusting SUGAR WATER dared to play “America the Beautiful” in languages other than English.

So no. We can’t get our shit together for even a moment. Sorry. :-(

She’s gonna get a half-million dollar prize now, isn’t she :\

I remember - my twin sister was super smart, she could do solve differentials in her head, she could recite log values at a moment's notice, but they refused to let her into math society bc of the same 'limited seats' thing.

Naturalists offer documentation of bears shitting in woods.

Oh hell

When I'm appointed God-Emperor of Earth, a small implanted device in each person's brain will cause them to feel momentary but intense pain every time they use the phrase "I don't care if they're purple" in references to race.

To me all this really boils down to is: "It makes me uncomfortable when I have to think about people of color as people" and of course "This is reverse racism, now white people can't get 95% of all roles ever."

"I really hope Martese Johnson- an educated, articulate, well-dressed black man can finally open some people's eyes"

Yeah, it's a REAL tragedy when "an educated, articulate, well-dressed black man" gets the shit kicked out of him. Not like those other thugs.

It shouldn't matter that he's educated and well-dressed and adorable. IT SHOULDN'T FUCKING MATTERRRRRRR AARRRGGGHHHH