"If you write about the history of slavery, you become used to the pattern: No matter how many accounts you cite from ex-slaves, people often say they need more information before they can accept what former cotton pickers say about how cotton picking worked. And when we're talking about contemporary events, the…

i expect you also need darren wilson tell his account under oath & be cross examined before just trusting his version of what happened as well, right? i'm going to expect this because although it was not stated in your comment it would only be fair. the people witnessing have far less incentive to lie about what they…

why do you assume that someone noticing that you're white & recognizing that it means you have a distinct role to play in addressing issues of racial inequity means they hate you? i am really fascinated by this idea that i honestly only see expressed by white people. i think people of color are so used to being…

none of those details are that michael brown took any form of action to merit being shot dead in the street & having his body left there for 4 hours. again, the information is there, your choice to process it rather than stay in a state of dissonance is your Choice. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

your assumption that you are treated the same is a part of the problem. how would you know how black folks are treated in the same situation if you're white unless you are there with black people throughout all the daily interactions of their lives? have you ever tried to explain to someone about how you got a funny…

clearly you mean that besides the multiple videos, multiple eye witness accounts & the autopsy report we don't know a whole lot about the shooting...which means you don't want to know. the information is there, your choice to process that information is exactly that, Your choice

boochdizzle, what you are doing is taking something very personally that is not personal. we are talking about macro level dynamics that are playing out in individual lives and the fact of the matter is that if you cannot acknowledge that you as a white person in this country have a different role to play, which is…

kara, you are correct. what all the comment pundits seem to be misunderstanding about your statement is that it requires being aware of where you fall as an individual on the social spectrum to be able to effectively address social issues. this is something that came up as a part of occupy organizing. at least here in…

really, mlk died trying to change things on his own?! with all of the sncc, naacp & thousands of other people he organized, marched & protested with that's just literally an untrue statement not to mention being totally disrespectful to all the folks he worked with. it was also fundamentally not his approach to…