“I can’t tell you how sorry he is … He hit a woman. That’s not what he does.”

Fuck this wypipo for caring a little.

I hate that I need to repeat this (a position that I KNOW you are intimately familiar with, Mr Harriot!) BUT:

That the thing. Part of this article seems to think that she was trying to educate black people about this and it’s like...no? This is pretty obviously aimed at white people who do shit like carry around swords without thinking about how someone else doing the exact thing you’re doing (or in this case, something…

I agree with you largely, where I diverge with you and the OP is that I never saw her asking black people for a cookie. She was a white person, talking to white people, about the life-endangering truth of white supremacy. I don’t think we were the audience. What’s the difference between this and what Tim Wise does?

Yeah, I didn’t get the sense that she was bragging about it. And you know what? Sadly A LOT of white people still don’t get what white privilege means. I find concrete examples like this one a great way to tell people that no, it does not mean that all white people are rich.

That’s completely understandable. I always use quotes when I write about “President” Trump.

This comment has 100% of the RDA of everything, including Vitamin C for Citizenship and Vitamin S for Snark.

My dad said something similar when I called him! “He held the cRaZy at bay as long as he could! Look at his twitter, he has lost his tiny mind!”