I love how so many on here are so shocked by this. I have coworkers like this guy (& they've been at past jobs, too), & this guy is in the stores & the restaurants, & everywhere else. Oh yeah, wait a minute, his family is also just like him. I was standing in line to get a sandwich one day, & a man was telling his…
You know the best way to avoid shit like this? Don't have guns.
Government sponsored or subsided infant childcare is a big one as well.
Willful ignorance is a term I've used a lot in the last few weeks. In trying to get a handle on why I was so angry at 'friends' commenting on Facebook about this, I realized it was the willful ignorance of these individuals that enraged me. I can forgive stupid, but this I just couldn't get over. You just can't…
Really great article. I am one of those "good white people" and never noticed how every time one of my black friends talked about racism here in the Netherlands, I immediately needed to show them I wasn't one of those white people... until one day one of my friends got frustrated with me and said: It's not about you!…
Well said. It is a critique of ourselves. When a person does not identify with a group and they want to fight for the rights of that group, it requires a huge amount of work and it is supposed to be uncomfortable.
This has given me all the feels. I am struggling not to cut all of the white people out of my life (kind of hard, given I'm married to a white man) and many of those people are "good white people." They are shocked at racism and racist behavior— so much so they I get links to racist posts on websites because they…
Didn't someone once say that he who is wisest is him who admits he knows nothing? I've found, equally paradoxically, that, as a white person, I may contribute less to the system of racism the more I recognize just how racist I truly am.
Yeah..