Thanks, for this thoughtful, patient (and undeserved) response.
I’ve had many conversations with my closest friend, who’s a Black Woman from Cali,..she lives here and tells me of what her experience was like back home,..I’ll never fully understand it, but I do know this, it makes me very angry.

I appreciate your response and feel like it was very forthright and honest without being defensive and trying to brush aside what I said. Just doing that you are miles ahead of most of the white women in America. I don’t know any Australians nor have I ever visited. I have read some opinions from Black Americans about…

Thanks for your comments,
Some good advice here. We do have a lot of expat US Black friends, whom we see regularly, and yes Black Women are included in that group.
We celebrate US holidays together, and gather around soul food.
We are also surrounded by a lot of friends from various African countries.
We’ve been married…

And you can bet they never fucking forgot her tonedeaf cookie-baking comment. I was maybe 11 and still remember how furious women were. And I honestly think the homemakers (who kinda had a point) got over it faster than the career women who’d been salty about being forced to make cookies for school bake sales to keep…

These days I’m not much for prayer but I pray extra hard for those Black babies with specifically white mothers.

This moved me to the core. I’m a light skinned woman but I am not biracial. Many biracial people have engaged with me like I am biracial and I was always surprised how much they struggled with being Black.

For real though, then, what do we do? I’m a (foreign) white wife and mama,..My Black husband and I chose to bring up our kids in my home country overseas after I spent some time living in the racist South with him and his fam...a crash course in racial reality, that busted my white bubble completely.  

I had a coworker who cut her parents off right after the election. She’s white, a lesbian in an interracial marriage (her wife is Latina). Her parents voted for 45. She was like “No, we will not be coming to your house for Thanksgiving, and I see no need for us to speak further.” She has 3 or 4 siblings who are like…

Unsolicited advice from someone who survived a very necessary estrangement from her own mother: beware of anyone who attempts to convince you that you should be able to look past this. I wish someone had told me 20 years ago that “blood is not thicker than safety.” Thank you and good luck.

I’m going to go with them being melted down and turned into anti-slavery/anti-racism activist statues. And then re-erected in the same locations.

A statute of General Sherman along with his prescient pre-war quote:

Put all these statues on some island in an attempt to lure as many of these idiotic white nationalists there as possible. And keep threatening to throw them in the ocean so the fools stay on the island protecting their beloved man sculptures forever.

Melted down and remade into statues of civil rights leaders. I like the irony. Taking the statue of someone who tried to tear this country apart under inequality and remaking it into someone who tried to unite this country under equality.

Someone downthread commented that we should use the material to create statues of Tubman, Douglass, etc... I especially like the Douglass idea because he is someone who is being recognized more and more.

Bury them at sea like Bin Ladin so their gravesites don’t draw a terrorist presence.

There are certain people that will tell you in the span of the same conversation that the federal government is both wide-reaching and controlling every facet of our lives and also completely incompetent and unable to do even the simplest things.

It also proves that Hillary and Obama are not at the center of a giant conspiracy.

Trump’s administration hasn’t filled the assassin position yet.

Apparently the fascists were preparing for all-out war in Charlottesville: