Okay, let’s be earnest- you really want to help? Donate money to BLM, stand up and protest with the NFL players, call your local politicians and get info on what the prison system is like in your state, see what you can do about police reform. Argue with EVERY SINGLE RELATIVE when they start with their racist shit. Be…

I commend you for trying to play nicely with this guy, but he’s just looking to dump his emotional baggage all over you, and hoping you’ll alleviate his white guilt.

Fellow white person here:

Not to mention, uh, the Devil clearly has enough advocates. I don’t need anyone to try to rationalize racism to me, when I live through it and encounter it everyday. Advocate for someone who actually needs it.

#11 “this list is not productive nor a good conversation starter” guy

#8.5: The “if you’re not talking directly to me and giving me specifically individualized instructions on not being a piece of shit, then you’re being counterproductive and I’m just going to keep being a racist (but I always was going to just keep being a racist anyway)“ guy.

I have wanted to smack so many people over that one. If you are genuinely arguing something you are not the Devil’s Advocate. The DA is trying to help the person making a point craft their argument, not change their mind, beat them in an argument, or show them up. So many people act like calling themselves that is a…

Not a millennial, tho. Don’t put that evil on me!

“10. Fingering

You know this is about police brutality, right? Unequal treatment under the law!! And you know peaceful protests during an anthem unrelated to actual play in the field and thus does not interfere with your job IS PROTECTED, right?

Fortunately we don’t all have to use the WangJiabao scale of racism. I imagine you’d get tired of everyone calling to confirm whether or not something actually is racist. You know, since we can’t figure it out for ourselves.

That is the least metrosexual or cosmopolitan take possible.

Try cisgender, it does what you are trying to accomplish without the unnecessary transphobic/sexist language.

Too banal to be shamed into believing its equivalent to actual misogynistic language that peppers our vernacular.

Panama, thanks for writing this. It’s rather disturbing how vocal we are about racial injustices while having little regard (corrosive vitriol) for anyone who deviates from “the script”. I was heartened by Damon’s peace. Yes, I am a Black woman. Yes, I LOVE BLACK MEN. Past and present, in the U.S. and around the…

I understand what you were trying to say.

MarkyMark just wants to argue...I got what you were saying. And this full-stop “white people have nothing to say on the matter” is the reason why a lot of people’s sphincters close up and they’re not willing to hear us. Nobody likes a lecture. That’s not dialogue.

Can anyone help me get out of the greys? I don’t comment often but it makes me sad that I made this journey with you guys to the Root and I get lumped in with the trolls... :( Help!

I would like to marry this post of yours. If we have to move to Sweden together I’ll do it.

The gospel truth is that Bernie Sanders convinced a bunch of young white people that the system is rigged against them. He enabled them and never called their white privilege into question, to the point where some of his supporters will straight up tell you that if we had free health care and took on big corporations…