I think it does make you an accessory to racism, especially when it’s such an unbelievably clear example like one you describe here. “Oh yeah I’d love to but I can’t cause my dad hates black people.” It almost sounds like your friend is poorly using his dad as a weak excuse to cover up for his own racism. That’s nuts…

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This is the greatest thing I’ve ever read.

Putin always has an angle.

ACAB

Do y’all actually follow Joy Reid on Twitter tho? I’ve been following her for a minute and I have to say, this is nothing. I mostly like her on TV but she’s been on a non-stop twitter rant since forever.

I know exactly what they are, what they smell and taste like. I know enough to give the heaviest of eye rolls to the bit about “freaking” it. And I know that, regardless of your skin color, you should all stop smoking that country ass garbage. Let’s be real them things are disgusting.

...with yo country ass. Sorry, Ugly God just started playing in my head.

The number is 1,338. One thousand three hundred thirty-eight white people would have to die before America would give one (1) damn. That figure was calculated under the assumption that a pretty white woman would count as two (2).

Uh, I’ll take the money. All the money. THEN I’ll get behind the fire his ass bandwagon. But I want that money back first.

That’s... I mean that’s exactly what I’ve been saying. That’s my entire argument so I don’t even know how to respond to this ignorant shit.

And you think preaching “words don’t matter” will help the powerlessness? You think preaching “words don’t matter” will help anyone be more effective?

That’s exactly what happened and it’s some straight up bullshit. I’m still on the “boycott the NFL until they bring back Kap” bandwagon but it’s starting to get lonely on this thing. Like you said, the shit got hijacked hard.

Hi EvenBaggierTrousers5! I’m $olaire, I’m white and due to childhood displacement and allegations of shenanigans in my biological parent’s family trees, I’ve never been able to pinpoint where my white skin actually come from. To be fair, I gave up looking at some point so it’s partially on me. But all the same, here…

I’m not crying I’m just stating facts.

I’m not offended I’m stating facts. Read Michael’s article and tell me I’m wrong. Michael’s article clearly states “words don’t make someone racist”. The very next article The Root published was about how a firefighter is racist for typing words into a computer.

You must be new here. The author is Michael Harriot. See his other piece where he asserts that typing racist words into a computer doesn’t make you racist...

It’s weird there’s not more cell phone footage of this. Soon as the n-word was spouted or threats were made, should’ve been cell phones out, no? It’s weird we don’t have this shit from like seven different angles.

I’m actually Peruvian/Spanish but was raised by folks with enough sense to make sure I knew how to properly rock the “white dude” thing, even though that ain’t neighborhood I grew up in. A police description of me would definitely be white.