Came here to say exactly this! I was at first thinking I heard him wrong, then I was like: oh. Hearing him talk about Black hair like he has some, coming out in his Brit accented uber-white and bespectacled face was GOLD.

Just a thought, but in the future can we not refer to a possibly groomed victim of sexual assault as a “glorified glory hole.”

I am also tired of the argument that Republicans will be in power again and the filibuster will be our only weapon. Bullshit. Get rid of gerrymandering and make voting accessible to all. You will not have these problems.  Enshrine it in law and let them try to sue you.  Republicans don’t give a shit about playing…

This! Young people will be racist, they will just be practicing a more insidious form, kinda like they do now. It won’t be based  on the Jim Crow version (which this generation is the last remnants of, because these are people who were born after Crow), like questioning where black people are all the time, but their…

Finally, please for the love of GOD, stop deluding yourself with the idea that young people are less racist than their parents. THEY ARE NOT.

I fear you are 100% correct.

Preach! Young whites are just as racist as their parents AND grandparents. The shit is passed down from one generation to the next.

Every time I start to have a little hope that the younger generations will guide us out of this hellhole that older generations have dug for us, there’s a shit-ton of bigoted young white people that fuck it up.

She also damaged the rep of the Africana dep’t where she was employed, actively criticized and hampered the work and interdisciplinary research of other Black women - even going so far to call one a “slave-catcher” in her book reportedly, as told by a colleague - and won awards, grants, fellowships, all kinds of…

I honestly need to be seeing Black women, especially phenotypical Afrolatinas, the ultimate victims of that rasclot’s charade speaking on this in lengthy thinkpieces, not Black men.

The loved ones of this woman need to come gather her.

I wonder how all the black people that missed out on jobs, funding, etc. feel about it though. That type of thing has both an economic, professional, and mental and emotional effect. She didn’t just steal culture , she stole opportunity that would have benefited actual black people on multiple levels. I hope she gets…

But close supervision, correction or expulsion of allies keeps the mission from being diverted or polluted. Which is why MLKJr. and men kicked out Bayard Rustin who tried to ally his Communist movement with the Civil Rights Movement. They didn’t need to change hearts, minds and laws about Blacks’ rights AND change the…

There’s a thin line between ally and opportunist. An ally shows up and stands WITH (or in this case, as a SHIELD in front of BLM from police & mercenaries) and accedes leadership and direction to the cause. WOM didn’t wanna show up where BLM needed the shield but where the mercenaries THEY wanted out and cameras were.

And I’m gonna ungrey you and let you call me that despite the fact that Stokely was before my time and I don’t remember everything I ever read every great Black thinker say at all times and despite the fact that I confessed to hoping against hope when BLM said it when WOM first joined and despite the fact that I also…

“ its turned into a sideshow”

I have been taking E.D. Mondaine’s words to heart.
It is really hard to know the best way forward here at this time, but I’m just going to keep on listening, trying to learn, and doing the best I can. 
The Root remains a great place of learning.

nearly *everyone* from the Black women who were ACTUALLY doing the leadership work in WOM, to the well-meaning white ladies who truly wanted to show up for Black Lives Matter, EVERYONE told Bev to step down and stop trying to silence Black voices. We were there to support Black Lives Matter, not “All lives matter,”…

Without going into a bunch of details (because I’m too damn tired), but the optics in Portland are perfect for our divisive country.

Provide support while suppressing the need to conquer and divide. That would be a start.