Why do you present the author’s choice as EITHER venting OR proselytizing for allies? Do you not understand how humans work, and that there is often a dose of each in everything we say? You’ve never sat with a group of men or women discussing their spouses who drop an occasional phrase like “men are so stupid!” or…
“Positive change” - let’s go with this:
No one said criminals had to be smart.
#NotAllWypipo
“Look, I’m on this site because I’m aligned with (most of) the views expressed here...But I do not understand how that opening sentence is helpful.”
heaps on heaps of trash.
It’s literally too early for this shit, I’m gonna smoke and be back. Where do I even began? Dude bugging.
Check this . If you really, actually want to be an Ally maybe stop expecting us to hold your hand and guide you through every little thing and then validate your feelings. That shit is tiring and most of us are tired just trying to survive
(he just called the cops, run...)
Hmmm, how long have you been “on this site?” It would seem not long enough to realize that the unstated “all” before “white people” is unstated on purpose. The first thing I did when I started reading this site was to keep reading (particularly Michael Harriot’s articles) until my knee-jerk reaction to imagine that…
How is your getting indignant over that small sentence helpful, other than as a perfect illustration of that sentence?
Lol, so basically you are feeling kind of indignant about that one small sentence?
Nah, it’s helpful because it’s true very often. And some of us clearly don’t understand that.
It’s helpful because many people don’t realize that white people get really indignant over the smallest of things, especially when it comes to black people and it’s important to point out that white people get really indignant over the smallest of things, especially when it comes to black people because if people…
Baseball is not a sport.
not sure it’ll help, honestly.
Is Taylor Swift like the gateway drug to crazy town?
I feel like Taylor Swift isn’t getting as much blame in all this as she deserves.
Sure he is white, but he is also rich and well connected to the legal system.
of her being black and him being white?