Yeah, that hit me too. He didn’t close the door on her, she closed it first.

Thank you for articulating the problem. When confronted with cold, unbiased facts there is a significant portion of the population who just goes “lalalalalalalala” then posts another offensive meme or skewed statistic. It’s infuriating.

The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.

“I get to choose who gets to be in my life. And I can build my own family.” I’m just here to say AMEN.

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.  

The thing here that made me particularly sad was that it sounds as if the son, despite the repeated digs at him and his beliefs, still was the one apologizing and trying to make things work.

I’ve had such a hard time explaining to so many of my friends who the Nazis would absolutely come after that no, just because your skin is white, that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t put you up against the wall with everyone else they’re told to hate. People never think that far ahead. They want to think it’d end with the…

I’m sorry about what happened. All of it. I felt tears well up in my eyes for you as I read this. It’s heart-wrenching. And baffling.

What I don’t get is how the hell a Frenchwoman who’s parents were probably directly affected by WWII apparently sees nothing wrong with letting Nazis have free-reign to trample all over a government again.

I’m really sorry to hear this, Panama. And thank you for sharing something that is so personal with us.

This was a tough read. I’m sorry PJack. This has to be a devastating situation for you. I can’t imagine.

I am so sorry! I think we “mixed-kids” have some serious decisions that were thrust upon us. My stomach hurt while reading this, I broke off all communication with my mother’s family after the election. But unlike your mother, my mother stood by my side and did the same. I’m not sure how you can fix this, or if you…

I just don’t get it.

Sorry man. That’s rough.

Lots of Light and Love to you and your loved ones, Peej. Now more than ever, you need to protect your safe spaces and your sanity.

I get the drama with your mama thing just on a general level from hard-won personal experience. Also, you don’t have to agree on politics with your parents in general. That said, that your mom values Whiteness over her own kids and grandchildren are striking. Apparently, she doesn’t see anything in common between…

Good post, Peej!

In NYC, the NYPD (not paragons of virtue by any means) confiscates anything other than paper signs and cardboard tubes from protesters, even anti-war hippies. Seems like a good move to take away make-shift weapons like wooden sticks and metal poles from people who are likely to become violent. Other cities should take…

They were looking for a fight. They wanted it, they incited it.

Echoing what @Raineyb said, the city shares culpability for a lack of preparedness to deal with the violence.