I suspect it’s more that the same actions that white people have always been taking are just getting more attention. None of this is new.

I haven’t and won’t watch the doc, but I did see a trailer, and the parts of the trailer with her poor son were very emotionally affecting.

White person here. The issue is always how our dogs (and we) react to their dogs and them...and how we react to that reaction. A person walking down the street, or napping, or grilling...we often feel that extra bit of suspicion or nervousness or whatever (implicit racism; not our fault), but then the problem comes in…

And worse, people say, “Well, what could the police do? Their hands were tied. They had to escort them out/check their ids/etc”. Wrong, they could have chosen to do something different like reprimand the murderous resource-waster who called.

From near the end of the fox video: “What about this homeowner? Did he say anything to authorities about what may have provoked him to do this?”

Is it possible to apply for a geography-based waiver from the Spades ban? If not, I guess... game of Euchre anyone? Anyone?

It least you didn’t change it to 85.245678% for reasons you couldn’t really articulate.

Me, I just can’t seem to find the right loopholes... sigh...

Saying “violence isn’t the answer” isn’t a helpful response here. There’s a lot of justifiable anger when physical assault by a white person against a black person goes unpunished, as it has many times before and will many times again, and that anger needs expression. The most helpful thing white people can do is not…

Not “invasive”: this was physical assault.

Thank you! I will!

It turns out I am the literal embodiment of the stereotype of white people. And there’s some kind of lesson in the fact that I thought it didn’t apply to me, but it turned out I just didn’t fully understand.

I’m white, and one time my African-American colleague who lived close to work was like, “I have to run home on my lunch break and season the chicken I’m making to eat during the game tonight.” And I was like, “That’s cool; I season my chicken too.” But then he casually mentioned that his plan was to *fry* the chicken.…

Yeah...that’s definitely what they would say as Sofia prepares to sign the contract...

WOW.

I sympathize with where you’re coming from, because sometimes, as a white lesbian, I feel the same way about how other lesbians present themselves to straight people in certain situations. But it’s a losing battle: no matter how calm and collected black people could be at all times, that will not improve the situation…

hey, you’ve completely missed the point of these teacher movies — the white lady’s smarts aren’t all it takes; she also cares for the children in a way they have never ever experienced before! Sometimes toughly because, in addition to never feeling heard, they have also been indulged in a way that was not good for…

I do too. I tested with a couple quick renditions of “The quick brown fox...” I very naturally used my orange finger to do the “b”, but I can’t say what I was trained to do twenty or so years ago.

Agreed. I can see an argument for it being in the dictionary, but I feel like that argument would be made mostly by cavalier white men, so I feel it’s a suspect argument and would be outweighed by arguments against it. Like, if you want to use that word, you’re going to have to add it yourself, which is easy to do if…

But spell-checking isn’t the worst problem here, the real problem is the complete nonchalance. Wrong tense or similar grammatical error that causes no misunderstanding: nonchalance warranted. Offensive and hurtful word: nonchalance NOT WARRANTED. So it seems you’re in the clear.