white people can only remember the names of so many black people. You've got athletes - who they only pretend to like as long as they don't remind anyone they're black. You've got Obama. You've got Chris Rock who told a joke one time that made them think it was okay to say nigger. And then I guess there's really only…

I think people are confused. Black and brown Americans are upset at what happened with Mike Brown, and Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner, and John Crawford (who really are just symbols for a larger problem), not because of the individual cops who killed them, because the process of justice illustrated that it's broken.…

And an individual cop shot Brown, but where are the people saying what you're saying to stick up for the officers that don't shoot people?

Why does this situation change the fact that you're against unnecessary violence against people of color by cops? Martin/Brown/Garner/Rice and the Black community did not kill these cops, some crazy spree killer was the guilty party. Neither the shooting of these cops and the police brutality are related.

Thank you. As if the black community needs to be told that shooting one's girlfriend, two officers and then oneself — that "this ... this is not how you make change." As if we crowdfunded this.

So having your hands up and saying why are you shooting me I don't have a gun isn't cooperating? A man already on the ground and restrained isn't cooperating by repeatedly trying to tell the cops he is literally dying? A 12 year old sat on the swings in a park with a toy is at fault for somehow not knowing the…

Let's get one thing clear, the black community didn't pull the trigger the shooter did. This only reflects on the "black community" if the person doing the reflecting is stupid enough to view blacks as a monolith. Don't be that person or give those people cover for their flawed thinking. This fool also shot his gf…

What a helpful, healing and compassionate thing to add to this situation right now.//

I think they're crazy. Really. And what they did was awful. But I have a hard time wanting 12 year old little nut jobs (or drugged up little nutjobs) declared sane and facing time as adults.

"Real rape" is bad. All that other kind of rape is FAKE and women are LIARS.

I think this has a lot to do with identity. "Real rape" is the kind of crime these men could never commit because they love women and are good guys and stuff. But, the kind of rape that actually happens the most, well that's the kind they…

I really do think that a huge culture change in the Greek system if it is to stay alive would be to allow women to have parties at their houses and allow them to have dudes sleep at the house. I talked about this with that UVA woman I interviewed — it's just ridiculous to have girls pretend to this "morality" within a…

Some POC will tell you that white allyship is not needed, but it is. If we want society to progress, members of the majority and minority have to work together to get towards that point. The first and most important rule to being a good ally is to listen. Listen and pay attention to what POC are saying and understand…

I guess there wasn't enough room to write, "Breathe Easy- Don't Break the Law, Or Walk Down The Street, Or Drive a Car, Or Ask Questions, or Mind Your Own Business, or Be Black."

Yeah, I think that we, as white people, HAVE to step away from the idea that racism is something intentional and conscious and deliberately cruel/prejudicial/harmful. It's so much more than that narrow set of racist actions, and it's absolutely true that we are ALL racist in that we have all internalized these ideas…

I am a good white person. ... And do you know what? I don't see a need to apologize for it.

Didn't someone once say that he who is wisest is him who admits he knows nothing? I've found, equally paradoxically, that, as a white person, I may contribute less to the system of racism the more I recognize just how racist I truly am.

I used to get loose change and MAYBE a dollar if I was real lucky. But to speak to how awesome my poor, single mom was... one day I lost a tooth and found a bag of glitter under my pillow the next morning. I showed the bag to my mom and she said, "the tooth fairy left you something very special: fairy dust!" I was…

THIS to all those people out there who claim that 'boys will be boys' and that 'normal guys' don't have a 'rapey' bone in their bodies. Face it, people. This girl was sexually harassed and assaulted by a bunch of pre-pubescent boys and the 'adults' in charge did NOTHING to stop them. Not only that, the person who…

As an aside, I saw Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" first linked from the Bloggess as a song that made her smile, along with this one :

THANK YOU for posting that India.Arie song! I hadn't thought about it in ages and it's just the pick me up I needed today. That song just lifted my spirits!