Dude, this is so patronizing. Black voters turnout for Presidential elections at a higher rate than the general population, despite having greater barriers (from multiple angles) to doing so, and they vote overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate. Just fuck off with this.

I used to interrupt my girlfriend constantly with my esteemed pronouncements on this and that. She got so fed up, she developed The Look. Now when I slip, I get The Look and (as they say in preschool), I instinctively do “whole body listening”. Heh. Sigh.

As a talker who’s in medicine and needs to be a listener and not a talker with patients, I understand this struggle. This sounds stupid, but I mentioned it in another comment as well: I listen with my hand on my mouth. I put a closed fist to my mouth or just my forefinger or my forefinger curled like a hook to my…

The term “limousine liberal” applies here. As you said:

based on my entirely unscientific study based solely on lived experience: the rate at which white dudes interrupt men of color is directly correlated to the number of white dudes present.

Don’t worry. I’m a woman in tech and I make a point of interrupting as many white men as possible. It’s hilarious the look of fear on their face.

I feel guilty because I have a tendency to step in and speak when my wife is talking to someone she doesn’t know... she has a habit of panicking and overexplaining stuff. I talked to her about it once and she explained that it’s kind of because she would regularly get interrupted and have her statements ignored that…

Honestly, I’ve started talking over men. Because sometimes you got to make them shut up. It pisses them off but sometimes I have interesting things to say.

What’s sad about the interrupting thing is that feminist men do it. They have good intentions, and vote and act as allies. But they, too, are shaped by society and culture. They’re not doing it on purpose.

Great breakdown. I watched the episode last night and I was SO rooting for Effie and felt uncomfortable on her behalf. Especially when she emphasized on coming from a place “with love in my heart”, like she knew immediately she had to explicitly say it for fear she’d be written off as the angry black woman otherwise.…

I agree that anyone who uses race as a qualifier for their sexual attraction is being super racist, whether or not if that person claims otherwise. There is a difference of someone not being racist and having an open-mind to any culture, whether it is the Asian culture or the LGBT culture and someone who claims not to…

you should of known right from the line “had a pretty good amount of asian people in it” would make your example vastly different from what others went through.

It is interesting to read comments from other minorities about them growing up as a minority and whether or not they experience some form of self-hate. As a second generation Asian American (my parents came from Vietnam during the ‘70s), growing up “Americanized” was an interesting experience. I never really hung out…

I can assure you it happened to me, in Europe. These few strips managed to remind me of my childhood, and suddenly I hate humanity all over again.

You know what’s also not fun? Being white/asian mixed and living first in a predominantly white community and then another that is mainly asian. You get hit with racism on both ends. It’s fucking fantastic. Thankfully, now I live in a racially diverse, huge city, and I'm never looking back.

I don’t know how I feel about what I’ve seen so far in that comic. That kind of overt racism just seems so cartoon-ish to me. I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, but it wasn’t my experience. My neighborhood growing up had a pretty good amount of asian people in it, so schools were about 1/3 asian, 1/3 white, 1/3…

I’m a white American woman. I’m going to throw an honest opinion at you (not about this article, which is enlightening and poignant) and you give me a straight response. Or ignore it.