To people of color:

I think the point of the article is that the nation didn’t fail the test of character. It behaved in a manner that people of color always expected. Given an opportunity to do the right thing, the nation doesn’t and usually has to be dragged and beaten until it does. Faced with two main choices; a lot of people just…

Learning is against their religion.

I bet my wife would equate it to women who have given birth and women who haven’t. You can understand the concept of it, but unless you experience it, you don’t really “get” it.

Yeah, between that skit and my friends of color saying the same thing on Facebook, the realization hit me pretty quick. Nevertheless, I am still trying to adjust to viewing my position in that light. I thought I was doing OK on the empathy side of things before but we white people will never be 100% and just have to…

As a white dude in a white state that went for Hillary (narrowly :-\), the Chappelle skit on SNL where he watches the results with his white friends really nailed the point home to me. Until then, I had always been aware of all of these issues, but I had never really felt what it was like to look around in a crowd and…

You might be right if it were genuine. Its not. They been dangling that carrot in front of the black community for the last 50 years, “education, good jobs, equal opportunities,etc.” If they haven’t given it to you in 50 years, what makes you believe they ever will? It was a false show of concern to keep black people…

I think the point is to not take “hush money”. He’s saying they should continue to fight for their students rather than accepting some federal money in exchange for shutting up.

Exactly. And, I’m one to criticize the heck out of BET (although they did right by that New Edition mini-series). Still, I’ve also been the person ranting that we need more diversity of subject matter when it comes to Black movies and television.

I understand what BET was trying to do — get in on this Black soap opera trend ala Scandal, HTGAWM, and Empire. But, they should’ve known no one gets away with doing that when it comes to HBCUs and the Divine 9. Those folks will mobilize against you with the quickness.

That’s the key right there. Certain websites, “news” outlets and radio personalities have told him that it is everybody’s* fault but his own for his lack of fortune, and that everybody* but him, specifically, is getting a leg up in the world.

it just...I want something where I can say, ‘I fucking did that’...me personally.

White people don’t commit terrorism. They have undiagnosed mental illnesses that force them (against their better nature) to commit acts that look just like terrorism. It’s a shame that the system has let these otherwise good young boys fall through the cracks. We, as a society, have to do more to help young white men…