After the election, I spent about a day and a half in despair. I didn’t understand how this could have happened, but I thought back to Obama’s victory speech the night he was elected, and I remembered, and not for the first time, how he’d said he couldn’t do it alone.

I’ll take John Lewis against the world any day of the week.

I have tried, at various times, to think of a way to communicate to otherwise reasonable white people the nature of the problem, to get people around me to see how bullshit the situation is. I haven’t figured anything out yet, and when people can look at blatant, unedited footage of something like police brutality and…

I’m pretty sure I asked for non-crazy scenarios, but sure, let’s say that he says that, and the vast majority of Congressional Republicans casually decide to commit treason and try to support his actions. Here’s what would happen:

How exactly would he avoid doing so? Realistically, I mean, and not some crazy hypothetical.

I would agree that a nonviolent protest is preferable and more constructive, but the impulse to be destructive and angry should be an understandable one. Can you imagine how utterly insane this country has to seem to black communities? How many times can we rationalize the murder of unarmed black men before we realize…

I guess I fail to see the relevance of your original reply. This article isn’t saying white people don’t understand, it’s saying not to let certain white people tell you that MLK would want black people to be submissive or deferential.

That is a willfully obtuse reading that betrays a gross misunderstanding of history. Was the March on Washington a race riot? A protest is not automatically a riot, and you know that.

Disobedience. Relentless protest. Causing the people who’d rather not think about it to be inconvenienced. Large-scale organized boycotts. Downtown Chicago closed down for days by protesters of all colors demanding sweeping police reform.

I was reading an article on Gawker back when it was still a thing, and in the comments, someone had shared a story about an experience they’d had with racism, and someone responded to them with something along the lines of “As a white person, I’ll never understand what it’s like to go through that.” The original…

Holy shit, that was great.

I think the primary problem is that a lot of white folk don’t have any historical perspective, whether it’s a result of a lack of education or indoctrination. It doesn’t occur to them that freeing the slave population only consigned them to immediate poverty, and that, thanks to our aversion to regulation, American…

Bernie Sanders would have been my preference between him and Clinton, but it’s undeniable that Clinton was a better choice than Trump, and it’s due in large part to Sanders that she lost. There is a viral strain of progressive dogma that believes in all or nothing, a bewildering sense of entitlement that I think is…

That’s the sappiest, corniest, sweetest and most perfect thing I’ve ever read. The neck beards were right: friendship IS magic.

I remember when these leaks hit, and I got pretty mad about. Mostly I was mad at Wikileaks for editing them, and I got annoyed by the outrage people had about the behavior of soldiers in the video. “This is what war is like,” I would say. This was what we asked for when we invaded Iraq. That stuff shouldn’t have been…

Count me interested.

You need to be careful with satire, Ham. White folk don’t really have the same educational standards, so they might not grasp the nuance.

It’s bad enough to think that Edgar will never get in, but to see him consistently get 65+% every year is maddening.

I suppose it depends on the associations you make regarding evangelism. To me, evangelism is a method of religious practice that seeks to strip individuals of their basic human dignity by denying the true equality in the eyes of the law, and one that poses a significant threat to public health by aggressively opposing…

I suppose it depends on the associations you make regarding evangelism. To me, evangelism is a method of religious…

I wouldn’t say I hate Rick Warren, but I strongly oppose his views, and since that’s inherently a result of disagreement, then sure, you can try to dismiss my criticism of him because it’s due to disagreement. But I hope you understand that all criticism is born of disagreement, so that becomes a real slippery reason…

I wouldn’t say I hate Rick Warren, but I strongly oppose his views, and since that’s inherently a result of…