Hey, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Just wanted to offer a little wisdom that a friend of color offered me, re: your wanting to talk about race and feeling that your experiences are unappreciated/being told that your views are illegitimate and/or biased.

But it kind of is our job when they have no frame of reference in which to relate. The fact that they’re asking at all shows some self-awareness of that, and the fact that they’ve approached a POC shows they don’t know where to start, so they go to the source. Right or wrong, misguided or not, at least they’re asking t…

I see what you mean about talking to white people who ‘get it.’ But I just think that’s preaching to the choir. I think conversations can be honest as long as the person agrees with us. Same goes for racists. On either side of the spectrum, far left or far right, people are plenty open about how they feel. It’s in the…

figure out for themselves what they can do to make the world less racist. It. Is. Not. Our. Job.

I’m Latino and gay... and couldn’t disagree more with your comment.

Everything you said makes a lot of sense. I know there’s a lot of frustration around minorities being expected to shoulder the burden of explaining things to white people, or having to be nice to white people in order to “heal,” when white people aren’t asked to make any concessions. Which I think is bullshit. And I…

Can I reply to this sentiment because I am honestly curious about this.

Well tbh I’m not too worried about white people getting thrown under the bus, I think we’ll recover.

Well, here’s how these conversations feel as a person of color. A white person reaches out to you sometimes - as the only POC that they know. “Hey, can you explain this one thing to me?” Like, I’m Mexican-American, so they might say, for example, “Hey, can you tell me why people think Speedy Gonzales was a negative…

Thanks for this. As much as I try to understand other viewpoints, at the end of the day my perspective is going to be different than that of someone from an Asian or minority background. I see your point and how Tilda’s responses may have come across as her brushing off Cho’s concerns.

And the whole “I have an Asian friend” thing did not come across at all. Cho specifically said she’d suggest producing something with Asian actors, to which Swinton responded that she was doing just that.

This stood out to me as well. I imagined TS had said something along the lines of, “why are people criticizing…

Being white means nothing in this situation. Here was one human being trying to earnestly relate to another human being of a different culture, and then said other person went on to be a two-faced ass about it for no reason.

How did a copy/pasted email exchange between 2 other people involve any bias on the part of Rich?

Totally how I read it too.

I’m having difficulty understanding Margaret Cho’s perspective here. It sounds like Tilda was up front about the issues, expressed her desire to do something about it and sought advice from someone who is in a good position to provide it. And Cho’s responses were thoughtful and measured as well. Not sure what got lost…