For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my home state.

Whew. I thought you were serious.

Hilarious. At any rate, my point isn’t about the quality of the humor, just that the attempt to use it even during tragedy says nothing about whether one is privileged or not. The author even acknowledges that she’s “sure Fey’s heart is in the right place.” So this just strikes me as yet another example of someone…

“But you have to watch preseason football,” will be my retort if my son comes home telling me he wants to write about sports when he grows up....

Which is why I think what Long did was so great. No rending of garments which draws the attention back to him, just a picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words gesture and a simple statement.

On the other hand, the use of humor is common amongst humans as a coping mechanism.

This is the basic paradigm shift that needs to happen in white America before any meaningful change takes place.

Family court is not fun even in the best of circumstances.

I probably should have just said I wasn’t aware we even had any statues of Lenin. Seems kinda odd. Unless Berkeley...

question: if you were an adult in, say, the early 90s (Rodney King, OJ...), how does what’s going on now feel to you? Different in any way? Because it feels different to me (I’m white). It feels like this isn’t something that’s going to be forgotten in the next news cycle. Maybe I’m wrong. I hope not.

Not like, say, in Michigan or Nebraska (or the south), no. Stanford’s been playing excellent football for nearly a decade now and the attendance is still comparatively meager.

That’s two votes for Lenin in this thread. I wasn’t aware we still had any strong feelings about him?

This was also very common in southern California. The response to the Great Migration was immediate:

It was part of his answer to the following direct questions asked of him. But whatever.

This isn’t terribly surprising. College sports haven’t ever been a big deal in the bay area. People say it’s due to so much pro sports, but USC has always been a big deal in LA, so idk.

It doesn’t follow at all because it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of black players silently protesting systemic racism.

Also very plausible.

You’re right, it wasn’t, the more I think about it. I think what he’s doing here is being the white person who sees black people pointing out racism and responding by taking it personally. Basically, a #notallwhitepeople reaction. ie - wait, are they talking about me? They can’t be talking about me, can they? I’m…

Is this style of writing an intentional affectation or are you really a spoiled petulant teenager?

You should have continued quoting Lynch, because where he goes right after that is even more of a non sequitur: