“BUT WHAT ABOUT BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE?!”

From what I understand, The Root is interested in racism. This story does not appear to have any racism involved, and thus it doesn’t appear to be something they need over there.

Yup. Black interest (as we are car interest) site also on Kinja. And yes, kneejerk false equivalence spouted by racists infuriates me.

Eddie already responded, but I wanted to chime in that the question “why are black people not protesting black-on-black violence in Chicago” is a knee-jerk response that racists use to deflect from issues of discrimination and police brutality. Rockford used this tactic, just in a different form.

Yeah some people thinking being anti-fascist is horrifying too.

Yes, yes it could. If you don’t see the false equivalency, the precise same false equivalency that’s used every time someone gets mad about another police shooting then you’re probably one too.

You’re either incredibly uninformed or intentionally race baiting.

Yea Jalopnik has to be the worst site in the gawker network. They make no effort to weed out the racist trolls in the comment section. The staff is essentially all white anyway, they don’t try hard to hide their shortcomings.

Your comment section is a white supremacist cesspool. I would be ashamed to write at an outlet supported by this many open racists.

Wow the “what aboutism” in these comments is fucking depressing.

Really. Every racist worth his (pure, white) salt knows it’s “those people,” if you’re talking to someone in your (Klan) ethnic family, and “you people’” if you’re speaking to an (yeah, I’m not going there) outsider.

Dunning-Kruger syndrome. These yokels think they are far more clever than they are. He probably thinks he is putting effort into it and covering it up so well that everyone is going to agree with him. I have to deal with these type of people far too frequently. I guess I look like a white supremacist and they feel…

I used to think of white supremacy in the abstract but since trump has come into office i’ve come to realize that to many whites it is at the core of their identity. A recent incident brought this home to me; I was sitting at a new restaurant and bar on 9 th street in DC drinking my Hennessy minding my own business…

I think I’m more scared of these people who are too stupid to understand the difference between nationalism and patriotism. The ones who are shooting off guns, burning things, crying and screaming until the veins on their heads rupture. The athletes are silently lowing themselves to one knee to protest the needless…

And even mediocre is stretching it. Like, it’s the bottom quarter of white folks, and they will swear to you up and down they are superior to you in every way. “Master race?” Bish WHERE? On what planet? In which universe? It what dimension?

I was just conversing with Breanna about this. The most offensive thing in all of this is how lazy they’ve become. Like, they don’t even feel the need to try and put some effort into their hate, anymore.

The biggest problem I have with racists is that they think we’re as stupid as they are.

BTW, that this is what white folks are finding so personally injurous right now - yes, judging by the polls showing clear majorities of Americans saying that people should be required to stand for the national anthem means that it’s most of you - shows you just how good you have it in this country and how utterly…

white people are proving - whether purposefully or not - that they know this isn’t about the anthem or veterans but about white supremacy.

They are scared. The players have the power to bring this league to a halt. We’re winning this debate.