Kristen Lee, keeping it real.

From the other comments, I think it stinks for everyone. One of the problems may be that we are all attracted to the people who don’t want what we want. The guy wants a long term relationship is probably someone who has spent more time working on themselves, which may mean some trips to the gym so they now look kinda…

You specified “young men who have never had to face adversity.” Not “anyone who would get defensive over another blog” yada yada. So no, not only were you not clear, you are now being disingenuous. Plenty of people could like barstool sports and not being young men who have never faced adversity, in fact being a young…

Really? So it is impossible to disrespect white dudes or make them feel less than?

How so?

R. Kelly preyed on black women because he can get away with it. Period. So long as he can wrap his defense in his black skin (like he did during the pee-tape trial) no one is going to go after him. No one is going to take down a pillar of the black community, someone who “got out” and succeeded despite.

I’m not really for any “final solutions.” Those have a bad history.

I do love how black people think that all black politicians are Barack Obama. I mean do you really think that the Georgia Governors race is the same as a national campaign?

A few days later, on Oct. 10, Bluestein questioned my quotes and stated that I was an Abrams “supporter.” This was based on no evidence other than—I don’t know—I’m a black guy?

That you don’t question the Root is dumb. And you should feel dumb.

It sounds like he is landing some solid points, where as Jason made none. Jason basically just attacked the dudes character, he didn’t actually refute anything.

Did they really? Because Jason didn’t actually provide anything to refute their accusations. He just wrapped himself up in blackness and then said that their motives MUST be suspect. He didn’t actually do anything but call their character into question.

White “progressives” have a problem with black people who express a differing opinion.

Some of those very people at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Intercept wrote about me, called me a liar and tried to discredit me, all because they didn’t like a story I wrote. I gave them some time to clean it up, apologize or make amends—they didn’t—and now it’s time to clap back.

I think Hemmerling and you have a lot of learning and growing to do, to realize that you can be the bad guy even if you think you believe something good.

That isn’t actually rebutting anything, you are just dodging to avoid having to be critical of yourself.

You still haven’t actually supplied anyone else to be a target of your statement. And now you are just trying to side-step the issue. Again, if you were not target just white dudes with your comment, name who else was included. If you can’t, just admit that you were targeting white dudes.

So long as you think you can’t be the bad guy, you will continue to be one.

He is saying that by making the only valid target white men, you necessarily give white men a reason to be afraid. And if they are afraid, they will turn to things to help them feel powerful.

Again, please, stop pretending you had any other target for that statement. If you had an actual other group of people in mind, name them. Otherwise you are being ridiculous.