Original quote from commenter brent on Ta-Nehisi Coate's blog

Setting aside all of the other meta-discussions on race and class that surround this issue, the thing about all of this that creeps me out the most is that so many people are willing to defend this officer who, assuming the most charitable possible interpretation, arrested a guy ( Read more... )

The Privilege of Just Being a PERSON: Whiteness and Race Anxieties

Discusses the question: “Can we just be friends (or lovers) without you being black and me being white?”

To answer the aforementioned question, then, I have nothing to gain from such a scenario, and in fact I have everything to lose, including part of my sense of self. The white ( Read more... )