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    Probably Redundant CommentMichael Harriot
    3/01/19 5:09pm
    Afro-American

    The hair style?

    Ashley Graham is married to a black man. He even has facial hair.

    He even has facial hair everybody! That means he’s EXTRA black. That’s like her being married to 3 black men without facial hair.

    Very hair obsessed letters this week.

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      Surprise PumaProbably Redundant Comment
      3/01/19 5:32pm

      The beard comment leaves me confused too! So beards are a Blackness amplifier? Is it additive or multiplicative? Because if it’s additive, a White person (0-Black) + beard would = at least a little Black. But if it’s multiplicative, a 0-Black person x beard would still = 0-Black. Does quality of the beard matter? I need to find a graphing calculator...

      Also, Libertarian Willy is easily Disney’s worst character.

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      VodkaRocks&aPieceofToastProbably Redundant Comment
      3/01/19 6:38pm

      “He even has facial hair” made me laugh A LOT harder than it should have. 

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    Ms.MoonMichael Harriot
    3/01/19 5:28pm

    I just did my taxes and because I am not going to grace Uncle Sam with any more of my hard earned cash this year I’m going to write Rashida Tlaib a very nice email and send her some money so she can keep making white men cry white tears when she calls racist actions racist because I am that sort of black woman.   

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      BadOmbreMs.Moon
      3/02/19 3:00am

      You are doing the Lord’s work.

      I keep telling folks, but they are in for a lot of white tears with her. I watched her in the state legislature and then her activisim between then and when she ran for Congress. Rashida will cut a bitch in defense of her people, and by that I mean Detroiters and everyone who has an affinity for and to them.

      I like how the whole thing revolved around her calling someone a racist, instead of the racist shit Mark Meadows was doing. How dare she call a racist act racist, right?

      I’m still so mad over this.  So write that letter; she will love it.

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      Bronx Resident Benjamin WhiteBadOmbre
      3/02/19 5:20am

      And send a copy to Ilan Omar and Ayana Pressley to keep them encouraged. 

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    Dave Michael Harriot
    3/01/19 5:03pm

    My only point here is that people can have a black friend or a black lover and still do or say racist shit.

    God, I thought was so enlightened because I was dating a Black Woman. Turns out, it actually made me WORSE. I was so wrapped up in being a white fucking savior to her...I didn’t know it, but she did. Served me right her breaking up with me like she did. Didn’t mean we didn’t love each other, just means I wasn’t admitting that I have the White People Problem: I grew up white in America.

    I am lot older now, a LITTLE wiser, though not wise. I make no pretext of being better than anyone else, but at least I don’t say stupid shit like “I can’t be racist because X” (Solve for X). Because yeah, you can, I AM—I just try harder not to be.

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      EKnightDave
      3/02/19 3:47pm

      This is the place that I wish more white americans would get to...and fast.

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    Old white guyMichael Harriot
    3/01/19 5:03pm

    I would first want to point out that you can easily tell the rest of Wally’s letter was copy pasted because it’s actually written by someone with an educati N, while the first part seems to lack even basic spelling competency.

    Second, there’s this

    The FACTS expose Kaepernick and other klutzy kneelers as pathological liars: In 2016, the US police fatally shot 16 unarmed Black men – or 0.2 percent of all Black male lives lost to homicide in that year.

    Even ignoring the fact that Kaepernick is/was protesting the treatment and abuse of blacks at the hands of police, and not just unarmed black people getting shot, the numbers he cites are not official (as no one keeps track of all murders at the hands of police), the police will call a person armed if he is in any way carrying something they want to deem a weapon. Philando Castile was considered armed, even though his gun was in its holster. A man carrying a cane might be called armed, because, you know black men they’re threatening. A man in Chicago carrying a 3 inch blade was shot 16 times walking away from officers, but he was “armed”.

     And considering that police are KNOWN to make up stories, lie on reports, plant evidence, etc., even those shootings where a weapon is found in a hand, or that the report states the suspect was wielding a weapon and lunging at them, doesn’t mean it actually happened that way.

    And those are FACTS too. 

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      Old white guyOld white guy
      3/01/19 5:05pm

      Oh, and I guess Wally is ok if police shoot unarmed men, as long as it’s statistically insignificant? Police get an Oops factor. 

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    The Ghost of James Madison's Rage BonerMichael Harriot
    3/01/19 6:00pm

    The easiest way to see that the “Ashley Graham” argument is bullshit is to recognize that the people who trot it out most often are the same ones who screech the loudest about double standards when they perceive black people being racist to other black people.

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      Raineyb1013The Ghost of James Madison's Rage Boner
      3/02/19 5:12pm

      Who is this loser and why is he sweating Michael so hard?

      Michael needs to be careful, he has a stalker.

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      Bowl Better TalkRaineyb1013
      3/05/19 5:45pm

      Just the one?

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    BeeaybaysMichael Harriot
    3/01/19 8:23pm

    Does this mean that a man cannot be sexist if he is married to a woman? 

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      BadOmbreBeeaybays
      3/02/19 3:07am

      I mean, this is not a rare defense men pull when they are accused of sexism.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “But I’m the father to daughters!” refrain.

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      Artist_Formerly_Known_as_SKYMALLBeeaybays
      3/02/19 2:44pm

      Does this mean that a man cannot be sexist if he is married to a woman?

      Affirmative.

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    TheEldreadMichael Harriot
    3/01/19 6:10pm

    Ashley Graham is married to a black man. He even has facial hair. It is hard to accuse someone of racism if the love of their life is racist.

    Stace, if you read this, I want to let you know that you are true fucking idiot if you believe that just because someone “loves” someone else that is black it cures them of their racism.

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      Old white guyTheEldread
      3/02/19 11:21am

      Proof of point. The wife of the Virginia governor married a black man and is still racist.

      Oh, wait, I meant a black face man.  Never mind. 

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    Tool of the MatriarchyMichael Harriot
    3/01/19 9:03pm

    CW: mention of slavery and rape.

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    It was The Root that showed me exactly what garbage the I can’t be racist because I’ve been in a sexual relationship with a black person argument is. Someone wrote (I’m paraphrasing) Slave owners routinely raped their slaves.

    I point this out every time the necessity presents itself.  It never goes down well.  IDGAF.

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      Old white guyTool of the Matriarchy
      3/02/19 11:20am

      Technically rape isn’t a sexual relationship, but I understand your point.

      That’s assuming they even see them as human at all (probably only saw them as human when they wanted some of that).

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    BadOmbreMichael Harriot
    3/02/19 2:54am

    I thought it would only be fair to give you a sneak peek at my first draft:

    **reads to the very last period**

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    Michael, I am still disturbingly confused by your Brett story.  Did he say it out of fear, amazement, to anyone in particular?  Were the windows up?  I...I...just don’t understand.

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      Old white guyBadOmbre
      3/02/19 11:13am

      I took it that he yelled it out in frustation in general, basically at all the crack dealers coming out to serve his drug needs (for normally why else would white person be in that neighborhood - come on, we’ve all watched Cops!).

      It is impressive in a sort of sad way that it has stuck with Brett all these years too. Maybe whites have an n-word story too.

      Then again, now he’s n-word Brett to everyone.  

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    CommenticusMichael Harriot
    3/02/19 1:03am

    [*Note: The next part of this letter was obviously cut and pasted into the email. I know this because I, too, have recieved and extended version of the same email] 

    Not to mention it was at this point in the screed that spelling and grammar made their first appearance.

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