white people
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Polite White People Are Useless
I’m not quite sure if Glory is a great movie. I know that I enjoy watching it. I know that it featured one of the greatest movie scores of all time. (So great that the then-11-year-old me actually went out and bought the soundtrack on a cassette tape. Which probably explains why I didn’t have…
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How to Respond to White Folks Who Ask How They Can ‘Help’
It could all be so simple. Though eradicating racial hateration should be an intraracial undertaking, undoing centuries of Olympic-level oppression and curing chronic multigenerational Caucasian terribleness is frequently placed on our to-do lists, along with setting trends and keeping the Electric Slide alive and sacred. A shame. Your co-worker’s favorite decadently mediocre second-rate diva Lady…
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Taylor Swift Is Releasing Her Album on the 10th Anniversary of Donda West’s Death, and Black Twitter Is Not Pleased
Before we begin, we should first acknowledge that all Beckys are the same. Maybe one day in the near future we will have a complete listing of the different kinds of Beckys, but for today, you should just know that according to the National Academy of White Women Arts and Sciences, Taylor Swift is rated…
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20 Things White People Ruined Already This Year
1. Tiki torches 2. Teacups 3. The solar eclipse 4. The Dunk King finale 5. Van Jones 6. Think pieces about Trump voters 7. Sheet cake 8. Avocados 9. Rally permits 10. Fried chicken 11. Tristan Thompson 12. Emojis 13. The name “Nkechi Amare Diallo” 14. Martin Luther King Jr. 15. Bottles of Pepsi 16.…
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ESPN Televises Slave Auction for NFL Players and Wait, Are We Sure the Confederates Actually Lost?
After watching a clip of an ESPN fantasy football bit where a group of white men “buy” black players from an (also white) auctioneer, I couldn’t help but ask: If this was the idea that received the go-ahead to produce, what the fuck else was on that producers’ meeting whiteboard? A tongue-in-cheek skit where Odell…
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For Black People Who Have to Deal With White People This Week
Bruh (and when I say “bruh,” I don’t mean it in a sexist, gender-erasing way. I mean it as an introductory phrase, like how people from Florida start their sentence with “Fam,” or people from New York start their sentences with “Son” and end them with “B.” Or how people from everywhere start their sentences…
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White People, Ain’t Nothing Funny About White Supremacy, so Now Ain’t the Time for Jokes About It
Black people have always used humor as a way to cope with terror and trauma; I have no issue with us doing the same regarding the rioting in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. But I struggle to understand how white people can set their fingers to type and be tickled alongside us, and decide that…
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There’s Nothing ‘Fringe’ About These White People
The comforts in considering the white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., to be fringe are obvious. For white people, speaking of them and their views as if they’re unique and anomalous allows them (the “good” white people) to distinguish themselves from these racists, while also minimizing their ubiquity and influence. If they’re fringe—if they only exist…
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Why Black America Isn’t Worried About the Upcoming Nuclear Holocaust
Dear White People: I know your last few days have been fraught with peril as your president has engaged the only world leader as crazy and demented as he is in an intercontinental game of the dozens. I can only imagine how it must feel to go from tap dancing through a world of limitless…