Being Black and hearing republicans laughing it up at watermelon jokes at my expense

[soldierant]

92. I wish I could disagree, but I can't.

We will always have racists, misogynistsm], anti=gay, anti-trans. It seems to be inborn in people sort oflike gender identity. Congenital, but not genetic - people like Stephen Miller and Paul Gosar were born with it but are the only ones in their respective families

What we did succeed in doing for a while was getting them to shut up in public. That felt like a blessing, but it was not an unalloyed one - because you relly didn't know who to trust - or not.

I am white and still trying to figure out how my kind managed to bamboozle so much of the rest of the world that that meant anything, let alone that it was "better looking" than dark skin. And yet "skin lighteners" are still making money for merchants all over the world - including Africa. It makes no sense.

I don't know whether or not I shoudl even wish they'd shut up again. I think probably as painful as it can be, I'd rather know who they are than not.