#uncoffeed...

All of you who would like to see White People marginalised and want to know how we'd feel about that, pay attention. I'm about to hand it to you. With a caveat. I just got off the phone with relatives in Michigan. There is no way they would cop to having weakness, shame, trauma. People who live outside the Privilege Bubble have to admit weakness and shame every day. They have to check themselves to make sure they aren't about to offend someone. People who live inside the Privilege Bubble are allowed to be offended. They are shocked when their offense doesn't matter. Many White people don't understand the term White Privilege, and this makes sense because it's an awkward label for the bubble they grew up in as "normal."  This is normal, so what's the big deal? Why can't you just be normal? They don't see the edge of the bubble that's been so obvious to people whose "normal" lay outside of it.  They didn't h...

I'm nostalgic today. Remember that moment when Yes We Can turned into Yes We Did?  We did that. We elected the first-ever Partly Brown Man to head the United States of America. Our history evolved from systemic oppression to actualization of The American Dream, and then we let it roll back.  I was accused, by friends who self-identify as pro-equality freethinkers, of being racially motivated to vote for Obama. I'll cop to that. I never expected him to be a Magical Politician . I voted for the only Brown Person Non-Good-Ol-Boy to get to the Superbowl in my lifetime, because I could. Because I was sick of the White Patriarchy holding all of us down; not just brown people, all of us. Systemic narcissism hurt me, too, and it still does.  We overcame. And then we stayed home, and the White Patriarchy stood up. No, this also affects you.  Moneypenny is not just a secretary. She is a bright, forward-thinking young person; she is the future of America...