Oh, my fellow liberal white people. Let’s be honest. We’re not protesting Starbucks because they have racist employees. We’re protesting them because they got caught. They had racist employees last week, last month, last year. We didn’t protest them then. And they’re not alone. Just about every business we walk into has some racist employees….
Month: April 2018
What Would YOU Do? Real Life Edition
This week, two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks for “loitering.” According to GMP’s Christopher Norris, who spoke to the management, the men weren’t given any warning prior to the police showing up. Two videos have surfaced so far showing the altercation. The shorter one, posted on Twitter by Melissa DePino, shows a…
The Abuse of Lorena Bobbitt and the Twisting of a Narrative
When I was a child, I was afraid of public restrooms. I regularly avoided them. The biggest reason was a racist urban legend. I’d lived for a few years in Pontiac, Michigan, and I was told about something that had supposedly happened in a local shopping mall. A white boy had gone into the restroom…
How to Be Respectful of a Trans Person
Every year, March 31 is Trans Day of Visibility. This day “aims to bring attention to the accomplishments of trans people everywhere while fighting cissexism and transphobia.” If you’re still struggling with understanding transgender, nonbinary, and other gender identity topics, I get it: Like most people, I was raised to think that boys were boys,…