It’s telling that the cut-off parents in these sob stories are almost always cut off by daughters—we socialize women not just to absorb abuse, but to misinterpret abuse as bids for care. Meanwhile men are socially expected to distance themselves from their natal families anyway.

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I’ve been humming this song all day.

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No. It is disrespectful to contradict a Black man that has dedicated his life to anti-racism and lost friends to racist violence like this. "I have travelled throughout the Western world and I hate to say it but the United States is, after Canada, the least racist democracy I've visited (yikes!)"🤡

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You don't get to do that, and then just drop it when you're ready to move on. You were uninformed, and made a declarative statement that was wrong, and minimized the amount of racism that Black people experience. Yes, even your coworkers. If you want to, you can say, "I see now that I was wrong."

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Do you disavow the Jonas Brotherhood? I refuse to disavow the Wachowski Brotherhood, because it's actually a Sisterhood.

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