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I am a white woman, and I am so tired of white women I can't even. It's the viciousness + the racism (yeah, yeah, #NotAllWhiteWomen, did you read my opening words?) + the cluelessness to the first two that makes my gorge rise.
53% of us voted for Trump. The majority of us are terrible. And I really hate the way we can inflict severe damage yet still see ourselves as innocent victims.
So there's this woman I used to knit with before she moved away. I liked her, she was nice (around us, in any case). One afternoon she comes to our knitting circle all upset. A coworker has filed a complaint against her. Why? He's black, and she casually called him "boy". 
Now, Caren is around my age. (I was born in 1964.) And yet she didn't see anything wrong with addressing a grown man of color as "boy", no matter how joking she intended to be. We explained it to her, but she was undaunted in her innocence. She meant no harm!
She ultimately lost her job. And the next one. I've lost track of her, since I'm not on Facebook, so who knows how many jobs she's gone through since. And she likely still has no idea why.
I mean, at least she didn't try to murder her coworker by 911, but Christ almighty the wilful ignorance is unbearable! White women, please, please educate yourselves! It's painful, it's distressing, but we owe it to Emmett Till & the other victims of our white women tears.
It was hard reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X as a young, naive high schooler. But it was vital to my education. The pictures of Emmett Till are gut wrenching. But we need to know the horrific nature of our fellow white men & women.
I'm looking at the blinking cursor & trying to figure out what needs to be said and I guess it's mainly, Listen. Read. And remember that an unintentional asshole is still an asshole.
