Kurt Michael

Well, I just shat in a box and mailed it. Not my proudest moment. 😵‍💫 💩 Better than a colonoscopy, I suppose. #Cologuard

Cecil Cooper playing 1st base during Game 2 of the 1975 World Series, October 12, 1975.

Pardon my skepticism, but it's rather understandable. And yes, I did learn something, but as I've also learned, friendly dialogue isn't a given, so receiving grace from someone who repeatedly called me a racist gives me cause for skepticism. I'm hoping that, by now, you know this to be false.

Actually, I 100% agree with you now. I was initially wrong about this but have changed my perspective; however, most people were so damn rude to me about it that I just decided to keep disagreeing with them, just out of spite. It was petty and immature and I was wrong. Sorry about that.

Remember what I said about picking apart my apology to attempt to delegitimize it...?

Not at all.

And just FYI, Jay wasn't the only person to whom I gave an apology.

Because smart people always seek to learn more.

Well, apparently there's nothing I can do or say.
Humility isn't enough. Apology isn't enough.
Perhaps public flagellation is an option.

How many times do I have to admit I was wrong?
And I agree about the adjective, but the other guy has been trying to noun the hell out of me with it. 🤷‍♂️

Not really excusing myself, but understanding the perspective.

I mean, shit, how many different times and ways do I have to admit that I was wrong?

People love to ridicule. People hate to empathize.

I've literally said "I was wrong" in like a dozen other posts. Perhaps you should keep reading.

Isn't that literally exactly what I did today?
Just because I returned the spite for spite doesn't mean I didn't take what was kindly said to me to heart.

My job works deep in the minority community, but I'd never heard this perspective. So I learned something.

But I guess I'm still a racist. 🤷‍♂️

Absolutely right; I guess I was just talking about it from the perspective of the person doing the talking (since that's the role I've apparently been filling for the past few hours).

I honestly did try — I was going to DM him, but I haven't used Bluesky that long so I couldn't figure out how to do that.

I'm Bluesky ignorant.

You don't give Black people enough credit for being smart enough to know when someone says something blindly ignorant, as opposed to someone with a Swastika tattoo and a Confederate flag on their shirt yelling slurs.

Give people a little credit for knowing the difference and reacting appropriately.

You're missing the point. People who are racist out of hate are beyond help. Fuck 'em. But people who say or do something inadvertently racist can be educated, corrected, and forgiven.

No one accidentally puts on a pointy hat & burns a cross. That's hate. There's a difference; it's not cut-and-dry.

If you don't like what I say, feel free to fill out this form on your way out. I'm not one of your little friends, nor am I Boo-Boo The Fool.

Whether you choose to agree or disagree with what I say, that's on you. I'm not here to assuage your guilt or condone your bullshit. If you don't like what I have to say, feel free to fill out this form before you decide to add me to one of your childish lists. You will be blocked anyway.

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June 25, 2017 Jerry Remy acknowledges the crowd at Fenway a day before undergoing cancer surgery.

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If a Black man was here with me, he'd be in my house, so he'd be a friend of mine. And my friends know me and my often dark and sardonic sense of humor.

Context is everything.

You're thinking about it from the perspective of the recipient; I'm talking about the motive of the person who said or did something wrong. For the recipient, motive really doesn't matter; it happened. But for the other person, motive matters because inadvertent racism can be educated. Hate cannot.

I appreciate that, seriously. Thank you.

hard h?
Like the way Stewie says "Wheat Thins"?

And I was wrong to take it as far as I did. That's my bad. My apologies.

I guess I just knew what would aggravate them because I knew it would aggravate me if someone said it to me, so I just prodded the people who were being rude.
It was petty and immature of me, admittedly.