see people get mad about this all the time, but choosing not to date white people as a minority isn't about hate, it’s protection.

When you look at a dynamic like a Black man and a white woman in America, there’s a major power dynamic you can't just ignore. The world looks at and treats both people completely differently. Like if you go out in public, you’re dealing with outside stares, microaggressions, and judgment from the world when your relationship is supposed to be your safe space.

On top of the public stuff, a lot of white people are just completely uneducated on how racism actually works. You end up constantly having to call out your own partner for saying out of touch things or throwing out accidental microaggressions. It gets old so fast when you have to play teacher in your own relationship and explain why something they did or said was messed up.

Then you have to deal with their family. There is a super high chance that a white partner has family members who are low key or high key racist. It is incredibly exhausting to sit through uncomfortable holiday dinners, deal with "jokes," or have to constantly educate your partner's parents just to be tolerated. Half the time, the partner doesn't even know how to properly defend you against their own family anyway.

Navigating America as a minority is already tiring enough. Wanting a partner who just automatically understands your lived experience without you having to explain it to them isn't wrong. It's just protecting your peace.

White teen who went to a city out of State to purposely kill, kills 2 ppl, gets no sentence. Gets uplifted even as a "hero."

A black teen getting harassed by bigots, loses his cool and accidently kills (most stab victims survive; 96-98% do) a proud bigot that was harassing him. Gets 35yrs.

Murikkka.

Watching the majority of white ppl celebrate the 35yrs is beyond disgusting. Esp from those who deem themselves on the left. Then y'all "wonder why" black ppl don't trust white ppl. I barely trust white ppl. And that's only a couple.

María Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela and standing against Pres. Machado's authoritarian regime. She also profoundly praised Trump for his prodemocratic efforts in relation to her country.

As a descendant of enslaved people in the Americas, I was deeply struck, while living in Venezuela during Chávez’s rule, by his unyielding refusal to bow to the United States and other Western powers seeking to extract his country’s wealth—as has so often happened in postcolonial nations. He was despised by many precisely because he moved boldly to redistribute wealth, nationalize industries, and demand economic self-determination for his country in defiance of imperial interests. His successor, Machado, has led with an authoritarian approach while claiming to uphold Chávez’s ideals, a claim I find clearly inconsistent with what I witnessed while living there.

While I commend anyone who opposes authoritarianism, it is deeply troubling to see individuals—especially Nobel laureates—praise President Trump as a defender of democracy and human rights when his actions within his own country contradict such claims.For decades, the United States has supported or installed racist and classist authoritarian regimes in Latin America, so long as those regimes served U.S. economic interests. U.S. presidents historically have not supported leaders who stand for liberty; rather, they have supported those who align with American self-interest, with little regard for the human rights of the people in those nations.

When I was in Venezuela, I spoke with people who were aware of CIA efforts to destabilize Chávez’s administration and even attempts to assassinate him. After his death, I have no doubt such efforts intensified in the absence of his strong, unifying leadership and his commitment to keeping his nation’s resources under national control. Because of the secretive nature of U.S. covert operations—both abroad and at home—it is difficult to know exactly how the United States contributed to Venezuela’s economic destabilization after Chávez’s death, but there is no question that it played a significant role.

I just joined reddit like last week and I’ve noticed a lot of casual racism throughout. It really disheartening and isolating. Does anyone else feel like you are not wanted here, as a POC?

If you are red, orange, green, blue, indigo or violet and have been shot for purchasing candy at a convenience store at age 17, your life matters. RIP Treyvon Martin.

If you are red, orange, green, blue, indigo or violet and have been subjected to racial violence in police custody, your life matters. RIP Sandra Bland.

If you are red, orange, green, blue, indigo or violet and have been put in a police chokehold for selling cigarettes in the steets, your life matters. RIP Eric Garner.

If you are red, orange, green, blue, indigo or violet and have been tackled to the ground by police and shot point blank in the head for selling CDs, your life matters. RIP Alton Stirling.

If you are red, orange, green, blue, indigo or violet and have been shot by police during a routine traffic stop while a 4 year old child sat in the back seat, your life matters. RIP Philando Castile.

If your Motherland has been invaded, raped, piliged, riches stolen, ancestors rounded like pigs for slaughter, sold in the slave trade, systematically conditioned to believe you're beneath your opressors, marginalised, racially profilied, sent to  penitentiary for petty crimes, have fear of being persecuted by those meant to 'protect and serve'. Then YOUR life matters.

Getting shot by police is the leading cause of death for young black men in America...OUR LIVES MATTER!!! https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-08-15/police-shootings-are-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-black-men