Public displays of violence following the Zimmerman not-guilty verdict have understandably made some of us doubt in others’ ability to keep cool heads. But according to Salon writer Edward Wyckoff Williams, “our real problem is white rage.”
https://twitter.com/SKSchultz1985/status/356828350376984576
LOL! This guy –> @WyckoffWilliams <– shows how people profit from faux "white rage" http://t.co/D81alWokUg
— cosmoscon (@gdthomp01) July 15, 2013
This dipshit, @WyckoffWilliams, is a great example of a race baiting a-hole who will never allow good race relations http://t.co/vySaWhAMGU
— Just A Russian Hack (@Anewhomestar) July 15, 2013
Rage against the white raaaaaaage!
The veiled threat of an aggressive police response to imaginary civil unrest belies the very logic that led to Trayvon Martin’s death to begin with. For, you see, African-Americans are never protected or served by the law enforcement apparatus — yet they are always subject to its military might.
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The paradox of being implicitly excluded from the guarantee of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness has been reiterated and reinforced by public policy and social malaise for centuries. President Barack Obama is not immune — as he’s become the target of incessant “white rage”: race-baiting attacks, prejudice and bias even prior to his election. The Republican Party and its neo-Confederate Tea Party wing has been committed to invalidating his political and legislative legacy as much as the Zimmerman jury invalidated the civil rights of Trayvon. The disparate precedent set, therefore, becomes all the more insulting when we’re told to simply shut-up and bear it.
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Williams’ musings certainly had “neo-Confederates'” hackles up. Check out their rage-filled responses:
https://twitter.com/djvexd1/status/356822254031609856
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/356824733049823232
@WyckoffWilliams White Rage Article made me so mad I actually "Took a Penny" #WhiteRage
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 15, 2013
Oh no! Not that! Anything but that!
Is there no end to this rage? Based on these hysterical tweets, we sincerely hope not:
White rage escalates and spirals out of control! RT @EnasYorl: GAH! Downton Abbey spoilers! #WhiteRage
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 15, 2013
Free-range chicken I'm about to eat was restricted to just 5 acres. #whiterage
— Razor (@hale_razor) July 15, 2013
Crumbs on the butter. Use a clean knife, you f***ing savages! #WhiteRage
— Harold Stickeehans (@StickeeNotes) July 15, 2013
I'm so full of #WhiteRage I just bit through my lower lip dancing to Young MC.
— Senate Popular VotEEE (@EEElverhoy) July 15, 2013
https://twitter.com/Thorrison/status/356825138504806400
https://twitter.com/karahfinan/status/356844875842461696
https://twitter.com/echo4H/status/356823025351524352
No electric recharging station in the faculty parking lot #whiterage
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 15, 2013
L.L. Bean transposed my monogram. #WhiteRage
— Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) July 15, 2013
https://twitter.com/ChrisBarnhart/status/356826366357938177
https://twitter.com/Melymommy2/status/356844302237831169
https://twitter.com/AmanduHendrix/status/356842859279822848
My haberdasher's stock of ascots is perilously low. #WhiteRage
— Brøm Henckel (@austex63) July 15, 2013
I was so filled with #WhiteRage that I wrote my yard sale signs in cursive.
— WeirdReport (@WeirdReport) July 15, 2013
You’re at the checkout line at Old Navy and you realize that you left your family and friends coupon at home. #WhiteRage
— Jerome Hudson (@JeromeEHudson) July 15, 2013
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/356828381301571584
I can't even finish my fucking sodoku puzzle now… So enraged. @WyckoffWilliams #WhiteRage
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 15, 2013
Throws sand wedge#WhiteRage
— Beef Supreme (@Supreme____Beef) July 15, 2013
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/356832841578991616
Oh, the humanity!
https://twitter.com/ChrisBarnhart/status/356846117759102977
Editor’s note: The original version of this post included the same tweet twice. We have removed the duplicate.
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