I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

by Luvvie Ajayi Jones

And let’s pause here to say that racism in America is stupid as hell. Racism and prejudice anywhere is dumber than wearing a wool bathing suit in the ocean. It always makes no fucking sense, but it’s especially absurd here. The United States of America is a country founded on the labor and literal bodies of Black and brown people who were minding their own business when white folks came forth to kill and exploit them. This is a place that was “discovered” by a dude who didn’t know how to read a map, so he just showed up on some shore, thought he was in India, and then proceeded to plant a flag there, like, “TA-DA.” No, sir, no. What Christopher Columbus’s goofass needed was a compass and a clue for being so aggressively mediocre, but that dude has a federal holiday in his honor. He showed up on someone else’s property and claimed it as his because he didn’t know what it was. This country started off all the way wrong and continued in the same fashion.