Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

by Ijeoma Oluo

Women and people of color are often only given the opportunity to steer ships that white men have already rammed into icebergs. Then, when the ship sinks, the media reports that women make bad captains.

exploitation of the case of Linda Taylor, the woman who had used “80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers” to obtain fraudulent welfare benefits. While Taylor does appear to have been a very accomplished scam artist (and possible murderer and kidnapper—google her story sometime, it’s fascinating),

She has often found herself at the crosshairs of political outrage—not only for calling the president a “motherfucker” (which was honestly one of my favorite moments of the year),